Saint Elizabeth received the Holy Spirit through your intervention, in order to teach us that we must make use of you as our Mediatrix with your Divine Son, if we wish to obtain the Holy Spirit. I, too, am a sinner. Mary, My Mother, give me an absolute trust in your help. You did not go to a distance, but drew nearer to the crossthe hard bed on which Jesus had to die. 3. Mary, Mother of God, tradition tells us that when you were three years of age, your parents, Joachim and Anne, took you to the Temple in Jerusalem to fulfill their vow. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are called Mother of Mercy because of the fullness with which mercy is given to those who seek it at your hands. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. 3. Mary, My Mother, your power as Mother of Divine Providence is indeed as great as your compassion and willingness to help. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. Your Child, becoming the King of Martyrs, would make you their Queen. I beg you to pray for me that by the light of the Holy Spirit and your direction, I may see my duty, and by God's grace and your help I may fulfill it. 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. When Jesus said to John, "Behold thy Mother," He wanted John to respect and to love you as his Mother. Mary, Mother of God, in honoring you as Our Lady of Guadalupe, we honor you as the Immaculate Conception. Though you did not know the meaning of the archangel's inspired words, you serenely submitted to the will of God. Make me your faithful child. What a difference between the woeful prediction of Simeon and the joyous tidings of the archangel Gabriel announcing the greatness of the Redeemer of mankind! It has been reproduced many times in copies and in book illustrations. When the Holy Spirit descended, you received the richest outpouring of His graces. God is the source of every good and the absolute Master of all graces. Protect me from the snares of the world, the flesh and the devil. Here there was a sacrifice, and Jesus was the Victim. 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. And Mary said: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. Feast of Our Lady Mother of Sorrows - 15th Sept Who could tell the great joy which filled their hearts when they held you in their arms? He who gives grace, takes your prayers for commands. 11th February: Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick Advise me what to do. 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? Mary, Mother of God, you are the Comforter of the Afflicted because in your lifetime you bore every sort of affliction and you can now sympathize with me in my sufferings. In order to live, not to myself, but to God, I must bear the cross in union with Jesus. 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. He was with you in a manner more intimate, more perfect, and more divine than He ever was or will be with any other creature. April 16 - 23,2023. Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. With greatest confidence in the mercy and kindness of Your Son, you left Him free to give assistance or withhold it, as He saw fit. You are the woman, the new Eve; the wood of the Cross is the new tree of life, the death of Jesus, the new Adam, takes away the sting of the death of Adam. That very same Christ is mine in the Holy Eucharist when I look upon Him as a Victim on our altars, when I kneel before Him as my Friend in the Tabernacle; when I receive Him into my soul as my Guest in Holy Communion. 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. He also found joy in His Divine Sonship and glorious human nature, joy in His intellect, with its immeasurable knowledge and the contemplation of God; joy in His will, with its freedom, sinlessness, holiness and unbounded power joy in His destiny as our Redeemer; joy in the future kingdom of His Church, which was to arise from His life and death. Since you are my Mother, I share in the love you have for your Divine Son. 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. As Mother of God, you became a cooperator in the Redemption of mankind. Mary, My Mother, the day of your Assumption was the great day of your triumph. If you showed such compassion for the sufferings of others while on earth, and were so ready to relieve them, how much greater must your compassion be now that you are in heaven and understand so much better the difficulties your children meet with and the sufferings that afflict them? Mary, My Mother, your mediation is in reality one with that of Jesus, who had seen fit to give Himself to us only through you. You became the Mother of God and remained a virgin. You bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. When I address the Almighty, I am frequently fearful because of my sinfulness in the presence of His infinite majesty and holiness. How shall I answer for the wasted days and years which God has given me to serve Him alone? Francis became very sick, nearly dying twice. Your protection never ceases, your intercession brings hope and life. You were troubled not at the appearance of the angel, but at what he said. You are the most beautiful of creatures, the one in whom there is no spot, God's masterpiece. Mary, My Mother, the saints have taught me that the best veneration of you is always imitation. 