*Last week had a great saint almost every day. This week is almost as full, but I'm going to stick with the Mary theme and tell you about Friday, the Feast of the Queenship of Mary. As Americans we have a fraught relationship with hierarchy and monarchy. On one hand our whole country was founded as a rejection of a lineage of monarchy; on the other hand, many Americans can't get enough of following royal gossip, whether it be legislative or pop culture monarchy. I think that what we might take fruitfully from the Queenship of Mary goes back to the role of the Queen Mother in the Old Testatment: as seen in Esther in particular but also the first book of Kings and also 2 Samuel is that the Queen Mother had a particular role of speaking for the people before then king, and as much as possible the king could not deny her requests for them. How consoling then that Mary can intercede for us in a particular way, both in bringing our intentions before God but also in helping us understand what our intentions should be.
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