The Blessed Mother

Mary, ever Virgin. Forever will all generations call me blessed. With these words in the Gospel of Luke, we begin the moment when our Blessed Mother, visiting her cousin Elizabeth, brings her Son to a world in darkness. She carries her Son in her in her Immaculate womb, the holy of holies, the tabernacle of life where the true Bread from heaven is nourished by the very blood of His mother, Mary. The Blessed Mother has been given many privileges, and this is only right, for she is the Mother of God, she is the woman who has crushed the head of the serpent, she is the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet.

Mary is also the refuge of sinners, for her motherly heart, her Immaculate Heart, desires that all people come to know her Son, Jesus Christ. As she sits at the right hand of Jesus, taking her rightful place as Queen of Heaven, she intercedes for all her children. We need her prayers more than ever in this world. Women are worth more than what we are doing as a society. Abortion is never an answer, for it kills not only the unborn child in her womb, but it also harms her soul and her body. And the sexualization of the female body in all areas of our "entertainment" does not bring women freedom, but makes them slaves of the male libido that sees women as objects. Yes, let us pray to our Blessed mother that there be an increase in modesty, chastity and purity and an increase in men who see women as daughters of God.