{"id":31024,"date":"2017-09-08T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=31024"},"modified":"2017-11-03T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:31:53","slug":"the-birth-of-the-new-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/the-birth-of-the-new-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of the new Eve!"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lovely-laday-dressed-in-blue.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

\u201cLovely Lady dressed in blue, teach us how to pray. God was just your little boy\u2026 tell me what to say!\u201d This is an excerpt from a poem of an 18th<\/sup> Century author, Mary Dixon Thayer. I was browsing through Youtube when I came across a recorded homily by Venerable Fulton Sheen where he cited Mary\u2019s poem. And I think this is a wonderful poem for a special occasion we\u2019re celebrating today.<\/p>\n

Today we celebrate the birth of the New Eve, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the vessel that held God and nurtured God in human form. The only woman who was able \u201cto look down to heaven for Heaven was in her arms\u201d. Mary was a simple and humble yet so pure a woman chosen to be the mother of God; the woman tasked to take care of the child Jesus until the hour of His passion came.<\/p>\n

Today, we celebrate the birth of the most faithful servant and loving mother in the history of mankind.<\/p>\n

When angel Gabriel visited Mary and delivered a message that she has been chosen to bear the son of God, she was confused at first. But then she responded, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” She responded \u201cyes\u201d to God although she didn\u2019t know what lies ahead. It was beyond her knowledge that when the time comes, a \u201csword will pierce her heart\u201d and bring her the greatest sorrow no human could imagine. She didn\u2019t complain when she had to give birth to the son of God in a manger. She didn\u2019t hate God when she stood at the foot of the cross and see her son tortured, suffer and die.<\/p>\n

She was a loving mother not just to Christ but to all of us, too.<\/p>\n

Several times in the history of mankind, during the times of war, famine, and pestilence, our Mother would appear. \u00a0Her apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France and to Lucia Santos and her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto in Fatima in the turn of the 19th<\/sup> century are just a couple and yet most popular examples. She appears to simple people \u2013children, shepherds, and peasants. She uses simple, innocent people as instruments of God\u2019s message and blessing the same way God chose her as an instrument, a vessel, to carry Christ. Her apparitions bring hope and reconciliation. She knows when to intercede, warn us of the consequences of our wrong decisions, give us directions when we\u2019re lost, give us hope when we\u2019re down. She\u2019s already in Heaven and yet continues to take care of her children on Earth. Mary is our intercessor to the Lord. As the poem goes, \u201cGod was just your little boy, and you know the way.\u201d Yes, Jesus was her little boy. She raised Him. She knows how we can be closer to Him. She knows how to talk to Him. She is the bridge that guides us closer to our salvation.<\/p>\n

As we celebrate Mary\u2019s birth, let\u2019s give her a gift\u2026 a promise\u2026 that we will continue to value and honor her as our Mother, our intercessor, and a role model of faith and service to the Lord. (Lea Basilio)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As we celebrate Mary\u2019s birth, let\u2019s give her a gift\u2026 a promise\u2026 that we will continue to value and honor her as our Mother, our intercessor, and a role model of faith and service to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aranzazu-news","category-catholic-faith","category-gospel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-84o","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lovely-laday-dressed-in-blue.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32243,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions\/32243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}