3. You are certainly the refuge of sinners, but you wish what your Son wishes. You were chosen as Mother predestined before all creatures, filled with all grace, all virtue, all holiness so that the Son, infinitely pure, who in Heaven has an immortal and eternal Father, on earth has a Mother exempt from all sin. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. Only give me the grace to abandon myself completely to your motherly guidance. You shared more in this wisdom than did any other creature, because you approached nearer to the Source from which it cameJesus, the Eternal Wisdom. God wants His gifts recognized. You are truly the pledge of Divine mercy. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. I did it not once or twice but numberless times. 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. Mary, My Mother, who crushed the head of the serpent, I pray for my country. I am grateful to your divine Son for this priceless gift of God, for by His Passion and death He not only reinstated us in the friendship of His heavenly Father, but also purchased for us all the graces we stand in need of to attain eternal life. 3. As Eve induced Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit which brought death upon us, so you prompt us to eat the Bread which gives us life. Our Lady of Sorrows The devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows flourished in the Middle Ages, and the hymn Stabat Mater was composed for it. Feast, October 7 (Novena, Sept. 28-Oct. 6). 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 . 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. God reserves to Himself the dispensing of justice to all creatures. You saw Barabbas preferred to Jesus when the Roman governor showed the Man of Sorrows to the angry mob. 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. Jesus rewarded your confidence and resignation by working His first miracle at your request. 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. If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. Thus you will be for me not only the Health of the Sick but also the Gate of Heaven. Mary, Mother of God, I choose you as my model of Eucharistic devotion. Mary, Mother of God, you are the mother of the Judge: you are also the Mother of the sinners. 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. I wish to attend Holy Mass, receive Holy Communion, and visit Jesus in the tabernacle in union with you, in the spirit in which you yourself did so. Through the sorrow which you felt during your whole life, but especially when you saw Jesus led to His death and then crucified, obtain for me the grace that I may patiently bear the sufferings which God has seen fit to send me, even as you bore your sufferings. From eternity, before anything was, you were united to your Son in the mind of God as His most pure Mother. 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. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. 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. As mentioned in previous posts, this is an ongoing display of our Holy Card Collection. Thus was fulfilled the prophesy that Christ would be born of the family of David. 3. 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. In your triumph, as the Mother of the same Word Incarnate, having perfectly followed out the great designs of God upon you, having acquired immense merits by the practice of all the virtues, and having reached the highest holiness, you were assumed body and soul, into Heaven. Help them to become worthy of this blessing through their own prayers and good example. You became a victim and holocaust to the divine will, the Queen of Martyrs, the most perfect imitator of the Victim of Calvary. Of course, you never thought of yourself as a sinner for humility is truth, and you knew that you had never offended God. You are this woman, and you are a virgin. I have been especially blessed as a Catholic, for God has given me graces which He has not given to everyone else. Latest news Portuguese bishops announce steps to end sexual abuse in the Church What greater wonder could the world behold, than a woman become the Mother of God, and a God clothed in human flesh? 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. 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. The Divine Son gave you a mother's heart, in which, as in a sanctuary, He wished to dwell. You are ever active in procuring for each and every one of us, by fervent and ceaseless intercession all the heavenly gifts we need. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. Grant that we all may heed your warning, for only through penance and reparation can we blot out sin and the insult it afflicts on God. 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. Our Lady of Compassion - Roman Catholic Parish of Willesden Green This intimacy with God was the soul of your soulyour very life. Through your prayers be always my powerful helper. It was you who nourished and prepared the holy Victim who was offered to the Eternal Father in expiation of our sins. What joy He must have felt at the thought that His Sacramental Presence brought you such consolation! Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). 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. Virgin of virgins, remember me in my needs, and show yourself my Mother. Mary, by your humility, you became the Mother of your Creator. 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. He who gives grace, takes your prayers for commands. As your true and lawful spouse, Saint Joseph was meant by God to have the privilege of exercising as his right, in virtue of his virginal marriage, the parental office in regard to your Child. COLUMN: Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: World Day of the Sick--2/7/2021 Seasons and Feast Days Prayer Requests From Anne you heard the touching story of the chosen people. On Calvary our redemption was accomplished, by His death, Jesus merited for us the grace to live His life. Mary, Mother of God, you are the hope of sinners, you are my hope! 1. You are indeed our Mother, and a mother can never forget her children. 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. DEC. 12 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE. Mary, My Mother, as Mother of Divine Providence, remember your children in need of God's mercy and help. Mary, My Mother, pray that the love of God above all things and detachment from the world and its false pleasures, may also make my soul the temple of the living God. You had to become the Mother of Sorrows before you were raised above the angels as Heaven's Queen. After Holy Communion Jesus is with me as God and Man, with His Body and Blood, soul and divinity. You are the Virgin to whom God the Father decreed to give His only Sonthe Divine Word, equal with Himself in all thingsthat entering the natural order He might become your Son as well as His. You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. It is from you alone that Christ took His human nature. And so it is even now in heaven. Realizing that your consent had been made a necessary condition for the accomplishment of the great mystery of the Incarnation, you made the supreme act of obedience and faith when you said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word." 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 first feast of Our Lady of Silence will be celebrated on Sunday, August 1, in Avezzano, in the. Jesus is the only Mediator of justice, and by His merits He obtains for us all graces and salvation but you are the Mediatrix of grace. Forming with your Divine Son one spiritual body, we experience the rage of Satan until the end of time. 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. On the appointed day, at nightfall, accompanied by friends, he went in procession to your parents' house, to conduct you to his own home. The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. In short, the first reason we can rightfully call Mary our "Mother of Mercy" is that by God's special, prevenient grace, He created her soul to be the masterpiece of His Mercy in the world, and this special gift of grace within her was the foundation of His whole work of mercy in the world through Christ. We have the sublime dignity of being children of God by adoption; Jesus alone is His Son by nature. How many and how great then, were the graces you received in order to reach the eminent virtue that was yours when, on Calvary, you became the Queen of Martyrs. But I see the relation between you and the Blessed Sacrament above all in your life after Good Friday when you began your new motherhood at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist.
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