Prayers & Reflections for March 22

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER IX
The Blessed Mother

Mary was destined to have other children than Jesus, but they were to be born not of her flesh but of her heart.

Mother of Christ was she at the Cross.

Her first-born in Bethlehem was brought forth in joy, but the curse of Eve hung about her labors at the Cross, for she was now, like Eve, bringing forth her children in sorrow.

At that moment Mary suffered the pangs of spiritual childbirth for the millions of souls who would ever be called to the adoptive sonship of the Father, the brotherhood of Christ, and the joy of calling her Mother.

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons