Though worn with sorrow, you at once took your place at the foot of the cross. Mary, My Mother, your divine maternity is such a sublime privilege that no creature, not even you yourself, can understand it fully. 2. For as often as I offended God by mortal sin, so often have I crucified the Son of God and made a mockery of Him. 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. 11, 29). Our Lady appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858, and the rest as they say is history! 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. This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. I want to be devoted to you by giving myself entirely to you and through you to God. From your own flesh and blood you formed the body of your Son. 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, because of your influence in obtaining helpful remedies against spiritual and bodily maladies, the Church calls you the "Health of the Sick." 2. When you later returned to your home, you were under the loving care of your mother, Saint Anne. You stood by its side never turning your eyes from Him. Because you were to be the Mother of God, original sin, which like all Eve's daughters you should have contracted, could not touch you. Here there was a sacrifice, and Jesus was the Victim. 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. Help me to become a child in your school. 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. The Holy Spirit dwells in you as in a temple. When Jesus said to John, "Behold thy Mother," He wanted John to respect and to love you as his Mother. Mary, My Mother, How perfectly you have followed the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and acted on divine wisdom! An event every year that begins at 12:00 am on day 15 of September, repeating indefinitely Mary, My Mother, as I cannot grasp the depth of your sanctity, I cannot understand the measure of your grace. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you that you are so privileged, so exalted as to become the worthy Mother of God. Help me to use the graces God gives me for my sanctification. You showed singular prudence during your life. You formed His lips, to teach us. Mary, Mother of God, your name is most glorious and most powerful. 3. 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. In you He reposed for nine months, with His whole divinity and humanity. You will obtain for me grace to be faithful to God during the rest of my life. Mary, My Mother, you were not obliged by the Law of Moses to present and ransom your firstborn Son. The Lord being your portion, you renounced all elsethe honors, the pleasures, and the rewards of marriageand joyously chose the life of a virgin. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. Your blessedness was due to your unexcelled sanctity. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. Therefore, I offer Jesus to the Father through your hands, and in Holy Communion I ask for graces through you. The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. Mary, Mother of God, your Immaculate Heart is the Hope of the world. Mary, My Mother, your love for Jesus made this sacrifice very great in the eyes of God. You did not-abandon Jesus as the apostles did; you remained with Him until He expired. Do not be afraid Mary, for you have found, not taken, grace, as Lucifer tried to take it. Saints Stories for All Ages Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day December 12 Printer Friendly On December 9, 1531, a 57-year-old Aztec, Juan Diego, saw the Blessed Mother on a hill in Mexico City. If I confide my salvation to your loving care and faithfully imitate your virtues, I know you will keep me in your immaculate Heart both now and at the hour of my death. You expressed this to Saint Bernadette at Lourdes when you said, "I am the Immaculate Conception.". Fulfill your apostolic mission of winning the world for Christ. It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! Our founder, so moved by her image, vowed to live by her exampleand that's a promise our Mercy Home family still upholds today. 1. Your sorrow would be as deep as the sea. 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. You were one of us, and yet you stood above us! This is why you were greeted by the angel in the words, "Hail, full of grace." You hid your miraculous virginity under the mantle of humility. 1. The words of Simeon were then fulfilled. When you agreed to the proposal made to you by the Angel, you gave Jesus to us by your own free act. When I say "Hail, Mary!" Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mediatrix of All Graces. I became a child of God. This Body, given to us at Christmas and immolated on Good Friday, was flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone. How can I ever understand the great love that bound your hearts together! 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. But you merited the title Co-Redemptrix above all by your union with Christ in His redemptive sacrifice. Look with pity on me for in You is my hope. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity is most cherished by you, because it is a token of God's special love for you.
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27 Corruption is a consequence of sin, but you were sinless. Mother of God, you have very great power. 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. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. At the marriage feast of Cana He worked His first miracle because you asked Him for this favor. Whoever abides in this Church will bring forth much salutary fruit; whereas they who willingly separate themselves from it must wither away spiritually. Today I am filled with joy at the thought that we are united with those first clients of yours, and in union with them we greet you, saying: O beauty of Carmel, glory of Libanus, purest of lilies, mystical rose in the flowering garden of the Church. Today we celebrate our Lady of Sorrows. 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. With her you loved to sing the psalms and canticles of the inspired authors of your nation. 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. As Mother, it is your mission to preserve your children from sin and to make them live the supernatural life. Mary, My Mother, as the Immaculate Conception, you are the Woman who appeared as the mortal enemy of the serpent. Your loving Son came to teach this virtue to mankind by His example, and He desired that we should especially strive to imitate Him, for He said, "Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls" (Matt. You are the holiest of God's creatures because you are the Mother of God.
