You are all-merciful that you may obtain for me pardon and mercy. Thus you associated yourself yet more directly and intimately with our salvation. Even from the days of the Apostles you were honored under this mystical title. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. Help me to perform all my actions in youto be entirely dependent upon you, taking your point of view, doing all things as you did them for God's honor and glory. 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. After your example, I desire to be known to God and unknown to men, to possess God and to be forgotten by creatures. 11, 29). How many and how great then, were the graces you received in order to reach the eminent virtue that was yours when, on Calvary, you became the Queen of Martyrs. 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. I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. DEC. 12 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. May your title of Mother of Divine Providence ever give us confidence that you will never fail us, but will provide for all we need in this present life that we may attain eternal life. Let us thank the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit for giving us the best mother in the world, so beautiful, pure and spotless in body and soul, who loves each one of us with so great maternal concern and compassion. In the . You invite none to come to you but the lowly of spirit. You are the Mother of the Son of God. Satan is more humiliated at seeing himself under the heel of the lowliest of creatures than at feeling himself crushed by God's almighty arm. 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. 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. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. You want to give me help every time I need it. May the merits of my crucified Savior never be lost on my soul, but rather may they enable me to reach true holiness and the possession of God in His eternal kingdom. 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. Let not my sinfulness and human weakness stand in the way of my receiving the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. How can I ever understand the great love that bound your hearts together! My imitation of both Jesus and you depends upon my response to the amount of grace that God sees fit to give me. . Make me strong in the midst of the temptations and bitterness which so often trouble my soul. Apart from your cooperation no grace descends to earth. Teach me to prove my love for Jesus by visiting Him frequently in His tabernacle home, where He lives as the best Friend I have upon earth, ready to console and strengthen me in my trials, for His Sacred Heart invites me, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you lest.". This wisdom and prudence showed itself at a very early age, when you willed to devote yourself entirely to God and were presented by your saintly parents, at your own request, for the temple service. 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. 2. 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. Down through the ages numberless people have recovered health of body and of spirit through your intercession! In you, and of your substance, was this day formed His adorable Body. In heaven all your subjects are crowned by the King of kings, and they pay homage to you. You are Queen of the universe, not by force, but by the power of love. 2. In your six apparitions at Fatima you made repeated demands for penance and reparation. She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. You conceived Jesus as the Head of regenerated mankind, the Head of a mystical body whose members we are. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. You see me, smile on me, listen to me, stretch your arms out to me, because you hear my prayer and, like a mother, you are anxious to help your child. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion September 15th Feast Day Liturgical Color: White The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. As mentioned in previous posts, this is an ongoing display of our Holy Card Collection. 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! 1. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. 1. And now as Mother of God and Mother of men, and as Queen of Heaven and Earth, you serve as a bond between God and men. In his soul they saw no more than they see in each little soul as it leaves the baptismal font, grace having taken the place of original sin. Holy Cards will continue to be added as our collections align with Feast Days of the Saints in our collection. I realize that imitating you is the best way of imitating Jesus and of obtaining your all-powerful intercession. Mary, Mother of God, how great was the honor given to you at the Annunciation! This is my hope that you will be a Mother to me and obtain for me the grace I need to save my soul. I know that He wants you ever to be my Mother of Perpetual Help so that the graces He has merited for me may effect the salvation of my soul. Your slightest wish carries with it a powerful appeal. Unmindful of your dignity and greatness, you thought only of returning thanks to God, to whom you attributed all your greatness and privileges. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. 2. The Father crowned you by making you a sharer in His power, the Son by making you partaker of His wisdom; the Holy Spirit, by making you partaker of His love. 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. On the calendar, the feast day is after that of the Exaltation of the Cross. You are a Mediatrix in union with Christ from whom your mediation draws all its power. 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! 2. 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. Give my heart sentiments like His and your own so that, through frequent Holy Communion and prayer, I may become a worthy co-victim with Jesus, holy and pleasing to God, and so that all the actions, sufferings, tears and disappointments of my life may be thus consecrated to God as a sacrifice for His glory and the salvation of souls, especially my own. Everyday, somewhere in the world, local, regional or universal feast of Our Lady is celebrated. 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 recommend to you our hopes and our fears. You remained there working for God, meditating on His holy Law, praying and praising His divine Goodness. 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. No other has a like understanding of our miseries, or is in a position to render us on all occasions timely and powerful help. Mary, Mother of God, I believe what Holy Mother Church teaches about your Immaculate Conception: that from the first moment of your conception you possessed justice and holinessthat is sanctifying grace, even the fullness of grace, with the infused virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit, and with integrity of nature; yet you remained subject to death and other pains and miseries of life that your Son Himself willed to undergo. Mary, My Mother, I firmly believe that the saints and blessed in Heaven can aid us by interceding for us with God. Thus you became in some way the source of that grace which Jesus would pour forth over all mankind. This was the earliest promise of a Redeemer to come, and you were to be His immaculate Mother. Mary, My Mother, all the saints have prayed to you for help: the prophets, the evangelists, the apostles, the martyrs, the confessors, the heroic virgins and chaste widows. Your example teaches me that Jesus will work miracles for persevering prayer that springs from confidence and humility. Mary, Mother of God, as the Mother of Divine Providence, you provide for us in our varied needs through your prayers in the presence of God. Jesus gave you to me to be my Mother that you may enable me at my death to say as He did with a sense of humble gratitude to God for His graces: "It is finished""I have done the work God placed me upon this earth to do. Your extreme hatred of sin was the measure of your supreme love of virtue. Mary, My Mother, the day of your Assumption was the great day of your triumph. Mary, My Mother, you are Queen also because your are Co-Redemptrix. I have every reason to rejoice, for as the Mother of Jesus and my Mother you are my hope of salvation. Though you were the Mother of the Most High, you wanted to become the nurse of Elizabeth and the infant John. God reserves to Himself the dispensing of justice to all creatures. The Feast of Our Lady of Palestine was established in 1927 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, . Your eyes ever watch over us; your ears ever listen to our cries; your hands are ever extended over us to help us and impart heavenly gifts to us; above all, your Heart is full of tenderest care for us. You have given to the world the Savior whom the Apostles have proclaimed. The Consecration took place on Calvary where you shared in the offering of the bloody sacrifice of the New Testament. You were to see this Face unveiled, in all the beauty and grace of childhood as the face of your own child. Help me to imitate your zeal in assisting my neighbor in his needs. When Jesus said, "Woman, behold thy sonBehold thy Mother," He gave you to me to be my Mother for all Christians form one body with Christ, and Saint John represented them all beneath the cross. You bore unspeakable sufferings and offered the life of Him who was dearer to you than your own life. It commemorates the profound union of heart that existed between the Mother of the Redeemer and the Savior, through which she experienced many interior sorrows as a consequence of His Mission, but particularly during His Passion and Death. Prayer was the soul of your preparation, and the Apostles were inspired by your example. You have never turned away your eyes from souls in need. We beg you for a burning charity for God to imitate the works of Christ. Mary, My Mother, you and good St. Joseph were married to become the models of family life. Moreover, I am confident that you will obtain for me. What a divine impression Jesus left upon you, His Mother! A Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows on her feast day, September 15: 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 . 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. In so doing I simply imitate God who gave Himself and His Son to us through you. King Solomon described your beauty: "Thou art all fair my beloved, beautiful as the moon, brilliant as the sun.". ", Feast, November 21 (Novena, November 12-20). You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. You would not be completely happy in heaven if you did not know the interests of those souls redeemed at the cost of so much pain to Jesus and you. Having once given us Jesus Christ by you, God does not change His way of helping us. 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 love them still, in spite of their sins, and you follow them with your motherly gaze and your prayers. This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. 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. When you lived in this valley of tears, you were ever loving and merciful toward the afflicted. Like you, he was of the tribe of Juda and the family of David. I feel this threefold inclination to evil. Wherefore the Church applies to you the words Jesus spoke of that other Mary who sat at His sacred feet, drinking in the words of divine wisdom flowing from His blessed lips: "Mary has chosen the best part, and it will not be taken away from her" (Luke 10, 42). Teach me to love Him with some of the love that glowed in your own heart so that my heart may always be His pleasing temple. We encourage you to bring a flower to offer Our Blessed Mary. After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. "And, therefore, the Holy One to be born shall be called the Son of God." Mary, Mother of God, humility is the virtue you especially practised from childhood. But, because you surpass all other creatures in holiness and in the closeness of your union with Jesus and. I am the vine, you are the branches" (John 15, 4). But all heaven rejoiced at your birth, because you were destined one day to bring the Savior into the world; you were to become God's Mother and the Queen of heaven and earth. They observed the Law of God most diligently and spent their days in prayer and in works of mercy. Help me to strive to imitate your wonderful charity by aiding those who are in need, by sympathizing with those who are afflicted, by opening my heart and applying my hands to relieve every form of distress. 2. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. All your privileges increased your power to love God. Mary, My Mother, may the faithful recitation of my Rosary be a sign of my gratitude to Jesus and to you for all you have done for me in bringing about my Redemption. 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. 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. Fulfill your apostolic mission of winning the world for Christ. The seven sorrows are: The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:25-35) 3. Mary, Mother of God, how wonderful was your own interior life as you carried the Son of God in your womb and awaited His coming! You are certainly the refuge of sinners, but you wish what your Son wishes. 2. At every moment you interest yourself in our behalf in heaven, and obtain for us by your prayers all the graces we need to reach salvation. You have merited by a merit of fitness all that Jesus has merited by a merit of justice. For the sake of Jesus be mindful of me as you stand near Him who granted you the fullness of grace. Though you felt joy in the birth of your first-born Son, you brought us forth in sorrow at the death of that same Son. We celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows on September 15th. At the marriage feast of Cana He worked His first miracle because you asked Him for this favor. This miraculous defeat broke the back . Appeared to St. Jerome Emiliani, 1530 5. Your Child, becoming the King of Martyrs, would make you their Queen. To you I entrust my soul for which Jesus died and I beg you to help me to save it. Foundation of the Abbey of Dunes, Flanders, in honor of the Blessed Virgin (1128) 3. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. Three swords brought anguish to you while Jesus was yet a young child, four swords pierced your soul in His Holy Passion. Eve was unbelieving and disobedient; you were believing and obedient. Through your powerful intercession promote the propagation of the faith. Through your all powerful prayers, obtain for me not only God's forgiveness, but also the grace to amend my life and to save my soul. Indeed, I will suffer with joy if I realize that Christ is suffering with me and in me and that He sends me the cross only to trace His image in my soul by uniting me closely with Himself. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. I look to you, Mother of Mercy. Give me charity like yours, which recognized in every human being a brother or sister in Jesus Christ, to be treated with respect and tenderness and to be aided according to the measure of my power. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. 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. Teach me to answer such love with childlike confidence. Since you had your place beside Jesus when there was question of ransoming us and meriting for us all the graces necessary for our salvation, you must in like manner have your place beside Him now, when there is question of securing for us by your prayers in heaven the graces prepared for us in view of the merits of Christ. Mary, My Mother, you were laying the foundation of that hidden life in which by the practice of the highest virtues, you were to reach that sublime degree of holiness to which you were predestined as Mother of the Son of God and Mother of all the souls for whom He was to die. I plead for these sinners and I beg you to help them to break their chains, to shake off their human respect, to hope in the mercy of your Son. 2. You brought Him into the world that He might be King, according to the words of the archangel: "And of His kingdom there shall be no end." The Son takes pleasure in it as the Heart of His Mother, the source from which He drew the blood that ransomed us. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. 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! In our Franciscan tradition we return time and time again to the San Damiano cross - the Byzantine cross that draws its inspiration from John's . But in you they saw a soul whose sanctity surpassed that of angels and of men, a soul which would glorify God more perfectly than any other creature ever had glorified Him, or ever would glorify Him. 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. Since Jesus has given you charge of the dispensing of His graces, I know that you are most eager to use this power to help me. He willed that (1) you should be present at each stage of His mortal careerrenewing, continuing, completing what you had done at the Incarnation. I give you my whole being by copying as far as possible all your virtues by performing each of my actions through you, with you and in you This is the most pleasing homage I can render you. He also willed that (2) everywhere the offering of Himself should be presented to the Father through your hands. In order to live, not to myself, but to God, I must bear the cross in union with Jesus. 3. Mary, My Mother, give me a rich share in the graces merited for me by your Son. Mary, My Mother, you were not obliged by the Law of Moses to present and ransom your firstborn Son. The more you beheld yourself enriched, the more humble did you become, remembering that all came to you from the infinite generosity of your Maker. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are the new Eve. 3. Feast, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28) (Triduum, Wednesday nearest the feast of St. You are not only the Mother of the guilty but also Mother of Jesus, their Judge. If I put my trust in you, I shall be saved. 3. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. We know that you are ever ready to be our help in trouble, our solace in affliction, our hope in despair. Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your sinlessness by keeping my soul free from every willful sin by the faithful observance of God's commandments. 1. 1. Mary, My Mother, you were never without grace. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. Mary, Mother of God, you are also the Mother of men. 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. 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. Your dignity as Mother of God is so lofty that nothing created can rank above it. Balaam referred to you as a star: "The star which shall arise from Jacob." When you learned from the angel that your cousin Elizabeth was with child and needed your help, you set out to care for her. Decorate your table with colorful flowers . Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. But I can never be your true child if I am not humble. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your dear parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne, rejoiced at your birth. The Holy Spirit, who in virtue of your Son's merits lived in you, made you a living image of Jesus. God is the source of every good and the absolute Master of all graces. Sanctify them first, so that they may then more effectively sanctify others. Immaculate Virgin, you are that human being. There are some who are far from their Father's house, who even refuse to turn to you. You could not accompany the Apostles while they fulfilled the duties of their ministry, but in silence and solitude, by the power of your prayers and the fervor of your charity, you were the master-missionary of them all. Though they had both vowed to consecrate their first-born child to the service of the Lord, they remained childless, a condition considered a disgrace among the Jews and a mark of heavenly disfavor. You so loved the world as to give your only Son for our redemption. But as Joseph had been united to you by the ties of marriage, he approached nearer than anyone else to your eminent dignity. The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. Jesus proclaimed your motherhood from the cross by entrusting you to John and John to you when He said, "Woman behold thy sonSon, behold thy Mother.". I see you offering Him to the heavenly Father in the temple for our salvation. After the Ascension you found the past under another form; the consecrated Bread the Apostle John placed on your lips was Jesus, who was formed from your own flesh and with whom your body was again united. How unimportant are the infirmities of the body compared to the infirmities of the soul! OUR LADY OF SORROWS Feast day- September 15, 2022. Your holiness was not the result of the privilege of your Immaculate Conception and sanctifying grace alone, but it followed from your gift of yourself to God and your constant cooperation with His graces. When I have pain, you are ready to comfort and strengthen me. After Almighty God and the Sacred Humanity of Jesus, there is no being so great as you. How many afflicted hearts are consoled in you! He became Sovereign Master of the universe and Supreme Judge of the living and the dead. 3. 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. 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. You called yourself the servant of Him who for thirty years would be subject to you. Shed upon me more and more the living light of that faith which made you blessed. How earnestly you wish God's grace for us! You are the most beautiful of creatures, the one in whom there is no spot, God's masterpiece. 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. Through your hands I offer myself with Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. To the Church suffering you bring consolation, relief, deliverance, to the Church militant you offer aid, confidence, victory. Though you did not know the meaning of the archangel's inspired words, you serenely submitted to the will of God. I consecrate to you my very being and my whole life: all that I have, all that I love, all that I am. At your prayer Jesus changed the water into wine in Cana. If you showed such compassion for the sufferings of others while on earth, and were so ready to relieve them, how much greater must your compassion be now that you are in heaven and understand so much better the difficulties your children meet with and the sufferings that afflict them? Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your holiness to some degree. 3. Alone of all the children of Adam, you were gifted with the fullness of sanctifying grace which made you the object of a very special love on the part of God. 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. Parting with your dying Son was the height of your sorrow. Hence with Holy Church I repeat, "You are all fair, Mary, and the stain of original sin is not in you. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. He took to Himself our human flesh and became man in order that He might give Himself up for us to the death of the cross. Today we celebrate our Lady of Sorrows. Protect me from the snares of the world, the flesh and the devil. Previous; Play Quiz; Lent Day 6 - The Wedding at Cana. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. And when Jesus instituted this Holy Sacrament, He surely thought especially of you. He was with you in a manner more intimate, more perfect, and more divine than He ever was or will be with any other creature. God inflamed no other heart, after that of the Heart of His Son, with His love so much as yours.

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