No items found.
Today we celebrate the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin.
Here are some pictures of the English Oratories’ pilgrimage to her Shrine at Walsingham on Saturday.
“Dearly beloved brethren, the day for which we have longed, the Feast-day of the Blessed and Worshipful and Ever-Virgin Mary, that day is come. Let our land laugh and sing with merriment, bathed in the glory of this great Virgin’s rising. She is the flower of the fields on which the priceless lily of the valleys hath blossomed. This is she whose delivery changed the nature that we draw from our first parents, and cleansed away their offence. At her that dolorous sentence which was pronounced over Eve ended its course to her it was never said: “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.” She brought forth a Child, even the Lord, but she brought Him forth, not in sorrow, but in joy.”
St Augustine.
