TODAY'S SAINTS (Queenship of Mary)

QUEENSHIP OF MARY

On October 11, 1954, His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, in his encyclical letter, Ad Caeli Reginam, decreed and instituted the feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be celebrated throughout the world every year. He declared that the Church has believed in Mary's Queenship from the earliest centuries and that this belief rests on Holy Scripture and tradition.

Mary is Queen of all "since she brought forth a son, Who at the very moment that He was connceived, was, by reason of the hypsotatic union of the human nature with the Word, even as man, King and Lord of all things." Further, "as Christ is our Lord and King by a special title because He redeemed us, so the Blessed Virgin (is our Lady and Queen) because of the uni-que way in which she has cooperated toward our redempption by giving of her own subst-ance, by offering Him willingly for us, and by desiring, praying for, and bringing about our salvation in a singular manner."

Feast: August 22

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