PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday
22 August 2015, Mary Queen
YOU
HAVE MADE THEIR JOY INCREASE
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “The people who walked in
darkness have seen a great light, … you have made their gladness greater, you
have made their joy increase.” (Isaiah 9:1-6)
Reflection. An echo of the Assumption comes
to us a week later with this celebration of Mary as Queen of Heaven. The humblest
of people becomes queen and mother of all. She is the new Esther who rose from
nowhere to be the queen who saved her people from the evil schemes of Haman. In
the middle ages the Church began to pray the Angelus at morning noon and
evening, celebrating the Incarnation, the initial act of our salvation. And, at
Easter time, she replaced it with the Regina
Coeli gaudete, Queen of Heaven rejoice, in her joy at the fulfilment of the
whole drama of God’s intervention. The title ‘Queen’ conveys not only honour
and joy but also power. She can do so much if we ask her.
Prayer. O Queen of Heaven rejoice,
Alleluia. For he whom you bore has risen as he said, Alleluia. Pray for us to
God, Alleluia. Amen.
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