Mary: seat of wisdom; mirror of justice

Today we, in the Catholic Church, celebrate the Queenship of Mary. I have been helping out a local pastor at his parish during my summer teaching in the US.

During the Octave of the Feast of the Assumption and today’s celebration, we have been reciting a Marian Litany at the Masses celebrated in this parish. During these recitations I have come to appreciate more the importance of Mary as a source of inspiration to Catholic intellectual thought. Two of the stanzas of the litany are “seat of wisdom” and “mirror of justice” (catchy name for a blog!). All of us, be we contributors or readers of MOJ, might pause for a few prayerful moments today to offer thanksgiving to her as a model of many virtues but, in particular, those of wisdom and justice.   

RJA sj