"NATIVITY OF MOTHER MARY"

 8^th September, 2022:

THURSDAY,  TWENTY THIRD WEEK 

OF ORDINARY TIME (C)

( Mic 5: 1-4a); (Mt 1: 1-16, 18-23)

"NATIVITY OF MOTHER MARY"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today the Church gathers together to celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which denotes the birthday of Mary, the Mother of God, the second when she came into this world, as the future Mother of the Savior of the world. Today the entire Church cheers in this commemoration of the birthday of this most honored Woman through whom the salvation of this world has come from. The Lord has satisfied His hotly anticipated vow to His kin through Mary, the basic young lady living in the honest unassuming community of Nazareth in Galilee, and who might become the incomparable Mother of our Savior and furthermore the best among every one of the holy people. That is the very thing that we are celebrating today, the dedication of our favored Mother Mary on her birthday.

In our most memorable reading today, taken from the Book of the prophet Micah, we heard the Lord's consolation for His people that His salvation would come to them similarly as He has guaranteed beforehand through different prophets. We heard how the Lord declared that Bethlehem, the city of David, would be where His Savior and Deliverance came from, and albeit that city could have been a little and unimportant one among different urban communities of Israel and Judah, yet it was through this spot that the Lord's well thought out plan of salvation would be achieved, through the Woman whom the Lord Himself broadcasted to be the conveyor of the Messiah or Savior.

That was the means by which the Lord brought His salvation into this world, through a modest lady from a little town at the outskirts of the Jewish people group around then, somebody completely unexceptional according to the world. But, it was through Mary that God willed to bring His salvation into this world, Christ, His own Begotten and Beloved Son, the Divine Word Incarnate, brought into the world of the House of David through Mary's union with St. Joseph, the person who was slipped and furthermore the legitimate beneficiary of David. As per Scriptural proof and apostolic customs, Mary herself additionally had a place with the House of David too.

Through Mary and her parenthood, the Lord made manifest His affection for all of us humankind in the tissue, as He embraced all of us through Jesus Christ His Son, the Divine Word of God Incarnate. Mary has been arranged by God's will and beauty, made Immaculate and considered without the pollutant of transgression, and all through her life, she has forever been brimming with elegance, liberated from the impurity of wrongdoing since she has been brimming with adoration for her Son, and for the Lord, submitting to Him and following Him in anything that He has advised her to do, and she followed her Son all through His later service and even to the foot of His Cross and then some.

It was through Mary and her full and dynamic cooperation in the Lord's work of salvation which permitted us to see the illumination of God's expectation as uncovered to us through His Son, Jesus Christ, naturally introduced to this world through Mary's Womb. Consequently, today as we commend the birthday of Mary, the Mother of God, it is likewise a festival of the desire for our Light and Salvation in Christ. Furthermore, today we all are additionally reminded that Mary is really the surest way for us towards God and His salvation, as she is the one nearest to her Son, and she is likewise genuinely near us, as she has always remembered to contemplate us generally every day, constantly.

For what reason is that anyway, brothers and sisters in Christ? That is on the grounds that the Lord Himself has endowed Mary, His mom to us, from His Cross similarly as He has additionally shared all of us with her, that we might be her youngsters similarly as He is her Son, and that she may likewise be our mom similarly as she is His Mother. Also, for that reason we commend even more cheerfully on the grounds that we recall our own adored mother's birthday today, as we recollect the affection she has for us, every one of the mediations she had made for our sake, regardless of whether we understand it. Indeed, brothers and sisters in Christ, as our mom, Mary has consistently looked at us and maintained that all of us should be saved through her Son, and she positively never stopped contacting us with affection.

She has appeared to numerous over the last hundreds of years, most broadly at Guadalupe, Lourdes and Fatima, and there were a lot more endorsed specters of Mary since forever ago, featuring exactly how much dearest we are to her, and how concerned she has been in regards to us. Mary our mom frequently showed up particularly after a period and season of struggle and bedlam, during a period of emergency and otherworldly difficulties in our mankind's set of experiences, and she needed to assist us with all tracking down our method for getting once again to her Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. To that end today, similarly as we recognize and praise her birthday or Nativity, we should remind ourselves to follow her models in confidence.

Indeed, brothers and sisters in Christ, every last one of us ought to make sure to devote ourselves to the Lord through following His Mothers' models, her commitment and confidence, the extraordinary compliance and love she has displayed all through her adoration for the Lord and His statutes, her unassuming nature and accommodation to God's will and readiness to permit herself be directed to God's desired way her to go through, showed us that Mary is genuinely an excellent good example and model for us all in how every last one of us ought to carry on with our own lives with confidence and commitment, with lowliness and the longing to serve the Lord and to commend Him by all our activities, words and deeds all through our lives.

May the Lord keep on directing us and reinforce us in our excursion, and may He engage every single one of us that we might keep on strolling perpetually dependably in His way, directed through the patient love of His mom Mary, who is our caring mother as well, and may her steady mediation and care for us keep on rousing us to persist in confidence in every single pictures of our lives. May God favor us all in all our endeavors. Amen.