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. You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. 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. Mary, Mother of God, as Mediatrix of All Graces you have entered into the highest state of power and glory in heaven in order that you may help us on our difficult journey to the heavenly City of God. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. 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. You really had the right to offer Jesus to His Heavenly Father in this mystery. 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. May I remember always your sorrows on Calvary, through which you begot us to God and became the co-redemptrix of our race. 11, 29). God inflamed no other heart, after that of the Heart of His Son, with His love so much as yours. Your life with Jesus was one of the purest, most fervent, most perfect emotions of love to God, whom you sheltered within yourself. Mary, Mother of God, your apparition at Guadalupe teaches me that devotion to you is a source of great graces. And thy own soul a sword shall pierce " Since you were enlightened by the Scriptures, you realized that your Child would be contradicted and utterly rejected by the Jews, who had, for forty centuries, unceasingly sighed for Him as a Savior. Then Satan could boast that he had overcome Jesus in you, His Mother. 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. Help me to bear in mind that the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, and that the secrets of divine wisdom are imparted only to the humble of heart, while they are hidden from the worldly-wise. 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. 3. 2. Previous; Play Quiz; Lent Day 6 - The Wedding at Cana. Your Heart is a refuge for sinners, for you are the Mother of Mercy, who has never been known to turn away any one who came to seek your aid. Through your powerful intercession obtain for them the graces they need. The Church has always taught that God has entrusted to your hands all heavenly treasures, and many of the saints assure me that you give to your clients as much of these treasures as you wish and when you wish to do so. Once more He renewed His offering at the Presentation in the Temple. His Holiness St. John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and. When I say "Hail, Mary!" Help me to become a child in your school. The Lord being your portion, you renounced all elsethe honors, the pleasures, and the rewards of marriageand joyously chose the life of a virgin. You became the Mother of God and remained a virgin. You are our Mother, because you have begotten us to the life of grace. Help me to perform all my actions with youto look upon you as a model and helper. You are truly His beloved Daughter, the only one in whom there was never a stain. 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. He promised that my prayers would be heard when He said, "Ask, and it shall be given you" (Matt. We have the sublime dignity of being children of God by adoption; Jesus alone is His Son by nature. 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." 1, 20). December 12, 2021: "Our Lady of Guadalupe came to be the Mother of the Americas, to announce the new birth of Jesus Christ among the peoples and nations of the New World. You had a Heart of love from which in the course of time was to be formed the Sacred Heart of the loving Christ. You bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. Aid me through your influence with your Divine Son, to be a true child of yours and to grow daily into your likeness. Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited. Aided by God's wondrous graces you surrendered yourself entirely to God in the smallest details of your life. 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. When your cousin Saint Elizabeth greeted you as blessed among women, you answered, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior because he has regarded the lowliness of his handmaid" (Luke 1, 46). 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. I give you my love by consecrating myself entirely to you, in joy and in sorrow, by complete abandonment to the divine will. Even in the Son of God I sometimes fear the Divine Majesty because although He became Man, He did not cease to be God. God, having once given us Jesus Christ by you, Holy Virgin, does not change His way of blessing us with His gifts. Mary, you are Our Lady of Good Counsel because you are the Seat of Wisdom. Your soul filled with love and sorrow, you embraced your Son now pale in death, a victim for the sins of mankind. 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). In the temple, you returned to Him His gift by consecrating your Child to His honor and glory. You are truly our immaculate Mother for it is to you, after Jesus, that we are indebted for the supernatural life of grace and the hope of eternal life. Faith tells me that the fall of man was the effect of the malice and envy of the devil, who sought in this way to be revenged upon the Creator for having cast him out of paradise in punishment for his rebellion. Mary, Mother of God, God spoke of you as the Woman who would crush the serpent's head. 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. It is through your prayers that God inspires me to receive It and grants me the grace to receive It worthily. 