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May 22, 2015 · The pious exercises connected with the month of May could easily highlight the earthly role played by the glorified Queen of Heaven, here and now, in the celebration of the Sacraments of Baptism...
May 11, 2020 · While Jesus entrusted to the apostles the duty of evangelizing the world, what did Mary do? Was she involved in the early days of the Church? The New Testament gives us a few clues as to...
And after Jesus’ Ascension into heaven, Mary continued to give Jesus to the Apostles and disciples: she gathered them together and prayed with them; she told them stories about him and provided for them, nurtured them, encouraged and counseled them.
Miracle shows the power of Mary's prayer. In any case her trust in her Son is rewarded. Jesus, whom she has left totally free to act, works the miracle, recognizing his Mother's courage and docility: "Jesus said to them, 'Fill the jars with water'. And they filled them up to the brim" (Jn 2:7).
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- The Queen’s Intercession
- The New Queen Mother
- The New Queen’s Intercession
To understand what I mean, we have to go all the way back to the Old Testament. Specifically, we need to look at the ancient kingdom of Israel, the one ruled over by King David and his royal descendants. In this kingdom, the queen was the king’s mother, not his wife, and she was called the queen mother (1 Kings 15:13, 2 Chronicles 15:16, Jeremiah 1...
Now, if we look more closely at the queenship of Bathsheba, we find something very interesting. Towards the beginning of her son’s reign, one of his brothers came to Bathsheba and asked her to convey a request to the king. He wanted to marry a woman named Abishag the Shunammite, and when he asked this, he pointed out that Solomon would not refuse h...
So what does this have to do with Mary? What connection does she have with the queen mothers of ancient Israel? Simply put, she is our new queen mother. When we say that Jesus is our king, we mean that he is our Davidic king. The Old Testament prophets said that God would one day raise up a new descendant of David to take up his throne once more (f...
With that background in place, we can finally get to the question with which we started. Mary’s intercession is so powerful because she is our queen mother, and the king will never refuse the queen. Just like Solomon, Jesus too will never refuse his mother (unlike Bathsheba, she won’t ask for anything bad), and we actually see this play out in the ...
When the hour came the disciples fled, but Mary remained at the foot of the Cross near her son; she was prepared, she was ready for anything, even this. In his encyclical Redemptoris Mater (1987), St. Pope John Paul II called upon the whole Church to ponder Mary's lifelong pilgrimage of faith.
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May 22, 2019 · How significant was this miracle? John tells us: “This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him” (2:11). “Mary intervened at Cana for the needs of others, so she continues to make heavenly intercession for the needs of the saints on earth” (ICSB relying on CCC 969).