1st Feast of Our Lady of Silence is August 1 - Aleteia For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. I share in this joy. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. Who could tell the great joy which filled their hearts when they held you in their arms? You were troubled not at the appearance of the angel, but at what he said. Seeing your own nothingness as compared with the infinite majesty of God, who chose you for His Mother, you acknowledged how unworthy you were of so great honor, but you did not oppose His will in the least thing. Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. ." Whereas pride and ingratitude repel grace from our souls, gratitude and humility, like golden keys, unlock the treasury of heaven. When still a child you consecrated yourself entirely to God, the Love of chaste souls; and afterwards you would rather be deprived of the great dignity of Divine Motherhood than to lose your virginity. Mary, My Mother, God raised you so high in Himself that He never has created and never will create a holier person more worthy of Himself, of His greatness, of His love, than you, O Virgin most pure. continue our lady of sorrows feast day. Obtain for me from Jesus the heavenly gifts of humility, chastity and meekness, which were the fairest adornments of your immaculate soul. Such gifts assure us the everlasting indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, together with the Father and the Son, and that endless life which is its blessed fruit. Our Lady of Sichem, Belgium (474) 4. 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. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." God is infinite good; sin, horrible evil. 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. One of your greatest delights is to lavish these treasures upon your faithful children. The more fully you are Queen in a soul, the more does Jesus reign there as King. Mary, My Mother, your Son Jesus came to enlighten the world with His teaching and example. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your apparition at Guadalupe teaches me that devotion to you is a source of great graces. Help us that our souls may be cleansed from the stains of sin. God has made you so kind even to sinners that your goodness restores us to hope. 3. we celebrated the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. You share so entirely in His Passion that, if it had been possible, you would gladly have borne all the torments your Son bore. pray for me! It was a life of closest union with Jesusa union of body as well as of soul. Though it is impossible for me to form any idea of the thoughts that flooded your mind and heart, I beg you to give me at least a spark of that fervor of divine love that burned in your soul. . Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. 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. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. Through your prayers may they and their children honor God by a virtuous life so as to be worthy of a heavenly reward. For the first time in the public life of Jesus you appeared in the exalted character of our Advocate, a character which would be yours as long as time would last. Devotion to you brings with it sweetness and consolation for the soul. Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. You presented Him in sacrifice to the Father as your God and the Son of Man, as your offering and the offering of humanity for the redemption of the world. When God decreed the incarnation of the Word, His very own Son, through you alone, you had a place in the same plan as Jesus. Love and Peace, may be spread among men. The Annunciation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Jesus is my Savior and I have confidence in His infinite merits. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. By Christmas of that year, an adobe structure was built atop Tepeyac Hill in honor of our Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and it was dedicated on December 26, 1531, the feast of St. Stephen the Martyr. To you we owe the life of grace, without which there is no escape from the death of sin. Finally, they remind me of the everlasting glory of all the saints in Heaven united with your own glory and that of your Son. Our present century, the 19 th, has had the happiness of seeing another Pontiff, also named Pius, institute a Feast under this same titlea Feast which is intended to commemorate the Help bestowed on Christendom, and in all ages, by the Mother of God. May I derive all the beneficial results the holy sacraments are to produce in my soul. Your Heart is also the most affectionate of hearts after that of Jesus. Aid me through your influence with your Divine Son, to be a true child of yours and to grow daily into your likeness.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day | Diocese of Saginaw Mary, Mother of God, your life, like that of your Divine Son, was a daily crucifixion and martyrdom. It was a life of concealment, and yet Jesus is infinite, the light of the angels and of the whole world. He ordered most perfectly His whole creation, for He is the true fountain and highest source of light and wisdom. 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. Jesus is the Son of God by His marvelous and eternal birth "in the bosom of His Father." Mary, Mother of God, sincere devotion to you is a sign of perseverance in doing good till death. All good things come to us through your hands. All the tsars were crowned and patriarchs installed in the presence of this image, up until the revolution. Jesus could give meafter the gift of Himselfnothing more precious than you. Through your prayers, may Jesus make me live of His life through sanctifying and actual grace. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." You are full of grace, the Lord's free gift, and it overflows in you filling your soul with every virtue and perfection. The icon is now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Russian calendar commemorates the feast of Our Lady of Vladimir on May 21.
