{"id":27436,"date":"2023-09-07T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=27436"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:02:59","slug":"celebrating-appropriately-the-birthday-of-our-spiritual-mother-nativity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-september-8-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/celebrating-appropriately-the-birthday-of-our-spiritual-mother-nativity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-september-8-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Appropriately the Birthday of Our Spiritual Mother, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nFeast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary<br \/>\nSeptember 8, 2023<br \/>\nRom 8:28-30, Ps 13, Mt 1:18-23<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27436-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As today we celebrate the feast of the Nativity of our Lady, we can ponder how great was the joy of this day not only for Saints Joachim and Anne but also for God. If we accept what the second-century gnostic\u00a0Pseudogospel of James says, Joachim and Anne, as we ponder each July 26, were aged in years and begging God to remove the shame of sterility from their life, as Joachim went into the desert to fast and pray and Anne wept a double lamentation. When the Angel appeared in response to their prayers, when she conceived, when she gave birth, and when she began to nurse Mary, St. Anne was ebullient with joy. But I\u2019m sure that was nothing compared to what it must have been like for the eternal Son of God to be looking at the birth of the little girl who about 14 years later would become his own mother and give birth to him in the Gospel scene we\u2019ve just heard. We can look at the baby Mary with the joy-filled eyes and hearts of her parents as well as of her Son as she was an infant and began to grow, thoughts that even many with strong Marian devotions seldom contemplate. We can also think about how Jesus and Joseph celebrated Mary\u2019s birthday each year, recognizing that they are with us now, together with all the angels and saints, as we fete here anew today.<\/li>\n<li>God the Father had had Mary in his sights since the beginning of time. St. Paul tells us that he has \u201cchosen us in [Christ]\u00a0before the foundation of the world to be holy and immaculate in his sight\u201d (Eph 1:4), and how could he not be thinking of Mary as the icon of this divine election? We know that at the very instant of the fall, her advent was prophesied as the one in whom God would place an enmity for the serpent. Today, she who had been immaculately conceived was born\u00a0full of grace.<\/li>\n<li>She was born according to a template. St. Paul tells us in today\u2019s first reading that \u201cthose [God]\u00a0foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.\u201d Mary was most certainly conformed to the image of the Holy One who would become the blessed Fruit of her womb and he, according to his humanity, would be conformed, mysteriously, to her earthly image. And this was a \u201cshaping together\u201d (literally <em>con-formation<\/em>) that would be manifested mutually throughout life, as her fiat would anticipate his, as her desire to help a young married couple would become his first miracle, as her pierced heart would emulate his heart pierced with a lance, as his glory would become reflected in her forever.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s important for us whenever we celebrate a Marian feast to make explicit Mary\u2019s\u00a0Christocentric conformation, not just to avoid Protestant misinterpretations that we give Mary the homage that is only due to God, but also to help us deepen our own appreciation not only for our spiritual mother\u2019s vocation and mission but for our own. Normally for us the celebration of a birthday is always an occasion to think with gratitude to God and to our parents for the gift of human life \u2014 and that is a very good thing to do! \u2014 but Mary\u2019s birthday is a celebration of something more. As we see in today\u2019s Gospel and know from throughout her life, she was born with a purpose, to be the Mother of God according to his humanity. This is alluded to in the other possible first reading for this feast, when the Prophet Micah says \u201cYou, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,\u00a0too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me\u00a0one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old,\u00a0from ancient times.\u201d The one to be born of Mary in Bethlehem would have an \u201corigin from of old, from ancient times\u201d and Mary was born to conform her life to that ancient one.<\/li>\n<li>As we think about her birth, her early days, her upbringing and her life, it\u2019s natural for us to think of our own, and it\u2019s key for us to grasp that we, too, have been born with a similar purpose, to be conformed to Jesus in this life and, God-willing, forever. Sometimes in our Marian piety we can focus so much on her inimitable privileges \u2014 like her Immaculate Conception, the virginal conception and birth of Jesus, her raising the Son of God, her sharing in his passion, and her sharing already in her\u00a0body in his resurrection and heavenly life \u2014 that we can miss the emulable qualities of her life.