Tuesday, April 9, 2013

An Annunciation Announcement


"Annunciation" is simply an ancient way of saying "announcement". We have a spectacular announcement to share! Yesterday, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, 20+ men and women totally consecrated themselves to Jesus through Mary. The Militia of the Immaculata in Beaumont is already growing!


MI's celebrate every year with special fervour: the feast of the Annunciation of our Lord. This is the distinctive feast of the Consecration Devotion and was chosen so that we might honour and imitate that dependence which the eternal Word accepted on this day out of love for us. The Annunciation is the feast that commemorates God Himself taking on flesh and, thereby, subjecting even Himself to trust in and dependency on Our Lady. Yesterday, we too subjected our entire being to Our
Queen.


On this the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church rejoices at the message of the Archangel Gabriel that Mary was chosen to be the Mother of the Savior of the World, Jesus Christ. Mary said yes to God's will as so we should in our pilgrim journey of faith. Especially in this Year of Faith, we should be saying YES to God's will for us and trust in the Lord's plans for us.This feast day usually falls on March. 25 (exactly 9 months before Christmas since it commemorates the conception of Jesus), but it was transferred this year because of Holy Week and the Easter week.



The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom. -St. Maximilian Kolbe

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