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Month of May in Honor of Mary (Day 7)

May 07, 2026

Fr. John Colacino C.PP.S.

Day 7

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (9:1-3,5-6)

The people who walked in darkness

have seen a great light;

upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom

a light has shone.

You have brought them abundant joy

and great rejoicing,

as they rejoice before you as at the harvest,

as people make merry when dividing spoils.

For the yoke that burdened them,

the pole on their shoulder,

and the rod of their taskmaster

you have smashed, as on the day of Midian.

For a child is born to us, a son is given us;

upon his shoulder dominion rests.

They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero,

Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.

His dominion is vast

and forever peaceful,

from David’s throne, and over his kingdom,

which he confirms and sustains

by judgment and justice,

both now and forever.

The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this!

From Our knowledge of Mary: a short treatise of Mariology by Bl. William Joseph Chaminade

Mary is our Mother not merely by adoption, but also, and above all, by spiritual regeneration. It follows likewise that she became our Mother when she conceived the Son of God. The Incarnation, therefore, considered in its necessary result, is the fruit of the divine espousal of the Holy Ghost and the august Virgin. It is a spiritual yet fruitful espousal that gave life in the natural order to her Son, Jesus Christ, and produced, in the spiritual order, that is, by faith, the regeneration of mankind. We do not belong to Mary merely from the time that our Saviour confided us to her love. On Mount Cal- vary, it is true, the price of our redemption was paid to divine justice. That was the consummation of our redemption. On the cross, Jesus merited for us the grace of adoption and of glory. On Mount Calvary, Mary, in whose bosom we were spiritually conceived since the Incarnation, brought us forth to the life of faith. But it was not only then that she first became our Mother; for, if we were her children only since Calvary, the words of our divine Saviour, “Woman, behold thy son,” would in a more or less restricted sense have indeed made us her adopted children. In this case, however, how are we to understand the words of St. Luke, “her first-born Son”? Why should he say “first-born” if Jesus alone was born? Jesus would indeed be the only one born if we were merely adopted children, for adopted children are not children by birth. How then could the Blessed Virgin, strictly speak- ing, fulfill the functions of the New Eve in our regard? Besides, the relation established between the Blessed Virgin and ourselves by mere adoption would not suffice to satisfy all our needs. We must have a mother, a true and real mother, in the order of faith as in the order of nature. In the one as in the other, an adopted mother cannot replace a real mother.

We are then, in very truth, the children of Mary. We belong to her as a child belongs to its mother. In her and through her, Jesus Christ, in com- municating to us His life, has made us partakers of His nature, so that we are born spiritually of Mary in consequence of her ineffable union with Jesus Christ, the Father of our souls.

After all, our birth to the supernatural life through Mary is an unspeakable mystery like that of the eternal generation of the Word by the Father, and that of the Saviour’s birth in time by the Holy Virgin Mother.

While meditating on these sublime truths, let us rejoice at the happiness that is ours, and let us gratefully admire the depths of the treasures of the divine wisdom and mercy.

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