The Catholic Church celebrates the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne.
We celebrated this Feast on Friday by welcoming the New Year 12’s in their next part of their education here at St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, many who were already members of the St Edmund’s family and others from different schools.
We hope they feel the presence of our Lord every day and that his love gives them the strength to be people of God in all they say and do.
After Mass some of the Altar Servers placed a plant at the foot of our new statue of our lady in the peace garden. Saint Augustine described the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary as an event of cosmic and historic significance, and an appropriate prelude to the birth of Jesus Christ. “She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley,” he said.