Grace comes to us from Jesus and reaches us through you. Your Immaculate Conception, purchased by the Precious Blood of the Son of God Himself and freely bestowed upon you as the highest gift of God, is the most wonderful work of sanctification that the world has ever seen. 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. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. You heard the mob, led by the chief priests clamoring for His crucifixion. 3. May these graces become most fruitful in my soul till I become like you, another Christ. You were borne aloft to the palace of your Beloved. Mary, My Mother, through your prayers may I be blessed with a keen understanding of the ways of God. Mater Dolorosa. The Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dec. 18The Espousals of the Virgin Mary, Jan. 23Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feb. 2Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate (Our Lady of Lourdes), Feb. 11The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Good Counsel, April 26Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, Saturday after AscensionOur Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, May 13Mary, Help of Christians, May 24Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, May 31The Queenship of Mary, May 31Mary, Virgin Mother of Grace, June 9Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 2Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 17Our Lady of the Snows, Aug. 5Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Aug. 13The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Aug. 22Our Lady, Health of the Sick, Saturday before the last Sunday in Aug.Our Lady of Consolation, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28)Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8The Most Holy Name of Mary, Sept. 12Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Ransom), Sept. 24Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 11Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 16Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nov. 21Mary, Mother of Divine Providence, Saturday before 3rd Sunday of Nov. Feast, December 8 (Novena, Nov. 29-Dec. 7). More than ever before, we have need of your help today. It was His will that you dispense mercy by helping sinners, healing the sick, relieving the distressed and comforting the sorrowful everywhere. The glory of the great things that had been done in you, you attributed to God's mercy and power and love. Mary, My Mother, I am one of the murderers who slew your beloved Son, for it was my sins, together with the malice and cruelty of the Jews, which crucified Him. 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. Behold I come to you to show you the wounds sin has inflicted on me. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . The child in the womb of Elizabeth was sanctified and exulted for joy at the presence of Jesus. Altogether 24 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. As Mother of God you surpass, in an immeasurable degree, all other creatures, angels and men. For He was everything to you, and all else was nothing without Him. John took my place on Calvary and you became, in his person, my Mother. Though worn with sorrow, you at once took your place at the foot of the cross. Moreover, I am confident that you will obtain for me. In God there are no disappointments, no false promises. You formed His whole Self, to die for us as a sacrificial Lamb. Mother of God, you have very great power. The Eternal Father unfolded His Omnipotence in order to form in you a heart full of sweetness and obedience to your Creator. I am most grateful for such devoted love and sympathy. 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. Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. You are this woman, and you are a virgin. You formed His lips, to teach us. The first characteristic of humility of heart is a humble opinion of oneself. The Gospel speaks of you as standing beneath the cross. But all graces come through you. But as Joseph had been united to you by the ties of marriage, he approached nearer than anyone else to your eminent dignity. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. If you receive me under your care, I shall fear nothing because devotion to you is an unfailing sign of salvation. JANUARY (click on the month to view in full detail) Though you were the Mother of the Most High, you wanted to become the nurse of Elizabeth and the infant John. If to live of the Eucharist and by the Eucharist was the very special spirit of the early Church"And they continued steadfastly in the communion of the breaking of the bread" (Acts 2, 42)it must have been the summary of your last years on earth. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was suitable to your dignity. 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 can only faintly imagine with what tenderness the Eternal Father received you, His loving daughter the Divine Son, His chosen Mother; and the Holy Spirit, His immaculate Bride. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mother of mankind and therefore the Help of Christians, the all-powerful suppliant. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. There is no sinner so spoiled and so mired in vice that you would deny him aid. . I see you offering Him to the heavenly Father in the temple for our salvation. The words of the prophet are applied to you: "O all you that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be sorrow like unto my sorrow.". 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. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. Our Lady is not looking at Jesus, but rather to us, to express compassion for us in our fears and sorrows. This humility was richly rewarded. 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. It is through you that I am able to eat the Bread of Heaven even every day. 