#the queenship of Mary

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Our Morning Offering – 8 June – Hail Mary, Queen of Our Hearts, Our Mother

Our Morning Offering – 8 June – The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Hail Mary, Queen of Our Hearts, Our MotherPrayer in Honour of MaryBy St Louis Marie de Montfort (1673-1716) Hail Mary,Daughter of God the Father!Hail Mary,Mother of God the Son!Hail Mary,Spouse of the Holy Spirit!Hail Mary,Temple of the Most Holy Trinity!Hail Mary, our mistress,our wealth, our mystic rose.Queen of our…

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Today,August 22, We Celebrate the Queenship of Mary

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The Queenship of Mary.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth…Pray for us.

“Assuredly, she who played the part of the Creators’ servant & mother is in all strictness & truth, in reality, God’s mother & lady & Queen over all created things.” St. John Damascus

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Memorial of The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Luke 1:26-38

The angel Gabriel was sent from God

to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,

of the house of David,

and the virgin's name was Mary.

And coming to her, he said,

"Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you."

But she was greatly troubled at what was said

and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.

Then the angel said to her,

"Do not be afraid, Mary,

for you have found favor with God.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,

and you shall name him Jesus.

He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,

and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,

and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,

and of his Kingdom there will be no end."

But Mary said to the angel,

"How can this be,

since I have no relations with a man?"

And the angel said to her in reply,

"The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore the child to be born

will be called holy, the Son of God.

And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,

has also conceived a son in her old age,

and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;

for nothing will be impossible for God."

Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.

May it be done to me according to your word."

Then the angel departed from her.

[wonder-worker]

"[Alice Perrers] requested that she be buried in the parish church of Upminster, St Laurence, before the altar of the Virgin Mary. Alice seems to have had an affinity with Mary through her life; a seal of hers from c. 1374 shows an image of the Virgin Mary and child, her tabernacle seized in 1377 had an image of the Virgin Mary on it, and now she wished to be buried before Mary’s altar."

-Gemma Hollman, "The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III"

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In one other crucial respect, Mary’s reign was pivotal. As England’s first queen regnant, she forged a new political language and, in the process, demonstrated the resilience of the Tudor polity. In a century deeply uncomfortable with innovation, she pioneered female rule; and in an age which generally assumed religious authority to be the preserve of men, she oversaw a programme of religious reconstruction which was, in part, the blueprint for the Counter-Reformation. It was during her reign that John Knox wrote his famous diatribe against female rule, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women, which was aimed chiefly at Mary, although also at other European royals. Knox’s motivations were shaped more by his fear of Catholicism than by straightforward misogyny. Nevertheless, his work has often been woven into a narrative about the oppression of women in the sixteenth century. Knox was not attacking these queens for their weakness, however; on the contrary, he was furious at beholding their evident strength. Mary’s experiment in female rule, so much of which Elizabeth was to emulate, brought a new consciousness to debates about sovereignty, new urgency to discussions about gender and new clarity to conceptions of religious division. The significance of her queenship would long outlive the five short years of her rule.

Tudor England: A History, Lucy Wooding

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In this feast, particularly cherished by the popes of modern times, we celebrate Mary as the Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Pope Pius XII, in the Papal Encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam, proposed the traditional doctrine on the Queenship of Mary and established this feast for the Universal Church.

Pope Pius IX said of Mary's queenship:

"Turning her maternal Heart toward us and dealing with the affair of our salvation, she is concerned with the whole human race.

Constituted by the Lord Queen of Heaven and earth, and exalted above all choirs of Angels and the ranks of Saints in Heaven, standing at the right hand of Her only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, she petitions most powerfully with Her maternal prayers, and she obtains what she seeks."

And Pope Pius XII added the following:

"We commend that on the festival, there be renewed the consecration of the human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Upon this, there is founded a great hope that there will rejoice in the triumph of religion and in Christian peace...

...Therefore, let all approach with greater confidence now than before, to the throne of mercy and grace of our Queen and Mother to beg help in difficultly, light in darkness and solace in trouble and sorrow...

. . Whoever, therefore, honours the lady ruler of the Angels and of men - and let no one think themselves exempt from the payment of that tribute of a grateful and loving soul - let them call upon her as most truly Queen and as the Queen who brings the blessings of peace, that She may show us all, after this exile, Jesus, who will be our enduring peace and joy."

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THE DESCRIPTION OF THE QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Feast Day: August 22

"Lord, may our insignificant lives and our quiet and hidden service of you form a bright crown for us in glory." - + Fr. Kevin Scallon

The celebration of the Queenship of Mary was instituted on October 11, 1954 by Pope Pius XII with the encyclical letter 'Ad Caeli Reginam (Hail, O Queen of Heaven)'. This feast is closely related to the Assumption. The Blessed Virgin Mary, after being assumed into Paradise, was crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth. The queenship of Mary is based on the vision from the book of Revelation to the apostle John, the disciple whem Jesus loved: 'A great sign appeared in the sky, A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown with twelve stars.'

