Celebrating Mary, Mother of God
Friday, Jan. 08, 2021
Pastor emeritus of St. Vincent de Paul Parish
On New Year’s Day, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. We can easily let this feast day slip by, but in truth it has profound meaning; the different solemnities and feasts of Mary always set before the Church very important truths about the Christian vocation to discipleship.
That is why the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of Vatican II declared that in Mary the Church “joyfully contemplates, as in a faultless image, that which she herself desires and hopes wholly to be.”