Mary, I beg you to lead me to my Sacramental Jesus! God is the source of every good and the absolute Master of all graces. You are a Mediatrix in union with Christ from whom your mediation draws all its power. Who can describe the merits and graces that adorned your soul at the glorious instant of your Nativity at a period when all other children have no merit! All the sorrows of Mary (the prophecy of Simeon, the three days' loss, etc.) In his soul they saw no more than they see in each little soul as it leaves the baptismal font, grace having taken the place of original sin. During His lifetime Jesus cured sickness and disease and even raised the dead to life, because people asked Him to do so in prayer. Indeed, all were awaiting your Son: the world, to gain rest and peace, the angels, to see God's plans fulfilled; the Heavenly Father Himself to behold His created Image: and all this longing was united in your heart. In order to free yourself from legal uncleanness and to give us an example of obedience to God's law, you submitted to the ceremony of the purification and made the offering demanded of the poortwo pigeons or turtledoves. For He was everything to you, and all else was nothing without Him. You resigned yourself to the care of God, in the fullest confidence that He would guard your innocence and reputation. In so doing I simply imitate God who gave Himself and His Son to us through you. You passed amid the different choirs of the blessed, above all the heavenly spirits, and approached the throne of light prepared for you. 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. Thus an angel appeared to Joseph and said, "Do not be afraid, Joseph, son of David, to take to thee Mary thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit. Whatever graces we receive, come to us through your intercession. Make me Eucharist-minded to the extent that my very life may be the Eucharistin union with you, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins" (Matt. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity is most cherished by you, because it is a token of God's special love for you. You are truly our immaculate Mother for it is to you, after Jesus, that we are indebted for the supernatural life of grace and the hope of eternal life. He is King and you are Queen of all hearts. "The Lord is with thee." Indeed, I will suffer with joy if I realize that Christ is suffering with me and in me and that He sends me the cross only to trace His image in my soul by uniting me closely with Himself. As the dawn precedes and announces the coming of the sun, makes the darkness of the night disappear, consoles the sick and rejoices all nature, so you went before and announced Jesus, "The Sun of Justice," who made the darkness of the world disappear by the light of His Gospel, consoled and cured the sick in soul and body and brought an abundance of graces and blessings to the whole world. 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. Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. Because you freely consented to become the Mother of God, you experienced mentally all the bitterness of your Son's Passion and death. You saw clearly the agony you would feel at the crucifixion. But that my devotion may be acceptable and my homage pleasing, let me endeavor to maintain within my soul, as much as possible the spotlessness of your purity and try to walk in your footsteps humbly and gently. Jesus is my Savior and I have confidence in His infinite merits. This is the very heart of your apostolate. How earnestly, too, you want to help us in all our needs! Hasten the reign of Christ by ruling over all of us, your children. This is my hope that you will be a Mother to me and obtain for me the grace I need to save my soul. When you learned from the angel that your cousin Elizabeth was with child and needed your help, you set out to care for her. If unfortunately I should lose this life by sin, you can bring me back to supernatural life. You were fully enlightened as to the greatness of the dignity of a Mother of God. When the Persons of the Blessed Trinity gaze on you, the Immaculate One, most pure, most beautiful, supremely pleasing to eternal love, what can they refuse you? Sanctifying grace made you God's adopted child and the lawful heir to His eternal kingdom, putting you in possession of God's goods and of God Himself forever. Teach me to imitate you by accepting willingly all the suffering which my service of God involves, my struggles against temptation, my difficult acts of virtue, my little penancesin union with the Victim Jesus on the altar out of love for God and mankind. Mary, Mother of God, God spoke of you as the Woman who would crush the serpent's head. I am afflicted with many sorrows in body and soul, and I take refuge, like a child, in the embrace of your motherly protection. Holy Cards will continue to be added as our collections align with Feast Days of the Saints in our collection. 12, 1). Our Lady's Feastdays | EWTN Mother Teresa once laid out a simple path for everyone, leading from silence to peace. 