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. 1. Copyright 2023 Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. Irondale, Alabama. From Him there flowed heavenwards an unceasing stream of glory, the waves of His grace ever poured over the earth. Even in the Son of God I sometimes fear the Divine Majesty because although He became Man, He did not cease to be God. How I long to repeat It unceasingly so as to spread its fame, to carry that fame to every shore, to imprint it on every mind. August 9: OUR LADY OF THE BURNING CLOUD (ATOM BOMB) On Thursday, August 9, 1945, a blinding flash split the sky above Nagasaki. Filled with motherly compassion, you appealed to Jesus in behalf of your friends. 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. 2. Make me a fervent apostle of the Eucharist. After the triumph of your Divine Son on the day of His Ascension, there never was, and there never will be, a triumph like that which you enjoyed on this day. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Queen of the Apostles because you were the source of their inspiration and zeal. 1. Thanks to you, the grace and the sanctifying gifts of the Holy Spirit are scattered abroad over the Church and its members. He wished to adapt Himself to our nature by giving us life and aid through the heart of a mother, having placed in your heart some of His own love for mankind to make you the spiritual Mother of the redeemed. But this prophecy did not disturb your peace of mind because your will was one with the will of God. Unlike martyrs who endured physical torments, Mary suffered torment in her soul. When He had finished the work of our Redemption by His labors, suffering and death, the Eternal Word, clothed in our nature, entered into His glory and was seated on the right hand of the Eternal Father. You saw His virginal flesh torn open again when the soldiers pitilessly stripped Him of His garments. And so it is even now in heaven. But you help Christians also by your prayers. Mary, Mother of God, I thank you for being my companion in suffering. 1. 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. Your holiness was due to this Spirit of Love, to Whose guidance you abandoned yourself. 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). 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, the saints have taught me that the best veneration of you is always imitation. ." And I am sure there is nothing you want more than that, to see me perfectly dedicated to God even as you are. 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. This Feast day is kept by various religious orders in the Church. Your soul was most beautiful, lovable and immaculate, rich in graces and virtues. 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, 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. 3. Help me to receive Holy Communion frequently, at least each week, if not daily. Mary, My Mother, help me to take your requests at Fatima to heart. God would work a miracle so that you might remain a virgin, and yet become the Mother of God. Because I am arrogant, it makes me rebel against God's law, the law forbidding me that abuse of liberty which insults Him. 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. Hell is forced to bear the weight of your lasting hatred. The reredos is in gold relief, being copied from work in the chapel of the Duchess of Newcastle. Through Joseph your descent from David would be known. He was pleased to help others for your sake. But by the greater light you possessed for recognizing the infinite greatness and goodness of God, you recognized also your own littleness, and, therefore, you humbled yourself more than all others: you ever had before your eyes the majesty of God against your nothingness as His creature. It was a life of closest union with Jesusa union of body as well as of soul. This miraculous defeat broke the back . Through you I hope to reach the heavenly Kingdom. Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom we acclaim our Queen and Mother, lead our country to God. 3. Joseph was a virgin for your sake, that a Virgin Son might be born of a virginal marriage. Scarcely had you greeted your aged cousin, when mother and son felt at once the sanctifying effects of your loving presence. The three Divine Persons declared you Queen of heaven and earth and assigned to you a place at the right hand of Jesus. The climax of that sorrow came when the innocent Victim for the sins of mankind was given, dead, into your arms. 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. Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. You are indeed our Mother, and a mother can never forget her children. 3. What a striking lesson you give me by this unlimited confidence in the power and goodness-of your Divine Son! Your name means Sea of Bitterness. Had the angel said you were the most wicked sinner in the world, your wonder would not have been so great, as it was at the sound of his praises. Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. On the day of Pentecost the Apostles' worldly views about the Kingdom of God on earth were banished by the Spirit of God, and holiness replaced their imperfections, but no-taint of the slightest sin had to be removed from your virginal soul. 