Joseph, so humble, so pure, so loving respected your consecration to God, and he was willing to live with you a life of spotless virginity. Through your powerful intercession obtain for them the graces they need. I earnestly wish to make atonement for all of them. In your humility you wished to serve others rather than to be served. It is your Son who abides with me in the tabernacle as the best Friend I have in this world, who offers Himself to the Father for me as the Victim of Calvary at Holy Mass, who gives Himself to me as Food in Holy Communion. 3. Teach me the real kind of ambition, that is, greatness in God's eyes. 2. The Feast of Our Lady of Palestine was established in 1927 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, . 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. In the hope that Life will triumph over death, from this moment and for ever more, we want to sing with you the glory of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. You are the Mother of the Son of God. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . You became a victim and holocaust to the divine will, the Queen of Martyrs, the most perfect imitator of the Victim of Calvary. As wax melts before fire, so do the devils lose their power against those souls who remember to speak your name and devoutly invoke it. Though a creature, you gave birth to the Creator. You rule over their minds, by making them understand better the teaching of Christ, over their hearts, by turning them to Jesus through the charm of your motherly affection, over their wills, by gently inclining them to observe all the commandments of your Son; over their bodies, by teaching men to subject their members to the law of God through the practice of temperance and chastity. I know that He wants you ever to be my Mother of Perpetual Help so that the graces He has merited for me may effect the salvation of my soul. You remained there working for God, meditating on His holy Law, praying and praising His divine Goodness. 2. How earnestly, too, you want to help us in all our needs! 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. Mary, My Mother, you are mother in a higher degree because of the kind of life which you have imparted to me. Jesus, your First-born, was brought forth in joy at Bethlehem, but His brethren, your spiritual children, were brought forth in anguish of spirit at the foot of the cross. 3. Jesus is the Son of God by His marvelous and eternal birth "in the bosom of His Father." I have but to ask for them for the salvation of my soul. You are our Mother, the Mother of all the living. Mary, My Mother, may the example of your sinlessness urge us to that innocence and purity of life which flees from and abhors even the slightest stain of sin. From the cross Jesus gave you to me to be my Mother, and I was entrusted to your care as your child. You used most perfectly every actual grace given you by God in acts and virtue. How consoling to know that I have Christ, my elder Brother, "always living to make intercession for me," and you, my Mother, ever pleading for me before the throne of God. As you led an interior life and centered all your thoughts and life upon the Word Incarnate in your womb, so help me to lead an interior, supernatural life, always guided and directed by supernatural principles, having always supernatural intentions and performing supernatural actions. Mary, My Mother, you associated yourself with the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus in order that you might share in His glorification. You are kind and loving for you have a mother's heart, full of pity for the erring. May my faith influence my conduct. Your divine maternity is great also because this privilege is the reason for your other privilegesyour Immaculate Conception, miraculous virginity, fullness of grace, Assumption and the spiritual maternity of all mankind. Mary, Mother of God, humility is the virtue you especially practised from childhood. Mary, My Mother, your apparition at Guadalupe as the Immaculate Conception is your only recorded appearance in North America. To single nations, to private families, to individual persons, you have always provided help, given solace and rekindled hope, especially when they turned to you with Rosary in hand. 1. 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. On November 27, 1830, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Catherine Labour in her Daughters of Charity convent in Paris, asking that a medal be cast according to the pattern which Our Lady displayed, and promising that all who wear this medal will receive great . You embrace the universe in the realm of your love and enrich it through your unfailing intercession. 3. You are a Model easy to imitate because you sanctified yourself in the ordinary, everyday life common to most of us by fulfilling those lowly household duties of a young woman a mother and by leading a hidden, retired life both in joy and in sorrow. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. The angels saw a soul which had never been touched by original sin. Mary, Mother of God, the results of your visit to Elizabeth were wonderful. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." Being filled with light from Heaven, you have shed brightness upon the whole world, by giving birth to the Eternal Light, Our Lord Jesus Christ, although still remaining in the glory of your virginity. On the appointed day, at nightfall, accompanied by friends, he went in procession to your parents' house, to conduct you to his own home. A woman, the tree, and death symbolize our defeat. He is Son of man by His birth, in time, in the bosom of a woman. For the sake of Jesus be mindful of me as you stand near Him who granted you the fullness of grace. You did not-abandon Jesus as the apostles did; you remained with Him until He expired. You are indeed the most wonderful Mother that has ever walked this earth. You were descended from the most renowned men of that nation and counted among your ancestors patriarchs prophets, leaders of the people of God and kings of the ancient law. 'Teach me that the test of my following of your Divine Son is practical charity. 