Receiving Our “Crown”, Just Like Mary.

Window at Sacred Heart Parish

In today's Morning Prayer readings we read Psalm 8. This particular psalm emphasizes God's love for us and our destiny.

Yet you have made him little less than a god; with glory and honor you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hand, put all things under his feet. Psalm 8:6 NAB

Peter mentions in his first letter, "And when the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.” 1Pet. 5:4 NAB

The apostle Paul writes of an athlete that competes to receive a crown. The runner competes for a perishable crown, but we as Christians compete for an imperishable crown (1 Cor. 9:25). Is it any wonder that Our Blessed Mother has been crowned by her Son? (Revelation 12:1) If God is our Father and Jesus our Brother, Mary is our Mother. Mary is not God, nor do we worship her. But as we have a physical mother in this life, we also have a Mother in heaven that during her sojourn on this earth brought forth life for the world in her Son. If we endure unto the end, we also will receive a crown. 

What a glorious destiny God has for His creation! Let us strive to attain that imperishable crown of glory. We have a whole communion of saints in heaven cheering us on from heaven. So, strive to attain that crown.

Ave Maria!

Praised be Jesus Christ!