How Our Lady Celebrated the Date of Her Birth
How Our Lady Celebrated Her Birth Date - September 8
‘Behold thy Mother’
“After Our Lord ascended to Heaven and Our Lady remained alone on earth, she began to gradually organize her life. As you know, she lived in the city of Ephesus for a long time with St. John the Evangelist, whom Our Lord gave to her as a son moments before His death, while giving her to him as his Mother. And the Gospel says that from that moment on, St. John the Evangelist accepted her as his Mother and she took him as her son.”
After that, St. John showed her all the attention, care, and consideration that Our Lord had given her. That is to say, he was extremely devoted and good to Our Lady, very attentive, respectful and reverential.
So they lived together, and she began to organize daily ordinary life. She no longer participated in Our Lord's earthly life, which had gloriously concluded with His Ascension into Heaven, but she continued to participate in the remembrance and recollection of all Our Lord's past …