1. In your humility you wished to serve others rather than to be served. Mater Dolorosa. How great was your trust in God! By granting them these graces you have performed a work of the apostolate. His Heart is a loving Heart, and that love is symbolized by the flames which St. Margaret Mary saw coming forth from it. They apply these words of Scripture to you: "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. It is but a symbol of the endless victories which you are to win over him to the last day. At your request He worked the first miracle of His public life. 2. How many sinners after losing hope have found refuge in you, and, under your protection, returned to God's grace! In the spirit of loving confidence we have recourse to you. Rule over us by the queenly power of your love that the Kingdom of your Sonthe Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace, Justice, Love and Peacemay come upon earth. Your Son, though He was Life itself, did not exempt Himself from death. Feast Days of Mary January 1Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God *January 8Our Lady of Prompt SuccorFebruary 2Presentation of the LordFebruary 11Our Lady of LourdesMarch 25AnnunciationMay 13Our Lady of FatimaMay 31VisitationJune 27Our Mother of Perpetual HelpJuly 16Our Lady of Mount CarmelAugust 15Assumption *August 22Queenship of MarySeptember 8Birth of . In your contemplation of God, you behold our needs with our prayers, and you beg God to grant these favors to us. You could also hold your own celebration of Our Lady by inviting friends and family to your home for a traditional Mexican meal. Let this be my consolation to know that I am doing God's Will. Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. Mary, My Mother, I beg you to aid me in being watchful over myself, guarding my exterior and interior senses, avoiding all outward haste and inward passion, trying to make a virtuous action of everything I do, and by talking to God frequently in prayer. You were not to raise up children unto Godnot ordinary offspring, but a Child, the Son of God! September 15 | Recurring Event . You add a degree of motherly sweetness to the joy of the angels and saints and to the blessed of the Church triumphant. At the very beginning of His public ministry, you observed the hatred and jealousy of His enemies and the false accusations which would bring about His death. Jesus invites me to do so, for He said, "Take my yoke upon youMy yoke is easy and My burden light" (Matt. I should learn from your conduct never to oppose the divine will, even though conformity to it may mean a severe test of my faith. You abandoned yourself to God's will with deep faith and confidence. God wants His gifts recognized. You nourished Him, clothed Him, educated Him. Mary, Mother of God, the sorrowful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the sorrows, the agony and death of the suffering Christ, the price at which the salvation of our race was accomplished. No one could have had a closer approach to God than you, for it is impossible for any creature to be closer to God's Son than His own Mother. Though you did not know the meaning of the archangel's inspired words, you serenely submitted to the will of God. 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. Help me, above all, so that by my good example I may enrich and ennoble every human being whose life I touch. Also, watch over all those who suffer in body or soul. 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. By consenting to His birth, you made Him King. 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. You died as you had lived, entirely detached from the things of the world, you died in the most perfect peace and in the certainty of eternal glory. I am afflicted with many sorrows in body and soul, and I take refuge, like a child, in the embrace of your motherly protection. except through you. Mary, My Mother, yours is a queenship of conquest. We join you, Queen of the Holy Rosary, in praying for peace in the world. Through your prayers may they and their children honor God by a virtuous life so as to be worthy of a heavenly reward. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity places you in a very wonderful relationship with the three divine Persons. 2. Appeared to St. Jerome Emiliani, 1530 5. You received from the Adorable Trinity the crown and sceptre, which made you Queen of all the angels and saints and the all-powerful Mediatrix between God and men. Copyright 2023 Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. Irondale, Alabama. He found joy in God, His Heavenly Father, and in the Holy Spirit, joy in all the wonderful perfections of God. Through your powerful intercession promote the propagation of the faith. You stand alone on a throne of greatness and perfection far above the rest of creatures. His triumph over death His Ascension into Heaven, the sending of the Holy Spirit. Balaam referred to you as a star: "The star which shall arise from Jacob." How humble you were! Joachim was of the royal house of David, and Anne of the priestly family of Aaron. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are the holiest of God's creatures. But that my devotion may be pleasing to you, help me to maintain my soul and body in the spotlessness of your purity, help me to try as best I can to walk in your footsteps, humbly seeking to be like you. Help me to imitate your fullness of grace by receiving Holy Communion frequently, where I shall obtain the sanctifying grace that will make my soul holy and pleasing to God, more like your own, and where I shall obtain the actual graces I need to practise virtue and to walk in your footsteps. Mary, My Mother, I realize that I have not always corresponded faithfully with these graces. 'Teach me that the test of my following of your Divine Son is practical charity. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind so deeply as your heart, and, therefore, you wanted to unite your will to His, offering to Almighty God this Holy Sacrifice out of pure charity for the human race. 3. You saw clearly the agony you would feel at the crucifixion. On Feb. 11, 2020, I was ordained a bishop and installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. Mary, My Mother, help me to take your requests at Fatima to heart. Save me, a poor sinner who confidently invokes your intercession, through the graces merited for me on the cross by the precious Blood of your Son. Francis became very sick, nearly dying twice. You consented to be the Mother of the Redeemer at the Annunciation, and thus you were willing to share in the sufferings of the Redeemer. The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. But with these joys were also mingled bitter sorrows. How consistent with the infinite tenderness of God that His Christ, the Immortal Child, should be conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the body of a young virgin and that a virgin should bear a Child to redeem the world. We praise your virginity and admire your humility; but because we are poor sinners, your mercy attracts us more and we embrace it more lovingly. At one time when you wanted to speak with Jesus, your humility forbade you to enter the house where He was preaching until you were asked to do so. I also believe that grace is a free gift of God, and I have no claim to it except as a member of His holy Church, which is the mystical body of Christ. You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. Your Immaculate Conception is a triumph over Satan the author of evil, who under your heel, suffered his first complete defeat. All mankind may find a place there as your children, if they only choose to listen to your loving appeal. Through your prayers and dignity the power and the fruits of the Passion of Jesus are applied to men No intercession, neither yours nor that of any saint, is of value except through Him, through His blessed wounds. Only give me the grace to abandon myself completely to your motherly guidance. How unimportant are the infirmities of the body compared to the infirmities of the soul! The Nativity and the Crucifixion were as one action. Feast, Saturday after the Feast of the Ascension (Triduum, Wednesday before the Feast of the Ascension). 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 wax melts before fire, so do the devils lose their power against those souls who remember to speak your name and devoutly invoke it. You were troubled not at the appearance of the angel, but at what he said. Feast, August 22Octave of the Assumption (Novena, August 13-21) 1. Your Immaculate Conception permitted you to love God from the first instant of your existence; your virginity led you to vow an undivided love to Him, your fullness of grace made you capable of loving Him with the most intense love possible. Jesus had delivered Himself in His Passion to the will of His Father, and before His sacrifice for sinners could be perfect, He had to be forsaken by that Father. To the Father you present in your Son, an adorer worthy of Him, and adoration and love of infinite value. When the Holy Spirit descended, you received the richest outpouring of His graces. Though you had already been assured by the angel that you were this happy Mother chosen by the Lord, you did not stop to rejoice in your exaltation. PRAYER: 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 commiseration for those sufferings, as well as a sincere detestation of my sins, in order . This feast day was approved by the Holy See in 1933 and is celebrated every October 25. Mary, Mother of God, you are the new Eve. For the small sacrifice of being devoted to you I can obtain a happy death and eternal life. Collected by the web master from various calendars; if you have a Feast that I missed, please let me know, so I can include it. Mary, My Mother, at my baptism you gave me life at the moment when sanctifying grace was infused into my soul at the baptismal font. Teach me to utter your name with deep respect because, after the name of Jesus, it is most sacred and revered above all others. we celebrated the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. 1. Your Son won a treasure of grace for us by the life and death He offered up to the heavenly Father. The reredos is in gold relief, being copied from work in the chapel of the Duchess of Newcastle. