Comments of pieces by Dom Baron

Comments of pieces by Dom Baron

One of the most ancient feasts in honour of Our Lady. Celebrated at Jerusalem as early as the middle of the 4th century, its celebration had already spread throughout the East by the middle of the 6th century, and a century later it was introduced at Rome. The Mass is preceded by the blessing of the candles and the procession; it comprises three distinct ceremonies.

Comments of pieces by Dom Baron

After Our Lady, St. Joseph is of all the saints pre-eminent in the order of holiness. It is not from his exterior works that this can be deduced, but from the role to which he was predestined. When God chooses someone, He gives His elect what he needs, and what He gives is all the more precious as the vocation is loftier. Now, Our Lady excepted, no one has been called to a higher mission than St. Joseph:

Comments of pieces by Dom Baron

The purpose of this feast is to commemorate and recapture the moment in which was accomplished the mystery of the Incarnation, that is to say, God's proposal to Our Lady, her acceptance, and finally the union of the divine nature and human nature in the Person of the Word, who is the Incarnation properly speaking. By taking our human nature, the Word took in Himself, in a certain manner, all humanity and each one of us in particular. Why does the angel seek the consent of this fifteen-year-old girl? What does she have that gives her the authority to represent mankind in this affair of capital importance? Outwardly, nothing. Inwardly, everything. God, in fact, from all eternity, has predestined her to be the mother of Christ and, in Him, spiritually the mother of all men. Thus, empowered by God Himself, she can quite rightly give her consent on behalf of all her children.