J.M.J. On this the Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor (370-444), the great defender of Our Lady's Divine Maternity during the Council of Ephesus in 431, we turn to Mary with ever deepening gratitude for her role in the Life of Christ and in our lives.
From an Eleventh Century Irish Litany of Mary:
Temple of the
living God, pray for us.
Light of Nazareth, pray for us.
Beauty of the world, pray for us.
Queen of life, pray for us.
Ladder of heaven, pray for us.
Mother of God, pray for us.
Light of Nazareth, pray for us.
Beauty of the world, pray for us.
Queen of life, pray for us.
Ladder of heaven, pray for us.
Mother of God, pray for us.
“Take
away this star of the sun which illuminates the world: where does the day go?
Take away Mary, this star of the sea, of the great and boundless sea: what is
left but a vast obscurity and the shadow of death and deepest darkness?”
--Saint
Bernard, In Navitate B. Mariae Sermo-De aquaeductu, 6
"One day during an exorcism, a colleague
of Father Gabriele Amorth, S.S.P. (the Chief Exorcist of the Diocese of Rome)
heard Satan or one of the demons say, 'Every ‘Hail Mary’ is like a blow on my
head. If Christians knew how powerful the Rosary (is), it would be my end.'”
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