{"id":144574,"date":"2024-09-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/the-tidings-brought-to-mary-weekly-message-for-09-10-24\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T23:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:43:50","slug":"the-tidings-brought-to-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/the-tidings-brought-to-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tidings Brought to Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord <\/em>(Luke 1:45) <em>The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your mercy, O Lord, endures forever <\/em>(Psalm 138:8)<\/p>\n<h2>Dear Friends,<\/h2>\n<p>In J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s <em>The Two Towers<\/em>, Frodo and Sam stand on the lid of hell. They are about to enter Mordor, evil\u2019s stronghold, in their quest to destroy the Ring. And Sam muses \u201c<em>The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them\u2026 But that\u2019s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered\u2026 Folks seem to have been just landed in them, usually \u2013 their paths were laid that way\u2026 I wonder what sort of tale we\u2019ve fallen into?<\/em>\u201d <em>I wonder what sort of tale we\u2019ve fallen into\u2026<\/em> That question is paramount. Is the story finally good, or is it meaningless? How much can we trust Creation\u2019s author? What\u2019s our part in the story? On September 15, we celebrate Mary under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows. At the foot of the Cross, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/hist_councils\/ii_vatican_council\/documents\/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html\"><em>Lumen Gentium<\/em><\/a> explains in numbers 58 and 61, Mary united her heart to Christ\u2019s sacrifice and freely cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and love in her Son\u2019s mission to restore divine life to all people. But what enabled Mary to trust God so much? What enabled her to freely walk the path laid out for her? She knew what sort of story she\u2019d fallen into, its summary appears in Luke 1:26-38 under three declarations made by God through the angel\u2019s message: \u201c<em>I love you. Do not be afraid. Go!<\/em>\u201d \u201c<em>I love you.<\/em>\u201d First God reveals to Mary how much he loves her: he is with her, which is the wellspring of a joy that nothing can finally quench. She is precious in God\u2019s eyes, and honored, and he loves her (Isaiah 43:4). \u201c<em>Do not be afraid, Mary.<\/em>\u201d Then the Lord strengthens Mary. She too felt fear. She too needed to bring that fear to God, to let him give courage to her heart (Psalm 27:14). As the old saying goes, \u201c<em>Courage is simply fear that has said its prayers.<\/em>\u201d \u201c<em>Go!<\/em>\u201d And Mary receives a mission. God calls her to an adventure of his own marvelous design. He will not fail her or forsake her (Joshua 1:5,9). In his presence, in his strength, he sends her as a vessel of his mercy to others (Romans 9:23). In everything she does, from the simple to the dramatic, Mary is a missionary of God\u2019s love. \u201c<em>I love you. Do not be afraid. Go!<\/em>\u201d Mary must have pondered those words again and again. They reminded her of the tale she\u2019d fallen into; they reminded her that the story was, ultimately, very good (Genesis 1:31, John 3:16-17). <strong>What sort of tale have you and I fallen into?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>God bless you,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fr. John Pietropaoli <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=2+priests+and+a+mic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Priests and A Mic<\/a><\/em> podcaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord (Luke 1:45) The Lord will fulfill his purpose for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":148082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6616],"tags":[3027,6655,3493],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-144574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-message","tag-mary","tag-tolkien","tag-trust"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Tidings Brought to Mary - Regnum Christi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Uncover the beauty of the Annunciation! 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He served as chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia from 2014-2017, as superior of the Legionary community in Philadelphia from 2017-2020, and as a professor at the Legionaries of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire from 2021-2023. Currently stationed in Northern Virginia, he serves as superior of the Legionary community based at Divine Mercy University (DMU) and teaches in DMU\u2019s spiritual direction program. His contributions to RCSpirituality include writing\u00a0Retreat Guides\u00a0and\u00a0RC Essays,\u00a0co-presenting podcasts at\u00a0Two Priests and a Mic,\u00a0and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/jpietropaoli\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144574"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=144574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}