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8 September 2019
Though it is overshadowed by the celebration of our
Sunday Mass, today is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the birthday of Our Lady.
Mary's birth is not recorded in any of the canonically
recognized books of the Bible.. The earliest known account
of her birth is found in the Protoevangelium of James (5:2),
an apocryphal text from circa 145 AD, in which her
parents are identified as Saint Anne and Saint Joachim. In
this account, before Mary's conception, Anne had been
barren and was far advanced in years. Mary was given to
service as a consecrated virgin in the Temple in Jerusalem
when she was three years old, much
like Hannah took Samuel to the Tabernacle as recorded in
the Old Testament.
The earliest extant biographical writing on Mary is Life of
the Virgin attributed to the 7th-century saint, Maximus the
Confessor, which portrays her as a key element of
the early Christian Church after the death of Jesus.
In the case of saints, the Church commemorates their date
of death. John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary have their
birth dates commemorated as well, because these alone
(besides the prophet Jeremiah [Jer 1:5]) were holy in their
very birth (Mary had the Immaculate Conception; John
was sanctified in Saint Elizabeth's womb according to the
traditional interpretation of Luke 1:15).Tradition celebrates
thus celebrates her birthday as a liturgical feast on 8
September, nine months after the solemnity of her
Immaculate Conception, celebrated on 8 December.
The earliest document commemorating this feast comes
from a hymn written in the sixth century. The feast may
have originated somewhere in Syria or Palestine in the
beginning of the sixth century, when after the Council of
Ephesus, the cult* of the Mother of God greatly
increased, especially in Syria.
The first liturgical commemoration is connected with the
sixth century dedication of the Basilica Sanctae Mariae
ubi nata est, now called the Church of St. Anne in
Jerusalem. The original church, built in the fifth century,
was a Marian basilica erected on the spot known as the
shepherd's pool and thought to have been the home of
Mary's parents. In the seventh century, the feast was
celebrated by the Byzantines as the feast of the Birth of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. Since the story of Mary's Nativity is
known only from apocryphal sources, the Latin Church
was slower in adopting this festival. At Rome the Feast
began to be kept toward the end of the 7th century,
brought there by Eastern monks.
The scene was frequently depicted in art, as part of cycles
of the Life of the Virgin. Medieval depictions of Mary in
infancy often include her birth by Saint Anne.
*The veneration of saints, in Latin cultus, or the "cult of the
Saints", describes a particular popular devotion or entrustment of
one's self to a particular saint or group of saints.
THE OFFICE HYMN FOR THE NATIVITY OF MARY
We keep the Feast in gladness
When first that Gem of earth,
The Mother of Christ Jesus,
The royal Maid, had birth.
The Rod foretold the story,
Which sprang of Jesse’s kin,
The Rod which bore the Flower,
That cleansed the world from sin.
The oracles of heaven,
The word of prophets sure,
Announced that wondrous Mother,
The Virgin ever pure:
The blessèd among women,
Of mortals honoured most,
Conceiving her Redeemer,
By God the Holy Ghost.
A stainless Maiden, springing
From David’s kingly line,
She bore the Everlasting,
She bore the King divine.
The King of men and Angels,
The Prince of perfect peace,
Whose might hath no beginning,
Whose power shall never cease.
To Christ, the Son of Mary,
Be honour, glory, laud,
With Father and with Spirit,
The everlasting God. Amen.
V. God hath chosen her, and preferred her.
R. And hath made her to dwell in His tabernacle.
The Birth of the Virgin from a Greek diptych of the 13th/14th century
Remember in your Prayers
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someone’s desire for privacy.
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must email the parish office.
Mass Readings This Week 8 September [OT 23]
Wisdom 9: 13-18b; Psalms 90: 3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 (1); Phi-
lemon 9-10, 12-17; Luke 14: 25-33
9 September Peter Claver, Priest
Colossians 1: 24 – 2: 3; Psalms 62: 6-7, 9; Luke 6: 6-11
10 September Feria
Colossians 2: 6-15; Psalms 145: 1b-2, 8-9, 10-11; Luke 6: 12-
19
11 September Feria
Colossians 3: 1-11; Psalms 145: 2-3, 10-11, 12-13ab; Luke 6:
20-26
12 September Holy Name of Mary
Colossians 3: 12-17; Psalms 150: 1b-2, 3-4, 5-6; Luke 6: 27-
38
13 September John Chrysostom, Bishop
First Timothy 1: 1-2, 12-14; Psalms 16: 1b-2a and 5, 7-8, 11;
Luke 6: 39-42
14 September EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
Numbers 21: 4b-9; Psalms 78: 1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38; Phi-
lippians 2: 6-11; John 3: 13-17
15 September [OT 24]
Exodus 32: 7-11, 13-14; Psalms 51: 3-4, 12-13, 17, 19;
1stTimothy 1: 12-17; Luke 15: 1-32
Mass Intentions
Saturday, 7 September
Vigil of the Sunday
4:30 pm Pat Teinert + [Lori Woelfel and Matthew Malatesta]
Sunday, 8 September
12th Sunday after Trinity [OT 23]
8 am Pro populo
9:30 am Msgr. James Lockman +
11 am Martin Coyne and members of the
Coyne, Bove, and Rizzi families + [Rita Coyne]
Monday, 9 September
Peter Claver, Priest
9 am no public mass
Tuesday, 10 September
Feria
9 am Quintin Paredes + [Susanna Martinez]
Wednesday, 11 September
Feria
9 am Elizabeth Donovan [Jane Slattery]
Thursday, 12 September
The Most Holy Name of Mary
9 am Rev. Paul-Stephen Holt +
Friday, 13 September
John Chrysosotom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
9 am Samuel Cacas [Maria Cacas]
Saturday, 7 September
Vigil of the Sunday
4:30 pm Joseph A Norris [Nancy Walter]
Sunday, 8 September
13th Sunday after Trinity [OT 24]
8 am Pro populo
9:30 am Pat and Felix Nartatez [Maria Cacas]
11 am Leonila D. Egana + [Eleanore Egana]
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