Apparition Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate (Our Lady of Lourdes), Feast, February 11 (Novena, February 2-10). For from the moment when Jesus told you to see Him, in John, you saw Jesus in all Christians. 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. Be a mother to me and save me. With this job opportunity, you will be able to foster compassion, character, knowledge and service for all. How wondrous you are in your humility. You were never under the power of the serpent, whose head you crushed in giving a Redeemer to the world. You receive all graces through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for them in the Name of Jesus Christ. 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. It is your Son who abides with me in the tabernacle as the best Friend I have in this world, who offers Himself to the Father for me as the Victim of Calvary at Holy Mass, who gives Himself to me as Food in Holy Communion. IMPRIMI POTEST Raymond Weisenberger, Provincial, Girard, Pa. NIHIL OBSTAT A. H. Wiersbinski, LL.D. You formed His Heart, to love us, and His Precious Blood, to shed for us and to be given to us for our drink. All the tsars were crowned and patriarchs installed in the presence of this image, up until the revolution. 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. Mother of God, you have very great power. Help me to love God with my whole mindso that my mind may be habitually occupied with God and that I may value His good pleasure above everything elseabove my convenience, above all earthly treasures, above all knowledge and friendship, above health and life. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. Bishop Columns. 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. 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. God freed His future messenger from original sin and enriched him with grace. 2. You always had so lowly an opinion of yourself that, although you realized how many more graces and favors were bestowed upon you than upon others, you still preferred all others before yourself. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. Jesus is the only Mediator of justice, and by His merits He obtains for us all graces and salvation; but you are the Mediatrix of grace. 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! You formed His lips, to teach us. Your soul was most beautiful, lovable and immaculate, rich in graces and virtues. Only you could love God as your Son; only you could love your Son as God. Three swords brought anguish to you while Jesus was yet a young child, four swords pierced your soul in His Holy Passion. Shed upon me more and more the living light of that faith which made you blessed. Just as the patriarchs in Limbo had beheld your birth as the breaking of that dawn which announced to them their near deliverance, so, too, your Assumption, together with the Ascension of Jesus, became for mortal man a sure pledge of resurrection and immortality. 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. I can best thank Jesus for His dying bequest by striving daily to become like John in his love and imitation of you. The Church regards you as the rising dawn. To the working of this great mystery you also were chosen to cooperate by your free consent. Mater Dolorosa. 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. Having carried within you Jesus Christ, the Son of God, you share, as no one else does, in your divine Son's holiness and purity. 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. You are indeed the most wonderful Mother that has ever walked this earth. Our Lady of Compassion Our Lady of Compassion (Nuestra Senora de la Piedad) The convent of Our Lady of La Piedad dates back to the year 1595. 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. Grace comes to us from Jesus and reaches us through you. Our Lady is not looking at Jesus, but rather to us, to express compassion for us in our fears and sorrows. As Mother of God, you became a cooperator in the Redemption of mankind. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. Jesus is the Head of the Church, and you are its neck. The Holy Spirit overshadowed you at the Annunciation, and on Pentecost He made your heart a furnace of Divine love. This is what took place at His entrance into the world; and again when He took upon Himself the office of Savior in the mystery of the Circumcision, and received from you the Holy Name of Jesus. 2. Mary, Mother of God, I thank you for being my companion in suffering. Mary, My Mother, pray that the love of God above all things and detachment from the world and its false pleasures, may also make my soul the temple of the living God. After Almighty God and the Sacred Humanity of Jesus, there is no being so great as you. 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. Whereas pride and ingratitude repel grace from our souls, gratitude and humility, like golden keys, unlock the treasury of heaven. Feast Days of Mary | Marians of the Immaculate Conception 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. 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. He overshadowed you at the Annunciation and on Pentecost He made your heart a furnace of divine love. Show the same compassion toward me, for I am in need of grace to fight temptation, to avoid sin and to lead a holy life. But God has willed that you should be exempted from this general rule because, by an entirely singular privilege, you completely overcame sin by your Immaculate Conception. This Feast day is kept by various religious orders in the Church. You were born into the world in the humble city of Nazareth. Hell is forced to bear the weight of your lasting hatred. I fix my gaze on that star and wish never to turn from it. The icon is now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Russian calendar commemorates the feast of Our Lady of Vladimir on May 21. Mary, My Mother, to conceal the miraculous conception and birth of His Divine Son, the Eternal Father inspired Joseph to marry you before the annunciation by the archangel Gabriel. You became the Mother of God and remained a virgin. O powerful answer which rejoiced Heaven and brought an immense sea of graces and blessings into the world! Altogether 24 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. Never did you yield to the least imperfection, let alone sin. 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. 3. 18, 3). The Church venerates many holy virgins, martyrs and other saints, but no one of them has merited or obtained your title of Holy Virgin, Virgin most pure. Celebration Ideas For The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity places you in a very wonderful relationship with the three divine Persons. You were to see this Face unveiled, in all the beauty and grace of childhood as the face of your own child. 