Comments on: The Dawn Before the Day: Happy Birthday Blessed Mother! http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/ Catholic News, Catholic Articles, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Content, Catholic Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Happy Birthday Mary, Mother of God! - Christian Forums http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/comment-page-1/#comment-42486 Happy Birthday Mary, Mother of God! - Christian Forums Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:32:19 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/#comment-42486 [...] today is the day that Catholics celebrate the birthday of the most blessed Mother of God, Mary. The Dawn Before the Day: Happy Birthday Blessed Mother!|Catholic Exchange From Gospel to Life: Happy Birthday Mary Pax Tecum (God Bless), Holly [...] [...] today is the day that Catholics celebrate the birthday of the most blessed Mother of God, Mary. The Dawn Before the Day: Happy Birthday Blessed Mother!|Catholic Exchange From Gospel to Life: Happy Birthday Mary Pax Tecum (God Bless), Holly [...]

]]> By: Donald Hudzinski http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/comment-page-1/#comment-42484 Donald Hudzinski Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:30:19 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/#comment-42484 PrairieHawk I do not know, if you have ever been around a little child in a shopping maul, who lost his parents. But if you had, would have known how he searches for them in great anxiety. Just like Joseph and Mary did for the child, Jesus, if only we could search in this way for the Lord, for the Lord gets up and goes with those who search for him in this way. Read Luke 2:41-51 then read what happens to those who hide from Him Genesis 3: 23-24. PrairieHawk

I do not know, if you have ever been around a little child in a shopping maul, who lost his parents. But if you had, would have known how he searches for them in great anxiety. Just like Joseph and Mary did for the child, Jesus, if only we could search in this way for the Lord, for the Lord gets up and goes with those who search for him in this way. Read Luke 2:41-51 then read what happens to those who hide from Him Genesis 3: 23-24.

]]> By: PrairieHawk http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/comment-page-1/#comment-42475 PrairieHawk Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:19:14 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/08/121668/#comment-42475 I love to reflect on the fact that, as we are told, Mary was still a young girl, maybe 15, when Jesus was born. The Gospel begins with two children, Mary and her little boy. Our salvation comes from a child, and years later we are reminded by Jesus that, "Blessed are you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, for the things you have hidden from the wise and the learned you have revealed to the merest children." Why does God love children so much? A priest once preached in a homily I heard that it wasn't because of the mushy and sentimental supposed "innocence" of children (children being fallen beings like the rest of us); rather, it is because they lack history. That is, they are new. The Gospel makes each one of us new, just as it makes the whole of Creation new. And it is when we are made new in the refulgence of the Father that He is able to see in us His own image, the true person whom He has created. So let us devote today to becoming a little newer, a little more like a child, a little more like the infant Mary on her birthday. I love to reflect on the fact that, as we are told, Mary was still a young girl, maybe 15, when Jesus was born. The Gospel begins with two children, Mary and her little boy. Our salvation comes from a child, and years later we are reminded by Jesus that, “Blessed are you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, for the things you have hidden from the wise and the learned you have revealed to the merest children.”

Why does God love children so much? A priest once preached in a homily I heard that it wasn’t because of the mushy and sentimental supposed “innocence” of children (children being fallen beings like the rest of us); rather, it is because they lack history. That is, they are new. The Gospel makes each one of us new, just as it makes the whole of Creation new. And it is when we are made new in the refulgence of the Father that He is able to see in us His own image, the true person whom He has created. So let us devote today to becoming a little newer, a little more like a child, a little more like the infant Mary on her birthday.

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