Pastor's Corner, May 10, 2015

Dear Parishioners and Friends,

Today, on Mother’s Day, we each give thanks to God for our mothers and for all that they have done for us and meant to us for so many years.

We should also remember that we have a spiritual mother who is with God in heaven and to whom we are also grateful. Her name is Mary.

She is our mother because of the critical role she played in the Incarnation. God the Father chose her to be the mother of His Son and she responded with a whole-hearted fiat (“let it be done”). Her vocation as the mother of the Savior makes her, by grace, the mother of those whom God saves – us.

Mary is sometimes called the “medriatrix of all graces.” St. Louis de Montfort explains, “God the Father gathered all the waters together and called them the seas or maria. He gathered all his grace together and called it Mary or Maria. The great God has a treasury or storehouse full of riches in which he has enclosed all that is beautiful, resplendent, rare, and precious, even his own Son” (True Devotion, 23).

The month of May is dedicated to Our Mother in the order of grace. May we give her thanks for all she has done for us and meant to us for so many years.

In Christ,

Msgr. Baker