The holier a person is and the greater the intimacy of his union with God, the greater also is the power of his prayers. How fervently your mother and father thanked God for having given you to them and begged Him to accept the offering which they were making! In your heart and life the Eucharist took the place of His former presence in the flesh. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." 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. She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. He had to crown the gift of His love with the grand gift of you, His Mother. You invite none to come to you but the lowly of spirit. The Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. 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. He works in my soul by His grace. In presenting your only Son you present your all. But I see the relation between you and the Blessed Sacrament above all in your life after Good Friday when you began your new motherhood at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist. Jesus, not satisfied with having given Himself to all mankind in the Incarnation, wished to become united with each of us in a most intimate manner by means of the Holy Eucharist, for by an unceasing act of love He gives Himself to us in each Consecration and in each Communion. 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. Mary, My Mother, I turn to you rather for health of soul than of body. In return for the natural strength that you gave Him, He gave you His divine strength. You died of no infirmity. COLUMN: Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: World Day of the Sick--2/7/2021. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. 2. 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 exercise your queenly dominion over the minds, the hearts, the wills and even over the bodies of your subjects. To bring us forth, you gave much more than our earthly mothers gave. Though deprived of the joy of His actual presence, you were more intimately united with Him than ever through your sacrificial love, since your will was one with His. Mary, My Mother, you are Queen also because your are Co-Redemptrix. Hundreds of dancers, many in feathered headdresses and indigenous-style costume, dance vigorously for hours during the days leading up to the feast, and on the December 12 feast itself, in the vast plaza in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She humbly exclaimed, "How have I deserved this happiness that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. Since 1958 and the merging of the two saint days into one celebration (known as the Cooperative Feast), the Giglio Feast has been celebrated in July, with all activities leading up to its culmination on July 16th, the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. When His side was opened with a lance, a sword of anguish also pierced your Heart. 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. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. He is King and you are Queen of all hearts. For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. 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 . 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). 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. You are indeed all-powerful in Heaven, but your omnipotence is not one of authority and command, but of intercession. Your willingness to suffer and to bear your cross in imitation of His own resignation to the will of God, made you especially dear to Him. And so it is even now in heaven. He did so through your hands when you presented Him in the Temple, and in union with Him you offered yourself to the Father on Calvary. You have such a desire to save sinners that you look for them in order to help them. Decorate your table with colorful flowers . If unfortunately I should lose this life by sin, you can bring me back to supernatural life. The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. Your will was one with His, faithful to your promise made at the Incarnation. Your action is above all one of intercession. You possessed, according to the words of the Archangel, such a fullness of grace that you were worthy to become the Mother of God. You loved God with your whole heart and mind and strength. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. But all graces come through you. 3. Mary, My Mother, I realize that I have not always corresponded faithfully with these graces. I believe the doctrine of the Church concerning your Immaculate Conception, which teaches that at the first moment of your conception you were, by the singular grace and privilege of the omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the Human race, preserved from all stains of original sin. Help them to become worthy of this blessing through their own prayers and good example. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. Jesus ascended to Heaven before you not only that He might prepare a throne for you in that Kingdom, but also that He might Himself accompany you with all the blessed spirits and thus render your entry into Heaven more glorious and worthy of His Mother. Ask Him to favor me with a ray of His brightness to enlighten the darkness of sin and ignorance in which I was born. They then left a small offering of silver required by the Law of Moses. They observed the Law of God most diligently and spent their days in prayer and in works of mercy. You have the charge of keeping faith intact and love unimpaired in the Church founded by our Lord, and of spreading through the nations and over continents the knowledge of the Kingdom of God. I cannot for a moment suspect, all good and all powerful as you are, that you are unwilling to implore for me the graces which I need so much and above all. You so loved the world as to give your only Son for our redemption. Mary, My Mother, you were never without grace. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . 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. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." By your Divine Motherhood you formed the closest bond of union with the adorable Trinity, the privileged Daughter of the Father, the loving Mother of the Son and the immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit. From the moment of His entering the world, your loving Son Jesus, was the price of our salvation. And when the days of my earthly pilgrimage are over, according to God's holy will, grant that my soul may obtain the glory of heaven, through the merits of Christ and through your intercession. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mother of mankind and therefore the Help of Christians, the all-powerful suppliant. You are full of grace, the Lord's free gift, and it overflows in you filling your soul with every virtue and perfection. Wicked lust, the source and occasion of sin, flowing directly from original Sill and inclining to evil, drags me along in spite of myselfalthough always voluntarilyto personal sins, sins that I know only too well are my own. There before the tabernacle you relived in memory all the happy and sorrowful events of your life with Jesus. God sent Gabriel, one of His glorious archangels, to deliver the most important message in the history of mankind, announcing the coming of the Savior of the world and the selection of you to be His Mother. I have every reason to rejoice, for as the Mother of Jesus and my Mother you are my hope of salvation. In fallen man there is, as Saint John reminds us, "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" (1 John 2, 16). 1. 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. As Eve induced Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit which brought death upon us, so you prompt us to eat the Bread which gives us life. To the Church suffering you bring consolation, relief, deliverance, to the Church militant you offer aid, confidence, victory. You are beautiful at your presentation in the temple; in prayer before Gabriel as he awaited your answer, in Nazareth's hidden life and later as you followed Jesus and listened to Wisdom speak. Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. Only then can I really love you as you desirewhen Jesus is formed in me so that I can love you as Jesus does. 2. You did not-abandon Jesus as the apostles did; you remained with Him until He expired. Feast Days of Mary January 1Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God *January 8Our Lady of Prompt SuccorFebruary 2Presentation of the LordFebruary 11Our Lady of LourdesMarch 25AnnunciationMay 13Our Lady of FatimaMay 31VisitationJune 27Our Mother of Perpetual HelpJuly 16Our Lady of Mount CarmelAugust 15Assumption *August 22Queenship of MarySeptember 8Birth of . 3. God would work a miracle so that you might remain a virgin, and yet become the Mother of God. Mary, Mother of God, the miracle of the Marriage feast of Cana shows that you are the Mother of Divine Providence. 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. All rights reserved. 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. Mary, My Mother, the day of your Assumption was the great day of your triumph. In 1913, Pope Pius X fixed the date on September 15. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. God has made you so kind even to sinners that your goodness restores us to hope. 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. 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. He was with you, and with you alone, in an unspeakable manner by bodily presence. In order to live, not to myself, but to God, I must bear the cross in union with Jesus. Thanks to you, the grace and the sanctifying gifts of the Holy Spirit are scattered abroad over the Church and its members. I wish to do penance by giving up sin and amending my life, by asking pardon and making reparation to the Heart of Jesus and to your Immaculate Heart, so grievously offended by our sins. You saw the cross raised and heard the mob, not yet satisfied with their bloody work, continue to torment their dying Victim. 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. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. I can pray to you with full confidence because you are loved by the Father as the Mother of His Son, loved by the Son as His own Mother, loved by the Holy Spirit as His Immaculate Bride. We know that you are ever ready to be our help in trouble, our solace in affliction, our hope in despair. For from the moment when Jesus told you to see Him, in John, you saw Jesus in all Christians. But who can describe the matchless purity and beauty of your soul? I entrust my cause to you who are the Mother of Mercy, and I wish to offer you day by day my most reverent love. 1. It was a life of silence, and yet He is the Word of the Father, the expression of His glory, the teacher of the prophets. How wonderful were the workings of divine power to make you a fitting dwelling for the Redeemer of the world! Though receiving all you obtain through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for it in the Name of Jesus, yet whatever graces we receive, come to us through your intercession. Since you are my Mother, I share in the love you have for your Divine Son. Mary, Mother of God, make my interior life of union with Jesus more like your own. The beloved disciple told you what he had seen in the houses of Annas and Caiphas: how Jesus had been accused as a blasphemer for stating that He was the Son of God. Only after many years of fervent prayers did God reward them. She told Juan to have a church built in her honor. He also willed that (2) everywhere the offering of Himself should be presented to the Father through your hands. With no tendency to evil, but with a deep yearning for the highest virtue, you glorified God more than all His other creatures. Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. In Jesus there was wrapped up the double love of a mother for her only Child and of the holiest creature for her God. You visited the house of Zachary to serve your cousin Elizabeth for three months. Feast, February 2 (Novena, Jan. 24-Feb. 1). It was your exclusive privilege to be Christ's Mother according to the flesh. Mary, My Mother, your Heart is the masterpiece of the Holy Trinity. You became the treasurer of God's graces, the channel through which He dispenses His gifts upon earth. With your arms outstretchedthose arms in which the Eternal God delighted to rest when He became our Brotherplead our cause. In 1482 the feast was added to the Missal under the title of "Our Lady of Compassion." Pope Benedict XIII added it to the Roman Calendar in 1727 on the Friday before Palm Sunday. Help me to realize that it is only through the cross that I can attain to its glory and that it is only through suffering that I can possess the kingdom of heaven. In your apparitions at Fatima you revealed that it is in the designs of the Divine Mercy to cure the world through your Heart. Bishop Columns. You formed His Heart, to love us, and His Precious Blood, to shed for us and to be given to us for our drink. If we could not say that you are the Mother of God for having given a body to the Son of God, then we could neither adore this Body; nor would we have been redeemed by the sacrifice of this Body on the cross, nor would we be united to the divinity in receiving this Body in the Eucharist. The Eternal Father once gave you the most precious treasure that heaven possessedHis own Divine Son. I want to love you with all my heart that I may in some way merit that you love me in return. It was you who nourished and prepared the holy Victim who was offered to the Eternal Father in expiation of our sins. You can readily obtain for us whatever you will as you can listen to our woes. Mary, My Mother, How perfectly you have followed the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and acted on divine wisdom! Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. 18, 3). 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. I beg you for this humility which is loved both by God and men for in it lies something sublimea living resemblance to Jesus and to you. You "found grace with God" to restore salvation to all men. May I have more of their love for you so that I may experience more of their joy in being devoted to you. We will list that feast and give as much information as is available about that feastday. Your Son will deny you nothing. 2. Amen. 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. Your motherly love contributed so much to our salvation in the Incarnation of the Son of God, who is the Universal Source of Grace, that you will eternally contribute as much to all the works of grace, which come to us because of the Incarnation. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. The last beat of His Heart was to be one with yours just as the first had been. Through your powerful intercession promote the propagation of the faith. Preserve their faith, assailed at every hour by the forces opposed to Christ. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. Collected by the web master from various calendars; if you have a Feast that I missed, please let me know, so I can include it. Mary, My Mother, your intercession is all-powerful. Our Lady is not looking at Jesus, but rather to us, to express compassion for us in our fears and sorrows. 1. You were the only one who was exempt from the universal curse that had fallen on the whole human race. Augustine.). Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. You are far more than an instrument of God's mercy towards us. 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. Mary, My Mother, as often as your sweet name comes to my lips, you appear to me as a masterpiece of God's power, so perfect and so sublime that even the hand of Almighty God could not produce anything more perfect in the form of a pure creature. Each Communion is a mystery of your love for us and a grace which you obtain and bestow on us. 2. Teach me to utter your name with deep respect because, after the name of Jesus, it is most sacred and revered above all others. Your Heart remained spotless as a lily, and you are, therefore, justly called the "Queen of Virgins. He was endowed by God with all a father's tenderness and love for Him who was confided to him as his Child. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Queen of the Apostles because you were the source of their inspiration and zeal. This privilege separated you from all the rest of the children of Adam. Jesus is the Son of God by His marvelous and eternal birth "in the bosom of His Father." 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. Three swords brought anguish to you while Jesus was yet a young child, four swords pierced your soul in His Holy Passion. You are Queen of the universe, not by force, but by the power of love. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. 