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eNewsletter Subject: The first person consecrated to Jesus through Mary?

Merry Christmas from all of us at Catholic Culture! And happy feast of St. John the Evangelist. You might say he was the first person to consecrate himself to Jesus through Mary - well, actually that might  have been St. Joseph - but at any rate St. John is the archetype of Marian consecration in the normal mode (filial, not spousal) for those who would come after.

Since we didn't send a newsletter on Tuesday, we have a few pieces of Christmas-related commentary from the past week, which I'll list in chronological order:

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Saturday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today the Roman Martyrology includes in commemorations: —St. Gerard of Brogne (895-959) who was born in the county of Namur. He trained for the army, as a page of the count of Namur he was sent on a special mission to the French court. He stayed in France and joined the Benedictines of St.…

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