Burning Strength Homilies

  When I was in seminary, during Feasts dedicated to the Blessed Mother, they would often play a song called “Virgin of Love” I asked Ryan, our music director, to play it during Mass I remember the first time hearing that song it transported me to a whole different world Everything from the melody to the lyrics just took me somewhere else I’d say that it is one of those songs that capture just a bit of what the Blessed Mother’s love is like. It was like being wrapped in her mantle the first time I ever heard it   My Brothers and Sisters we celebrate today the most ancient of the Church’s celebration for Mary “Mary Mother of God” It was celebrated in the early Church, but became an official doctrine of the Church in 431 during the Council of Ephesus. The feast doesn’t say so much about Mary as it does about Jesus. To call Mary the Mother of God affirms our belief that Jesus is indeed Divine He is indeed the 2nd person of the Trinity   Just as Mary