Today is the first day of 2024. The start of our secular year we celebrate the Feast of Mary the Mother of God.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains Mary's important role in her Son Jesus role as saviour.
1172 "In celebrating this annual cycle of the mysteries of Christ, Holy Church honors the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, with a special love. She is inseparably linked with the saving work of her Son. In her the Church admires and exalts the most excellent fruit of redemption and joyfully contemplates, as in a faultless image, that which she herself desires and hopes wholly to be."
Below a video with a beautiful hymn reflecting on Mary's role and relationship with Jesus' actions.
1. Mary the dawn, Christ the Perfect Day; Mary the gate, Christ the Heavenly Way!
2. Mary the root, Christ the Mystic Vine; Mary the grape, Christ the Sacred Wine!
3. Mary the wheat, Christ the Living Bread; Mary the stem, Christ the Rose blood-red!
4. Mary the font, Christ the Cleansing Flood;
Mary the cup, Christ the Saving Blood!
5. Mary the temple, Christ the temple’s Lord;
Mary the shrine, Christ the God adored!
6. Mary the beacon, Christ the Haven’s Rest;
Mary the mirror, Christ the Vision Blest!
7. Mary the mother, Christ the mother’s Son
By all things blest while endless ages run. Amen.