3. Mary, My Mother, your birth was awaited as the near sign of the deliverance of the human race. Mary, My Mother, you showed your humility by striving to conceal from others the gifts you received from God. By your humility you have found such great grace with God that you were chosen to co-operate with His Divine Son in restoring man to a dignity far superior to that which he had lost by sin. 3. He paid the debt that original sin might not be incurred. You are truly the pledge of Divine mercy. 1. April 16 - 23,2023. His role in our salvation is absolutely necessary. You receive all graces through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for them in the Name of Jesus Christ. Jesus caused the wonderful effects of grace in the soul of John the Baptist, but at the sound of your voice his sanctification was effected, and both he and his mother Elizabeth were filled with the Holy Spirit. Since you bore a much heavier one together with your innocent Son, should not I, a sinner deserving of eternal punishments, carry mine patiently? If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. 3. He is the Master of His creation. You learned to read the sacred books by yourself and tried to penetrate their hidden meaning. With sincere contrition for my sins I cry to you for help. But the same spirit of humility which had induced Jesus to obey the law of circumcision, made you also submit to the law of purification. You are a second and more blessed Eve. Like you let me realize my own nothingness. As our immaculate Mediatrix before your Son you have appeared at Lourdes to encourage us to amend our lives and to make sacrifices and offer prayers for sinners. He could not make you divine by nature, but He has made you inseparable from Jesus in the salvation of souls through the grace which He has so abundantly poured out upon you because of the Divine Motherhood. 2. Let me never esteem worldly wisdom so highly as to pay but little attention to the principles of that wisdom which is from heaven and which alone can make me truly wise and happy. And I did this, not under the sudden influence of passion, but deliberately with full knowledge of the act, of its horrible malice in the sight of God and of the terrible consequences in which it involved me. Fill their hearts with the virtues of joyous zeal for God and for souls and a warm love for divine learning. Therefore, with childlike confidence I appeal to your motherly Heart for help. Let me never separate my sufferings from the sufferings of Your divine Son. Each Communion is a mystery of your love for us and a grace which you obtain and bestow on us. All souls belong to you and your Son. I entrust my cause to you who are the Mother of Mercy, and I wish to offer you day by day my most reverent love. May I have more of their love for you so that I may experience more of their joy in being devoted to you. In you, and of your substance, was this day formed His adorable Body. As you knelt before the Sacred Species, you truly influenced the First Christians to be ardent lovers of your loving Son in the Blessed Sacrament. Make me strong in the midst of the temptations and bitterness which so often trouble my soul. You are so tender and compassionate, so watchful to relieve the needy, that it would seem you had no other desire, no other concern except this. The title "Our Lady of Sorrows" focuses on Mary's intense suffering during the passion and death of Christ. Bless the work of those who spend themselves to bring souls to your loving Son. 2. Feast, September 15 (Novena, September 6-14) (See the Feast of Seven Sorrows, Friday of Passion Week), Feast, September 24 (Triduum, September 21-23). Hence, it is through you that we must go to Christ, almost in the same way as through Christ we approach our Heavenly Father. 3. Mary, Mother of God, the joyful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the mysteries in which the Word was made flesh and you, the inviolate Virgin and Mother, performed your maternal duties with holy joy. Through the mystery of your Visitation enlighten my mind with divine truth, warm my heart with heavenly love; strengthen me to win the victory over my evil inclinations and the power of evil. Holiness is a complete separation from creatures and perfect union with God through love. By Francesca Merlo The Virgin of Guadalupe, like the shroud of Turin, appears on a piece of fabric. Humility is not belittling myself, but taking the place which rightly belongs to me, not a higher place, nor a lower, but the true and just place where God wants me. At your prayer Jesus changed the water into wine in Cana. In Bethlehem you first adored Him in His visible presence as He lay in all His helplessness before your joyful eyes. ." It was your exclusive privilege to be Christ's Mother according to the flesh. You appeared as the Woman of the Apocalypse, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon. How often I do not know where to turn. God has made you so kind even to sinners that your goodness restores us to hope. You saw Barabbas preferred to Jesus when the Roman governor showed the Man of Sorrows to the angry mob. The God of holiness, having come upon the earth to take away the sins of the world, chose to appear