Author Topic: The Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Read 1024 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** October 10, 2013, 08:46:35 PM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the Mass, together with Vespers, for the Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2013, 08:48:51 PM »

From The Lessons of the Temporal Cycle and the Principle Feasts of the Sanctoral Cycle according to the Monastic Breviary: Compiled and Adapted for the Office of the Brothers of St. Meinrad's Abbey (St. Meinrad, Indiana: St. Meinraid's Abbey, 1943), here is the English translation of the Lessons of the Second and Third Nocturns at Matins for the Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2013, 08:53:00 PM »

From The Litany of Loreto by Rev. Fr. Richard Klaver (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1954), here are some beautiful and edifying reflections upon the title Sancta Dei Genitrix wherewith Holy Mother Church extols the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Litanies of Loreto.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2013, 08:58:23 PM »

From The Litany of Loreto by Rev. Fr. Richard Klaver (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1954), here are some beautiful and edifying reflections upon the title Mater Creatoris wherewith Holy Mother Church extols the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Litanies of Loreto.

These reflections furnish very good apologetic material whereby one may explain the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Protestants, modernists, and other heretics.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2013, 09:01:23 PM »

From The Litany of Loreto by Rev. Fr. Richard Klaver (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1954), here are some beautiful and edifying reflections upon the title Mater Salvatoris wherewith Holy Mother Church extols the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Litanies of Loreto.

These reflections furnish very good apologetic material whereby one may explain the singular place that the Blessed Virgin Mary occupies in the economy of salvation to Protestants, modernists, and other heretics, and to those who have questioned the doctrine of Our Lady as Co-Redemptress.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2013, 08:52:15 PM »

An excellent epitome of the spiritual doctrine of St. Louis-Marie de Montfort regarding total consecration to Our Lord through the Blessed Virgin Mary, appropriate for this Feast Day, is found in the same Saint's work The Love of the Eternal Wisdom (trans. A. Somers S.M.M.; Philadelphia, Penn.: The Peter Reilly Company, 1949):

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2013, 09:27:28 PM »

From Rev. Fr. Matthias Joseph Scheeben's Mariology (trans. Rev. Fr. T. L. M. J. Geukers; St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1946), here is a profound reflection upon the spiritual maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and its relationship to the mystery of Holy Mother Church: