Teach me to admire your virtues that I maybe constantly reminded to imitate them and become like you. Take my cold heart; put it into your own and inflame it with a fire of love like your own. Bless our prayers and labors for the conversion of the world and support them by your powerful intercession with your Son, Jesus, that His Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace Justice. Mary, My Mother, from your early years you adored the one true God in the Temple at Jerusalem. 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. I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. You were troubled not at the appearance of the angel, but at what he said. How much more compassionate are you now since you reign happily in Heaven? Ask Him to favor me with a ray of His brightness to enlighten the darkness of sin and ignorance in which I was born. 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." Our Lady of Vladimir - Roman Catholic Saints You were soon really to see the Face of God the created image of divine perfection, the sight of which rejoices heaven and earth, from which all beings derive life and joy; the Face whose features enraptured God from all eternity, the Face for which all ages had expectantly yearned. You were united with Jesus when He bestowed special favors. This humility was richly rewarded. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day May your glorious example be imitated by countless youths and maidens who will give themselves to the Lord to carry on His work throughout the world. 11, 29). Who can describe the merits and graces that adorned your soul at the glorious instant of your Nativity at a period when all other children have no merit! With greatest confidence in the mercy and kindness of Your Son, you left Him free to give assistance or withhold it, as He saw fit. 3. More than 130 years ago, Mercy Home was first established as the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mother of mankind and therefore the Help of Christians, the all-powerful suppliant. When the Angel Gabriel came as a messenger from God, it was not only to ask your consent to become the Mother of the Son of God, but also to treat with you of the salvation of the human race, of the birth of the Savior of the world, of the regeneration of mankind and the setting up of an everlasting kingdom. You have entered into the highest state of power and glory in Heaven in order that you may help us in our journey through so many dangers to the kingdom of Heaven. From the first instant of your existence your mind was filled by the supernatural light of faith and your soul with love of God. May they consider it to be the greatest privilege bestowed upon them by God to dedicate their sons and daughters to His holy service. Mary, My Mother, your love for Jesus made this sacrifice very great in the eyes of God. Also, watch over all those who suffer in body or soul. For days before the feast, people crowd around the basilica for blessings of the religious images they have brought, and . How precious is your love, my Mother! You formed His feet, to search after and seek us as a Good Shepherd, His hands to heal us and to be pierced for us; and His shoulders to carry the cross. We do not attribute to you the power of producing supernatural grace, even though you are the Mother of God, for this power belongs to God alone. Amen. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Help of Christians because you are the Mother of the Mystical Body of Christ. Continue to work wonders on our shores for our spiritual and material prosperity and keep us in peace and charity. Thanks to you, the grace and the sanctifying gifts of the Holy Spirit are scattered abroad over the Church and its members. In your six apparitions at Fatima you made repeated demands for penance and reparation. Even in the Son of God I sometimes fear the Divine Majesty because although He became Man, He did not cease to be God. 2. Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! There before the tabernacle you relived in memory all the happy and sorrowful events of your life with Jesus. It means imitating your humility, your purity, your detachment from the world, and your unselfish resignation to the will of God in every event of life. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are the holiest of God's creatures. I look to you for the grace of final perseverance and a happy death. The Holy Spirit, who in virtue of your Son's merits lived in you, made you a living image of Jesus. I entrust to you all my anxieties and needs so that through the merits of your sorrows I may bear the trials and sufferings of life with the same love and resignation to God's Will with which you bore yours. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins" (Matt. 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. Like you let me realize my own nothingness. It was a life of silence, and yet He is the Word of the Father, the expression of His glory, the teacher of the prophets. "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus. When you became the Mother of Jesus according to the flesh, you became the Mother of men according to the spirit. Our founder, so moved by her image, vowed to live by her exampleand that's a promise our Mercy Home family still upholds today. As the loving Mother of Jesus, the glorious daughter of the Father, the cherished Bride of the Holy Spirit, you can never meet with a refusal. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. John took my place on Calvary and you became, in his person, my Mother. Our Lady of Fatima Prayer O Mary Immaculate, who at Fatima predicted to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta that unless men converted and thy requests were fulfilled, worse calamities would befall, show thyself a mother to us in these perilous times. 1. 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. Mary, My Mother, what a truly marvelous privilege is mine! 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. But Gabriel comforted you, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God." 2. Mary, I beg you to lead me to my Sacramental Jesus! This marked the beginning of your life of suffering together with Jesus. Your union with Joseph was ordained in the designs of God for the education of Jesus. 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. For my proud nature, humility is most difficult to practise. (1) The seven founders of the Servite Order, in 1239, five years after they established themselves on Monte Senario, took up the sorrows of Mary, standing under the Cross, as the principal devotion of their order. The virtue of holy prudence guides man in his choice of purposes and in the best means to attain them. How earnestly, too, you want to help us in all our needs! You bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. We recommend to you our hopes and our fears. You are the holiest of God's creatures because you are the Mother of God. Then for His sake, be our Help! I can pray to you with full confidence because you are loved by the Father as the Mother of His Son, loved by the Son as His own Mother, loved by the Holy Spirit as His Immaculate Bride. 1. 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. After Jesus, no one suffered as you did. Don Luis de VelascoII, when he was Viceroy of New Spain, had as his confessor a Dominican, Fray Cristobal de Ortega, who also acted as his financial adviser. Feasts of Our Lady Throughout the Year January MONTH of the HOLY NAME 1. I rejoice with you in the happiness which filled your heart because of such love. A blessed feast of OUR LADY of the MIRACULOUS MEDAL to you. Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary | MaryPages The holy couple offered you to God by the ministry of the priest in charge, who invoked the blessing of God upon you and your parents. Since you have had such an intimate share in my redemption, I entrust my soul to your loving care. This was the earliest promise of a Redeemer to come, and you were to be His immaculate Mother. Your dignity as Mother of God is so lofty that nothing created can rank above it. I am unworthy of that. 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. It was you who nourished and prepared the holy Victim who was offered to the Eternal Father in expiation of our sins. Virgin of Vladimir - Wikipedia The bodies of even the just are corrupted after death, and only on the last day will they be joined, each to its own glorious soul. 1. Your motherly interest in my needs and the salvation of my soul encourage me to make a prompt appeal to you in all my needs and dangers. By your humility you have found such great grace with God that you were chosen to co-operate with His Divine Son in restoring man to a dignity far superior to that which he had lost by sin. You are "Suppliant Omnipotence" because your prayer obtains all graces from the infinite treasures of God. Filled with motherly compassion, you appealed to Jesus in behalf of your friends. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. The Sanctuary in 1906. 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. 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. You conceived Jesus as the Head of regenerated mankind, the Head of a mystical body whose members we are. You are only a pure creature, who receives whatever you obtain as a pure favor from God. St. Brigid of Kildare Feast Day February 1st. Feast, January 23 (Triduum, January 20-22). How often has mortal sin, destroying in me the beautiful image of the Blessed Trinity, brought death to my soul, delivered me to God's wrath and condemned me to everlasting hell-fire! (1) You prepared in your virginal womb a fit temple for the union of the Son of Godthe Divine Wordwith our human nature. Teach me to understand something of your love for the Holy Spirit and His love for you in keeping your soul beautiful and holy. You did not shrink from the disgrace of being recognized as the Mother of one condemned to die a shameful death. Your heart watches over them tenderly. You offered Him on the altar of the Crossthe future Eucharistic Christin perfect adoration to the insulted majesty of God, in thanksgiving for all the blessings showered on mankind; in reparation for our sins and in petition for sinners. Your protection never ceases, your intercession brings hope and life. She is forever imploring you to intercede in their behalf with Him who has clothed you with His light and His glory, and has poured out upon you the fullness of His grace. Mary, Mother of God, sincere devotion to you is a sign of perseverance in doing good till death. Jesus is in me, too, through sanctifying grace, I bear within me the supernatural image of the Divine Sonship. You called yourself the servant of Him who for thirty years would be subject to you. 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. I unite myself with your heart so that everything I have to do or suffer may become a pure sacrifice of love in the sight of God. He is the Master of His creation. 2. 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. 3. Mary, My Mother, you are all beautifulbeautiful in mind, in body, in soul! You had a Heart of love from which in the course of time was to be formed the Sacred Heart of the loving Christ. May looking upon your Immaculate Heart inspire confidence in me which will make me more eager to grow in holiness. You used most perfectly every actual grace given you by God in acts and virtue. 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 if I have committed all possible sins, let me never lose confidence in you, for I know I shall always find your Heart filled with mercy The Son of God has His justice, but you, the Mother, have only your mercy. I trust that you will lovingly bow down to help my efforts. 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. 2. Therefore, I offer Jesus to the Father through your hands, and in Holy Communion I ask for graces through you. Led by divine inspiration to His house, you prepared yourself for your sublime dignity of Divine Motherhood in silence and solitude with God. He works in my soul by His grace. 1. The offering of your Son was continued in each Holy Mass ever to be offered, in each Holy Communion ever to be received, in each act of adoration and prayer before the Sacred Host. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. Never did a mother love her son as you loved Jesus; and so never did a mother share in her son's agony so deeply as you shared the Passion. 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. Mary, My Mother, I have every reason to honor you under the title of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, because you have given me the Eucharistic Christ. . Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. Aided by God's wondrous graces you surrendered yourself entirely to God in the smallest details of your life. You were charged with dispensing the supernatural life to men because this was fitting. But all graces come through you. You were beautiful when you stood as the brave Queen of Martyrs beneath the cross of your dying Son; in the supper room beneath the fiery tongues of the Divine Spirit; beautiful, above all, in the glory in which you reign with Jesus. You were taken to Heaven by the power of God, accompanied and upheld by the angels, raised aloft by grace, not by nature. You are God's purest and holiest creature, the one chosen to conceive and bear the Son of God. Figures below show what proportion of half-day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to local and national averages. Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. 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. Everything inside and outside of me should reflect His divine perfections. Even your earthly sufferings were to deepen your sanctity. This feast day was approved by the Holy See in 1933 and is celebrated every October 25. How God rewarded your humble and deep faith! As a child runs to its mother in every need and finds comfort in her glance and kind word, I can turn to you for help when I need it, for you are truly my Mother, whose heart is overflowing with kindness and mercy. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. 3. I give you my will by an absolute confidence in you, a confidence founded on your power and your goodness. Fully acknowledging your unworthiness to be the Mother of Christ, you accepted the exalted privilege only in obedience to the divine will. We have the sublime dignity of being children of God by adoption; Jesus alone is His Son by nature. It affords Jesus the joy of rewarding you who, with Him, suffered so much for men. How shall I answer for the wasted days and years which God has given me to serve Him alone? Shed upon me more and more the living light of that faith which made you blessed. Hell is forced to bear the weight of your lasting hatred. The supernatural life is the life of Jesus in us through grace. This Body, given to us at Christmas and immolated on Good Friday, was flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone. The Gospel speaks of you as standing beneath the cross. You are certainly the refuge of sinners, but you wish what your Son wishes. 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. In your humility, you looked upon yourself as His lowly handmaid. The beloved disciple told you what he had seen in the houses of Annas and Caiphas: how Jesus had been accused as a blasphemer for stating that He was the Son of God. 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. But no child ever belonged to its mother as Jesus belonged to you. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. They are God's servants, but you are His Mother. May my faith influence my conduct. The suffering of Jesus in His dereliction was the most difficult test of your faith. What a difference between the woeful prediction of Simeon and the joyous tidings of the archangel Gabriel announcing the greatness of the Redeemer of mankind! The Catholic Church the Gospels, the sacraments, the Mother of Divine Grace as my advocatethese are among the special blessings with which I am favored. Help me to be generous with God by turning to good account the graces that He ever bestows on me, and by rising promptly when I fall, with renewed confidence in His mercy. Mary, Mother of God, by your offering you sacrificed your own heart. As Co-Redemptrix, you must finish your work by applying the grace of redemption to each individual soul, for only then the redemption is achieved. 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. . Mary, My Mother, your birth was awaited as the near sign of the deliverance of the human race. It was fitting that the God of all purity should spring from the greatest purity. Hence, it is through you that we must go to Christ, almost in the same way as through Christ we approach our Heavenly Father. Interestingly, in 1482, the feast was officially placed in the Roman Missal under the title of "Our Lady of Compassion," highlighting the great love our Blessed Mother displayed in suffering with her Son. . For from the moment when Jesus told you to see Him, in John, you saw Jesus in all Christians. Help me to cling tightly to Jesus and to you. Your life, like that of your Divine Son, was a daily crucifixion and martyrdom, but on Good Friday that crucifixion reached its climax. 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). Make me a fervent apostle of the Eucharist. To you I entrust my soul for which Jesus died and I beg you to help me to save it. Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. Copyright 2023 Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. Irondale, Alabama. May the Rosary also be a means of obtaining all the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. Sanctifying grace likened you to God as it did no other pure creature. Here on earth kings and rulers lay at your feet their crowns, their very selves. 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. Mary is the mother of mankind - she watches . The Nativity and the Crucifixion were as one action. Mary, My Mother, How perfectly you have followed the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and acted on divine wisdom! Yet these three have become for us a principle of life. Mary, My Mother, you are mother in a higher degree because of the kind of life which you have imparted to me. Have pity on the sinners of the world. 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. Everyday, somewhere in the world, local, regional or universal feast of Our Lady is celebrated. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. 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. How earnestly you invite me to come and partake of this Bread of Life. All those whose Queen you are have learnt of Jesus that they must call you Mother and ask your help. May my soul always find comfort in your holy name! 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. When you heard Jesus utter these words and saw Him bow His head and die, you died a spiritual death. 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. You did it for me - denvercatholic.org 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. 2. Since this is the mission of your life, to bring souls to God through Jesus, lead me to your loving Son. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. They apply these words of Scripture to you: "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. 2. St. Joan of Arc Feast Day May 30. Mary, My Mother, your Son Jesus came to enlighten the world with His teaching and example. Feast, Saturday before the before the last Sunday in August (Triduum, Wednesday last Sunday in August). 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. At your request He worked the first miracle of His public life. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. Mary, Mother of God, in your own lifetime you showed that you are truly our Mother of Perpetual Help. Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited. Happy Feast Day Our Lady of Perpetual Help Feast day: June 27 Patroness Note: This prayer was approved and enriched with an indulgence of five hundred days by Pope Pius X at all audience held on August 18, 1908, and was included in the official edition of approved indulgenced prayers (1950). You saw clearly the agony you would feel at the crucifixion. In so doing I simply imitate God who gave Himself and His Son to us through you. Mary, Mother of God, may the perfect gift of yourself to God through love in your presentation in the temple be an inspiration to me. You could not of yourself provide the protection and training the Child needed. Why celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows? - Feroz Fernandes By consenting to His birth, you made Him King. 1. You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. What merits did not your perfect immolation gain! 2. In His infancy Jesus depended upon your loving care, and in death when He was abandoned by all, even by His Father, He still had your heart.
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