3. You suffered in your soul what Jesus suffered in His body, and in union with Him you offered yourself as a victim for our sins. 3. Mary, Mother of God, at the very beginning of your existence, you received grace exceeding in greatness that of all the saints together, because you were destined to be the Mother of the Redeemer and the mediatrix of the world. Your example teaches me that Jesus will work miracles for persevering prayer that springs from confidence and humility. 2. September 14, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality. Never did a mother love her son as you loved Jesus; and so never did a mother share in her son's agony so deeply as you shared the Passion. As the Mother of the Incarnate Son you were so preserved from inheriting original sin that never for a moment was as much as a shadow cast by sin upon your spotless soul. Just as the patriarchs in Limbo had beheld your birth as the breaking of that dawn which announced to them their near deliverance, so, too, your Assumption, together with the Ascension of Jesus, became for mortal man a sure pledge of resurrection and immortality. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Evening Prayer to Our Blessed Mother 1. 3. Mary, My Mother, may the faithful recitation of the Rosary help me to remember God's love for me in becoming man for my salvation. The degree of childlike humility I have attained in life will be the degree of my greatness in heaven. Everyday you renew your Gift generously, because to each Sacrifice of your Son, you give your consent, each Consecration is your gift to us. Mary, My Mother, glorious is your name for those who pronounce it at death, for they need not fear all the powers of hell. The Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. He is your child and you are His Mother. You must have willed your Son's death, because, hard as it was to make this sacrifice, it would have been quite impossible for your will to be the least separated from His. I give you my whole being by copying as far as possible all your virtues by performing each of my actions through you, with you and in you This is the most pleasing homage I can render you. It was a life of concealment, and yet Jesus is infinite, the light of the angels and of the whole world. When you later returned to your home, you were under the loving care of your mother, Saint Anne. You beheld His arms and feet roughly extended on the hard wood of the cross. No one has found or received such grace as you. All that God could give, He bestowed on you. Free from all attachment to earthly things, you were most capable of being filled with Divine love. No one after Christ was humbler than you were, yet no one after Christ gave God greater glory. You are truly the Seat of Wisdom because you were the living Tabernacle of the God of Infinite Wisdom. Each Communion is a mystery of your love for us and a grace which you obtain and bestow on us. I breathe the name of one who is virgin and mother, Mother of God and Mother of men, my Mother. Attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you diligently gathered up all His lessons, preserving them in your soul with zealous care. I already know of your great love for me for the sake of your Son who entrusted the care of my soul to you. 3. 1. 2. Let me never separate my sufferings from the sufferings of Your divine Son. Shrine Pilgrimage. It was in your arms that he found the Savior, to remind me that he who desires to find Jesus, will not find Him otherwise than through you. St. Brigid of Kildare Feast Day February 1st. Help me to strive to imitate your wonderful charity by aiding those who are in need, by sympathizing with those who are afflicted, by opening my heart and applying my hands to relieve every form of distress. After your Divine Son, you are God's most precious gift to man. Feasts of Our Lady Throughout the Year January MONTH of the HOLY NAME 1. Filled with deep humility, and yet on fire with desire to unite yourself still more closely to God, you abandoned yourself entirely to the Divine will and answered, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word" (Luke 1, 38). God wants His gifts recognized. Your apostolic workto snatch souls from Satan and from sin to make them live the supernatural lifeis the very reason for your motherhood. She heard the voices of Archangel Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret - they are on the banner over her left shoulder! 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. On the day of Pentecost the Apostles' worldly views about the Kingdom of God on earth were banished by the Spirit of God, and holiness replaced their imperfections, but no-taint of the slightest sin had to be removed from your virginal soul. Jesus is the new Adam and you are the new Eve. I realize that it is the command of God that I take ordinary care to insure bodily health. This event has passed. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. 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. At your prayer Jesus changed the water into wine in Cana. They had seen Adam created in grace, and John the Baptist, spotless from his birth, because he had been cleansed from original sin before birth. Help me to be generous with God by turning to good account the graces that He ever bestows on me, and by rising promptly when I fall, with renewed confidence in His mercy. Mary, My Mother, help me to realize that the closer my union with you, the more intimate is my union with your Son. Jesus gave me your own dear self, His dearest possession, whom He loved so much that He, in a sense, exhausted His power to exalt you above all other creatures. 