among us as a sinner. The glory of the great things that had been done in you, you attributed to God's mercy and power and love. Angels came to escort you. You knew that thousands even of His faithful followers throughout the world would turn from Him and would make His coming the occasion of their eternal ruin. For your generosity the Eternal Father made you, through Christ, the dispenser of the riches of God. The attitude of the Church toward you, symbolized by the moon under your feet, is that of a suppliant who is forever entreating you to use your power in favor of your children. Since God was born of you, you are the Mother of God. Your eyes ever watch over us; your ears ever listen to our cries; your hands are ever extended over us to help us and impart heavenly gifts to us; above all, your Heart is full of tenderest care for us. Your Heart is a refuge for sinners, for you are the Mother of Mercy, who has never been known to turn away any one who came to seek your aid. At the marriage feast of Cana you asked your Son to perform a miracle for the distressed bride and groom. 1. God had raised you to the highest dignity in His power in choosing you to be the Mother of His Son. Then Satan could boast that he had overcome Jesus in you, His Mother. Jesus continues ceaselessly to pray for us, offering for us to His heavenly Father His infinite merits and atonement, and causing the floods of grace to descend upon us to save us. You saw in the cross an altar, in your Son a Priest, and in His Blood the price of our Redemption. Your extreme hatred of sin was the measure of your supreme love of virtue. That grace made you holy and most pleasing in God's eyes, the special object of His love. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. During my whole life you continue to take care of me until Christ be formed in me. 3. Inflame me with that heavenly love with which you loved your dear Son, Jesus Christ . I give you my will by an absolute confidence in you, a confidence founded on your power and your goodness. Mary, Mother of God, your greatness began at the first instant of your existence with the privilege of your Immaculate Conception. Mary, Mother of God, I pour out to you the sorrows of my own troubled heart. Help me to imitate your fullness of grace by receiving Holy Communion frequently, where I shall obtain the sanctifying grace that will make my soul holy and pleasing to God, more like your own, and where I shall obtain the actual graces I need to practise virtue and to walk in your footsteps. I entrust to you all my anxieties and needs so that through the merits of your sorrows I may bear the trials and sufferings of life with the same love and resignation to God's Will with which you bore yours. How often am I confused in the problems of life. Those dangers are to be found in the principles and activities of Communism, the present day Anti-Christ, which tries to penetrate every walk of life, every class of society. You yourself are full of grace, and from the Holy Spirit, your Divine Spouse, you have received in overflowing measure His boundless love for all mankind. You are the holiest of God's creatures because you are the Mother of God. It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! 3. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. Hence with Holy Church I repeat, "You are all fair, Mary, and the stain of original sin is not in you. 2. He was with you not only by a special protection guiding you in His ways and leading you securely to salvation. O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of mercy, pray for me that I may be preserved this night all evil, whether of body or soul. Though you had already been assured by the angel that you were this happy Mother chosen by the Lord, you did not stop to rejoice in your exaltation. You are a Mediatrix because since your Assumption, with Christ you obtain all graces for men. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. He was preparing you for your final separation from Him at the foot of the cross. You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. I promise to devote myself wholeheartedly to the spreading of devotion to your Immaculate Heart so that the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart may come and He may reign with you in my heart and in the hearts of all men. 2. Pray to Jesus, the Divine Word and Eternal Wisdom, who is "the life that is the light of men" (John 1, 4), that through you He may teach me His divine wisdom. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. Such gifts assure us the everlasting indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, together with the Father and the Son, and that endless life which is its blessed fruit. 1. Mater Dolorosa. Even in the Son of God I sometimes fear the Divine Majesty because although He became Man, He did not cease to be God. Merit and glory attend your name. I thank you for consenting to become my spiritual Mother by giving me Jesus. The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. Through thirty-three years of Jesus' life on earth you suffered in silence. You were entirely under the influence of Christ's divinity. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." There is no sinner so spoiled and so mired in vice that you would deny him aid. In God there are no disappointments, no false promises. Help me to realize that it is only through the cross that I can attain to its glory and that it is only through suffering that I can possess the kingdom of heaven. With a "fiat" God created light, heaven, earth, but with your "fiat" God became Man. Our Lady of Good Counsel, I beg you to teach me true heavenly wisdom which was the source of every good deed you performed. Your slightest wish carries with it a powerful appeal. are merged in the supreme suffering at the Passion. At the very instant of your conception your mind was filled with the light of God, and your will was entirely conformed to the divine will. Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. 3. I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. Feast, September 8 (Novena, Aug. 30-Sept. 7). I consecrate myself entirely to your Immaculate Heart. Teach me to desire ardently all that is pleasing to God, to seek after it prudently, to accept it truthfully and to do it perfectly, for the praise and glory of God. He follows up in my heart also the aim that brought Him into your wombHe wishes to be born in me, to grow, rule, and reveal Himself. After the birth of your Divine Son, this grace grew in splendor within you as it daily united you more closely with your God. God had exalted you above all creatures. Whatever of sanctity, of dignity, of merit, of grace and of glory, that we can imagine, all is in you. Obtain for me the grace of true conversion. She is forever imploring you to intercede in their behalf with Him who has clothed you with His light and His glory, and has poured out upon you the fullness of His grace. Before you were crowned Queen of Heaven you became the Mother of Sorrows. In giving you to Joseph as spouse, God appointed him to be not only your life's companion, but also a sharer of your dignity. I can easily picture Saint John, the Apostle of love, saying Mass each day in his own home and daily giving you the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist. With heavenly homage the angelic messenger greeted you "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women" (Luke 1, 28). Place your gentle motherly hands on those wounds of my soul and grant that through the grace of the Sacraments and prayer they may be healed. The Holy Spirit, who in virtue of your Son's merits lived in you, made you a living image of Jesus. No other saint exerts such universal influence in the affair of our salvation as you do. You are a human creature, but free from even the slightest sin or guilt, and absolutely pure by reason of the singular excellence of your nature. With no tendency to evil, but with a deep yearning for the highest virtue, you glorified God more than all His other creatures. The bodies of even the just are corrupted after death, and only on the last day will they be joined, each to its own glorious soul. 3. Everything which Jesus may claim in justice is yours by friendship's title. Mary, Mother of God, you are the new Eve. John took my place on Calvary and you became, in his person, my Mother. Mary, Mother of God, because of your influence in obtaining helpful remedies against spiritual and bodily maladies, the Church calls you the "Health of the Sick." All that God could give, He bestowed on you. I come to you with confidence, knowing that through you all glory, honor and holiness given to the human race from the first Adam to the last ages has been granted, is being granted and will be granted to apostles, prophets, martyrs and all the just. 1. Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. You are the Mother of the Son of God. The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in parishes and neighborhoods throughout the country with Masses and dancing and celebration, . I will not be discouraged, but rather go with confidence to you, the throne of grace. Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 12:00am. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. The Church has always taught that God has entrusted to your hands all heavenly treasures, and many of the saints assure me that you give to your clients as much of these treasures as you wish and when you wish to do so. Your great lover, Saint Bernard, along with many other saints and writers, reminds me: "Through you, Mary, heaven has been filled; through you hell has beheld itself robbed of an army of souls, in a word, through you eternal life was imparted to multitudes of wretched ones, who had made themselves unworthy of it." The Feast of Our Lady of Palestine was established in 1927 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, . Have pity on the sinners of the world. . Our Lady of Sichem, Belgium (474) 4. On April 3rd, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X will have the joy of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion for the first time in all our houses. God might have created a more beautiful world, perfect men. Your Immaculate Conception is a triumph over Satan the author of evil, who under your heel, suffered his first complete defeat. Mary, My Mother, give me a rich share in the graces merited for me by your Son. You were fully