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. The Eternal Father unfolded His Omnipotence in order to form in you a heart full of sweetness and obedience to your Creator. Saints Stories for All Ages Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day December 12 Printer Friendly On December 9, 1531, a 57-year-old Aztec, Juan Diego, saw the Blessed Mother on a hill in Mexico City. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. It is true, you are a creature, and, therefore, far beneath the Supreme Being. In all your deeds you showed the fruits of the Divine Wisdom which had made you the dwelling-place of God. 3. Through your prayers may they and their children honor God by a virtuous life so as to be worthy of a heavenly reward. May these graces become most fruitful in my soul till I become like you, another Christ. Through the mystery of your Visitation enlighten my mind with divine truth, warm my heart with heavenly love; strengthen me to win the victory over my evil inclinations and the power of evil. "And, therefore, the Holy One to be born shall be called the Son of God." 3. Who could tell the great joy which filled their hearts when they held you in their arms? Teach me the real kind of ambition, that is, greatness in God's eyes. 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. It is through your prayers that God inspires me to receive It and grants me the grace to receive It worthily. But I want to be loved by you even more; hence, give me an ever growing love for you. From your heart we hope to obtain the love of God that He expects from His creatures, and also the pardon that guilty but repentant creatures ask from their merciful Creator. On the right of the Sanctuary stands the shrine of Our Lady of Compassion, under whose protection the church is placed. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. 2. On November 27, 1830, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Catherine Labour in her Daughters of Charity convent in Paris, asking that a medal be cast according to the pattern which Our Lady displayed, and promising that all who wear this medal will receive great . I cannot secure my salvation without these graces, for it is the grace of God which gives me light and strength to do good deeds. That date was not chosen by accident, but because it is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Feast, October 7 (Novena, Sept. 28-Oct. 6). 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." After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. How fortunate I will be, if at death I am bound with the sweet chains of love to you! Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. You can readily obtain for us whatever you will as you can listen to our woes. Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows 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. I want to take devotion to you seriously. Those words include us all. May my soul always find comfort in your holy name! Seasons and Feast Days Prayer Requests What untold merit you must have laid up for eternity during the nine months that preceded your Nativity. They then left a small offering of silver required by the Law of Moses. 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. The Consecration took place on Calvary where you shared in the offering of the bloody sacrifice of the New Testament. You are "Suppliant Omnipotence" because your prayer obtains all graces from the infinite treasures of God. Mary, Mother of God, you are our true Mother because you have given us supernatural life. Manila Archdiocese Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula will preside over the grand fiesta mass at 12 noon Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City, in solemn commemoration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the principal patroness of the Philippines, Mexico, and the Americas, and the protector of the unborn. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. In your apparitions at Fatima you revealed that it is in the designs of the Divine Mercy to cure the world through your Heart. 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. Mary, My Mother, through your prayers may I be blessed with a keen understanding of the ways of God. The cross is the measure of God's love for us and the sum total of our love for God. Scarcely had you greeted your aged cousin, when mother and son felt at once the sanctifying effects of your loving presence. You will be inspired by the overflow of love for Our Lady. Sanctify them first, so that they may then more effectively sanctify others. 3. I breathe the name of one who is virgin and mother, Mother of God and Mother of men, my Mother. 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. Immaculate Mother, you are the hope of a sinful race. He was obedient and immediately arranged with you the celebration of your chaste nuptials. All good things come to us through your hands. You were the first Chalice of the Blood of Jesus for Our Lord dwelt in you during the nine months of expectation as in a kind of ciborium. On April 3rd, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X will have the joy of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion for the first time in all our houses. Today I am filled with joy at the thought that we are united with those first clients of yours, and in union with them we greet you, saying: O beauty of Carmel, glory of Libanus, purest of lilies, mystical rose in the flowering garden of the Church. As Christ was pleased to be comforted by an angel, so was it necessary that you should be encouraged by one. The degree of childlike humility I have attained in life will be the degree of my greatness in heaven. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was suitable to your dignity. But many of these straying children are ignorant and not fully responsible. From Anne you heard the touching story of the chosen people. Mary, My Mother, from your early years you adored the one true God in the Temple at Jerusalem. Francis became very sick, nearly dying twice. May looking upon your Immaculate Heart inspire confidence in me which will make me more eager to grow in holiness. Feast, September 8 (Novena, Aug. 30-Sept. 7). I implore the help of your protection and choose you as my advocate. I believe the teaching of the Church concerning the union of the human and divine natures in Christ: that Jesus Christ is God and man, perfect God and perfect man and that this divinity and humanity are united in only one person so that the actions of the divine nature or the human nature are the actions of one person, the divine Person. nothing could be happier than the choice of the day on which this Feast was to be kept.On the 24 th of May, in the year 1814, there was . All your privileges increased your power to love God. Though it is impossible for me to form any idea of the thoughts that flooded your mind and heart, I beg you to give me at least a spark of that fervor of divine love that burned in your soul. I can easily picture Saint John, the Apostle of love, saying Mass each day in his own home and daily giving you