“Birth of The Virgin”.
Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682).
Date: 1660.
Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Feast Day 12 September.
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
Just as a few days after Christmas, we Celebrate The Holy Name of Jesus, so, after the birth of the Virgin, according to the custom of the Jews, her Holy Parents, inspired by God, say Saint Jerome and Saint Antoninus, gave her the Name of Mary.
Wherefore, during the Octave of the Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Liturgy gives a Feast in honour of this Holy Name.
Spain, with the approval of Rome, in 1513, was the first to Celebrate it, and in 1683 it was extended to the whole Church by Pope Innocent XI to thank Mary for the victory which John Sobieski, King of Poland, had just gained against the Turks who beseiged Vienna and threatened the West.
“The Name of the Virgin,” says the Gospel, “was Mary.” The Hebrew name of Mary, in Latin “Domina”, means “Lady”, or, “Sovereign”; for the authority of her Son, Lord of the World, makes her a Sovereign from her birth in fact as well as in name.
Whence, as we call Jesus “Our Lord”, we say of Mary that she is “Our Lady”.
To proclaim her name, is to proclaim her Power.
Let us offer the Holy Sacrifice to God to honour The Most Holy Name of Mary and to obtain by her intercession her continual protection (Postcommunion).
Mass: Vultum tuum.
Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in Festivitáte.
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