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. Corruption is a consequence of sin, but you were sinless. Let me never separate my sufferings from the sufferings of Your divine Son. How well your name gives expression to your position and your mission in lifeyour divine Motherhood In virtue of this privilege, you reflect as a spotless mirror the eternal Light of the Word, which is first poured into you and illuminates you. Following their example and striving to attain to their faith, joining in their admiration, in their intense pleading, I, a poor sinner, who am so in need of help and pity, in need of your mercy, cry out to you: Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us . 1. There you stood bravely, your eyes fastened on your Divine Son. He who gives grace, takes your prayers for commands. Such love set your Heart on fire with love for your Divine Son, not only as your Son, but also as your God and Savior since you had shared in advance in the merits of His Passion and death. . It also means unlimited confidence in your motherly intercession if I should have the misfortune of straying from Jesus by sin. I cannot even imagine the heavenly beauty that adorned your innocent soul as you were being prepared by the Eternal Father to be the Mother of His Divine Son and the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. Your Heart, Blessed Mother, is always conformable to Our Lord's will. 1. 16, 26). It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! Mary, My Mother, the Heart of Jesus was a generous Heart, symbolized by the wound in His side from which came forth the last drops of His Heart's Blood shed for us, and by which w e can reach the treasures of that Divine Heart. Monday, September 15, 2014. 2. (1) You prepared in your virginal womb a fit temple for the union of the Son of Godthe Divine Wordwith our human nature. From the knowledge of the Will of God you gathered the strength that was to uphold you at the foot of the Cross on which your Son hung, dying. Why Is Our Lady Full of Sorrow? - catholicfaithstore.com I beg you to make me strong enough to bear my trials for the love of God so that I may become like you in suffering. How God has loved you by making you His Mother! 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. The Feast of Our Lady of Mercy | Mercy Home for Boys & Girls The picture you imprinted on the cloak of the Indian at Guadalupe was the image of the Immaculate Conception. But you merited the title Co-Redemptrix above all by your union with Christ in His redemptive sacrifice. The Consecration took place on Calvary where you shared in the offering of the bloody sacrifice of the New Testament. Queen of the Holy Rosary, in times past, when the enemies of the Church sought to break its unity, you came to the aid of your suffering children. Mary, Mother of God, help me to understand as clearly as God wishes to let me do so, the value of suffering and sickness. 1. Mary, My Mother, the beloved disciple, St. John, tells us that "a great sign appeared in heaven: "a Woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars" (Apoc. You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows - September 15, 2012 - Liturgical The reredos is in gold relief, being copied from work in the chapel of the Duchess of Newcastle. Now you realize human misery more fully and, therefore, show your mercy and compassion and help more generously. I find faith in its light, hope in its help. 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. I trust that through you I shall obtain the help I need to keep the commandments, avoid sin, receive the Sacraments frequently, pray much and save my soul. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. 3. Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates 491 years I shall be blessed if I imitate you in bearing my cross till death. You were charged with dispensing the supernatural life to men because this was fitting. Though you prophesied that all generations would call you blessed, you attributed all holiness to God. 10/7/2009 (1 decade ago) Published in Living Faith. No one could ever love God with the love of a mother. The foundation of this doctrine is to be found in Sacred Scripture where we are taught that God, the Creator of all things, after the sad fall of Adam, addressed the serpent in words which the Church applies to you, "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed; she shall crush thy head" (Gen. 3.15). Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. If at any time you had been without Divine grace even for the shortest moment, there would not have come between you and the serpent that everlasting enmity spoken of by God. You are truly His beloved Daughter, the only one in whom there was never a stain. Here there was a sacrifice, and Jesus was the Victim. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27. He became Sovereign Master of the universe and Supreme Judge of the living and the dead. Seasons and Feast Days Prayer Requests According to earthly standards, nothing could be added to your fullness of grace. Your protection never ceases, your intercession brings hope and life. Since Jesus has given you charge of the dispensing of His graces, I know that you are most eager to use this power to help me. I believe that all graces and heavenly favors flow to the Mystical Body of Christ as from the Head, but you are the channel, through which, by God's will, all graces come to humanity. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." But when I say "Mary," in an instant you are there before me and I feel in my heart a stirring of joy and comfort. 