Thus you will be for me not only the Health of the Sick but also the Gate of Heaven. You yourself are full of grace, and from the Holy Spirit, your Divine Spouse, you have received in overflowing measure His boundless love for all mankind. Previous; Play Quiz; Lent Day 6 - The Wedding at Cana. I am happy at the thought that you, a human creature, have escaped completely from the clutches of Satan, that born of a race universally tainted, you are more pure and more brilliant than the most sublime of the angels; and that you are my Mother. He also willed that (2) everywhere the offering of Himself should be presented to the Father through your hands. 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. The divine maternity explains everything in you; without this maternity nothing in you can be explained. Through your hands I offer myself with Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Thus in consenting to the Incarnation, you cooperated directly in the redemption of the world, for the Incarnation was the first step in the work of our salvation. It affords Jesus the joy of rewarding you who, with Him, suffered so much for men. 3. 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. And so it is even now in heaven. Mary, My Mother, I firmly believe that the saints and blessed in Heaven can aid us by interceding for us with God. Behold I come to you to show you the wounds sin has inflicted on me. When Jesus said to John, "Behold thy Mother," He wanted John to respect and to love you as his Mother. 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). Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin who was promised as the Mother of the Savior. The feast was placed in the Roman Missal under the title of Our Lady of Compassion in 1482, highlighting the love of Blessed Mother in suffering with her Son, Jesus. He preserved you from original sin and the sway of the devil; He filled you with grace. Mary, Mother of God, you are Mother of Grace, because you are begotten of you to the life of grace, and are indebted to you after Jesus, for our supernatural life. 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. I implore the help of your protection and choose you as my advocate. After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. 2. Mary, Mother of God, you are Our Lady of Good Counsel because of the divine wisdom and prudence which you received from the Holy Spirit. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. Obtain for me the grace to love God with my whole heartso that all the love my heart is capable of may be consecrated to Him, and all other affection subordinated to the love I owe God. Whatever of sanctity, of dignity, of merit, of grace and of glory, that we can imagine, all is in you. 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. 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! Mary, My Mother, your whole life was like a Mass. Mary, Mother of God, your charity is strikingly shown forth in the Visitation. God had raised you to the highest dignity in His power in choosing you to be the Mother of His Son. Wednesday, devoted to our Lady, is a day of reflection and spiritual orientation; Friday emphasizes conversion and penance; Saturday, a preview of Easter, marked the renewal of our baptismal covenant. Mater Dolorosa. It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! Amen. I rejoice with you in the happiness which filled your heart because of such love. All these souls were given to you by Jesus on the crossthey are your children. Jesus could give meafter the gift of Himselfnothing more precious than you. The moment of your exaltation, the highest to which God could raise a creature, finds you sunk in the abyss of your own nothingness. I consecrate myself entirely to your Immaculate Heart. This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. 3. You suffered in your soul what Jesus suffered in His body, and in union with Him you offered yourself as a victim for our sins. If you receive me under your care, I shall fear nothing because devotion to you is an unfailing sign of salvation. Our Lady of Guadalupe, mystical rose, make intercession for holy Church, protect the Sovereign Pontiff, help all those who invoke thee in their necessities, and since thou art the ever Virgin Mary and Mother of the true God, obtain for us from thy most holy Son the grace of keeping our faith, sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life, burning charity and the precious gift of final perseverance. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. In you He reposed for nine months, with His whole divinity and humanity. 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. Jesus rewarded your confidence and resignation by working His first miracle at your request. I earnestly wish to make atonement for all of them. We recommend to you our hopes and our fears. Above all, I beg of you to secure for me in the our of death the grace of final perseverance: that triumphant grace which crowns the measure of God's rifts here below and which is followed by the possession of God in heaven. 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. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you that you are so privileged, so exalted as to become the worthy Mother of God. Jesus exhausted His love for man also. Mary, My Mother, there is no sin in you; in you there is only God's graceHis light, His splendor, His love, His unspeakable delight. Jesus is the new Adam and you are the new Eve. How happy Jesus must have been to receive the homage that you paid Him! Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. You are certainly the refuge of sinners, but you wish what your Son wishes. May looking upon your Immaculate Heart inspire confidence in me which will make me more eager to grow in holiness. Mary, Mother of God, help me to understand as clearly as God wishes to let me do so, the value of suffering and sickness. How much more precious you were than any chalice of richest gold. During His lifetime Jesus cured sickness and disease and even raised the dead to life, because people asked Him to do so in prayer. 1. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." 2. All the saints suffered during their lifetime, but you are the Queen of them all as Queen of Martyrs. From Anne you heard the touching story of the chosen people. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. 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. He is for us the source of all grace, the cause of our supernatural life. Mary, Mother of God, already in your childhood you dedicated yourself to the love and service of God. God has willed that by your intercession we should obtain the graces Jesus has merited for us. Therefore, no one could ever love me more, after Christ, than you do. Your sorrow would be as deep as the sea. Feast, Saturday after the Feast of the Ascension (Triduum, Wednesday before the Feast of the Ascension). IMPRIMI POTEST Raymond Weisenberger, Provincial, Girard, Pa. NIHIL OBSTAT A. H. Wiersbinski, LL.D. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. You are ever imploring favors for the just, as well as for sinners. 2. Protect, guard, and keep them in holy fear, in peace, and in harmony of Christian charity. You are so tender and compassionate, so watchful to relieve the needy, that it would seem you had no other desire, no other concern except this. Petition God that their hope may never fail amid the troubles and the cares of this life. At the sound of your voice Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and began to prophesy: "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb." Being the new Eve who was to be the Mother of the new Adam you were, by the eternal decree of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. 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. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. Mercy proceeds from you as from an abundant, never-failing source. May He who makes little ones to speak divine wisdom, direct my tongue and pour out upon my soul the grace I need ever to follow His and your example in my state of life. If the sinner dies in his sins you cannot desire to save him, because Jesus will not save him. You are all-merciful that you may obtain for me pardon and mercy. His mother named him after the great St. Francis of Assisi. Your Immaculate Conception, purchased by the Precious Blood of the Son of God Himself and freely bestowed upon you as the highest gift of God, is the most wonderful work of sanctification that the world has ever seen. When His side was opened with a lance, a sword of anguish also pierced your Heart. When I address the Almighty, I am frequently fearful because of my sinfulness in the presence of His infinite majesty and holiness. 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. I want to turn to you in all my pressing needs and difficulties as to a most sure refuge, imploring the help of your protection, choosing you as my advocate, whole-heartedly entrusting my cause to you who are the Consoler of the Afflicted. 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. During this long period of concealment in your womb, you perfected His bodily faculties for our benefit. After the Sacred Heart of Jesus, never was there a heart more pure and more holy. Mary, Mother of God, your name means "full of light" and "light-giving." 1. Forming with your Divine Son one spiritual body, we experience the rage of Satan until the end of time. May I weigh well at what price you became the Mother of the human race, so that I may remember how much you love me and how eager you are to help me and all Christians. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that it is a divinely revealed dogma that you, Immaculate Mother of God, having completed the course of your earthly life, were assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. He made you immaculate in view of the fact that Jesus Christ, the God-man, was to take His Flesh and Blood from you. Immaculate Virgin, you are that human being. Once more He renewed His offering at the Presentation in the Temple. May the Rosary also be a means of obtaining all the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. Your power and motherly care not only embrace spiritual miseries but also extend to the ills of the body. Little by little the links between your body and soul were dissolved by the resistless force of love. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day. COLUMN: Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: World Day of the Sick--2/7/2021 You called yourself the servant of Him who for thirty years would be subject to you. 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. April 16 - 23,2023. You are indeed our Mother, and a mother can never forget her children. Teach me to desire ardently all that is pleasing to God, to seek after it prudently, to accept it truthfully and to do it perfectly, for the praise and glory of God. 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. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27 Everything which Jesus may claim in justice is yours by friendship's title. Mary, Mother of God, you are our Mediatrix. The climax of that sorrow came when the innocent Victim for the sins of mankind was given, dead, into your arms. Mary, My Mother, your birth was awaited as the near sign of the deliverance of the human race. All those whose Queen you are have learnt of Jesus that they must call you Mother and ask your help. In this time of crisis there is need that we hasten to you for aid, strength and direction. Your prayers are those of a Mother and, therefore, have a certain maternal authority with Jesus Christ so that you obtain the grace of pardon even for those who, though guilty of grievous crimes, commend themselves to you. How often am I confused in the problems of life. Mary, Mother of God, I admire Your obedience and humility in submitting to the law of purification by presenting yourself in the temple like every other Jewish Mother, forty days after the birth of Jesus.
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