Oct. 11 - Feast of the Maternity of Mary

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

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This Feast of Mary’s is a “minor” feast not often mentioned in these days, yet it is one I remember and love. Here is some information:

October 11: Feast of the Divine Maternity of Our Lady

This feast, observed throughout the Western Church on October 11, honors Mary as Mother of God, and bears the same sort of relation to the Annunciation and to Christmas as does the Synaxis of Our Lady in the Byzantine rite. It was long known in Portugal and elsewhere, but was finally instituted in 1931 by Pope Pius XI in view of the fifteenth centenary of the Council of Ephesus.

At the same time the Pope ordered at his own cost the restoration of the Marian mosaics in Saint Mary Major, much decayed through age. He issued an encyclical letter, “Lux veritatis.” In this, among the objects of the new festival, is named one truth that was particularly close to the heart of Pius XI, “…that Mary, who is loved and revered so warmly by the separated Christians of the East, would not suffer them to wander and be unhappily led further away from the unity of the Church, and therefore from her Son, whose vicar on earth we are.”

For more see HERE

In reading the above quote from Pope Pius XI, I pray too that Our Mother Mary’s prayers will help the Christians of the East, especially, who are separated from Rome at this time to return and be unified once more with Christ’s vicar on earth. May Christ’s Prayer in John 17 be fulfilled that we may all be one in Him.

Mary, Mother of the Church pray for us.
Jesus we trust in You!