enlightened as to the greatness of the dignity of a Mother of God. I, too, am a sinner. In consecrating your virginity to God, you had given up all hope of becoming the Mother of the Messias because you considered yourself unworthy of the highest honor of the divine maternity. In your motherhood you would need protection and so would the Child in His infancy. Rather, your sorrows were ordained by God from all eternity as part of the penalty to be paid for sin and were to mingle with the sufferings of your Son in that great sacrifice which was to redeem the world. Mary, Mother of God, you are our true Mother because you have given us supernatural life. More than ever before, we have need of your help today. I cannot rise to the heights of your holiness because I cannot grasp the intimacy of your union with Christ when you became His Mother. I want to take devotion to you seriously. You had a share in that work; it was part of your life-work. Since you had your place beside Jesus when there was question of ransoming us and meriting for us all the graces necessary for our salvation, you must in like manner have your place beside Him now, when there is question of securing for us by your prayers in heaven the graces prepared for us in view of the merits of Christ. 8, 35). Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. You stood there silently fulfilling a part assigned you by Providence. From Him there flowed heavenwards an unceasing stream of glory, the waves of His grace ever poured over the earth. When the Angel Gabriel came as a messenger from God, it was not only to ask your consent to become the Mother of the Son of God, but also to treat with you of the salvation of the human race, of the birth of the Savior of the world, of the regeneration of mankind and the setting up of an everlasting kingdom. I long for your complete dominion over meover my body, my soul, my senses, over all that I am and have. Infirmities of the body are nature's warning voice concerning the approach of death, which I cannot finally escape. In Jesus there was wrapped up the double love of a mother for her only Child and of the holiest creature for her God. How God rewarded your humble and deep faith! God could not have created a more beautiful throne for Himself than you; His Mother! It is under the mantle of humility that you will protect me. Mary, Mother of God, you are Mother of Grace, because you are begotten of you to the life of grace, and are indebted to you after Jesus, for our supernatural life. What untold merit you must have laid up for eternity during the nine months that preceded your Nativity. The more you beheld yourself enriched, the more humble did you become, remembering that all came to you from the infinite generosity of your Maker. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. Mary, Mother of God, you are our spiritual Mother. You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. Thus He clearly revealed that in His kingdom you were to be the dispenser of His riches. As mentioned in previous posts, this is an ongoing display of our Holy Card Collection. Mary, My Mother, your whole life was like a Mass. Your Son, though He was Life itself, did not exempt Himself from death. Mary, Mother of God, you are Our Lady of Good Counsel because of the divine wisdom and prudence which you received from the Holy Spirit. From the moment of His entering the world, your loving Son Jesus, was the price of our salvation. It is through you that I am able to eat the Bread of Heaven even every day. 2. By consenting to give natural life to Jesus, you consented to give us supernatural life. May I weigh well at what price you became the Mother of the human race, so that I may remember how much you love me and how eager you are to help me and all Christians. Overshadowed by the power of the Holy Spirit, you were to conceive and bear the Messias, and at the same time remain a Virgin in every respect. Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. Help me to sacrifice myself generously for the love of Godto abstain from those many hurtful things that prevent the union of my soul with God. Feast, Saturday before the before the last Sunday in August (Triduum, Wednesday last Sunday in August). How many afflicted hearts are consoled in you! The child in the womb of Elizabeth was sanctified and exulted for joy at the presence of Jesus. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Queen of the Apostles because you were the source of their inspiration and zeal. En life's dark hours you always remembered that you were God's handmaid, and you always wanted everything to be done according to His holy Will. 2. On the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, 28 First Holy Communion students received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time. GLADE PARK, Colorado (Catholic Online) - The feast dedicated to "Our Lady of the Rosary" was instituted by Pope Pius V. It was to commemorate the anniversary of the defeat of the Turkish fleet at the battle of Lepanto on the first Sunday in October 1571. It was not enough for the Infinite Lover of souls to free us from the slavery of hell by His Passion and death and to bestow upon us His body and blood, soul and divinity. You