<\/li>\n<li>Today the great birthday present she\u2019d like for us to give her would be to allow her to help us conform ourselves, like she was, to the image of her Son, to conform ourselves to his Word and let ourselves develop in accordance with it as she did; to conform ourselves to his holiness as she did; to conform ourselves to his proclamation of the Gospel as she did; to conform ourselves to his salvific suffering as she did; and to conform ourselves as she did to the newness of life he has given us by his triumph over sin and death. The great way we conform ourselves to Mary so as to conform ourselves to her Son is through consecration, in which we entrust ourselves to her to mother us, to form us, to help us pattern our existence on the blessed Fruit of her womb. Today is a beautiful day on which to renew our Marian consecration or, if we have never formally entrusted ourselves to her, to do so. The prayer of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort that was recited by St. John Paul II each day and from which he took his motto is the one I use:\u00a0<em>Totus tuus ego sum et tota mea tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor tuum, O Maria!<\/em> \u201cI am all yours, O Mary, and all I have is yours. I receive you into everything I am and have. Give me your heart!\u201d Mary in Fatima asked for us to be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart and to consecrate the world, especially Russia, to that heart that treasures God within, always says\u00a0<em>fiat\u00a0<\/em>to his will and seeks to conform her whole life to his word.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest way we conform ourselves to Mary through consecration \u2014 so that she can assist us to conform ourselves to her Son \u2014 is by entering with her into her Son\u2019s consecration in the Mass. In the Mass we conceive within ourselves first the word of God so that just like Mary did, it may impregnate us and grow within us to such an extent that we are umbilically united with this word until it becomes so big within us that we have to give it to the light. Then the same Jesus whom she bore in her womb for nine months will enter into us so that he can help us to conform ourselves to himself from the inside. The purpose of Mary\u2019s birth and life was not merely to be the Mother of God but to help facilitate our becoming like her through the conformation to her Son that is meant to happen in holy communion. Our Amen is meant to imitate her fiat at the annunciation. Let us ask her to pray for us today that we may respond to the graces for which\u00a0she is interceding for us now with her Son so to conform ourselves to Him in this world that we may be conformed to Him, like Mary, forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1:\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/romans\/8:28|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=9820a9326f&e=b55e3798ee\">rom 8:28-30<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nWe know that all things work for good for those who love God,<br \/>\nwho are called according to his purpose.<br \/>\nFor those he foreknew he also predestined<br \/>\nto be conformed to the image of his Son,<br \/>\nso that he might be the firstborn<br \/>\namong many brothers.<br \/>\nAnd those he predestined he also called;<br \/>\nand those he called he also justified;<br \/>\nand those he justified he also glorified.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/13:6|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=f1a34f7a59&e=b55e3798ee\">ps 13:6ab, 6c<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (Isaiah 61:10)\u00a0<strong>With delight I rejoice in the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nThough I trusted in your mercy,<br \/>\nlet my heart rejoice in your salvation.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>With delight I rejoice in the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nLet me sing of the LORD, \u201cHe has been good to me.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>With delight I rejoice in the Lord.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<h4>Gospel:\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/matthew\/1:18|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=e191d3da94&e=b55e3798ee\">mt 1:18-23<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.<br \/>\nWhen his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,<br \/>\nbut before they lived together,<br \/>\nshe was found with child through the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nJoseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,<br \/>\nyet unwilling to expose her to shame,<br \/>\ndecided to divorce her quietly.<br \/>\nSuch was his intention when, behold,<br \/>\nthe angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,<br \/>\n\u201cJoseph, son of David,<br \/>\ndo not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.<br \/>\nFor it is through the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nthat this child has been conceived in her.<br \/>\nShe will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,<br \/>\nbecause he will save his people from their sins.\u201d<br \/>\nAll this took place to fulfill<br \/>\nwhat the Lord had said through the prophet:<br \/>\n<em>Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and they shall name him Emmanuel<\/em>,<br \/>\nwhich means \u201cGod is with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nativity-Virgin-Mary.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27438\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nativity-Virgin-Mary.jpg.webp?resize=242%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1362\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27436-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=27436-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"9.8.23_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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