Aid me through your influence with your Divine Son, to be a true child of yours and to grow daily into your likeness. 3. You were not bound by the Law, because you were a virgin as well as a mother. Mary, My Mother, I beg you for this humility which is so necessary for me that without it I cannot enter God's kingdom, as Jesus reminded His disciples, "Unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. Moreover, I am confident that you will obtain for me. Mary, My Mother, as Dispenser of all graces, you make the world share in the infinite merits of the redemption. King Solomon described your beauty: "Thou art all fair my beloved, beautiful as the moon, brilliant as the sun.". Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart. As you knelt before the Sacred Species, you truly influenced the First Christians to be ardent lovers of your loving Son in the Blessed Sacrament.
Concheros dance in devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe You will be inspired by the overflow of love for Our Lady. Though you were the Mother of the Most High, you wanted to become the nurse of Elizabeth and the infant John.
America Needs Fatima He has reconciled us to God. I breathe the name of one who is virgin and mother, Mother of God and Mother of men, my Mother. You were the first to offer to the Eternal Father His Divine Son as the Victim for the world's Redemption. Jesus did this in union with you. May the Rosary also be a means of obtaining all the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. The Son takes pleasure in it as the Heart of His Mother, the source from which He drew the blood that ransomed us. By conforming themselves to the divine model of your Family, may they attain to eternal happiness. Though you did not pay even the smallest part of our debt, you cooperated in His work by the entire union of your will with His. God had exalted you above all creatures. 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. Your holiness was due to this Spirit of Love, to Whose guidance you abandoned yourself. Joseph was chosen by God the Father to take His own place, in regard to His Divine Son, during the early years of that Son's life on earth. But Gabriel comforted you, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God." The Woman is a striking image of you, the Immaculate Conception. And now in Heaven, when the fruits of the Redemption are applied to our souls, and the graces won for us by the Passion of Jesus are distributed to the redeemed, being united to Him by a close and unbreakable bond, you still continue your part as Mediatrix in the work of our salvation, by offering to the Father the merits of Christ, uniting meanwhile your prayers, and, in a secondary sense, your merits, to the intercession of your Divine Son. While you bore the Author of all things in your womb, and your heart was beating quickly with love, adoration and longing, still your face told nothing of this, and no one knew that such marvellous things were taking place in you. Parting with your dying Son was the height of your sorrow. You are also called the temple of the Holy Spirit because, in virtue of your Immaculate Conception and your fullness of grace, He dwells within you in a most singular manner. The Holy Spirit gave you the heart of a bride, all burning with a love pure and ardent. As the Mother of the Incarnate Son you were so preserved from inheriting original sin that never for a moment was as much as a shadow cast by sin upon your spotless soul. I implore the help of your protection and choose you as my advocate. Amen. You show your compassion toward all so that there is no one in this world who does not, if he seeks it, share in the kindness and mercy of your motherly Heart. Mary, My Mother, more courageous than the martyrs, you stood at the foot of the cross. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Help of Christians because you are the Mother of the Mystical Body of Christ. Then Satan could boast that he had overcome Jesus in you, His Mother. May this remembrance fill me with love and gratitude to you, and be the reason for my trust in your powerful protection and in your prayers in Heaven, where you plead with your Divine Son for the salvation of us all. The husband whom God has destined for you was a man of faith of character, of purity, "a just man." From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. God would work a miracle so that you might remain a virgin, and yet become the Mother of God. 1. Thus was fulfilled the prophesy that Christ would be born of the family of David. To all of us your Immaculate Heart after that of Jesus is most loving and most merciful. You brought me forth spiritually to a new life of grace. 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. If Jesus is Our Lord, so you are Our Lady. You are a human creature, but free from even the slightest sin or guilt, and absolutely pure by reason of the singular excellence of your nature. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. When the hands and feet of Jesus were pierced with nails, the sound of each blow of the hammer inflicted a wound in your Heart. 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. He made you immaculate in view of the fact that Jesus Christ, the God-man, was to take His Flesh and Blood from you. When the Holy Spirit descended, you received the richest outpouring of His graces. It was so when you gave your consent to the divine plan of the Redemption. Holy Cards will continue to be added as our collections align with Feast Days of the Saints in our collection. He found joy in God, His Heavenly Father, and in the Holy Spirit, joy in all the wonderful perfections of God. The virtue of holy prudence guides man in his choice of purposes and in the best means to attain them. How great must have been that longing! The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in parishes and neighborhoods throughout the country with Masses and dancing and celebration, . We beg you for a burning charity for God to imitate the works of Christ. Never were you guilty of the least fault; never did you offer the least resistance to grace. Then, through your compassion be pleased to send down to us, your poor servants, a rich abundance of your graces and blessing. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," says the psalmist (110, 10). O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of mercy, pray for me that I may be preserved this night all evil, whether of body or soul. This is my sure way of reaching heaven and my God. I admire the holiness of their lives and the nobility of their family. 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. How often I do not know where to turn. 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. Seeing your own nothingness as compared with the infinite majesty of God, who chose you for His Mother, you acknowledged how unworthy you were of so great honor, but you did not oppose His will in the least thing. Mary, Mother of God, I firmly believe in the doctrine of Holy Mother Church concerning your Immaculate Conception, namely, that you were, in the first instant of your conception, by the singular grace and privilege of God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. You said Yes so that we might live. 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). Because I am arrogant, it makes me rebel against God's law, the law forbidding me that abuse of liberty which insults Him. When I address the Almighty, I am frequently fearful because of my sinfulness in the presence of His infinite majesty and holiness. The Apostles, who had abandoned their Master informed you of your Son's betrayal by Judas and of His brutal capture after His agony. But with the same humility with which you had conceived Him, you consented to the supreme loss of your God. There is no more intimate bodily union than that of mother and child, for they are one life, one heart-beat sustaining the life of both. After your Divine Son, you are God's most precious gift to man. Your heart and His burned with one flame of love to the glory of the Father there at the altar. Though the designs of God were unknown to you, you, nevertheless, detached your heart from the world in order to give all your love to God.
Our Lady of Lourdes - Feast Day - All Saints Museum Mary, My Mother, what joy for you never to have been, even for a single instant, in the state of enmity toward God! For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. But all graces come through you. 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. Those dangers are to be found in the principles and activities of Communism, the present day Anti-Christ, which tries to penetrate every walk of life, every class of society. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity places you in a very wonderful relationship with the three divine Persons. DEC. 12 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE. You are all-merciful that you may obtain for me pardon and mercy. Our Lady of Treves, Italy (746). Mary, Mother of God, the offering of Jesus was presented by your virginal hands. He could not make you divine by nature, but He has made you inseparable from Jesus in the salvation of souls through the grace which He has so abundantly poured out upon you because of the Divine Motherhood. What was true of the effusion of the Holy Spirit on that day, is equally true of every outpouring of grace: God gives nothing to earth without causing the gift to pass through your hands. At your prayer Jesus changed the water into wine in Cana. Your name means Sea of Bitterness. You love us as a mother loves her children. Confidence fills my soul, for you were raised to this glory not for your own advantage only, but for that of your children also, in order to make us feel the effects of your powerful protection and intercession. 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. Grant that following your good counsel, I may avoid sin, practise virtue, save my soul and attain eternal life. You are our Mother, because you have begotten us to the life of grace. 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. 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. Unmindful of your dignity and greatness, you thought only of returning thanks to God, to whom you attributed all your greatness and privileges. 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. 2. Mary, My Mother, as Mother of Divine Providence, remember your children in need of God's mercy and help. Your Heart is truly a mirror of all the virtues, a vivid image and a faithful copy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; hence you are called the "Mirror of Justice.". When I say "Hail, Mary!" Crowds reach the entry gate to the basilica grounds for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Mary, Blessed Virgin, full of grace, Queen of all Saints, how consoling it is for me to venerate you under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! 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. I look to you, Mother of Mercy. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 12:00am. 2. I share in this joy. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. Little by little the links between your body and soul were dissolved by the resistless force of love. But much as your compassionate heart sympathizes with man's sufferings from bodily sickness, you certainly show greater care to relieve the spiritual sickness and weaknesses under which we labor. 3. I am filled with miseries both spiritual and temporal.
Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary | MaryPages 3. The Son, the Eternal Wisdom of God, in choosing you for His Mother, bestowed on you a certain fullness of grace, so that as you gave Christ His human nature, Christ, in a certain sense, raised you as close to God as a mere creature can come. How many afflicted hearts are consoled in you! 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. As you were the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus in all the virtues, you were the first and most perfect disciple also in humility. In Bethlehem you first adored Him in His visible presence as He lay in all His helplessness before your joyful eyes. Mary, My Mother, give me a rich share in the graces merited for me by your Son. 3. 1.
Our Lady of Guadalupe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12th is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. How God rewarded your humble and deep faith! Finally, they remind me of the everlasting glory of all the saints in Heaven united with your own glory and that of your Son. Your Heart, Blessed Mother, is always conformable to Our Lord's will. Mary, Mother of God, you are our spiritual Mother. You humbled yourself so deeply because you knew that of and by yourself you were nothing and had nothing. Mary, My Mother, you were to complete the offering of your Son, which you had begun on the day of His presentation in the temple. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. According to God's eternal standards, the sanctity proclaimed by Gabriel when he called you "full of grace," was but the beginning of your wonderful growth in holiness. The Consecration took place on Calvary where you shared in the offering of the bloody sacrifice of the New Testament. Feast, January 23 (Triduum, January 20-22). I am grateful to your divine Son for this priceless gift of God, for by His Passion and death He not only reinstated us in the friendship of His heavenly Father, but also purchased for us all the graces we stand in need of to attain eternal life. Let me fear such sickness of soul as avarice, lust, luxury, ambition, hatred, angerbecause, unless these are cured, they may bring about the eternal death of my soul. If unfortunately I should lose this life by sin, you can bring me back to supernatural 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. Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. 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. From your own flesh and blood you formed the body of your Son. Inflame me with that heavenly love with which you loved your dear Son, Jesus Christ . 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. Obtain for me from Jesus the heavenly gifts of humility, chastity and meekness, which were the fairest adornments of your immaculate soul. Before you were crowned Queen of Heaven you became the Mother of Sorrows. Decorate your table with colorful flowers . Pray for us Christians who sigh to you in this vale of tears so that we may be comforted, enlightened, strengthened, guided, and finally saved! You desire more to do good to me than I can desire to receive favors from you, for your Heart is all love and mercy. As the dawn precedes and announces the coming of the sun, makes the darkness of the night disappear, consoles the sick and rejoices all nature, so you went before and announced Jesus, "The Sun of Justice," who made the darkness of the world disappear by the light of His Gospel, consoled and cured the sick in soul and body and brought an abundance of graces and blessings to the whole world. With the Father you, too, can say: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.". You are the Mother of the Uncreated Wisdom, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And yet, in the whole work of the redemption, your Son wanted to associate you with Himself. the seven dolors devotion approved by pope pius vii in 1815 view banner image of our lady of sorrows without the frame the feast day of the seven dolors is traditionally either the friday of passion week, which is the friday before good friday, or more generally on september 15, the official date for the feast. When you lived in this valley of tears, you were ever loving and merciful toward the afflicted. 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 indeed two of one heart and one soul. 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. