Mary’s Birthday and Our Lady of Sorrows
This episode reflects on two closely connected Marian feast days in September: the Nativity of Mary and Our Lady of Sorrows. Annie Muller and Hailey Skinner explore why the Church celebrates Mary’s birth, how it points to the beginning of salvation history, and how her sorrows can comfort mothers and anyone carrying suffering.They also connect these feasts to everyday motherhood, hiddenness, surrender, grief, and the hope of Christ’s victory. The conversation blends theology, lived experience, and practical consolation.
Key topics
- Why Mary’s birthday is celebrated on September 8, nine months after the Immaculate Conception.
- The historical roots of the feast, including its early observance in the Eastern Church.
- Why the Church celebrates only three birthdays in the liturgical calendar: Jesus, Mary, and John the Baptist.
- Mary’s hidden life and how holiness often unfolds without recognition.
- The connection between Mary’s fiat, motherhood, surrender, and quiet sacrifice.
- Our Lady of Sorrows and the seven sorrows traditionally associated with Mary’s life.
- The seven sorrows: Simeon’s prophecy, the flight into Egypt, losing Jesus in the temple, meeting Jesus on the way to Calvary, the crucifixion, receiving Jesus’ body, and his burial.
- How Mary’s sorrows resonate with miscarriage, infant loss, and the pain of motherhood.
- Why devotion to Mary is not worship, but a relationship of intercession, companionship, and imitation.
- The seven promises associated with devotion to Mary’s sorrows, including peace, consolation, protection, and hope.
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