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Birthday of Mary

September 8
 


 

 

What is the Birthday of Mary?

The Church has celebrated Mary's birth since at least the sixth century. A September birth was chosen because the Eastern Church begins its Church year with September. The September 8 date helped determine the date for the feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, nine months earlier.

Prayer for Our Lady's  Birthday

Blessed Virgin Mary, at your birth the patriarchs and prophets rejoiced, for you announced the coming of our salvation.  We celebrate your birth and ask your help in our daily lives.  In a world filled with violence, fear, and anxiety, help us to be examples of living in gospel joy.  Amen.

Comment

     We can see every human birth as a call for new hope in the world. The love of two human beings has joined with God in his creative work. The loving parents have shown hope in a world filled with travail. The new child has the potential to be a channel of God's love and peace to the world.  This is all true in a magnificent way in Mary. If Jesus is the perfect expression of God's love, Mary is the foreshadowing of that love. If Jesus has brought the fullness of salvation, Mary is its dawning.
     Birthday celebrations bring happiness to the celebrant as well as to family and friends. Next to the birth of Jesus, Mary's birth offers the greatest possible happiness to the world. Each time we celebrate her birth we can confidently hope for an increase of peace in our hearts and in the world at large.  
~From Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons and Feast, By Leonard Foley, O.F.M.; revised by Pat McCloskey, O.F.M