Monday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Saint: Saint John Kemble (1599-1679)

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 65:1-10 The Prior of the Monastery

Mass: 2 Titus 1:1-5, 11-12; Resp Ps 96; Mt 23:13-22

Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.

MARY, MOTHER AND QUEEN,

HEART OF MARY, THRONE OF GLORY, 

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

MARY, QUEEN OF ANGELS,

PRAY FOR US.

Blessed are you who have believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord will be fulfilled.

(Communion Antiphon, Mass)

Welcome to Monday and the Queenship of Mary. All day, and all week, let us turn to Mary, Queen of heaven and earth, for help. She will take us to the heart of her Son, Jesus Christ.

From the earliest ages of the Catholic church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petitions and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven. And never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned with heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen ...

Let all Christians, therefore, glory in being subjects of the Virgin Mother of God, who, while wielding royal power, is on fire with a mother's love.

(Pope Pius XII, Ad Caeli Reginam, Encyclical on Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary, October 11, 1954)

BEHOLD, I AM THE HANDMAID OF THE LORD.

She is loved

and praised

and honored by all.

For men and for angels,

she is

-after God-

the first [object of] love

and praise

and honor.

The whole church of the saints

proclaims her praises:

The daughters of Sion saw her

and declared her highly blessed;

the queens of concubines praised her.

Nor does she herself pass over in silence this grace of

 such great favor:

All generations, she says,

will call me blessed.

(Baldwin of Forde, 1125-1190, in Mary Most Holy: Meditating with the Early Cistercians, p. 354)

SAINT JOHN KEMBLE,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: For our Lady, Mother and Queen. Sing to the Lord a new song.

 

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