Mary’s Birthday and Your Birth into Eternal Life

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What is your true birthday? This traditional Catholic sermon explains why our baptismal day—the day we receive sanctifying grace and are reborn in Jesus Christ—is more important than our natural birthday. Job and Jeremiah both lamented the days of their births amid suffering and persecution. Born as children of fallen Adam and Eve, we enter a world afflicted by sin, sickness, aging, and death. Because human nature is deprived of sanctifying grace, natural birth alone cannot give us eternal life. Holy Church celebrates the Nativities of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. John the Baptist. John was sanctified in his mother’s womb, while Mary was preserved from original sin from the first moment of her Immaculate Conception. Mary’s birth brought hope to a dying world. A rose emerged from the spiritual winter, the Morning Star illuminated the darkness, and a worthy vessel appeared to receive the Son of God. Without Mary’s Nativity, there would have been no Nativity of Jesus Christ. Through Mary came the Savior who gives us the Holy Ghost and washes us in baptism. In that sacrament, we die with Christ and are spiritually reborn with the seed of immortality. Our natural lives end in death, but baptism prepares us for an eternal birthday in Heaven—where there will be no sickness, aging, sorrow, or death. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee! 0:00 Opening prayer 0:10 Job laments the day of his birth 0:19 Jeremiah’s lament amid persecution 0:38 Life in this valley of tears 0:54 Children of Adam and Eve 1:06 Humanity’s loss of sanctifying grace 1:21 Grace restores friendship with God 1:37 Natural birth cannot bring eternal life 1:46 The birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2:01 Why earthly birthdays trouble us 2:30 Birthdays celebrated by Holy Church 2:53 Nativity of St. John the Baptist 3:09 The Nativity and Immaculate Conception of Mary 3:38 A dying world rejoices in Mary 4:02 A rose emerges from the spiritual winter 4:19 Mary, the Morning Star and Star of the Sea 4:36 The worthy vessel of salvation 4:59 Christ gives the water of the Holy Ghost 5:07 Baptism and spiritual rebirth 5:20 Without Mary, no Nativity of Jesus 5:30 St. Augustine on receiving Christ through Mary 6:00 The woman who brought forth the Savior 6:17 Mary gave birth to the Savior of the world 6:24 Baptism is our true birthday 6:32 Humanity’s search for immortality 6:40 Christ brings us into the new creation 6:58 Dying to self and rising with Christ 7:08 Baptism’s promise of eternal life 7:16 Closing prayer #CatholicBaptism #NativityOfMary #SanctifyingGrace #BlessedVirginMary #OriginalSin #BornAgain #TraditionalCatholic #CatholicSermon #EternalLife #SensusFidelium For more please visit http://reginaprophetarum.org & please remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 ✝️ SUPPORT THE MISSION 🙏 Donate https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 📬 Free Catholic Newsletter https://sensusfidelium.com/newsletter/ 📰 Read on Substack https://sensusfidelium.substack.com/ ──────────────────── 📺 WATCH & READ 📺 Sensus Fidelium App https://sensusfidelium.tv/ 📚 Sensus Fidelium Press https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ 👕 Official Merchandise https://sensusfidelium.com/merchandise/ ──────────────────── 🤝 PARTNER WITH US 📣 Advertise on Sensus Fidelium https://sensusfidelium.com/advertise-with-sensus-fidelium/ 🎤 Invite Steve Cunningham to Speak https://sensusfidelium.com/speaking/ ⛪ Parish Formation & Consultation https://sensusfidelium.com/for-parishes/ ──────────────────── 🌎 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY ✝️ Trusted Catholic Businesses https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴

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• Heaven & Eternity