FAITHLINK News.Va: “#PopeFrancis: Divine Motherhood of #Mary a Gift to Us All”

View of St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican from River

“‘To celebrate #Mary as Mother of #God and our mother at the beginning of the new year means recalling a certainty that will accompany our days,’ said #PopeFrancis, ‘we are a people with a Mother; we are not orphans.’ … ‘To celebrate the feast of the Holy Mother of God reminds us that we are not interchangeable items of merchandise or information processors. We are children, we are family, we are God’s People.’ …”

FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: The Octave Day of #Christmas, Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin #Mary, the Mother of God, Sunday 1.1.17 – USCCB/NABRV

Historic Bible

“The shepherds went in haste to #Bethlehem and found #Mary and Joseph,
and the Infant lying in the manger.
… they made known the Message
that had been told them about this Child.
… Mary kept all these things,
reflecting on them in her heart.
… the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising #God ….

… He was named #Jesus, the Name given Him by the #Angel
before He was Conceived in the Womb.”

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