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The Bellowing Ox Vol. 9, No. 1 A publication of Aquinas Communications Jan./Feb. 2021 A.D. Defenders of The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith Our Blessed Mary was NEVER an Unwed Mother Divine History of the Virgin Mother of God, as dictated by the Virgin Mary Herself by Venerable Mary of Agreda, 1602-1665 for, it was proper She should be married to About the Author: At the age of thirteen and a half years, whomever it seemed good to them. Venerable Mary of Agreda was born on April 2, 1602, in Agreda, Spain. Christened Mary had an abstractive vision of God. During this time the most holy Virgin Maria Fernandez Coronel, she took the blue In this vision, we might say, happened multiplied her prayers, beseeching the habit and made her vows as a in the something similar to that which the Lord with incessant tears and sighs, to Franciscan order, and in 1627 she became holy Scriptures relate of , when fulfill His divine pleasure in that which abbess of the Agreda Franciscan monastery God commanded him to sacrifice his She had so much at heart. On one of those until her death on May 24, 1665. The process for sainthood began a few years after her beloved son , the only pledge of all nine days before the marriage, the Lord death, as she had lived a life of evident his hopes. God tempted Abraham, says appeared to Her and said to Her: “My holiness in the eyes of her contemporaries. (Gen. 12, 12), trying and probing Spouse and My Dove, let thy afflicted heart During her life, she had experienced mystical the promptness of his obedience in order expand and let it not be disturbed or sad; phenomena including private revelations. to reward it. We can say the same thing I will attend to thy yearnings and to thy The most famous of these writings is the Mystical City of God: Divine History of of our great Lady, that God tried Her in requests, I will direct all things, and will the Virgin, Mother of God, which had this vision, by commanding Her to enter govern the priests by my enlightenment; I been dictated by the Virgin Mary Herself. the state of matrimony, even though She will give Thee a spouse selected by Myself, Even after death, Sister Agreda continues to had often repeated and renewed the vow and one who will put no hindrance to thy defy the rationalists and non-believers: her of chastity, which She had taken at such a holy desires, but who, by my grace will body is incorrupt and lies in her convent. Like a small number of deceased mystics premature age. prosper Thee in them. I will find for Thee and Catholic , the nun’s body refuses Nevertheless at this unexpected a perfect man conformable to My heart, to naturally decay, even after 342 years. command, the most prudent Virgin and I will choose him from the number of Included here are some excerpts from the suspended Her judgment, and preserved My servants; My power is infinite, and My popular abridgement of the City of God, the calmness of Her hope and belief more protection and aid shall never fail Thee.” translated from the original Spanish by Rev. Geo. J. Blatter as appearing in perfectly than Abraham. Mary resigned Journal, 2016 Herself entirely into the hands of the Lord. His Majesty answered Her: “Mary, let not A Bloom and a Dove for St. thy heart be disturbed, for thy resignation He was then thirty-three years of is acceptable to Me and My powerful arm is age, of handsome person and pleasing not subject to laws; by My disposition that countenance, but also of incomparable will happen, which is most proper for Thee.” modesty and gravity; above all he was most God Arranges Their Marriage chaste in thought and –conduct, and most In the meanwhile, God spoke in sleep saintly in all his inclinations. –From his to the high priest, , and twelfth year he had made and kept the vow commanded him to arrange for the of chastity. He was known for the utmost marriage of Mary, the daughter of Joachim purity of his life, holy and irreprehensible and Anne of Nazareth, since He regarded in the eyes of God and of men. Her with special care and love. The holy All these unmarried men gathered in the priest answered, asking what was His will On the day on which our Princess Mary temple and prayed to the Lord conjointly in regard to the person, whom the maiden completed the fourteenth year of her life, with the priests, in order to be governed Mary was to marry and to whom She was the men, who at that time in the city of by the holy Spirit in what they were about to give Herself as Spouse. Jerusalem were descendants of the tribe to do. The Most High spoke to the heart The Lord instructed him to call together of Juda and of the race of , gathered of the high priest, inspiring him to place the other priests and learned persons together in the temple. The sovereign into the hands of each one of the young and to tell them that this Maiden was left Lady was also of that lineage. Among the men a dry stick, with the command that alone and an orphan, and that She did not number was Joseph, a native of Nazareth, each ask His Majesty with a lively faith, to desire to be married; but that, as it was a and then living in Jerusalem; for he was single out the one whom He had chosen as custom for the firstborn maidens not to one of the descendants of the royal race the spouse of Mary. leave the temple without being provided of David. The Marriage of Virgins, Mary & Joseph continued on page 11 AQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS MISSION STATEMENT Aquinas Communications is an apostolate of the Catholic Laity. Our mission is to educate people on the Truth of Christ; to be loyal to the ’s Magisterial Authority, to The Catholic Church’s , and to Holy Scripture. Some companies began Some companies began on Wall Street in garages

