{"id":5937,"date":"2024-12-19T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2024-12-19T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:11:51","slug":"children-of-mary-immaculate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5937","title":{"rendered":"CHILDREN OF MARY IMMACULATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing from Rome, where he was to participate in the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Eugene wrote to the Oblates in Marseilles.<\/h3>\n

On the feast day itself, we must expose the Blessed Sacrament at eleven o\u2019clock of the morning, which will be the hour during which the Pope will proclaim the announced dogmatic definition and, after the prayer “pro gratiarum actione,” we shall sing with a holy enthusiasm the “Tota pulchra es,” etc. This is the least we can do to express our joy and gratitude on the occasion of this great event over which no one ought to rejoice more than we, who are children of Mary Immaculate, we, the members of a Congregation which does battle under this beautiful name, a truly personal prerogative through the intervention of the very Head of the Church, the great Pope Leo XII.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

In advance I approve everything that you will do to make the feast of the Immaculate more solemn than ever. Let the holy mountain <\/strong><\/em>[ed. of Notre Dame de la Garde] be lit up twice as much as what is done for the feast in August. Fires of rejoicing are to be organized, not to forget that there be one at Montolivet, we have to light up all the windows of our house at La Garde, the facade of Le Calvaire. In a word, do all that you can to express the enthusiastic joy that all true sons of Mary are experiencing.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Casimir Aubert in Marseilles, 28 November 1854, EO XI n 1255<\/em><\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe Immaculate Virgin however invites us not to fix our eyes on her but to pass beyond, and as much as possible, to enter into the mystery in which she was conceived: the mystery of God who is One and Three, full of grace and fidelity. As the moon shines with the light of the sun, so the immaculate splendour of Mary is totally relative to that of the Redeemer. The Mother leads us to her Son; passing through her, we reach Christ. For this reason, Dante Allighieri notes fittingly: \u201cthat her radiance alone can dispose you to see Christ\u201d. (Pope St John Paul 2)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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