Sedes Sapientiae, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.

                          Pope John Paul II in 2000 commissioned Jesuit artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik SJ to make the icon, the Sedes Sapientiae, entrusted to students around the globe to inspire them to bring Christianity to life in their universities. More recently, sedes sapientiae is for example the motto of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.       
Seal of the university

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_catholique_de_Louvain

  In Leuven, Belgium, one finds the Church of Saint Peter and in the left aisle of the church, among several art treasures, a wooden sculpture of the Madonna can be seen. This Madonna is called the'Sedes Sapientiae' (Seat of wisdom) and is the symbol of the University of Leuven. It was sculpted in 1442 by De Bruyne.   http://mcitl.blogspot.in/2008_12_01_archive.html                        

 Father Marko Ivan Rupnik SJ Sedes Sapientiae  2000Mosaic: marble and ceramic with gilt
http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.in/2011/10/sedes-sapientiae.html


                                             http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/991819.Love_Of_Eternal_Wisdom

"The greatest means of all, and the most wonderful of all secrets for obtaining and preserving divine Wisdom is a loving and genuine devotion to the Blessed Virgin."
THE LOVE OF ETERNAL WISDOM St. Louis de Montfort 

According to St. Louis de Montfort we need to acquire knowledge of Divine Wisdom in order to obtain everlasting life. "The Saint explains 4 means by which we can attain Wisdom:

1. Ardent desire, fostered by keeping of the Commandments;
2. Persevering prayer;
3. Universal mortification;
4. The last and greatest means of all, the most wonderful of all secrets for obtaining and keeping of Divine Wisdom, a tender and true devotion to the Blessed Mary.

In the Loreto Litany we invoke Mary as the Seat of Wisdom.Our Lady is the Seat of Wisdom because She was the only crated being, who knew and loved God most. The Gospel tells us: She pondered all things and kept them in Her Heart.                

 http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/prayers/sedessapientiae.html

 “Mary is,” St. Louis says, “the secret magnet."...“Wherever she is, she draws Eternal Wisdom so powerfully that He cannot resist. …Once we possess Mary we shall easily and in a short time possess Divine Wisdom through her intercession. Of all the means to possess Jesus Christ, Mary is the surest, the easiest, the shortest way and the holiest.
“And the best way to belong entirely to Mary is, so to speak, to take Mary into our house by consecrating ourselves unreservedly to her as her servants and slaves. To surrender into her hands all we possess. And then, this good Mistress, who never allows herself to be outdone in liberality, will give herself to us, in an incomprehensible but real manner, and then Eternal Wisdom will come to dwell in her as in His glorious throne room.”

 Christ, Wisdom Incarnate,  is seated on the lap of His Blessed Mother.Hence Mary is the throne from which Christ rules the universe.
She is also the “Lady Wisdom” prefigured in the Old Testament, especially in the Book of Proverb..  She is Lady Wisdom by virtue of her role as Theotokos; she bore Christ in her womb and upon her lap.

 Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us. St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.

http://www.stpeterslist.com/9744/the-24-theses-of-st-thomas-aquinas-with-citations-and-commentary/     

Student's Prayer to OUR LADY OF STUDIES (By St. Thomas Aquinas) http://www.seatofwisdom.net/prayer10.htm

O Mary, Seat of Wisdom, so many persons of common intellect have made through your intercession admirable progress in their studies. I hereby choose you as my guardian and patron of my studies. I humbly ask you to obtain for me the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that from now on I can understand more quickly, retain more readily, and express myself more fluently. May the example of my life serve to honor you and your Son, Jesus. Amen.                                 -St. Thomas Aquinas prayer taken from Pure Faith Jason Evert 107

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God spoke to the Prophets: we have His communications to them in Scripture. But He spoke to them in figure and parable. There was one, viz., Moses, to whom He vouchsafed to speak face to face. "If there be among you a prophet of the Lord," God says, "I will appear to him in a vision, and I will speak to him in a dream. But it is not so with my servant Moses. . . For I will speak to him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord." This was the great privilege of the inspired Lawgiver of the Jews; but how much was it below that of Mary! Moses had the privilege only now and then, from time to time; but Mary for thirty continuous years saw and heard Him, being all through that time face to face with Him, and being able to ask Him any question which she wished explained, and knowing that the answers she received were from the Eternal God, who neither deceives nor can be deceived.
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom; pray for us.
Taken from the book "The Mystical Rose" (Thoughts on the Blessed Virgin from the writings of Cardinal J. H. Newman) St. Paul Publications 1955 http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/SEATWISD.HTM

                                      

The feast of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, our patronal feast, is observed on June 8th.  The title of Mary as ‘Seat of Wisdom’ is an ancient one, traced back liturgically to the twelfth century, when we find prayers to the Virgin as the ‘Mother of Wisdom’, the ‘fountain of Wisdom’ and, of course, the ‘Seat of Wisdom’.  She is seen not only as the Mother of Christ, Who is Wisdom Incarnate, but also as the prototypical ‘wise Virgin’ herself, who ‘kept all these words in her heart’, in order to ‘teach, recount, and proclaim them to the world’ (cf.,Sacramentary for Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary).http://www.seatofwisdom.org/lady-seat-wisdom-pray-us/