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. To single nations, to private families, to individual persons, you have always provided help, given solace and rekindled hope, especially when they turned to you with Rosary in hand. Your Heart is a refuge for sinners, for you are the Mother of Mercy, who has never been known to turn away any one who came to seek your aid. You were fully enlightened as to the greatness of the dignity of a Mother of God. 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. No one ever belonged to Jesus as completely as you, for you are His Mother. In short, the first reason we can rightfully call Mary our "Mother of Mercy" is that by God's special, prevenient grace, He created her soul to be the masterpiece of His Mercy in the world, and this special gift of grace within her was the foundation of His whole work of mercy in the world through Christ. 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. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." All good things come to us through your hands. This intimacy with God was the soul of your soulyour very life. Jesus belonged entirely to you, the holiest among women. 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! Everything that God may send me, or permit in my life, whether favorable or unfavorable, sweet or bittereven illness, is acceptable to me, for I have resolved, after your example to conform myself to the Divine Will in all things. I was false to God's trust; I refused to obey my Maker. Inflame me with that heavenly love with which you loved your dear Son, Jesus Christ . Mary, My Mother, I have every reason to honor you under the title of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, because you have given me the Eucharistic Christ. 1. For the first time after four thousand years God in His Wisdom and power and love, created again a human being in that state in which He had created our first parents. 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. It is to you, after God, that we are indebted for our spiritual life, the life of the children of God. Mary, My Mother, your mediation is in reality one with that of Jesus, who had seen fit to give Himself to us only through you. He promised Our Lady that if he were cured, he would become a priest. In you, to an eminent degree, all the privileges of other saints meet. You thought only of the good you could do in Elizabeth's home. Mary, Mother of God, God spoke of you as the Woman who would crush the serpent's head. You saw the heavy cross placed on His bent shoulders. Only you could love God as your Son; only you could love your Son as God. Mary, My Mother, I wish to recall this triumph and to share in your greatness and glory. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." Apparition Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate (Our Lady of Lourdes), Feast, February 11 (Novena, February 2-10). Because you freely consented to become the Mother of God, you experienced mentally all the bitterness of your Son's Passion and death. What grief filled your heart as you gazed upon your Son with His flesh torn, His head encircled with long, sharp thorns, His whole body covered with blooda mock-King with a reed in His hand and cast-off cloak over His bleeding shoulders. Since I sincerely love you, I want to follow your example; this is the greatest honor I can pay you. If the sinner dies in his sins you cannot desire to save him, because Jesus will not save him. You thought only of praising Him as your greatest Benefactor when you exclaimed, "My soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my SaviorFor He who is mighty has done great things for me." You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. What merits did not your perfect immolation gain! You are the channel by which all the favors of Jesus descend upon us, even as it was through you and in union with you that during His mortal life He won for us whatever title we have to His gifts and graces. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. 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. 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. Everything which Jesus may claim in justice is yours by friendship's title. 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. You alone know how to triumph over the old serpentand to crush his head under your heel. It affords Jesus the joy of rewarding you who, with Him, suffered so much for men. ", Your Heart is a shrine of peace, for it is the Heart of the Mother of the Prince of Peace, a Heart never for a moment disturbed by evil passions, a Heart whose gifts to mankind are mercy, love and peace. They apply these words of Scripture to you: "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. Help me to become a child in your school. The repetition of the "Hail Marys" keep before my mind the importance of the Incarnation and your share in it. I have loved and followed Jesus to the end. 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. You were not to raise up children unto Godnot ordinary offspring, but a Child, the Son of God! He willed that (1) you should be present at each stage of His mortal careerrenewing, continuing, completing what you had done at the Incarnation. You beheld His arms and feet roughly extended on the hard wood of the cross. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your greatness began at the first instant of your existence with the privilege of your Immaculate Conception. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius XII, decreed Our Lady of Guadalupe to be "Patroness of all the Americas." .
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