Happy Mothers Day to Our Blessed Lady

Happy Mother's day to all mothers out there. We have such a wonderful example of a mother, who is Our Lady, and all of us should pay due reverence to the perfect mother, our Queen Mary. I have an appropriate excerpt from The Mystical City of God today.

At the Nativity, the Most High spoke to Our Lady:

The Incarnation (Book II, Chapter X #480.)

"Receive thy Onlybegotten Son, imitate Him and rear Him; and remember, that thou must sacrifice Him when I shall demand it of thee." The divine Mother answered: "Behold the creature of thy hands, adorn me with thy grace so that thy Son and my God receive me for his slave; and if Thou wilt come to my aid with thy Omnipotence, I shall be faithful in his service; and do Thou count it no presumption in thy insignificant creature, that she bear in her arms and nourish at her breast her own Lord and Creator."

One more thing for today. Today is the Feast of the Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel. Therefore it is fitting to add this.

The Incarnation (Book II, Chapter X, #480)

But the two soverign princes, saint Michael and saint Gabriel, were the assistants of the Virgin on this occasion. They stood by at a proper distance in human corporeal forms at the moment when the incarnate Word, penetrating the virginal chamber by divine power, issued forth to the light, and they received Him in their hands with ineffable reverence. In the same manner as a priest exhibits the sacred host to the people for adoration, so these two celestial ministers presented to the divine Mother her glorious and refulgent Son.