Dec. 12: OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE MASS PRAYERS AND PROPER READINGS. To the Son you give His human nature which allows Him to make full reparation to the honor of His Father outraged by our sins. I have every reason to rejoice, for as the Mother of Jesus and my Mother you are my hope of salvation. And Mary said: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. February 07, 2021. From that time forward until His Ascension into Heaven, you were the constant adorer of the Word-made-Flesh in all the mysteries of His earthly life. His role in our salvation is absolutely necessary. But much as your compassionate heart sympathizes with man's sufferings from bodily sickness, you certainly show greater care to relieve the spiritual sickness and weaknesses under which we labor. 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. Obtain for them that deep conviction of faith, that unwavering hope, that Jesus, Infinite Love, who died for them, will b completely ready to welcome them, to take them in His arms, press them to His Heart and once again say, "Father, forgive them . On the calendar, the feast day is after that of the Exaltation of the Cross. I feel this threefold inclination to evil. Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son. Protect, guard, and keep them in holy fear, in peace, and in harmony of Christian charity. How truly can the words of Holy Scripture be applied to you: "In me is all grace of the way and of the truth: in me is all hope of life and of virtue" (Ecclus 24, 25). In His infinite mercy God chose Abraham who was to be the Father of a Chosen Nation. 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. Advise me what to do. Though you are raised to the high dignity of Queen of Heaven, you have not forgotten man's wretched condition. 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. From the cross Jesus gave you to me to be my Mother, and I was entrusted to your care as your child. Only when I have understood your martyrdom, will I understand the greatness of the love of Jesus for you and the intensity of your love for your Son. He did so through your hands when you presented Him in the Temple, and in union with Him you offered yourself to the Father on Calvary. . 2. With your heart breaking with sorrow, you had to die a spiritual death in order to become my spiritual Mother. The corresponding feast, however, did not .
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2021 - Archbishop Gomez When His side was opened with a lance, a sword of anguish also pierced your Heart. What must have been your anguish when you looked at the sacred body of Jesus as the long nails were being driven into His hands and feet! No one ever carried out the teaching of your Son with greater exactness than you; hence His words refer to you perfectly: "Everyone therefore who hears these my words and acts upon them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house on rock" (Matt. You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. In union with Him you also did the will of God perfectly as He exclaimed "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.". This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. The Heart of Jesus was a suffering Heart, symbolized by the thorns encircling it, the cross above it, and the gash opened in its side. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.". I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with the Blessed Trinity on your birthday because you were to take part in the Incarnation and Redemption of the world, I rejoice with all mankind because you became the Mother of our Redeemer. By offering your Divine Son on Calvary you brought me forth to a life of grace and thus became my spiritual Mother. Pray for more lay apostles, who in every walk of life will defend the rights of God, proclaim His Truth and preach His holy Will by word and example. . You are a Mediatrix in union with Christ from whom your mediation draws all its power. 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. I firmly believe that He will hear my prayer also, if this should be the Will of God. Balaam referred to you as a star: "The star which shall arise from Jacob." Angels came to escort you.
Our Lady of Sorrows Feast Day - DocsLib Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit.
11th February: Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick Help me to esteem the light of my reason as a sharing in the divine wisdom, especially when I try to follow the teaching of the Gospel. Though a creature, you gave birth to the Creator. 3. He has reconciled us to God. 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? Since you have had such an intimate share in my redemption, I entrust my soul to your loving care. There are some who are far from their Father's house, who even refuse to turn to you. 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 climax of that sorrow came when the innocent Victim for the sins of mankind was given, dead, into your arms. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that the dignity, holiness and glory of Joseph rests on the fact that he was your spouse and that he was the foster father of Jesus Christ. Be pleased to lead mankind securely to certain victory over Communism through the triumph of your Immaculate Heart as you promised at Fatima: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and an era of peace will be conceded to humanity.". 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. 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. For your generosity the Eternal Father made you, through Christ, the dispenser of the riches of God. You thought only of praising Him as your greatest Benefactor when you exclaimed, "My soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my SaviorFor He who is mighty has done great things for me." I declare that I undertake them only that I may better promote the honor of God and devotion to you. On April 3rd, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X will have the joy of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion for the first time in all our houses. Mary, Mother of God, humility is the virtue you especially practised from childhood. From the moment you said, "Be it done to me according to thy word," the Father in heaven made Jesus and you, as it were, a redemptive pair; you, of course, have always been dependent on Him. 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. 16, 26). And yet, Refuge of Sinners, you are my refuge, if I but have recourse to you, and you will extend your loving hands to receive me, to shelter me from the divine anger I so justly deserve. 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. You are the loving daughter of the Father, because, before all creatures, you were predestined to be His daughter at the same moment that He decreed the Incarnation of His Son. When the Holy Spirit descended, you received the richest outpouring of His graces. 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. This country and every country in North and South America, is born "under God," and under the mantle of Holy Mary, every nation and every person under her . Grant that following your good counsel, I may avoid sin, practise virtue, save my soul and attain eternal life. Ask Him to favor me with a ray of His brightness to enlighten the darkness of sin and ignorance in which I was born. "Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. Mary, My Mother, you showed your humility by striving to conceal from others the gifts you received from God. In you I behold the charm of the purest of virgins, the majesty of the noblest of mothers. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius XII, decreed Our Lady of Guadalupe to be "Patroness of all the Americas." .