“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 Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.
“Who is she that cometh forth as the Morning Rising, fair as the Moon, bright as the Sun, terrible as an Army set in array ?” [Song of Solomon (Canticles) vi. 9.]
Such is thy growth, O Mary ! Not the holiest life, were it even
of Patriarchal duration, will ever attain the degree of progress made under the influence of Divine Power by the Soul of the Most Pure Virgin, in these few days elapsed since her coming on Earth.
First, there is the progress of her intellect: Not subject to the obscurity which envelopes the minds of men at their entrance into the World, it is a faithful mirror, into which the Word of God pours floods of that light which is also life.
Then the progress of love in that heart of the Virgin and the Mother, wherein The Holy Spirit already delights to awake such ineffable harmonies, and to dig still deeper depths.
Lastly, the progress of that victorious power, which made Satan tremble at the moment of The Immaculate Conception, and which has constituted Mary the incomparable Queen of the hosts of the Lord.
Two glorious triumphs, two victories won under the protection of Our Lady, have rendered this present day illustrious in the annals of The Church and of history.
Manicheism, revived under a variety of names, had established itself in the South of France, whence it hoped to spread its reign of shameless excess. But Dominic appeared with Mary’s Rosary for the defence of the people.
On 12 September 1213, Simon de Montfort and the Crusaders of The Faith, one against forty, crushed the Albigensian army at Muret. This was in the Pontificate of Pope Innocent III.
Nearly five Centuries later, the Turks, who had more than
once caused the West to tremble, again poured down upon Christendom.
Vienna, worn out and dismantled, abandoned by its Emperor, was surrounded by 300,000 infidels. But another great Pope, Innocent XI, again confided to Mary the defence of the Baptised Nations.
Sobieski, mounting his Charger on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption, hastened from Poland by forced marches. On the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary, 12 September 1683, Vienna was delivered; and then began for the Osmanlis that series of defeats which ended in the Treaties of Carlowitz and Passarowitz, and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire.
The Feast of The Most Holy Name of Mary inscribed on the Calendar of the Universal Church, was the homage of the World’s gratitude to Mary, Our Lady and Our Queen.
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The Feast of The Most Holy Name of Mary was removed
from the Church Calendar in the Liturgical reform following Vatican II. [Such wonderful and beneficial actions from that ignoble undertaking.]
It was restored by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002, along
with The Feast Of The Holy Name of Jesus.
[Editor: It is surely beyond comprehension and Liturgical competency how the so-called “experts” during Vatican II decided in “their so-called wisdom” to eradicate the Feast of The Most Holy Name Of Mary. By their actions will they be known.]
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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Feast of The Most Holy Name of The Blessed Virgin Mary is an Optional Memorial Celebrated in the Liturgical Calendar of The Catholic Church on 12 September.
It has been a universal Roman Rite Feast since 1684, when Pope Innocent XI included it in the General Roman Calendar to Commemorate the victory at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.[1]
The Feast of The Most Holy Name of The Blessed Virgin Mary is an Optional Memorial Celebrated in the Liturgical Calendar of The Catholic Church on 12 September.
It has been a universal Roman Rite Feast since 1684, when Pope Innocent XI included it in the General Roman Calendar to Commemorate the victory at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.[1]
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The Text for this Article was taken from “The Liturgical Year”, by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B., written circa 1875, when this Feast was on the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady.
Subsequently, after being restored by Pope Saint John Paul II, this Feast was moved to 12 September. Readers can now see other Articles on this wonderful Feast of Our Lady on that date on this Blog.