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. Your Immaculate Conception permitted you to love God from the first instant of your existence; your virginity led you to vow an undivided love to Him, your fullness of grace made you capable of loving Him with the most intense love possible. Through prayer may grace fill my soul with the life of God and transform me into a living image of Jesus, just as you were. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. The word compassion derives from the Latin roots cum and patior which means "to suffer with." Your heart was visited with seven swords of sorrow before you became the Comforter of the Afflicted and the Cause of our Joy. We praise your virginity and admire your humility; but because we are poor sinners, your mercy attracts us more and we embrace it more lovingly. It was your exclusive privilege to be Christ's Mother according to the flesh. 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. But your holiness is so great, that the power of your intercession is greater than that of all the other saints. When His side was opened with a lance, a sword of anguish also pierced your Heart. 2. 1. You are the holiest of women, the Virgin-Mother thrice holy, because you are holy of the Father, holy of the Son, holy of the Holy Spirit of Love. 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. Teach me to imitate your humility by acknowledging my nothingness and seeking the glory of God in everything. Don Joslike the good Samaritansaw the lady, was filled with compassion . 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are called Mother of Mercy because of the fullness with which mercy is given to those who seek it at your hands. Thus an angel appeared to Joseph and said, "Do not be afraid, Joseph, son of David, to take to thee Mary thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit. The Eternal Father takes pleasure in looking upon your Heart as the masterpiece of His Divine power. 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. As formerly the shepherds and the magi found Jesus close to you, so now may all sinners, unbelievers and pagans find Jesus through you, His Mother. He was with you not only by His sanctifying grace, making you pleasing in His sight, as He is present with all the just. Yet these three have become for us a principle of life. When the Persons of the Blessed Trinity gaze on you, the Immaculate One, most pure, most beautiful, supremely pleasing to eternal love, what can they refuse you? are merged in the supreme suffering at the Passion. Feast, January 23 (Triduum, January 20-22). I give you my intellect by holding you in loving reverence because of your dignity as Mother of God. It was indeed a divine life that Jesus led in Your womb, a life most active, and yet one of unbroken calm. With joy you must have foreseen the millions of souls who by your presence in their lives would cast off the bonds of sin. From the first instant of your existence your mind was filled by the supernatural light of faith and your soul with love of God. Sanctifying grace made you God's adopted child and the lawful heir to His eternal kingdom, putting you in possession of God's goods and of God Himself forever. You did not-abandon Jesus as the apostles did; you remained with Him until He expired. Your ardent faith and intense love pierced that thin veil which separated you from your loving Son. God bless. Because you freely consented to become the Mother of God, you experienced mentally all the bitterness of your Son's Passion and death. I rejoice with the whole Church because you are our life; you bore Jesus, who is the Way and the Truth and the Life and who was to restore to mankind that supernatural life which had been lost. Mary, My Mother, in all infirmities of body and soul, you are a sure refuge and relief. With your arms outstretchedthose arms in which the Eternal God delighted to rest when He became our Brotherplead our cause. 3. The name Our Lady of Mercy is very dear to Mercy Home for Boys & Girls. 3. Yet more powerfully still than even your exalted merits does the Precious Blood render God merciful to the sinner, for all comes to us through the Passion and death of Christ, your Son. As the heart of a mother triumphs over the just anger of a father in an earthly family so your Heart will triumph by averting the force of God's justice upon this sinful world. You are a Mediatrix in union with Christ from whom your mediation draws all its power. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! You are our Mother, the Mother of all the living. As you are powerful to obtain and provide, you are merciful to pardon. Without that maternity, your other privileges would not exist; you yourself would not exist, for you were created only to be the Mother of God. Mary, My Mother, I could go directly to God and ask Him for His grace without your help and that of the Saints, but God has not willed it so. The Feasts of Our Lady Note: Only Universal Feasts have the Month cited with each Feast; Local Feasts, etc., are cited by date within each month, unless the particular Local Feast begins a month. The angels saw a soul which had never been touched by original sin. He paid the debt that original sin might not be incurred. 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. 