THE GLORIES OF MARY by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Author:Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori [Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780764865640
Publisher: Liguori Publications
Published: 2000-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

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SERMON 2:

MARY’S BIRTH

September 8

God enriched Mary with great grace at her birth and Mary always cooperated faithfully with this grace.

We customarily celebrate the birthdays of children with joy and festivity. But in a sense we ought to pity the youngsters and feel sorry for them. I refer, of course, to the fact that children are born not only deprived of grace and reason, but even worse—infected with sin and children of wrath, and therefore condemned to misery and death. However, it is right and reasonable to celebrate the birth of the infant Mary with joy and festivity. Mary saw the light of this world as a babe in point of age, but mature in merit and virtue.

Mary was born a saint, a great saint. But to appreciate how holy Mary really was when she was born, we must understand two things: first, how great was that first grace with which God enriched her; and second, how faithfully she immediately corresponded with it.

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