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Enter: Aquinas Communications, Inc. 10 The Marriage of Virgins, Mary & Joseph fulfilling this vow. The most chaste spouse I now gladly ratify this vow in order not - continued from page 1 Joseph, full of interior joy at the words of to impede thy own; in the presence of His And as the sweet odor of Her virtue his heavenly Spouse, answered Her: Majesty, I promise to aid Thee, as far as in and nobility, the fame of Her beauty, Her “My Mistress, in making known to me lies, in serving Him and loving Him possessions and Her modesty, and Her me thy chaste and welcome sentiments, according to thy full desires. I will be, with position as being the firstborn in Her thou hast penetrated and dialated my the divine grace, thy most faithful servant family was known to all of them, each one heart. I have not opened my thoughts and companion, and I pray Thee accept coveted the happiness of meriting Her as to Thee before knowing thy own. I my chaste love and hold me as thy brother, a spouse. also acknowledge myself under greater without ever entertaining any other kind Among them all only the humble and obligation to the Lord of creation than of love, outside the one which Thou owest most upright Joseph thought himself other men; for very early He has called to God, and after God to me.” unworthy of such a great blessing; and me by His true enlightenment to love Him By divine operation, the two most holy remembering the vow of chastity which he with an upright heart; and I desire Thee to and chaste Spouses felt an incomparable had made and resolving anew its perpetual know, Lady, that at the age of twelve years joy and consolation at seeing the Work of observance, he resigned himself to God’s I also made a promise to serve the Most Divine Providence at the conformity of will, leaving it all to His disposal and being High in perpetual chastity. On this account their sentiments. filled at the same time with a veneration - Venerable Mary of Agreda, 1602-1665 and esteem greater than that of any of the Espousal of Mary and Joseph - Traditional Feast January 23 others for the most noble maiden Mary. A feast of the Latin Church. It is certain that a real matrimony was contracted by While they were thus engaged in prayer, Joseph and Mary. Still Mary is called “espoused” to Joseph (“to a Virgin espoused the staff which Joseph held was seen to to a man whose name was Joseph”, Luke 1:27) because the matrimony was never blossom, and at the same time a dove, consummated. The term spouse is applied to married people until their marriage is of purest white and resplendent with consummated (Colvenerius, Cal. Marian., 23 January). admirable light, was seen to descend and rest upon the head of the saint, while in The Gospel According to Luke 1:26-42 angel answering, said to her: The Holy [26] And in the sixth month, the angel Ghost shall come upon thee, and the the interior of his heart God spoke: was sent from God into a city power of the most High shall overshadow “Joseph, My servant, Mary shall be of Galilee, called Nazareth, [27] To a thee. And therefore also the Holy which thy Spouse; accept Her with attentive virgin espoused to a man whose name shall be born of thee shall be called the reverence, for She is acceptable in My eyes, was Joseph, of the house of David; and Son of God. just and most pure in soul and body, and the virgin’s name was Mary. [28] And the [36] And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, thou shalt do all that She shall say to Thee.” angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, she also hath conceived a son in her old At this manifestation and token from full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed age; and this is the sixth month with her heaven, the priests declared art thou among women. [29] Who having that is called barren: [37] Because no as the spouse selected by God Himself for heard, was troubled at his saying, and word shall be impossible with God. [38] the maiden Mary. thought with herself what manner of And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of Divine Providence salutation this should be. [30] And the the Lord; be it done to me according to The heavenly Princess took leave of angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou thy word. And the angel departed from the priests, asking their blessing, and of hast found grace with God. her. [39] And Mary rising up in those Her instructress and Her companions in [31] Behold thou shalt conceive in thy days, went into the hill country with haste the temple, begging their pardon. In the womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and into a city of Juda. [40] And she entered company of attendants who were some thou shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He into the house of Zachary, and saluted shall be great, and shall be called the Son Elizabeth. of the more distinguished laymen in the of the most High; and the Lord God shall [41] And it came to pass, that when service of the temple, She betook Herself give unto him the throne of David his Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, with Her spouse Joseph to Nazareth, the father; and he shall reign in the house of the infant leaped in her womb. And native city of this most fortunate married for ever. [33] And of his kingdom Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: couple. Joseph, although he had been born there shall be no end. [34] And Mary [42] And she cried out with a loud voice, in that place, had, by the providential said to the angel: How shall this be done, and said: Blessed art thou among women, disposition of circumstances, decided to because I know not man? [35] And the and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. live for some time in Jerusalem. Thus it - Vulgate Bible happened that he so improved his fortune as to become the spouse of Her, whom The Bellowing Ox is a Publication of Staff: God had chosen to be His own Mother. Aquinas Communications, Inc. Tom Oglesby, Publisher Having arrived at their home in Nazareth, Colleen Pasnik, Vice President [email protected] where the Princess of heaven had inherited Greg Yoko, Executive Editor the possessions and estates of Her blessed Brad Markham, News Editor © 2021 Aquinas Communications, Inc. Chris Ehlers, Web Editor parents, they were welcomed and visited P. O. 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