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. God bless. Your protection never ceases, your intercession brings hope and life. The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in parishes and neighborhoods throughout the country with Masses and dancing and celebration, . 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. You possessed, according to the words of the Archangel, such a fullness of grace that you were worthy to become the Mother of God. You were trained there with other girls, under the care of holy women, and with deepest reverence you assisted at the sacred functions. Mary, Mother of God, since the United States was dedicated to your Immaculate Conception, be pleased to take our country under your special protection and grant that, guided by justice and nurtured by charity, it may serve God faithfully and be blessed with peace and prosperity. How much more precious you were than any chalice of richest gold. When you became the Mother of Jesus according to the flesh, you became the Mother of men according to the spirit. Forming with your Divine Son one spiritual body, we experience the rage of Satan until the end of time. I earnestly wish to make atonement for all of them. But you are a creature so holy and so perfect that you are superior to all other creatures. Jesus is our life and you have given Him to us. 3. How consoling it is to know that you have these heavenly blessings at your disposal! "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Your Heart is truly a mirror of all the virtues, a vivid image and a faithful copy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; hence you are called the "Mirror of Justice.". Your own extraordinary grace and merit, your own wondrous privileges give to your prayer an irresistible force and power. Jesus invites me to do so, for He said, "Take my yoke upon youMy yoke is easy and My burden light" (Matt. In this I see God's plan that in the Kingdom of Jesus all graces should go through your hands and Heart. I realize that imitating you is the best way of imitating Jesus and of obtaining your all-powerful intercession. Because you freely consented to become the Mother of God, you experienced mentally all the bitterness of your Son's Passion and death. In your heart and life the Eucharist took the place of His former presence in the flesh. Through you I hope to reach the heavenly Kingdom. Eve was the mother of the dead, for all of us, her children, were doomed to enter this world under sentence of death, the slaves and children of Satan. I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. As the surest refuge for a child is the heart of its mother, so your Immaculate Heart is my refuge. 1. Amen. I give you my heart by the gift of a tender and childlike love, because you are my Mother and you love me more than my own mother could ever think of loving me. Don Jos's actions made me think of another passage, this time from the Gospel of Luke ( 10:29-37 ). You stand alone on a throne of greatness and perfection far above the rest of creatures. 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. To bring us forth, you gave much more than our earthly mothers gave. All your privileges increased your power to love God. 3. Joseph was chosen by God the Father to take His own place, in regard to His Divine Son, during the early years of that Son's life on earth. Filled with motherly compassion, you appealed to Jesus in behalf of your friends. On the appointed day, at nightfall, accompanied by friends, he went in procession to your parents' house, to conduct you to his own home. Your soul filled with love and sorrow, you embraced your Son now pale in death, a victim for the sins of mankind. 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." You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. Mary, Mother of God, your apparition at Guadalupe teaches me that devotion to you is a source of great graces. No apostolic act bears fruit without grace. Mary, Mother of God, at Pentecost you were with the Apostles, preparing for the Holy Spirit the promised Gift of your Son. Let me never be influenced by temporal considerationswealth, honors and pleasuresthat I may always follow the counsel of Jesus: "Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given you besides" (Luke 12, 31). After Jesus, no one suffered as you did. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that the most sublime of your privileges is your divine maternity. Petition God that their hope may never fail amid the troubles and the cares of this life. From all eternity God chose you to be His Mother, and in time He adorned you with every spiritual charm. Hasten the reign of Christ by ruling over all of us, your children. 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. I am happy at the thought that you, a human creature, have escaped completely from the clutches of Satan, that born of a race universally tainted, you are more pure and more brilliant than the most sublime of the angels; and that you are my Mother. Also, watch over all those who suffer in body or soul. You are certainly the refuge of sinners, but you wish what your Son wishes. Let me know nothing else except this entire surrender of myself to God, this simple childlike act of the heart, as I cast myself into the Arms of Jesus and promise Him my fidelity. This is why you were greeted by the angel in the words, "Hail, full of grace." . In becoming my Mother, you became the Queen of Martyrs! 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. Each time Jesus becomes present in the hands of the priest, the Life given to us by the words of consecration comes originally from. To all of us your Immaculate Heart after that of Jesus is most loving and most merciful. You would be hailed by all generations as blessed above all other women because you are the Mother of God and at the same time a spotless Virgin. From eternity, before anything was, you were united to your Son in the mind of God as His most pure Mother. nothing could be happier than the choice of the day on which this Feast was to be kept.On the 24 th of May, in the year 1814, there was . The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. If unfortunately I should lose this life by sin, you can bring me back to supernatural life. Give me your good counsel, so that following it humbly I may ever please God, find true happiness on this earth and eternal life in the world to come. He found joy in God, His Heavenly Father, and in the Holy Spirit, joy in all the wonderful perfections of God. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. 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 kingdom, like His, is a kingdom of imperishable glory, because yours is a throne of clemency, mercy and pardon. His Heart is a loving Heart, and that love is symbolized by the flames which St. Margaret Mary saw coming forth from it. It was an answer which had scarcely fallen from your lips, before It drew the only-begotten Son of God from the bosom of His Eternal Father, to become Man in your most pure womb! Only thus could you become one with Your God in the salvation of souls. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. As you entered the house of Zachary and greeted your aged cousin, you offered kind words of comfort and congratulation. But the true sanctuary in which you dwelt with God was not the palace of worship at Jerusalem but the immaculate temple of your heart. From the first instant of your existence your mind was filled by the supernatural light of faith and your soul with love of God. As you are powerful to obtain and provide, you are merciful to pardon. 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. If you had part in the work of the Redemption, then you also had part in all those graces which were prepared for us in view of the merits of Jesus for our salutation. You were the instrument used by your Son. May the infirmities of my soul be my chief concern. May it be given me to understand your own love for me, and your dignity and beauty, that I may love you with a love more like the love that God Himself has for you. Though a creature, you gave birth to the Creator. They apply these words of Scripture to you: "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. Since I sincerely love you, I want to follow your example; this is the greatest honor I can pay you. 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. Teach me to answer such love with childlike confidence. 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. As you were the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus in all the virtues, you were the first and most perfect disciple also in humility. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." I realize that it is the command of God that I take ordinary care to insure bodily health. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. Mary, Mother of God, your Immaculate Heart is the Hope of the world. Teach me to admire your virtues that I maybe constantly reminded to imitate them and become like you. O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of mercy, pray for me that I may be preserved this night all evil, whether of body or soul. Plead for us in the presence of God and provide for us those graces and blessings especially which will enable us to serve God better and save our souls. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius XII, decreed Our Lady of Guadalupe to be "Patroness of all the Americas." . A woman, the tree, and death symbolize our defeat. There the poor find aid; the sick and needy, remedy, the afflicted, consolation; the doubting, counsel; the distressed, help. I already know of your great love for me for the sake of your Son who entrusted the care of my soul to you. 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. In 1668, the feast in honor of the Seven Sorrows (Dolors) was set for the Sunday after September 14, the feast of the exaltation of the Cross. . You, who were yourself the Queen of Prophets, saw that from that moment "the sword of sorrow" would enter your soul and remain there during the rest of your days. You are "Suppliant Omnipotence" because your prayer obtains all graces from the infinite treasures of God. To you I give my body, my heart and my soul. You were taken to Heaven by the power of God, accompanied and upheld by the angels, raised aloft by grace, not by nature. Mary, Mother of God, your name is most glorious and most powerful. "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus. The three Divine Persons declared you Queen of heaven and earth and assigned to you a place at the right hand of Jesus. Bishop Columns. Surely it is through your special influence as Mediatrix of Graces that this Life is shared with me. You became more and more filled with His spirit; you grew into Him, as it were, and became in your soul ever more the Mother of God and Mother of Jesus. 3. 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. Though it was out of sheer goodness that God decreed to give us His very Son in the Blessed Sacrament, I believe that your prayers had much to do with the carrying out of that plan; for you, too, must have prayed, "Give us this day our daily bread." Mary, My Mother, there is no sin in you; in you there is only God's graceHis light, His splendor, His love, His unspeakable delight. You are our spiritual Mother in the order of grace. Then for His sake, be our Help! The picture you imprinted on the cloak of the Indian at Guadalupe was the image of the Immaculate Conception. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." 2. Monday, September 15, 2014. . Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. In order to live, not to myself, but to God, I must bear the cross in union with Jesus. Mary, by your humility, you became the Mother of your Creator. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. And the Holy Spirit, who descended upon you in the Incarnation with all His fullness, must have conferred upon you such treasures of sanctity as would prepare you to receive the Son of God in your most pure womb. It was life of the utmost weakness and helplessness, and yet His is the strength of God Himself. Your motherly love contributed so much to our salvation in the Incarnation of the Son of God, who is the Universal Source of Grace, that you will eternally contribute as much to all the works of grace, which come to us because of the Incarnation. With your own eyes you saw Him brought first to Pilate, then to Herod and then again to Pilate. You brought me forth to the divine life. The Feast of Our Lady of Palestine was established in 1927 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, . 2. 2. People became the poor banished children of Eve. Mary, My Mother, the saints have taught me that the best veneration of you is always imitation. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. . 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. The Scriptures refer to you and Joseph as "the parents of Jesus." 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. Make me a fervent apostle of the Eucharist. We have the sublime dignity of being children of God by adoption; Jesus alone is His Son by nature. The Son, the Eternal Wisdom of God, in choosing you for His Mother, bestowed on you a certain fullness of grace, so that as you gave Christ His human nature, Christ, in a certain sense, raised you as close to God as a mere creature can come. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. 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. He had to crown the gift of His love with the grand gift of you, His Mother. When you agreed to the proposal made to you by the Angel, you gave Jesus to us by your own free act. Mary, My Mother, your divine maternity is such a sublime privilege that no creature, not even you yourself, can understand it fully. Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son. These chains are chains of salvation for me, and they will make me enjoy in death that blessed peace which will be-the beginning of my eternal peace and rest. 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. You were dressed in your finest clothes and surrounded by your friends as you joined the procession by the light of lamps and the sound of music. 3. They spoke of you as His Virgin Mother and of the part you would play in the Redemption of mankind. You are pure and sinless. Feast, August 22Octave of the Assumption (Novena, August 13-21) 1. Your heart beat in unison with His Heart. I want to take devotion to you seriously. You are Queen because you are the Mother of the Word Incarnate. Therefore, with childlike confidence I appeal to your motherly Heart for help. 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. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. May they consider it to be the greatest privilege bestowed upon them by God to dedicate their sons and daughters to His holy service. By this title I understand: (1) upon your mediation and intercession depends the distribution of the riches of the treasury which Jesus acquired for the salvation of men; (2) consequently, no grace comes to all of us as a body or to any of us in particular which you have not asked for in our behalf; (3) according to the order of things established by God, you have become, under Jesus Christ, after Jesus Christ, and through Jesus Christfrom whom you can never be separatedthe source and principle for us of all supernatural life. He was with you, and with you alone, in an unspeakable manner by bodily presence. He renders it possible to give greater expression to His own love and mercy through your Heart. Down through the ages numberless people have recovered health of body and of spirit through your intercession! You were longing to see the Face of God and to be happy in the vision. 2. May each pain and disappointment of my life become a perfect act of love of God because I offer all to God through your immaculate hands. From Anne you heard the touching story of the chosen people. 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). We beg you for a burning charity for God to imitate the works of Christ. Jesus ascended to Heaven before you not only that He might prepare a throne for you in that Kingdom, but also that He might Himself accompany you with all the blessed spirits and thus render your entry into Heaven more glorious and worthy of His Mother. Though Joseph planned to put you away privately when he recognized that you were with child, you still were unwilling to reveal your secret to him, lest you might seem to boast of your gifts. All the sorrows of Mary (the prophecy of Simeon, the three days' loss, etc.) April 16 - 23,2023. You may have remained in the Temple till the age of twelve. When I say "Hail, Mary!" How great must have been that longing! Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. It is from you alone that Christ took His human nature. Merit and glory attend your name. Ask Him to favor me with a ray of His brightness to enlighten the darkness of sin and ignorance in which I was born. His mother named him after the great St. Francis of Assisi. 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. The Church regards you as the rising dawn. Have pity on the sinners of the world. Since suffering is the measure and the very law of love, I cannot imagine the greatness of your love for us, your children. Copyright 2023 Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. Irondale, Alabama. You are the model of all virtues. 16, 26). 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are the mother of the Judge: you are also the Mother of the sinners. She humbly exclaimed, "How have I deserved this happiness that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" In your apparitions at Fatima you revealed that it is in the designs of the Divine Mercy to cure the world through your Heart. This is my hope that you will be a Mother to me and obtain for me the grace I need to save my soul. St. Joan of Arc Feast Day May 30. 1. 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. Feast, January 23 (Triduum, January 20-22). No one could ever love God with the love of a mother.
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