QUEENSHIP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Ester, Chapter 4D,
Verse 5
She
glowed with perfect beauty and her face was as joyous as it was lovely, though
her heart was pounding with fear.
Ester after making a total and complete commitment to
save the people and fasting for 3 days approached her husband the King. She was
at peace. This verse reflects the joy of the woman in Mark’s chapter 5 whom
Christ healed:
26She had suffered greatly at the
hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped
but only grew worse. 27She had heard about Jesus and came
up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. 28 She said, “If I but touch his
clothes, I shall be cured.”
29Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. 30Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?” 31But his disciples said to him, “You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32And he looked around to see who had done it. 33The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.
29Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. 30Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?” 31But his disciples said to him, “You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32And he looked around to see who had done it. 33The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.
An unclean person in general had to avoid that which
was holy and take steps to return to a state of cleanliness. Uncleanliness
placed a person in a "dangerous" condition under threat of divine
retribution, even death, if the person approached the sanctuary. Uncleanness
could lead to expulsion of the land's inhabitants and its peril lingered upon
those who did not undergo purification. Bodily discharges (blood for women,
semen for men) represented a temporary loss of strength and life and movement
toward death. Because decaying corpses discharged, so natural bodily discharges
were reminders of sin and death. Physical imperfections representing a movement
from "life" toward "death" moved a person ritually away
from God who was associated with life. Purification rituals symbolized movement
from death toward life and accordingly involved blood, the color red, and
spring (lit. "living") water, all symbols of life.[1]
Christ also being clean took this woman’s uncleanliness and gave her his
Holiness. Indeed, she was filled with wonder and awe.
On the 11th of October
1954, Pope Pius XII established the Feast of the Queenship of Mary to be
celebrated throughout the world, and commanded that on that day each year, the
world should renew its consecration to her. In the future the Feast came to be
celebrated on 22nd of August. On the day of her Assumption, Mary our Mother was
solemnly crowned by Christ and received by the whole court of Heaven as Queen.
What Christ has done in Heaven and the Church has done on our behalf we should
now do individually, that is, we should recognize Mary's Queenship, enthrone
her in our homes, consecrate ourselves to her and, by this means, establish in
our lives the reign of Mary Immaculate Queen of the Universe.
How to Enthrone Mary Immaculate Queen in Your
Home and Consecrate Your Family
to Her a statue or picture may be blessed; If
convenient, ask a priest to perform the ceremony, otherwise the head of the
family can do it. Prepare her
altar with flowers and candles, giving her an honored place in your home where
all will see her and often pray to her. Recite
together kneeling:
Act of Contrition; 3 Hail Marys; 3 Glorias; 3 times the
invocation: Mary Immaculate Queen: Triumph and
Reign. followed by the
Act of Consecration
O Mary Immaculate Queen, glorious Queen of the Universe, most powerful Virgin, merciful Mother of a merciful God and refuge of sinners, we consecrate ourselves to thy Royal and Immaculate Heart.
It is through thee that Jesus Christ our King has come into the world to save it. It is also through thee that He is to reign over the world.
In order to obtain this great benefit for ourselves and all mankind, we come to thy feet to consecrate to thee our persons, our lives, all that we are, all that we have, all that we love. Keep us, enlighten us, dispose of us, reign over us.
May all hearts and all homes willingly proclaim thee as their Immaculate Queen.
O Mary Immaculate Queen, glorious Queen of the Universe, most powerful Virgin, merciful Mother of a merciful God and refuge of sinners, we consecrate ourselves to thy Royal and Immaculate Heart.
It is through thee that Jesus Christ our King has come into the world to save it. It is also through thee that He is to reign over the world.
In order to obtain this great benefit for ourselves and all mankind, we come to thy feet to consecrate to thee our persons, our lives, all that we are, all that we have, all that we love. Keep us, enlighten us, dispose of us, reign over us.
May all hearts and all homes willingly proclaim thee as their Immaculate Queen.
Prayer
O Mary Immaculate Queen, look down upon this distressed and suffering world. Thou knowest our misery and our weakness. O Thou who art our Mother, saving us in the hour of peril, have compassion on us in these days of great and heavy trial.
Jesus has confided to thee the treasure of His Grace, and through Thee He wills to grant us pardon and mercy. In these hours of anguish, therefore, thy children come to Thee as their hope.
We recognize thy Queenship and ardently desire thy triumph. We need a Mother and a Mother's Heart. Thou art for us the luminous dawn which dissipates our darkness and points out the way to life. In thy clemency obtain for us the courage and the confidence of which we have such need.
Most Holy and Adorable Trinity, Thou Who didst crown with glory in Heaven the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior, grant that all her children on earth may acknowledge her as their Sovereign Queen, that all hearts, homes, and nations may recognize her rights as Mother and as Queen. Amen.
MARY IMMACULATE QUEEN
Triumph and Reign!
Imprimi potest:
+ Michael Epus Galviensis, 4 June 1966
O Mary Immaculate Queen, look down upon this distressed and suffering world. Thou knowest our misery and our weakness. O Thou who art our Mother, saving us in the hour of peril, have compassion on us in these days of great and heavy trial.
Jesus has confided to thee the treasure of His Grace, and through Thee He wills to grant us pardon and mercy. In these hours of anguish, therefore, thy children come to Thee as their hope.
We recognize thy Queenship and ardently desire thy triumph. We need a Mother and a Mother's Heart. Thou art for us the luminous dawn which dissipates our darkness and points out the way to life. In thy clemency obtain for us the courage and the confidence of which we have such need.
Most Holy and Adorable Trinity, Thou Who didst crown with glory in Heaven the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior, grant that all her children on earth may acknowledge her as their Sovereign Queen, that all hearts, homes, and nations may recognize her rights as Mother and as Queen. Amen.
MARY IMMACULATE QUEEN
Triumph and Reign!
Imprimi potest:
+ Michael Epus Galviensis, 4 June 1966
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