Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Ave, Maria

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 8.22.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

MEMORIAL OF THE QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

MATTHEW 23:13–22

Friends, today we celebrate Mary’s Queenship.
Mary was the definitive bearer of the divine presence,
the Ark of the Covenant par excellence.
When she visited her cousin Elizabeth, the infant John the Baptist leapt in his mother’s womb,
doing his own version of David’s dance before the Ark.

The Queen Mother—like all of the monarchs of Israel—is a fighter.
Israel frequently brought the Ark into battle with them.
Most famously, the priests paraded around the city of Jericho bearing the Ark,
just before the walls came tumbling down.

The Queenship of Mary is not a sentimental feast.
Whenever biblical people spoke of kings or queens, they were speaking of warriors.
The question for us is: Which side are we on?
Those trained in the Jesuit spiritual tradition know of the “two standards” meditation,
which compels us to make the simple choice:
In which army do you serve?

We fight, of course, not with the puny weapons of the world
but with the weapons of the Spirit; by God we fight.
So don’t just honor and acknowledge the Queenship of Mary;
hail mary get in her army.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
You lock the Kingdom of heaven before men.
You do not enter yourselves,
nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
You traverse sea and land to make one convert,
and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna
twice as much as yourselves.

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say,
'If one swears by the temple, it means nothing,
but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is
obligated.'
Blind fools, which is greater, the gold,
or the temple that made the gold sacred?
And you say, 'If one swears by the altar,
it means nothing,
but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is
obligated.'
You blind ones, which is greater, the gift,
or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
One who swears by the altar swears by it
and all that is upon it;
one who swears by the temple swears by it
and by him who dwells in it;
one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God
and by him who is seated on it."+++

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Whenever biblical people spoke of kings or queens, they were speaking of warriors.
The question for us is: Which side are we on?
Those trained in the Jesuit spiritual tradition know of the “two standards” meditation,...

I'm disappointed, but not in the lease surprised, that Boobie fails to mention the Holy Rosary, in lieu of Jesuit's "medidation", when the bishop speaks of warriors.

I guess that Atlantic hit piece on the Holy Rosary has the politicaly correct bishop spooked.