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. How shall I answer for the wasted days and years which God has given me to serve Him alone? "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," says the psalmist (110, 10). I want to love you with all my heart that I may in some way merit that you love me in return. And for our sake, you were ready to devote this Child to a life of suffering, persecution, and scorn, even to a shameful death on the cross. Teach me to utter your most holy name that it may fill my heart with hope and burning love for you and that loving you I might reach the Light of the World. But many of these straying children are ignorant and not fully responsible. Continue to work wonders on our shores for our spiritual and material prosperity and keep us in peace and charity. I see you offering Him to the heavenly Father in the temple for our salvation. The Holy Spirit would work in you the greatest work of His omnipotence, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee." Your charity for the souls redeemed by the precious blood of your divine Son is so great that you ask mercy for those who flee to you for refuge, with all the earnest tenderness of a mother pleading for her only child. The Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. Be pleased to intercede with Jesus, your Son, for Christian families. At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. Because of sanctifying grace infused into your soul, you were from the first moment of your existence most intimately united with God and endowed with the most precious gifts of heaven. SEE AS WELL: However, my sick soul is entitled to more vigilant care, for Jesus reminded me, "What does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his own soul" (Matt. I am sure that you, who are all-powerful as my advocate, will not desert me but will bring to my poor afflicted soul grace and sanctification. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. In 1727, Pope Benedict XIII placed the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion in the Roman Calendar on Friday before Palm Sunday. Later in the public life of Jesus, you sought no attention. How often has mortal sin, destroying in me the beautiful image of the Blessed Trinity, brought death to my soul, delivered me to God's wrath and condemned me to everlasting hell-fire! Mary, Mother of God, though marriage and motherhood were the cherished ideals of every Jewish maiden, you vowed your virginity to God, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwells in you as in a temple. When His head was crowned with thorns, another crown of thorns encircled your Heart. He ordered most perfectly His whole creation, for He is the true fountain and highest source of light and wisdom. Your sorrow would be as deep as the sea. 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. Not only did the Holy Spirit pour into your soul a fullness of grace, but He entrusted to you, the Mother of the human family, the distribution of all grace. This is but a reminder that you are equally interested in providing for all your children in all their needs of soul and body. Having once given us Jesus Christ by you, God does not change His way of helping us. You are all-merciful that you may obtain for me pardon and mercy. Your fullness of grace brought you to a most intimate union with the Author of grace. In becoming His Mother, you became ours. Teach me to admire your virtues that I maybe constantly reminded to imitate them and become like you. We all rejoice because all the graces and spiritual benefits we have received and shall receive, all our future glory comes from this exalted mystery of the Incarnation. Help me to overcome the enemies of my salvation and to persevere to the end in the friendship of God. You are also called the temple of the Holy Spirit because, in virtue of your Immaculate Conception and your fullness of grace, He dwells within you in a most singular manner. Help me to see that humility is nothing more nor less than a just and equal judgment of myself, my talents, my opportunities and the use I make of them. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind so deeply as your heart, and, therefore, you wanted to unite your will to His, offering to Almighty God this Holy Sacrifice out of pure charity for the human race. In becoming my Mother, you became the Queen of Martyrs! Who can understand the joy you feel to be able to give happiness to the whole world? Bestow on me gifts from the riches of that fullness. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. You were willing to offer Him at this tender age, for the salvation of the world. In all humility you attributed this holiness to God alone, working wondrously within you. To you then we owe the salvation which Jesus brought to us. Your Heart is a shrine adorned with all the skill of the Divine Creator, Who has lavished upon it the riches of His treasure-housesanctifying grace, greater in worth than all the riches of the world. The Church venerates many holy virgins, martyrs and other saints, but no one of them has merited or obtained your title of Holy Virgin, Virgin most pure. Our Lady of Palestine stands watch over the land where she - Aleteia 2. Surely it is through your special influence as Mediatrix of Graces that this Life is shared with me. She humbly exclaimed, "How have I deserved this happiness that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" The first characteristic of humility of heart is a humble opinion of oneself. Bless the work of those who spend themselves to bring souls to your loving Son. Your heart watches over them tenderly. We do not attribute to you the power of producing supernatural grace, even though you are the Mother of God, for this power belongs to God alone. Obtain for me from Jesus the heavenly gifts of humility, chastity and meekness, which were the fairest adornments of your immaculate soul. Your name means Sea of Bitterness. 