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. ", Feast, November 21 (Novena, November 12-20). You are indeed all-powerful in Heaven, but your omnipotence is not one of authority and command, but of intercession. You possessed a perfect faith, a firm hope, a burning charity, a deep humility, a purity greater than that of the angels. But you are Mother only of penitent sinners who have left their evil ways before death. In you He reposed for nine months, with His whole divinity and humanity. In you I behold the charm of the purest of virgins, the majesty of the noblest of mothers. Mary, My Mother, may the faithful recitation of the Rosary help me to remember God's love for me in becoming man for my salvation. You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. Following their example and striving to attain to their faith, joining in their admiration, in their intense pleading, I, a poor sinner, who am so in need of help and pity, in need of your mercy, cry out to you: Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us . 7, 24). I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. He found joy in God, His Heavenly Father, and in the Holy Spirit, joy in all the wonderful perfections of God. Here there was a sacrifice, and Jesus was the Victim. Mary, Mother of God, your sorrows are not merely the sorrows of an earthly mother grieving over the death of an only child. Mary, My Mother, I wish to recall this triumph and to share in your greatness and glory. You presented Him in sacrifice to the Father as your God and the Son of Man, as your offering and the offering of humanity for the redemption of the world. The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. Jesus is the Head of the Church, and you are its neck. Our founder, so moved by her image, vowed to live by her exampleand that's a promise our Mercy Home family still upholds today. I did it not once or twice but numberless times. You really had the right to offer Jesus to His Heavenly Father in this mystery. I know that much will be required from those to whom much is given. May I be found worthy of your frequent visits with Jesus to my heart in this life and of the invitation to come and live with You both for all eternity in heaven. You are all-powerful because your divine Son instantly fulfills all your desires in order to honor you. Crowds reach the entry gate to the basilica grounds for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. How much I worry about my physical health! His triumph over death His Ascension into Heaven, the sending of the Holy Spirit. There is no closer bond of love among relationships than that which exists between a mother and her son. The Consecration took place on Calvary where you shared in the offering of the bloody sacrifice of the New Testament. In becoming my Mother, you became the Queen of Martyrs! Eve listened to the voice of the serpent and brought death to the human race, you became a source of salvation to all mankind by receiving with humility the word of God brought to you by the angel Gabriel. Mary, Mother of God, sincere devotion to you is a sign of perseverance in doing good till death. Finally, they remind me of the everlasting glory of all the saints in Heaven united with your own glory and that of your Son. 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. With no tendency to evil, but with a deep yearning for the highest virtue, you glorified God more than all His other creatures. Attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you diligently gathered up all His lessons, preserving them in your soul with zealous care. But as Joseph had been united to you by the ties of marriage, he approached nearer than anyone else to your eminent dignity. The dignity of the divine maternity raised you above all the rest of creation. Francis became very sick, nearly dying twice. Mary, Mother of God, your Heart is a shrine of holiness, into which the demon of sin has never entered; whose sanctuary was never once defiled by the least touch of evil, whose altar was the chosen resting place of the Holy Spirit. I share in this joy. 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. Liturgical feast Our Lady of Compassion. The suffering of Jesus in His dereliction was the most difficult test of your faith. You are the model of all virtues. Bestow on me gifts from the riches of that fullness. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. A blessed feast of OUR LADY of the MIRACULOUS MEDAL to you. With my whole heart I thank God for all He has done for you and for all mankind through you! You were descended from the most renowned men of that nation and counted among your ancestors patriarchs prophets, leaders of the people of God and kings of the ancient law. 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. It was fitting that the God of all purity should spring from the greatest purity. Mary, My Mother, may the thought of your tenderness and charity increase my confidence in you and make me look up to you in all the dangers that surround me in life. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. You are our spiritual Mother in the order of grace. Mary, My Mother, God raised you so high in Himself that He never has created and never will create a holier person more worthy of Himself, of His greatness, of His love, than you, O Virgin most pure. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. 3. But because of my sinfulness, I also have need of an intercessor with Him. Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. You, who were yourself the Queen of Prophets, saw that from that moment "the sword of sorrow" would enter your soul and remain there during the rest of your days.

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