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Help of Christians because you are the Mother of the Mystical Body of Christ. How happy Jesus must have been to receive the homage that you paid Him! Mother you are and that doubly in the terms of our Catholic belief: human Mother of Jesus, supernatural Mother of every Christian. Not only did the Holy Spirit pour into your soul a fullness of grace, but He entrusted to you, the Mother of the human family, the distribution of all grace. Mary, Mother of God, your greatness began at the first instant of your existence with the privilege of your Immaculate Conception. When you later returned to your home, you were under the loving care of your mother, Saint Anne. Mary, My Mother, the Heart of Jesus was a generous Heart, symbolized by the wound in His side from which came forth the last drops of His Heart's Blood shed for us, and by which w e can reach the treasures of that Divine Heart. Our Lady of Compassion Our Lady of Compassion (Nuestra Senora de la Piedad) The convent of Our Lady of La Piedad dates back to the year 1595. It was a life of closest union with Jesusa union of body as well as of soul. You are a Mediatrix because since your Assumption, with Christ you obtain all graces for men. Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of Good Counsel, I appeal to you for advice and guidance. For vain joys or small profits people sacrifice much. Mary, My Mother, the divine Motherhood meant for you deepest suffering. Everyday, somewhere in the world, local, regional or universal feast of Our Lady is celebrated. Your body, which was the living tabernacle of the Eternal God and the temple of the Adorable Trinity, was not meant to crumble into dust. 2. I am most grateful for such devoted love and sympathy. May I have more of their love for you so that I may experience more of their joy in being devoted to you. While no gift is bestowed on us by God except in virtue of the Passion and death of your divine Son, the Precious Blood and the sacred wounds of Jesus are presented to God by you. I trust that through you I shall obtain the help I need to keep the commandments, avoid sin, receive the Sacraments frequently, pray much and save my soul. Processions and Penitence In Malta, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, and the Philippines the Friday of Passion Weekthe Friday of Sorrows or Viernes de Dolores is celebrated with. Mary, Mother of God, you are also the Mother of men. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27. 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 From all eternity God chose you to be His Mother, and in time He adorned you with every spiritual charm. The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. 12, 1). 3. You saw Barabbas preferred to Jesus when the Roman governor showed the Man of Sorrows to the angry mob. You also conceived His members who have been born again and are called to incorporation with Him. The last beat of His Heart was to be one with yours just as the first had been. I come to you with confidence, knowing that through you all glory, honor and holiness given to the human race from the first Adam to the last ages has been granted, is being granted and will be granted to apostles, prophets, martyrs and all the just. Even before His coming your Heart was filled with love for those whom later He was to love with a tremendous love. I rejoice with the whole Church because you are our life; you bore Jesus, who is the Way and the Truth and the Life and who was to restore to mankind that supernatural life which had been lost. All those whose Queen you are have learnt of Jesus that they must call you Mother and ask your help. But by the greater light you possessed for recognizing the infinite greatness and goodness of God, you recognized also your own littleness, and, therefore, you humbled yourself more than all others: you ever had before your eyes the majesty of God against your nothingness as His creature. The more holy you are, the greater is your sweetness and compassion toward sinners who have recourse to you with the desire to amend their lives. 1. But no child ever belonged to its mother as Jesus belonged to you. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. You visited the house of Zachary to serve your cousin Elizabeth for three months. With a "fiat" God created light, heaven, earth, but with your "fiat" God became Man. Immaculate Virgin, you are that human being. You bore unspeakable sufferings and offered the life of Him who was dearer to you than your own life. From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. 2. May God dwell in me and may I live to Him alone through frequent Holy Communion and still more frequent prayer so that God may direct my whole lifemy thoughts, words and actionsto His greater honor and glory. Eternity is real; Heaven is eternal happiness, the final reward for loyalty to God. The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. He saved us by offering to the justice of God perfect atonement for our sins. You want to give me help every time I need it. Mary, Mother of God, help me to understand as clearly as God wishes to let me do so, the value of suffering and sickness. You are certainly the refuge of sinners, but you wish what your Son wishes. At the same time you had to offer the most intense human suffering, in union with the Passion of your Son. The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in parishes and neighborhoods throughout the country with Masses and dancing and celebration, .
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