Queenship of Mary
by VP
Posted on Saturday May 31, 2025 at 12:00AM in Tradition
Our Lady, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Front Royal, VA
"Queen
of heaven, thy immense love for God maketh thee likewise love His
Church. We pray thee, come to its help amidst the ills under which it is
now suffering, rent asunder as she is by her own children. Thy prayers,
being a mother’s, can obtain all from that God Who loveth Thee so well.
Pray
then, pray for the Church; ask for enlightenment for so many
unbelievers who are persecuting it, and obtain for faithful souls the
necessary strength to resist being caught in the snares of the
unbelievers who would drag them down into their own ruin.
Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on Proclaiming the Queenship
of Mary to the Venerable Brethren, the Patriarchs, Primates,
Archbishops, Bishops, and Other Local Ordinaries in Peace and Communion
with the Holy See.
"47. Since we are convinced, after
long and serious reflection, that great good will accrue to the Church
if this solidly established truth shines forth more clearly to all, like
a luminous lamp raised aloft, by Our Apostolic authority We decree and
establish the feast of Mary's Queenship,
which is to be celebrated every year in the whole world on the 31st of
May. We likewise ordain that on the same day the consecration of the
human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary be
renewed, cherishing the hope that through such consecration a new era
may begin, joyous in Christian peace and in the triumph of religion.
48.
Let all, therefore, try to approach with greater trust the throne of
grace and mercy of our Queen and Mother, and beg for strength in
adversity, light in darkness, consolation in sorrow; above all let them
strive to free themselves from the slavery of sin and offer an unceasing
homage, filled with filial loyalty, to their Queenly Mother. Let her
churches be thronged by the faithful, her feast-days honored; may the
beads of the Rosary be in the hands of all; may Christians gather, in
small numbers and large, to sing her praises in churches, in homes, in
hospitals, in prisons. May Mary's name be held in highest reverence, a
name sweeter than honey and more precious than jewels; may none utter
blasphemous words, the sign of a defiled soul, against that name graced
with such dignity and revered for its motherly goodness; let no one be
so bold as to speak a syllable which lacks the respect due to her name."
(...)
52.
Earnestly desiring that the Queen and Mother of Christendom may hear
these Our prayers, and by her peace make happy a world shaken by hate,
and may, after this exile show unto us all Jesus, Who will be our
eternal peace and joy, to you, Venerable Brothers, and to your flocks,
as a promise of God's divine help and a pledge of Our love, from Our
heart We impart the Apostolic Benediction."
Source: Ad Caeli Reginam
St. Petronilla, Virgin
by VP
Posted on Saturday May 31, 2025 at 12:00AM in Saints
VIRGINITY.-Ancient authors recount that St. Petronilla was the daughter of St. Peter; that God had endowed her with great beauty, and that she was living at Rome in the practice of all virtues befitting Christian virgins, when she was asked for in marriage by a Roman knight named Flaccus. Petronilla, who had taken a vow to belong to God alone, being unable to free herself from his earnest importunity, begged for a delay of three days, in order that she might maturely weigh the matter. During this interval she prepared for death, and fervently prayed to God to withdraw her from this world. On the third day, indeed, she was found dead in the attitude of prayer. Whatever may be the truth of these details, which are withal adopted by the Martyrology, it is admitted that the veneration cherished for Petronilla is very ancient and wide-spread throughout the Church. There existed formerly on the Way of Ardea a cemetery, and a very famous monument dedicated in her name, which Pope Gregory III. had marked out as a station for pilgrims.
MORAL REFLECTION.-" Concerning virgins I have no commandment, but I give counsel that it is good so to be."-(1 Cor. vii. 25.)" Pictorial Half hour with the Saints by Abbe Lecanu