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. Help me to bear in mind that the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, and that the secrets of divine wisdom are imparted only to the humble of heart, while they are hidden from the worldly-wise. Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited - Indian Catholic Matters You expressed this to Saint Bernadette at Lourdes when you said, "I am the Immaculate Conception.". Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your holiness to some degree. The suffering of Jesus in His dereliction was the most difficult test of your faith. You so loved the world as to give your only Son for our redemption. In the fulfillment of the law you gave an example of the most perfect obedience and zeal for the edification of others; for since the real nature of your motherhood was not known to your Jewish neighbors, you might have been the cause of scandal to them if you had failed to comply with the law. Mary, Mother of God, your Heart is a counterpart of the Heart of Jesus. From Anne you heard the touching story of the chosen people. COLUMN: Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: World Day of the Sick--2/7/2021 You stood there silently fulfilling a part assigned you by Providence. Devotion to you brings with it sweetness and consolation for the soul. Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe - Manila Bulletin Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. They beheld the dwelling place prepared for the Son of God. He paid the debt that original sin might not be incurred. Mary, Mother of God, you are my Mother of Perpetual Help because of your love for me. Your extreme hatred of sin was the measure of your supreme love of virtue. He already occupied Himself with the salvation of all souls, and as the hidden Ruler of the world He judged all who departed this life. In your humility you wished to serve others rather than to be served. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. Mary, My Mother, your Son Jesus came to enlighten the world with His teaching and example. Amen! Help me to love God with my whole strengthso that I may consecrate undividedly, unreservedly and continually to His service, my life, my health and all I am and have. Since God was born of you, you are the Mother of God. Help us to heed your message of Fatima so that by penance and prayer, especially the Rosary, we may appease the just anger of God and obtain His forgiveness and blessing. Make me strong in the midst of the temptations and bitterness which so often trouble my soul. In all of the mysteries of Jesus, in every part of His life, the Father always thought of you two together; together you labored to save men. The first feast of Our Lady of Silence will be celebrated on Sunday, August 1, in Avezzano, in the. The Apostles, who had abandoned their Master informed you of your Son's betrayal by Judas and of His brutal capture after His agony. You are ever imploring favors for the just, as well as for sinners. If I have been blessed with suffering, let me remember that this is the only way I can follow Jesus and you, for He said, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me" (Matt. There the poor find aid; the sick and needy, remedy, the afflicted, consolation; the doubting, counsel; the distressed, help. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Feast day: June 27 Patroness of the Republic of Haiti and Almoradi, Spain Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and Our Mother of Perpetual Help is the title given to a 15th-century icon that originated in the Keras Kardiotissas Monastery and has been in Rome since 1499. Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. God's grace can also do wonders in me if only I do not refuse to cooperate with it. You will be inspired by the overflow of love for Our Lady. That date was not chosen by accident, but because it is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. You appeared as the Woman of the Apocalypse, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon. Since you bore a much heavier one together with your innocent Son, should not I, a sinner deserving of eternal punishments, carry mine patiently? As the body of your Divine Son was preserved from the corruption of the grave, so you, from whom He took flesh, were also free from the power of earthly decay. Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. The Gospel speaks of you as standing beneath the cross. John took my place on Calvary and you became, in his person, my Mother. You are the holiest of God's creatures because you are the Mother of God. He made His taking of the role of Mediator dependent on your consent, and it was your motherly care, shown toward Him through life, which made Him ready for the sacrifice that reconciled the world to God. Your Heart was also a suffering Heart. As I gaze upon youthe ideal of perfection and sanctity, may a similar longing for God and complete dedication of myself to Him awaken in my soul. You are the first apostle of your children not only because you are the most perfect of mothers, but especially because you are our spiritual Mother. You died as you had lived, entirely detached from the things of the world, you died in the most perfect peace and in the certainty of eternal glory. We have the sublime dignity of being children of God by adoption; Jesus alone is His Son by nature. The Creator, in His goodness, became the Son of His own creature. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that divine grace is absolutely necessary for the performing of any act that is meritorious for eternal life. I am filled with miseries both spiritual and temporal. May I derive all the beneficial results the holy sacraments are to produce in my soul. Each event of the sorrowful drama of His sufferings was a sword that pierced your motherly heart. Through your powerful intercession promote the propagation of the faith. Eve listened to the voice of the serpent and brought death to the human race, you became a source of salvation to all mankind by receiving with humility the word of God brought to you by the angel Gabriel. On Calvary our redemption was accomplished, by His death, Jesus merited for us the grace to live His life. For the small sacrifice of being devoted to you I can obtain a happy death and eternal life. The dignity of the divine maternity raised you above all the rest of creation. When He changed the water to wine, He did your bidding as God, since as man He could not perform miracles. The Divine Son gave you a mother's heart, in which, as in a sanctuary, He wished to dwell. 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. Our founder, so moved by her image, vowed to live by her exampleand that's a promise our Mercy Home family still upholds today. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. It means imitating your humility, your purity, your detachment from the world, and your unselfish resignation to the will of God in every event of life. If I have humility, God may flood my soul with grace here and exalt it eternally in heaven. As a child runs to its mother in every need and finds comfort in her glance and kind word, I can turn to you for help when I need it, for you are truly my Mother, whose heart is overflowing with kindness and mercy. Mary, Mother of God, your greatness began at the first instant of your existence with the privilege of your Immaculate Conception. We encourage you to bring a flower to offer Our Blessed Mary. Holiness is a complete separation from creatures and perfect union with God through love. After the Ascension you found the past under another form; the consecrated Bread the Apostle John placed on your lips was Jesus, who was formed from your own flesh and with whom your body was again united. As the heart of a mother triumphs over the just anger of a father in an earthly family so your Heart will triumph by averting the force of God's justice upon this sinful world. God could not have created a more beautiful throne for Himself than you; His Mother! You truly deserve to be called the Mediatrix of Grace. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. Even though my past sinfulness may have made me unworthy to appear before God, I trust that you will appeal to God in my behalf as the Mother of Divine Grace. God is infinite good; sin, horrible evil. You were indeed two of one heart and one soul. 25. Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 12:00am. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. It affords Jesus the joy of rewarding you who, with Him, suffered so much for men. Never were you guilty of the least fault; never did you offer the least resistance to grace. When the Triune God destined and elevated you, a mortal Virgin, to the dignity of Mother of the Redeemer, the Father had to endow you with a fullness of perfection suitable for such a dignity. 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. 55. . Mary, Mother of God, teach me to be truly humble. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." Your kingdom, like His, is a kingdom of imperishable glory, because yours is a throne of clemency, mercy and pardon. Satan is more humiliated at seeing himself under the heel of the lowliest of creatures than at feeling himself crushed by God's almighty arm. The gift that God conferred upon you when He chose you to be the Mother of His Divine Son, and the grace that was in proportion to that gift, are beyond the understanding of men and even angels. 1. 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. If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day . Mary, My Mother, what joy for you never to have been, even for a single instant, in the state of enmity toward God! Mary, My Mother, in the mystery of the Visitation, you began your high office of bringing Jesus into the souls of men. Help me to use the graces God gives me for my sanctification. The object of these feasts is the spiritual martyrdom of the Mother of God and her compassion with the sufferings of her Divine Son. You concealed even from your beloved spouse, Saint Joseph, the important fact that you were the chosen Mother of God, and you awaited God's good pleasure to reveal the great mystery to him.

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