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The festivities today parallels that of Christ the King was instituted
by Pope Pius XII in 1955. He celebrated, until the recent reform of the
liturgical calendar, May 31, crowning the singular devotion to Mary in the
month dedicated to her. August 22 was reserved for the commemoration of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was replaced at the feast of Mary Queen
to bring the kingship to his glorification in the assumption of the Virgin
into heaven. This place of uniqueness and preeminence, next to Christ the
King, the result of multiple titles, illustrated by Pius XII in his
encyclical "Ad Coeli Reginam" (11 October 1954), the Mother of the
Head and members of the mystical body of augusta sovereign and Queen of the
Church, which not only makes it become part of the royal dignity of Jesus,
but also of his life and sanctifying influence on the members of the Mystical
Body.
The Latin "Queen", as "rex", derived from
"regere", ie rule, govern, dominate. From the human point of
view it is difficult to attribute to Mary the role of dominatrix, she was
proclaimed the Lord's servant and spent a lifetime in the most humble
obscurity. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, puts Mary among the
Eleven, after the Ascension, raising with them in prayer; but it is she
who gives orders, but Peter. Yet on that occasion she is the link that
binds us to the Risen men not yet strengthened by the gifts of the Holy
Spirit. Mary is Queen because she is the mother of Christ the King. She
is Queen because excels over all creatures, in holiness: "In her unites
Whate'er of goodness is in any creature," says Dante's Divine Comedy.
All Christians see and venerate her as the overflowing generosity of divine
love, which He has filled all good. But she distributes royally and
maternally as received by the King; It protects children by his power
acquired by virtue of its co-redemption and welcomes them with his gifts, as
the King ordered that all grace steps for its hands of munificent Queen. To
this the Church invites the faithful to invoke not only by the sweet name of
mother, but also with what reverent queen, as in heaven greet with happiness
and love angels, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors,
virgins.Mary was crowned with the double crown of virginity and divine
motherhood: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the Holy which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God."
Etymology: Mary = loved by God, from the Egyptian; lady, Hebrew
Martyrology: Memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary the
Queen, who gave birth to the Son of God, Prince of Peace, whose kingdom will
have no end, and is greeted by Christians as the Queen of Heaven and Mother
of Mercy.
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The
kingship of Our Lady is supernatural character, because Our Lady is the
first and the highest of God's creatures. It is not the first in the order of
nature, because the angels are naturally creatures higher. An angel is a
pure spirit, and so it is something more than a human. But Mary is the
first creature in the order of grace. He received a number of angels
with incomparably greater. And the graces received by the angels are
subordinate to the graces received from the Virgin Mary.
It is also the first of all women. First of all people is our Lord Jesus
Christ; the first of all women is Our Lady. This alone is enough to
give it the right the title of queen. Because the royalty is a situation
"de jure" from which a situation "de facto". Who has
the first right to rule and to be served, especially when his kingdom is
linked to an eternal kingdom that will never end. This defines the royalty
of Mary.
Our Lady is the first of creatures because it is the Mother of God. No
creature has had or will have a union with the Holy Trinity as deep as his. He
is the beloved daughter of the Eternal Father, admirable Mother of the Word
Incarnate, the faithful wife of the Holy Spirit.
In addition, it is Queen because God has placed the government of all things
in his hands. God has chosen not to do anything supernatural on Earth
without passing by Our Lady. All the prayers that rise from the earth to
heaven go through the Madonna; and all the graces that come down from
heaven on earth do the same. If all Heaven asks something to God
regardless of the Madonna, do not get; but if Our Lady alone among the
citizens of heaven ask a grace, he would get. This makes it a queen
throughout the fullness of time.
Now these concepts that define his heavenly kingship, his highest title, must
find a match even in his earthly kingship or social. What is the social
kingship of Our Lady? All human society should be organized so that
everything is consistent with its will of Queen. All those who govern
should follow his will. St. Louis IX of France (1214-1270) used to call
himself "the sergent de Dieu en France", which can be translated
freely, "the lieutenant of God in France".
He considered himself just an executor of the will of God, even though it was
one of the most powerful monarchs of his century. But well he understood
his mission, because it is exactly this that a Catholic king should be. The
same should apply to the Madonna. Kings and rulers Catholics should be
his lieutenants.
But what is the will of the Madonna? Since generally there appears
mystically to send your prescriptions, how can we know His will? In
fact, the will of the Virgin corresponds perfectly to Catholic doctrine and
obedience to the Catholic Church. This is the will of the Madonna - and
of God, because the will of the Virgin coincides perfectly with God's will.
The clearest part of the will of the Madonna, the less subject to discussion,
is that you obey the Catholic Church.
But there ' is another factor: the voice of grace that resonates within us. Grace
tells everyone how to be a disciple and fulfill the plan that God has
designed for him or her. This is what normally is called vocation. Vocation
is the call of God, who is also the call of Our Lady, to achieve a predefined
plan that they have designed for each of us. Therefore, correspond to
their vocation also means doing the will of the Madonna.
And how do you pay to your vocation? First of all, it comes to doing
everything in our power to preserve the deposit of Catholic doctrine taught
by the Holy Mother Church. We know that after the Second Vatican Council
this deposit of faith, morals, liturgy and canon law is systematically
attacked by enemies of the Church who have infiltrated inside and offering to
replace its doctrine with the teachings completions new and completely
different. So obey his vocation today is to defend the Catholic doctrine
against internal and external attacks. Be faithful to the call of Our
Lady in our day is to struggle against the enemies of the doctrine of the
Church.
There is another point I wish to. I speak often of a Kingdom of Mary as
something future. But - he says - if you do the will of the Madonna is
following the Church, no one could say that before the revolutionary crisis,
the height of the Middle Ages, there was already a kingdom of Mary? Why
then should we speak of a kingdom of Mary in the future?
I do not think that the Middle Ages was in the full sense of a Kingdom of
Mary. He could become one.If it had not entered into a process of
deterioration would be a Kingdom of Mary. The devotion to Our Lady was
growing and just that marks the apogee of the Middle Ages. But soon it
began to decline.God's plan in the making was stopped.
I should add that in the Middle Ages many of the truth on the Madonna had not
been fully clarified.The doctors who studied the Virgin had not produced
Mariology at those high levels that in fact this theological science reached
after, not during, the Middle Ages. To limit ourselves to one example,
the great voice of St. Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) in the Middle Ages had
not been heard, or what he calls the true devotion to the Virgin Mary had
been explained. Many other truth about Madonna is that then become the
common heritage of the Church in the Middle Ages were not currently
taught.You may think it would have been discovered had it not started and
taught the crisis of the Middle Ages.
But it did not happen. The Middle Ages fell. So these truths have
come to light later, and the fact that they emerged in an era of revolution
and crisis has brought with it the consequence that you are immediately
reflected appropriately in the social sphere. Theological truths have not
been applied in society as should have happened. To the fullest glory of
God, it is necessary that his plan is realized on Earth. And because
Mary kingdoms on Earth is necessary that the truth concerning him is not only
shared by the devotees but also unfold their effects on social life.
These principles relate to problems very deep history. But allow us to
appreciate the full meaning of today's feast of the kingship of Mary.
Author: Plinio
Correa de Oliveira
Notes: Translation
of Massimo Introvigne
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