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. By consenting to give natural life to Jesus, you consented to give us supernatural life. The presentation of the Child Jesus in the temple was like the Offertory, for you offered to the Heavenly Father this "material" for the sacrificethe body and blood of your little Son. Mary, My Mother, in all infirmities of body and soul, you are a sure refuge and relief. It is the will of God that His aid should reach me through your heart, because you are my Mother, and motherliness means willingness to help. Mary, Mother of God, already in your childhood you dedicated yourself to the love and service of God. He paid the debt that original sin might not be incurred. In the past you have expressed your willingness to help and made your requests in your personal apparitions. In the same way you, who freely delivered your son to a cruel death, parted with your Son. You learned to read the sacred books by yourself and tried to penetrate their hidden meaning. In the . Those words include us all. Our Lady of Consolation, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8 The Most Holy Name of Mary, Sept. 12 Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15 Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Ransom), Sept. 24 Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7 Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 11 But I want to be loved by you even more; hence, give me an ever growing love for you. The degree of childlike humility I have attained in life will be the degree of my greatness in heaven. 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? God has created nature and all the wondrous functions of the human body. Help me to return unceasing thanks to God for His many favors, and keep me humble in possessing and using them. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. No wonder the angels were lost in admiration! I beg you for this humility which is loved both by God and men for in it lies something sublimea living resemblance to Jesus and to you. I rejoice with you in the happiness which filled your heart because of such love. The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary, My Mother, when my heart is oppressed with guilt and fear, let me look to you. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. As breathing is not only a sign but even a cause of life, so your name, which is constantly found on the lips of your servants, both proves that they are spiritually alive, and at the same time causes and preserves their life, and gives them every help in their needs. You suffered with Jesus and experienced in your soul what He underwent in His body. She heard the voices of Archangel Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret - they are on the banner over her left shoulder! Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. You adored your God incarnate within your chaste womb from the time of the Incarnation to His birth. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. I cannot secure my salvation without these graces, for it is the grace of God which gives me light and strength to do good deeds. This privilege separated you from all the rest of the children of Adam. 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 are my Queen, my Lady. You love me with a love that is greater than the love of my own mother; you love me with the very love with which you love Jesus, since all your children form but one body with Him. I share in this joy. He is King and you are Queen of all hearts. God could not have created a more beautiful throne for Himself than you; His Mother! Wherefore the Church applies to you the words Jesus spoke of that other Mary who sat at His sacred feet, drinking in the words of divine wisdom flowing from His blessed lips: "Mary has chosen the best part, and it will not be taken away from her" (Luke 10, 42). How earnestly you invite me to come and partake of this Bread of Life. How can I ever understand the great love that bound your hearts together! Mary, Mother of God, I admire Your obedience and humility in submitting to the law of purification by presenting yourself in the temple like every other Jewish Mother, forty days after the birth of Jesus. 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. You invite none to come to you but the lowly of spirit. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. It impels my mind to self-exaltation, because I am proud. 16, 26). . 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. Mary, My Mother, may the faithful recitation of my Rosary show my gratitude to Jesus for having redeemed me on the cross and for having given you to me as my spiritual Mother. Make me ever attentive to His inspirations that I may grow in holiness and may merit to see this Divine Guest of my soul in the glory of His heavenly kingdom. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your sorrows are not merely the sorrows of an earthly mother grieving over the death of an only child. Immaculate Mother, you are the hope of a sinful race. Shrine Pilgrimage. Jesus is the Head of the Church, and you are its neck. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Queen of the Apostles because you were the source of their inspiration and zeal. except through you. In that moment the mystery of love and mercy, promised to mankind thousands of years earlier foretold by so many prophets, desired by so many saints, was accomplished upon earth. Apart from your cooperation no grace descends to earth. God's grace can also do wonders in me if only I do not refuse to cooperate with it. You were willing to offer Him at this tender age, for the salvation of the world. The Calendar section will present a particular feast for Our Lady for each day of the year. An event every year that begins at 12:00 am on day 15 of September, repeating indefinitely I wish to do penance by giving up sin and amending my life, by asking pardon and making reparation to the Heart of Jesus and to your Immaculate Heart, so grievously offended by our sins. In your heart and life the Eucharist took the place of His former presence in the flesh. Help me to perform all my actions in youto be entirely dependent upon you, taking your point of view, doing all things as you did them for God's honor and glory. If we could not say that you are the Mother of God for having given a body to the Son of God, then we could neither adore this Body; nor would we have been redeemed by the sacrifice of this Body on the cross, nor would we be united to the divinity in receiving this Body in the Eucharist. How often am I confused in the problems of life. 1. 