The Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary - September 8 Purpose
So, too the journeying Church celebrates its life as a family of faith. It centers its attention on Mary, the pre-eminent and unique member of the family. In celebrating Mary's birthday, the Church gathers and remembers its identity as a family of faith, a group of people who believe together, pray together and serve one another and the world. Mary, a disciple of Jesus, provides the occasion for the Church to celebrate. |
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We surround birthday celebrations with rituals: surprising the birthday person, singing 'Happy Birthday,' blowing out the candles and making a wish. The rituals have their point: the family assembles to celebrate its life together by centering its attention on one member of the family. In that one person, the family is able to focus its identity as a unique group of people who laugh and weep with one another, support and love one another.