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. How well your name gives expression to your position and your mission in lifeyour divine Motherhood In virtue of this privilege, you reflect as a spotless mirror the eternal Light of the Word, which is first poured into you and illuminates you. Mary, Mother of God, I turn to you in all my pressing needs and difficulties as to a most sure refuge. His mother named him after the great St. Francis of Assisi. The divine maternity itself, more than any particular privilege, is a mark of God's unequalled love for you. At the Crib, you were the first ostensorium of your Son, showing Him to the shepherds, to the Magi and to the world. December 9 marks the feast day of Saint Juan Diego and December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. You so loved the world as to give your only Son for our redemption. This marked the beginning of your life of suffering together with Jesus. He renders it possible to give greater expression to His own love and mercy through your Heart. You could also hold your own celebration of Our Lady by inviting friends and family to your home for a traditional Mexican meal. Since this is the mission of your life, to bring souls to God through Jesus, lead me to your loving Son. By consenting to give natural life to Jesus, you consented to give us supernatural life. Mary, Mother of God, you are our Mediatrix. And so it is even now in heaven. 11, 29). Censor, IMPRIMATUR John Mark Gannon, D.D., Archbishop, Bishop of Erie. 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. The Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. You were born into the world in the humble city of Nazareth. Feast, September 15 (Novena, September 6-14) (See the Feast of Seven Sorrows, Friday of Passion Week), Feast, September 24 (Triduum, September 21-23). Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows Lawain McNeil Sep 15, 2022 Lady of Sorrows from a triptych by the Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece, Alsace, c. 1455. The seven sorrows are: The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:25-35) Through you I hope to reach the heavenly Kingdom. Although He might have wrought our salvation alone, without inviting you to share in His work, He did not choose to do so. 1. He promised that my prayers would be heard when He said, "Ask, and it shall be given you" (Matt. There are some who are far from their Father's house, who even refuse to turn to you. You are our Mediatrix with our Mediator. Bishop Columns. Mary, Mother of God, tradition tells us that when you were three years of age, your parents, Joachim and Anne, took you to the Temple in Jerusalem to fulfill their vow. He saw sin and its terrible effects in God's kingdom and in souls; He saw the sufferings of His Church and His own and your sufferings. Mary, Mother of God, at the very beginning of your existence, you received grace exceeding in greatness that of all the saints together, because you were destined to be the Mother of the Redeemer and the mediatrix of the world. Make me a fervent apostle of the Eucharist. He also found joy in His Divine Sonship and glorious human nature, joy in His intellect, with its immeasurable knowledge and the contemplation of God; joy in His will, with its freedom, sinlessness, holiness and unbounded power joy in His destiny as our Redeemer; joy in the future kingdom of His Church, which was to arise from His life and death. You beheld Him suspended by iron nails.
Recipes for September ~ Month Dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows - Blogger As the body of your Divine Son was preserved from the corruption of the grave, so you, from whom He took flesh, were also free from the power of earthly decay. In God there are no disappointments, no false promises. But how careless I am about my spiritual health! I cannot even imagine the heavenly beauty that adorned your innocent soul as you were being prepared by the Eternal Father to be the Mother of His Divine Son and the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. You possessed a perfect faith, a firm hope, a burning charity, a deep humility, a purity greater than that of the angels. But, if it is true that in the task of redemption you cooperated with Him in everything, in His joys and sorrows, in His winning our salvation then it is also true that you do the same in the dispensing of all the graces, material and spiritual, necessary for our salvation. It marks seven particularly sorrowful events in Mary's life, focussing on her experience of them - whereas on the actual days, the focus is on Jesus experience. Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son. Mary, Mother of God, already in your childhood you dedicated yourself to the love and service of God. Your fear arose entirely from your humility, which was disturbed at the sound of praises so far exceeding your own lowly estimate of yourself. Apart from your cooperation no grace descends to earth. As we have received through you the Universal Source of Grace Jesus your Son, so we still continue to receive, by your intercession, the various actual graces suited to our state and calling in Christ. But you are the Mother of the living, for by your fidelity to your Maker you deserved to give to mankind a Redeemer who by His death has destroyed the reign of death and has thrown open to us the gates of everlasting life.