| SAINT OF THE DAY Today the Church rejoices at the birth of Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth. Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote this of the feast: “Let our land laugh and sing with merriment, bathed in the glory of this great Virgin’s rising. She is the flower of the fields on which the priceless lily of the valleys hath blossomed. This is she whose delivery changed the nature that we draw from our first parents, and cleansed away their offense. At her birth, that dolorous sentence which was pronounced over Eve ended its course… [for Mary] brought forth a Child, even the Lord, but she brought him forth, not in sorrow, but in joy.” READ |
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