Nov. 27 - Saturday, "Mary's Day" Wk 2 Day 4 of our Journey

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Some of us will attend the Vigil Mass tonight, and thus begin the season of Advent early, :)

Most will attend Mass on the First Sunday Of Advent. For all of us, Advent is a Holy Season. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2016 said:

“To celebrate Advent means: to become Marian, to enter into that communion with Mary’s ‘Yes,’ which, ever anew, is room for God’s birth, for the ‘fullness of time, Advent is a Marian time in many ways, from preparing for Jesus’ birth to celebrating feasts such as the Immaculate Conception." (see: Advent Is Mary’s Time)
By God’s Grace, let us spend this Advent with Mary. I’m posting now the Saturday Mass Gospel and Alleluia in Ordinary Time and a brief quote from “True Devotion” also to help us persevere on our journey toward Dec. 8th and Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary:

Alleluia (Lk 21:36) - “Be vigilant at all times and pray that you may have the strength to stand before the Son of Man.”​

Gospel (Lk 21:34-36)

Jesus said to His disciples: “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth. Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Continuing words from “True Devotion” (Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin | EWTN)

38. Mary is the Queen of heaven and earth by grace as Jesus is king by nature and by conquest. But as the kingdom of Jesus Christ exists primarily in the heart or interior of man, according to the words of the Gospel, “The kingdom of God is within you”, so the kingdom of the Blessed Virgin is principally in the interior of man, that is, in his soul. It is principally in souls that she is glorified with her Son more than in any visible creature. So we may call her, as the saints do, Queen of our hearts.

Come Holy Spirit, fill us as you filled Mary with Jesus. Amen.
 
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