[Catholic Caucus / Devotional] Happy Birthday to Our Blessed Mother Mary

[Catholic Caucus / Devotional] Happy Birthday to Our Blessed Mother Mary Today the liturgy celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We post the refection of the day from the Magnificat. It's called, "The Birth of the Divine Abode" and reads like a poem. The author is Saint Andrew of Crete who was a Greek monk, archbishop, theologian, and hymnographer, and influential in the development of the Byzantine liturgy.The present festival is for us the beginning of feasts…. This first day of the feasts…offers creation a new joy. Have courage, it says, this festival is a...