the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist. Your birth was a miracle of the power of God because both of your parents were far advanced in years. I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. GLADE PARK, Colorado (Catholic Online) - The feast dedicated to "Our Lady of the Rosary" was instituted by Pope Pius V. It was to commemorate the anniversary of the defeat of the Turkish fleet at the battle of Lepanto on the first Sunday in October 1571. By your love of God and of His adopted sons, you aided the Apostles in the spread of Christ's Kingdom on earth. No one is saved, except through you, no one comes to life, except through you. As breathing is not only a sign but even a cause of life, so your name, which is constantly found on the lips of your servants, both proves that they are spiritually alive, and at the same time causes and preserves their life, and gives them every help in their needs. OLMC Feast Website About The Feast Page He bestowed marvelous privileges upon you and loved you more than all other creatures together. 2. God looks for gratitude and humility which draw down upon us His favor and His gifts. Protect, guard, and keep them in holy fear, in peace, and in harmony of Christian charity. Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! 1. 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. The Church teaches that final perseverance in good and a happy death are graces so great that no one can obtain them by his own merits or without special help from God. Mary, Mother of God, how sacred was the life of Jesus in your womb while you awaited His coming! Though a creature, you gave birth to the Creator. You could also hold your own celebration of Our Lady by inviting friends and family to your home for a traditional Mexican meal. Your Son won a treasure of grace for us by the life and death He offered up to the heavenly Father. Only then can I really love you as you desirewhen Jesus is formed in me so that I can love you as Jesus does. Copyright by FATHERS RUMBLE AND CARTY Radio Replies Press Society St. Paul 1, Minn., U.S.A. EWTN | 5817 Old Leeds Rd. Why do we call Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows"? Mary, My Mother, how shall I stand before my Judge at the day of judgment? 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. 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). But the same spirit of humility which had induced Jesus to obey the law of circumcision, made you also submit to the law of purification. 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. December 9 marks the feast day of Saint Juan Diego and December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. About Our Lady of Sorrows This is one of many Marian feast days which occurs throughout the liturgical year. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." Implore the grace of conversion for many pagans that they may come to the knowledge of the true faith and one day be united with the saints in heaven, there to love you and praise your mercy for all eternity. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . 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 bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. Mary, Mother of God, how pleasing to God was your humility! I need not see you appear, as you did to so many others. 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. 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. Surely it is through your special influence as Mediatrix of Graces that this Life is shared with me. 2. 'Teach me that the test of my following of your Divine Son is practical charity. When you learned from the angel that your cousin Elizabeth was with child and needed your help, you set out to care for her. The early writers of the Church already speak of you as a second Eve, who fulfilled in the restoration of mankind a role closely corresponding to that of Eve in the ruin of our race. In your contemplation of God, you behold our needs with our prayers, and you beg God to grant these favors to us. All these souls were given to you by Jesus on the crossthey are your children. I already know of your great love for me for the sake of your Son who entrusted the care of my soul to you. The word compassion derives from the Latin roots cum and patior which means "to suffer with." Happy Feast Day Our Lady of Perpetual Help Feast day: June 27 Patroness You became more and more filled with His spirit; you grew into Him, as it were, and became in your soul ever more the Mother of God and Mother of Jesus. Turin Our Lady of Consolation, Turin This icon was presented to the city of Turin. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. How God has loved you by making you His Mother! Figures below show what proportion of half-day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to local and national averages. I am sure that you, who are all-powerful as my advocate, will not desert me but will bring to my poor afflicted soul grace and sanctification. Be pleased to lead mankind securely to certain victory over Communism through the triumph of your Immaculate Heart as you promised at Fatima: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and an era of peace will be conceded to humanity.". Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. This country and every country in North and South America, is born "under God," and under the mantle of Holy Mary, every nation and every person under her . After Jesus, no one suffered as you did. When God pronounced doom against the evil one, He also announced His merciful plan of saving mankind from the effects of the guilt of our first parents. Your Child, becoming the King of Martyrs, would make you their Queen. Although He might have wrought our salvation alone, without inviting you to share in His work, He did not choose to do so. Jesus did this in union with you. Like you, he was of the tribe of Juda and the family of David. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." Your holiness was due to this Spirit of Love, to Whose guidance you abandoned yourself. You stood by its side never turning your eyes from Him. Help me to love God with my whole strengthso that I may consecrate undividedly, unreservedly and continually to His service, my life, my health and all I am and have. The Supreme God rested and worked in you. Little by little the links between your body and soul were dissolved by the resistless force of love. Mary, My Mother, since it is the will of God that we should obtain all through you, teach me to turn to you in all my needs. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, I see you in Bethlehem lovingly pressing to your heart your Child, your God, the future Eucharistic Christ. Feast, September 12 (Triduum, September 9-11). You are truly the "Queen of Peace.". Let me find consolation and strength in your favorite devotionthe rosary. But who can describe the matchless purity and beauty of your soul?
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