A Letter of the Celebration of the First One Month of IOC Movement First Campaign, and the Feast of St.Anne; the Mother of "Kecharitomene"

Hessed we shalom,
Brothers and sisters.

Today(26th of July 2013) we, the IOC(Instaurare Omnia in Christo), celebrating our first One Month of our First Campaign that has been launched exactly a Month ago on 26th of June 2013.

Our glorious, noble and humble Campaign is:

"To promote Traditional Latin Mass in Sabah and Sarawak (Borneo). "

I would like to invite all of you to pray the Holy Rosary starting from today until the evening Saturday(27th of July 2013) at least One Mystery of the Holy Rosary.

We, the IOC ,inviting all people outside IOC and also IOC friends to join us in celebrating our First Campaign exactly a Month of that auspicious day. This day(26th of July 2013) is a very auspicious day as it is in conjunction with the Feast of St.Anne; The Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Memorial of St.Joachim and St.Anne.

What is so special and the significance of our One Month Celebration of our meek Letter of the Launching of the First Campaign of the IOC Movement? Let us see together why.

From a Sermon by St. John Damascene
[The home of Anne is set before us, that herein we may see an ensample both of married and of maiden life, the one in the person of Anne the mother, the other in that of Mary her daughter. Whereof one hath but now ceased to be barren, and the other is in a little while destined, beyond the course of nature, to become the Mother of the Messiah by a singular birth, specially designed of God to build up anew our nature. We can imagine, then, how Anne, filled with the Holy Ghost, with joyful and jubilant spirit, might have sung aloud: Rejoice with me, for out of my barren womb I have borne the bud of promise, and, as I have longed to do, I nourish at my breasts the fruit of benediction ; I have laid aside the mournful garments of barrenness, and put on the joyful raiment of fruitfulness ; let Hannah, the adversary of Peninnah, make merry with me, and join with me for fellow-feeling, in the singing of this new and unhoped-for wonder that is wrought in me ; let Sarah be glad that was joyfully pregnant in her old age. She was but a shadow cast before of my conception, even before me that hitherto have been barren. Let all the barren and fruitless break forth into singing, when they behold in what wondrous wise I have been visited from heaven.

Let all other mothers also, when they like Anne are gifted with fruitfulness, say : Blessed be he that gave their desire unto them that besought him! that gave fruitfulness unto her that was barren! that granted unto her that from her should bud forth the joy-bringing Virgin! Who, according to the flesh, was Mother of God, and whose womb was a heaven wherein he dwelt whom no place can contain. Let us also with them offer our praises to her that was called barren, but now is become the mother of a maid-child ; let us say unto her in the words of the Scripture : O how blessed is the house of David from whence thou art sprung! and that womb wherein God hath fashioned the ark of his holiness! her, by whom he was himself conceived without man's seed!

Right blessed art thou, yea, thrice blessed, whom God hath so blest as to make thee to bring forth, as his own gift, the babe Mary! Whose very name is highly honourable, out of whom Christ, the Flower of life, blossomed! A maiden whose rising is glorious, and whose delivery is worth more than the world. We also, O Anne, woman right blessed, do with thee joy. In sooth thou hast brought forth what we all have hoped for, and God hath given us, namely, the babe of promise. Blessed indeed art thou, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb! The tongues of all the godly do magnify thine offspring, and every glad word is spoken concerning her of whom thou art delivered. It is indeed meet and right, and our bounden duty, to praise her who received a revelation from the goodness of God, and bore for us such and so great a fruit, from whom sweet Jesus sprang.]

IOC Movement is similar with a baby girl where she is 'born' in order to serve the Lord Jesus Christ; the Word Incarnate.

Therefore,
IOC Movement must be like a child that is blameless and innocent. She is only speaking of Truth and act according to the Truth Himself which is our Lord Jesus Christ as the Way,the Life and the Truth(John 14:6).

Blessed Virgin Mary is our Theotokos(Mother of God) and thus it is important for us to know why she is declared Immaculate Conception when she was conceived from the womb of St.Anne.
Our Blessed Mother, Maryam(In Hebrew) is conceived by St.Joachim and St.Anne.

There are several debates about the adjective of Kecharitomene attributed to our Mother of God that she is also could be called as "Full of Grace" or "Kecharitomene". Language can never adequately translate another language with the same feeling, emphasis, rhyme,and idiom.

From Koine Greek.
[Luke 1:28] Kai eiselthon pros auten eipen, "Caire, kecharitomene!, ho Kurios meta sou."

[Acts 6:8] Stephanos de plērēs charitos kai dynameōs epoiei terata kai sēmeia megala en tō laō

The term used to Blessed Virgin Mary is "Kecharitomene" perfect passive participle of "charitoo" [charitoo (verb) comes from the same Greek root of “charis” - which means “grace” and charitoó means to fill or endow with grace] or in other words: "Hail, one who has always been full of grace"

St.Anne, the Mother of Blessed Virgin Mary name is derives from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning "grace."

Thus,

From the Sacred History of the Annunciation from Papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus
[When the Fathers and writers of the Church meditated on the fact that the most Blessed Virgin was, in the name and by order of God himself, proclaimed full of grace by the Angel Gabriel when he announced her most sublime dignity of Mother of God, they thought that this singular and solemn salutation, never heard before, showed that the Mother of God is the seat of all divine graces and is adorned with all gifts of the Holy Spirit. To them Mary is an almost infinite treasury, an inexhaustible abyss of these gifts, to such an extent that she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction. Hence she was worthy to hear Elizabeth, inspired by the Holy Spirit, exclaim: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.]

From Papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus (Latin for "Ineffable God"), which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception:

"We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful."
—Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854

In Conclusion,

The Sermon of St.John Damascene is very important to be the evidence that St.Anne is barren and married once, until the Mother of God is to be born from her womb based on Protoevangelium of James. That the name of the Mother of Blessed Virgin Mary,St.Anne which is Hannah in Hebrew means "Grace" is clearly by no accident has supported the Dogma of Immaculate Conception that Mother of God; Blessed Virgin Mary, is really the "Kecharitomene"(Full of Grace).

Therefore,
The IOC Movement should be more prudent,strengthen our stand to be firmed in Faith and more confident to carry on and keep the zeal of Promoting Traditional Latin Mass in Sabah and Sarawak igniting by God's Divine Providence on today's auspicious day of our Mother of the Mother of God;the Mother of the "Kecharitomene".

Pax Christi.