2. The supernatural life is the life of Jesus in us through grace. The words of Simeon were then fulfilled. You are ever imploring favors for the just, as well as for sinners. Mary, My Mother, God has willed that you should distribute His graces because you far surpass all other creatures in holiness: you are the masterpiece of His creation, who more than all the others honored and loved Him during your life; because you are the one whom He has chosen to be the Mother of His Son, and because you have been, according to the Divine Plan, associated with Jesus in the work of Redemption. 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. Mary, My Mother, in your womb, the sanctuary of the living God, Jesus was occupied with the sanctification and government of the world. You were the only one who was exempt from the universal curse that had fallen on the whole human race. Mary, Mother of God, you are the mother of the Judge: you are also the Mother of the sinners. You found the cross very heavy during the three years of His public life, for then He had to leave your side that He might be "about His Father's business,"the sanctification and salvation of souls. You have never turned away your eyes from souls in need. Therefore, I offer Jesus to the Father through your hands, and in Holy Communion I ask for graces through you. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. I want to be devoted to you by giving myself entirely to you and through you to God. 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. You offered to the Father in Heaven the Body and Blood of the Lamb you bore and sacrificed Him with the knife of your will on the altar of your heart. This doctrine was received in the early Church and handed down by the Fathers who praised you with extraordinary titles and most important writings. You show your compassion toward all so that there is no one in this world who does not, if he seeks it, share in the kindness and mercy of your motherly Heart. In your six apparitions at Fatima you made repeated demands for penance and reparation. In presenting your only Son you present your all. Your Immaculate Conception is a triumph over Satan the author of evil, who under your heel, suffered his first complete defeat. Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited. With this job opportunity, you will be able to foster compassion, character, knowledge and service for all. Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! I declare that I undertake them only that I may better promote the honor of God and devotion to you. God prepared you for this exalted dignity by an extraordinary abundance of His graces, when He chose you to be the instrument of His mercy by making you the Mother of His divine Son. Mary, Mother of God, how sacred was the life of Jesus in your womb while you awaited His coming! In God there are no disappointments, no false promises. Jesus is the most beautiful of men; you were His mould, His mirror, and He, yours. The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. As you were the Mother of Jesus in the Incarnation, when He assumed a physical Body, so also you are the Mother of Jesus in His Mystical Body, and of all those who, as members of that Body, are the brothers and sisters of Christ by Divine adoption. Give my heart sentiments like His and your own so that, through frequent Holy Communion and prayer, I may become a worthy co-victim with Jesus, holy and pleasing to God, and so that all the actions, sufferings, tears and disappointments of my life may be thus consecrated to God as a sacrifice for His glory and the salvation of souls, especially my own. Of course, you never thought of yourself as a sinner for humility is truth, and you knew that you had never offended God. Mary, My Mother, you always lived under the divine influence of the Holy Spirit and in the closest possible union with Him. You are the model of all virtues. I want to take devotion to you seriously. Solemnity of Mary Mother of God 2. The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Feasts, Friday of Passion Week and September 15 (Novena, Wednesday after the Fourth Sunday of Lent; also September 6-14). You conceived Jesus as the Head of regenerated mankind, the Head of a mystical body whose members we are. 1. 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. In His infancy Jesus depended upon your loving care, and in death when He was abandoned by all, even by His Father, He still had your heart. He was with you not only by a special protection guiding you in His ways and leading you securely to salvation. But you are a creature so holy and so perfect that you are superior to all other creatures. Through your hands I offer myself with Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Through your all powerful prayers, obtain for me not only God's forgiveness, but also the grace to amend my life and to save my soul. May they consider it to be the greatest privilege bestowed upon them by God to dedicate their sons and daughters to His holy service. May I always be most grateful by striving to grow in this divine life. God has willed that by your intercession we should obtain the graces Jesus has merited for us. May the instructions I receive increase the love of God in me and strengthen my determination to serve Him with greater zeal. You will be inspired by the overflow of love for Our Lady. Our Lady of Consolation - Notre Dame de la Consolata
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