Archbishop's Message

The month of May has been dedicated by Divine Providence to the salutary and joyful celebration in the Holy Spirit of the glories of the Blessed Virgin Mary in God’s one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, by its Hierarchy and faithful. This month-long celebration ends with the feast of our Lady’s visitation to St. Elizabeth on the 31st May.

On the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth (the second joyful mystery) we recollect and proclaim the truth and ongoing fulfilment of the prophecy the Blessed Virgin Mary uttered concerning herself to St. Elizabeth: ‘Behold, all generations will call me blessed!’ Is not this prophecy fulfilled every time we speak the ‘Hail Mary’ to the Immaculate Heart of Mary saying “Blessed are you among women”? The Blessed Virgin Mary, our Lady and our Blessed Mother, also gave the reason why all the generations of the people of the new covenant will call Her Blessed: ‘For He who is mighty has done great things in me!’ What are the mighty works God did in Her for us and for salvation? It was His work of creating Her as the Immaculate Conception through the singular and indefectible establishment of His Holy Spirit in Her spiritual soul at the very moment He brought Her into existence, as ‘the Spirit of Truth Who will lead Her into all the Truth’and ensure Her indefectible obedience of faith to God the Father, Her perpetual consecration to God as His perpetual Virgin, Her motherhood of His Eternal Son in the mystery of His incarnation for our salvation in a state of perfect and perpetual virginity, Her sevenfold sorrows to become the Virgin Mother of the Church through Her glorious assumption in spirit, soul and body to join Her divine Son in the glory of His divine Sonship as our Lord Jesus Christ as the glorious Queen in God’s kingdom as our Mother of Mercy! So, on the feast day of the Visitation of our Blessed Mother to St. Elizabeth on the 31st May, the Holy Spirit invites us to enter into and stay put in the world of our Lady’s own singular personal life with the Blessed Trinity for our own salvation and for the greater glory of the Blessed Trinity in our present post-baptismal pilgrimage of faith to the judgement seat of Christ.