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. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. The more fully you are Queen in a soul, the more does Jesus reign there as King. You desire more to do good to me than I can desire to receive favors from you, for your Heart is all love and mercy. All these souls were given to you by Jesus on the crossthey are your children. You are, indeed, the ladder by which Christians may ascend to heaven; you are their greatest hope, and the whole ground of their hope. You saw His virginal flesh torn open again when the soldiers pitilessly stripped Him of His garments. But in you they saw a soul whose sanctity surpassed that of angels and of men, a soul which would glorify God more perfectly than any other creature ever had glorified Him, or ever would glorify Him. Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. They apply these words of Scripture to you: "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. 1. As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. I already know of your great love for me for the sake of your Son who entrusted the care of my soul to you. Though you did not know the meaning of the archangel's inspired words, you serenely submitted to the will of God. Implore the grace of conversion for many pagans that they may come to the knowledge of the true faith and one day be united with the saints in heaven, there to love you and praise your mercy for all eternity. 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. God is infinite good; sin, horrible evil. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. What was true of the effusion of the Holy Spirit on that day, is equally true of every outpouring of grace: God gives nothing to earth without causing the gift to pass through your hands. 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. Mary, Blessed Virgin, full of grace, Queen of all Saints, how consoling it is for me to venerate you under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! Since God was born of you, you are the Mother of God. So, as daughter of Adam you submitted to the sentence passed in the garden of Eden. Let me feel some of the sentiments of loving expectation that you felt while waiting for the birth of your Child, so that I may prepare myself for His coming and the graces of the mystery of His Nativity may bear fruit in my soul. Jesus gave you to me to be my Mother that you may enable me at my death to say as He did with a sense of humble gratitude to God for His graces: "It is finished""I have done the work God placed me upon this earth to do. Mary, My Mother, as often as your sweet name comes to my lips, you appear to me as a masterpiece of God's power, so perfect and so sublime that even the hand of Almighty God could not produce anything more perfect in the form of a pure creature. The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. A Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows on her feast day, September 15: O most holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ: by the overwhelming grief you experienced when you witnessed the martyrdom, the crucifixion, and death of your divine Son, look upon me with eyes of compassion, and awaken in my heart a tender . 2. From that hour, we were members of the Mystical Body of Christ. 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). 1. Teach me to admire your virtues that I maybe constantly reminded to imitate them and become like you. In our Franciscan tradition we return time and time again to the San Damiano cross - the Byzantine cross that draws its inspiration from John's . Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity is most cherished by you, because it is a token of God's special love for you. We take a look at the story behind the indigenous peasant who came across the Patron of the Americas, and how he fought for her message to be heard. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. There is no sinner so spoiled and so mired in vice that you would deny him aid. You possessed, according to the words of the Archangel, such a fullness of grace that you were worthy to become the Mother of God. Behold I come to you to show you the wounds sin has inflicted on me. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. 3. Mary, My Mother, I wish to recall this triumph and to share in your greatness and glory. We obtain everything for our peace of soul in time and eternity from the Father through the Heart of Jesus and everything from Jesus through your Heart. The Woman is a striking image of you, the Immaculate Conception. I firmly believe that He will hear my prayer also, if this should be the Will of God. Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. You brought me forth spiritually to a new life of grace. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. Your soul is the creation and the masterpiece of almighty workmanship. It is still . You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. The reredos is in gold relief, being copied from work in the chapel of the Duchess of Newcastle. You are the channel of all good things after the Trinity, Mediatrix of the world after the Mediator. God destined you to be a Mother of Mercy, a Refuge of Sinners and an Advocate of the Afflicted, and you fulfill these offices perfectly. You suffered with your Divine Son. It is truly the will of God that all graces should come to us through you. You receive all graces through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for them in the Name of Jesus Christ. You have the charge of keeping faith intact and love unimpaired in the Church founded by our Lord, and of spreading through the nations and over continents the knowledge of the Kingdom of God. What songs of gladness by the elect as you were crowned by the Blessed Trinity and made Queen of heaven, advocate of the human race and dispenser of the graces of the Redemption!
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