are my Queen, my Lady. 1. You thought only of the good you could do in Elizabeth's home. 3. As you were called to cooperate with your Divine Son on Calvary in acquiring the treasure of His infinite merits, so now in Heaven you cooperate with Him in dispensing those merits to His Mystical Body. I desire to place under your protection all my efforts in my striving for holiness and all the works of my daily life. If unfortunately I should lose this life by sin, you can bring me back to supernatural life. The Annunciation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. This love for you was the source of great joy in the hearts of the saints. On Feb. 11, 2020, I was ordained a bishop and installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. Jesus was a Son to you and a sword to you: a Son on your breast, a sword in your heart. Heaven and earth shall perish before you are seen to abandon the miserable who pray to you sincerely. 1. Feast, September 12 (Triduum, September 9-11). 3. Your body, which was the living tabernacle of the Eternal God and the temple of the Adorable Trinity, was not meant to crumble into dust. I am the vine, you are the branches" (John 15, 4). You were born into the world in the humble city of Nazareth. From your own flesh and blood you formed the body of your Son. For as often as I offended God by mortal sin, so often have I crucified the Son of God and made a mockery of Him. pray for me! For days before the feast, people crowd around the basilica for blessings of the religious images they have brought, and . I know that much will be required from those to whom much is given. Liturgical feast Our Lady of Compassion. The divine light, received from Him, led you deeper into the mystery of the Redemption and its effects in the past and in the future. Those words include us all. This humility was richly rewarded. Teach me to imitate your humility by acknowledging my nothingness and seeking the glory of God in everything. Altogether 24 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. Your Heart is pure and spotless because sanctified beyond all other hearts by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, making it worthy to be the dwelling-place of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. But as Joseph had been united to you by the ties of marriage, he approached nearer than anyone else to your eminent dignity. Because of your dignity, you reach to the borders of the divine. Mary, Mother of God, already in your childhood you dedicated yourself to the love and service of God. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. 3. Mary, My Mother, your intercession is all-powerful. We join you, Queen of the Holy Rosary, in praying for peace in the world. You are this woman, and you are a virgin. You humbled yourself so deeply because you knew that of and by yourself you were nothing and had nothing. Obtain for me the grace to love God with my whole heartso that all the love my heart is capable of may be consecrated to Him, and all other affection subordinated to the love I owe God. Your own extraordinary grace and merit, your own wondrous privileges give to your prayer an irresistible force and power. 3. Jesus exhausted His love for man also. You brought forth Jesus, your First-born, without pain; but in giving birth to your second-born, what agony did you not have to endure? Your Son will deny you nothing. At the Annunciation you received Jesus on earth; it was proper that He should receive you in Heaven. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are the Immaculate Conception. It is still . God has made you Queen and Protectress of the Church. Mary, My Mother, your apparition at Guadalupe as the Immaculate Conception is your only recorded appearance in North America. Alone of all the children of Adam, you were gifted with the fullness of sanctifying grace which made you the object of a very special love on the part of God. To you I give my body, my heart and my soul. What merits did not your perfect immolation gain! From you all missionaries have received the salvation which they bring to the nations. After the triumph of your Divine Son on the day of His Ascension, there never was, and there never will be, a triumph like that which you enjoyed on this day. God freed His future messenger from original sin and enriched him with grace. But it is most reasonable and proper to say that God, who honored and loved You more than all others during your life, and whom He had chosen to be the Mother of His Son and our Redeemer, wills that all graces that are granted to those whom He has redeemed should pass through your hands and be distributed by you in order to exalt you. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. This is but a reminder that you are equally interested in providing for all your children in all their needs of soul and body. You passed amid the different choirs of the blessed, above all the heavenly spirits, and approached the throne of light prepared for you. You are truly His beloved Daughter, the only one in whom there was never a stain. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you in the joyful expectation of your little Son.
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