{"id":155218,"date":"2018-03-05T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155218"},"modified":"2018-03-05T00:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:30:35","slug":"pope-declares-new-celebration-mary-mother-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/05\/pope-declares-new-celebration-mary-mother-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope declares new celebration: Mary Mother of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147169\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147169\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Pope Francis ventured into the Amazon to demand rights for indigenous groups, decried the scourge of corruption afflicting the region's politics and denounced a culture of \u201cmachismo\u201d in which violence against women is too often tolerated. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Pope Francis (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Francis, in a decree released on March 3,\u00a0announced an additional day to the Roman calendar to mark for the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>This new celebration will be on the Monday after the celebration of the Pentecost or the celebration for the descending of the Holy Spirit to the apostles. For year 2018, the celebration will fall on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Holy Father, this addition will \u201cencourage the growth of the maternal sense of the Church in the pastors, religious and faithful, as well as growth of genuine Marian piety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As written in the decree by Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, this new celebration is essential for Christians to remember that their growth \u201cmust be anchored to the Mystery of the Cross, to the oblation of Christ in the Eucharistic Banquet and to the Mother of the Redeemer and Mother of the Redeemed, the Virgin who makes her offering to God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing Marian theology, Sarah also wrote that the Mother Mary\u2019s impact in the mystery of Christ and his nature cannot be ignored \u2013 as she is both the Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Marian title \u201cMother of the Church\u201d has been used for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus the foundation is clearly established by which Blessed Paul VI, on 21 November 1964, at the conclusion of the Third Session of the Second Vatican Council, declared the Blessed Virgin Mary as \u2018Mother of the Church, that is to say of all Christian people, the faithful as well as the pastors, who call her the most loving Mother\u2019 and established that \u2018the Mother of God should be further honoured and invoked by the entire Christian people by this tenderest of titles,\u201d the decree added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, in a decree released on March 3,\u00a0announced an additional day to the Roman calendar to mark for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":147169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[47657,2300],"class_list":["post-155218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-blessed-virgin-mary-mother-of-the-church","tag-pope-francis","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}