For the New Year

Christ speaks: "Many love Mary as if she were their Mother . . . I want you to realize that Mary is your true Mother in the supernatural order . . . Mary has given you life--the most real life. She gave it to you at Nazareth, on Calvary, and in your Baptism. At Nazareth she conceived you, in conceiving Me. . . . By consenting to give Me life, she also consented to give it to you. In becoming My Mother, she became yours. . . . 

I was the Head and you were a member. Mary bore us both; though in different ways, in her maternal womb; for the members and the Head have not a separate existence."

--Fr. Emil Neubert, My Ideal: Jesus, Son of Mary

Entrust the New Year to Our Lady, beautifully honored by this hymn "Bogoroditse Devo" composed by Sergey Khvoshchinsky and performed by From Age to Age. Read about Khvoshchinsky here.