In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved the feast day to this date, the former Octave day of the Assumption, in order to emphasize the close bond between Mary's queenship and her glorification in body and soul next to her Son. The Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church states that 'Mary was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen of the universe, that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son' (via Lumen gentium, 59).

The movement to officially recognise the Queenship of Mary was initially promoted by several Catholic Mariological congresses in Lyon, France; Freiburg, Germany; and Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Gabriel Roschini founded in Rome, Italy, an international society to promote the Queenship of Mary, Pro Regalitate Mariae, and several popes had described Mary as Queen and Queen of Heaven, which was documented by Gabriel Roschini. Pope Pius XII repeated the title in numerous encyclicals and apostolic letters, especially during World War II.

Such a privilege was granted for her being the Mother of God, but much more for believing his word. When a woman called out in the Gospel of Luke: 'Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!' Jesus replied: 'Rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.'

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Celebrating Her Majesty: The Feast of the Queenship of Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth

Diego Velázquez: The Coronation of the Virgin (1645) Prayer for the Feast of the Queenship of MaryO Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, on this feast day of your Queenship, we come before you with hearts full of love and devotion.You who were chosen by God to be the Mother of His Son, and who now reign at His side in glory, look upon us, your children, with compassion and grace.You are the Queen of…

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The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Notre-Dame du Dimanche/ Our Lady of Sunday, France (1873) and the Saints for 8 June

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary –Queen of Heaven and Earth, Holy Queen:Pope Pius XII established this Feast in 1954with a Feast Day of 31 May.However, this year, 31 May fell within the Corpus Christi Octave and, therefore, the Feast has been transferred until today, a week later.In his 1954 Encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam – To the Queen of Heaven, Pope Pius XII points out that Mary deserves…

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Today’s Reflection

The king in today’s gospel was ready to throw a wedding feast, but his guests were not ready, and for this; these guests paid a heavy price, for they will not be able, even at a later time, to participate in the wedding feast. They have become lost due to their procrastination; much like the nations in our first reading. Therefore, Jesus offers us hope as God did in our first reading to others, but like them, we need to be vigilant as Jesus told the people of his day, be watchful! For tomorrow may not come. Thus, we must live in the present preparing ourselves constantly for the future in the right way otherwise, we will be like the one guest at the wedding feast who found himself in the darkness, because he was not prepared well enough.

Today’s Spiritual Links for August 22, 2024

National Eucharistic Review Today’s Mas Readings Today’s Reflection Rosary Liturgy of the Hours New American Bible Non-Scriptural Reading Prime Matters

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"...Walsingham, the monastic author of the St. Albans Chronicle, was by far [Alice Perrers'] harshest contemporary critic, who in his venom has (somewhat ironically) left us with the longest and most detailed account of her background and personality, her influence as Edward’s mistress, and her subsequent trial. He describes Alice as a shameless lowborn meretrix (a word variously translated as mistress, whore, or harlot), who “brought almost universal dishonour upon the king’s reputation […] and defiled virtually the whole kingdom of England with her disgraceful insolence.” Although Walsingham was not always accurate and, specifically in this case, clearly heavily biased against Alice, he nevertheless provides a truly contemporary account, and his importance as a source should not be underestimated. Likewise, the anonymous monk of St. Mary’s York recorded that in the Good Parliament the Commons (represented by their speaker, Sir Peter de la Mare) stated that it “would be of great gain to the kingdom to remove the said dame [Alice] from the presence of the king both as a matter of conscious and of the ill prosecution of the war.” During the same assembly, the bishop of Rochester, Thomas Brinton, preached from St. Paul’s Cross that “it is not fitting nor safe for all the keys of the kingdom to hang from the belt of one wife.” Although the word wife (uxoris) is used, it is widely accepted that this is a reference to Alice.”

-Laura Tompkins, '"Edward III's Gold-Digging Mistress": Alice Perrers, Gender, and Financial Power at the English Royal Court, 1360-1377", "Women and Economic Power in Premodern Courts" (edited by Cathleen Sarti). Italics by me.

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‘Mary I: Queen of Sorrows’ by Alison Weir

Thanks to Headline Review for sending me a copy of this to review. I really enjoyed this one, better than the previous one in the series on Henry VIII. Mary’s story is less well-known which is perhaps why I enjoyed it more. Henry’s story has been raked over so many times now and trying to fit his whole life and all of the intricacies of the changing foreign, domestic, and religious policy into a…