May the love and peace and happiness of your Holy Family reign in the Christian families of all times. How consoling to know that I have Christ, my elder Brother, "always living to make intercession for me," and you, my Mother, ever pleading for me before the throne of God. Forgetting yourself completely, you were most intimately united with God. In your triumph, as the Mother of the same Word Incarnate, having perfectly followed out the great designs of God upon you, having acquired immense merits by the practice of all the virtues, and having reached the highest holiness, you were assumed body and soul, into Heaven. Your heart watches over them tenderly. 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. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." You are the spouse of the Holy Spirit because according to the gospel and the teaching of the Apostles' Creed, you conceived of the Holy Spirit the Son of God, made man. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. If I have been blessed with suffering, let me remember that this is the only way I can follow Jesus and you, for He said, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me" (Matt. No one ever carried out the teaching of your Son with greater exactness than you; hence His words refer to you perfectly: "Everyone therefore who hears these my words and acts upon them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house on rock" (Matt. Whereas pride and ingratitude repel grace from our souls, gratitude and humility, like golden keys, unlock the treasury of heaven. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. You became a victim and holocaust to the divine will, the Queen of Martyrs, the most perfect imitator of the Victim of Calvary. 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. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. Let me feel some of the sentiments of loving expectation that you felt while waiting for the birth of your Child, so that I may prepare myself for His coming and the graces of the mystery of His Nativity may bear fruit in my soul. At the same time you had to offer the most intense human suffering, in union with the Passion of your Son. Love and Peace, may be spread among men. 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. After your Divine Son, you are God's most precious gift to man. The offering of your Son was continued in each Holy Mass ever to be offered, in each Holy Communion ever to be received, in each act of adoration and prayer before the Sacred Host. Mary, Mother of God, your humility was expressed especially in the Annunciation. It was fitting that the God of all purity should spring from the greatest purity. The last beat of His Heart was to be one with yours just as the first had been. 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. May it be given me to understand your own love for me, and your dignity and beauty, that I may love you with a love more like the love that God Himself has for you. The Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. You are our Mediatrix with our Mediator. I thank you for consenting to become my spiritual Mother by giving me Jesus. God's grace can also do wonders in me if only I do not refuse to cooperate with it. Let me never be influenced by temporal considerationswealth, honors and pleasuresthat I may always follow the counsel of Jesus: "Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given you besides" (Luke 12, 31). 3. I feel this threefold inclination to evil. Our Lady of Treves, Italy (746). By this title I understand: (1) upon your mediation and intercession depends the distribution of the riches of the treasury which Jesus acquired for the salvation of men; (2) consequently, no grace comes to all of us as a body or to any of us in particular which you have not asked for in our behalf; (3) according to the order of things established by God, you have become, under Jesus Christ, after Jesus Christ, and through Jesus Christfrom whom you can never be separatedthe source and principle for us of all supernatural life. Attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you diligently gathered up all His lessons, preserving them in your soul with zealous care. Help them to become worthy of this blessing through their own prayers and good example. The Father crowned you by making you a sharer in His power, the Son by making you partaker of His wisdom; the Holy Spirit, by making you partaker of His love. This is my sure way of reaching heaven and my God.
St. Brigid of Kildare Feast Day - Our Lady of Compassion | Facebook With her you loved to sing the psalms and canticles of the inspired authors of your nation. The Prophet tells us that God is "wonderful in His saints" (Ps. It is the will of God that His aid should reach me through your heart, because you are my Mother, and motherliness means willingness to help.
Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited - Indian Catholic Matters Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. Thus my soul in sanctifying grace is always, in a spiritual manner, like your womba sanctuary of the living God! 1. You became the Mother of God and remained a virgin. Holiness is union with God through love. R. (1b) Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. Thereby you sanctified all our afflictions and united them with those of Jesus. Jesus is in me, too, through sanctifying grace, I bear within me the supernatural image of the Divine Sonship. What marvels of grace possessed your soul! God had exalted you above all creatures. Mary, My Mother, there is no sin in you; in you there is only God's graceHis light, His splendor, His love, His unspeakable delight. The name Our Lady of Mercy is very dear to Mercy Home for Boys & Girls. You saw clearly the agony you would feel at the crucifixion. Your power and motherly care not only embrace spiritual miseries but also extend to the ills of the body. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. This loving union will sustain me no matter how heavy my cross. 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.
Proclaim the Good News He was preparing you for your final separation from Him at the foot of the cross. Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! 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. In your six apparitions at Fatima you made repeated demands for penance and reparation. Jesus is the most beautiful of men; you were His mould, His mirror, and He, yours. Never were you guilty of the least fault; never did you offer the least resistance to grace. You conceived Jesus as the Head of regenerated mankind, the Head of a mystical body whose members we are. It takes me back to the days of the prophet Elias when you were prefigured on Mount Carmel under the form of the little cloud from which, as it grew larger, there fell a kindly rain, a symbol of the sanctifying graces that come to us from you. Through your prayers may they and their children honor God by a virtuous life so as to be worthy of a heavenly reward. All that God could give, He bestowed on you.
Our Lady of Guadalupe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Shed upon me more and more the living light of that faith which made you blessed. But all graces come through you. You are the throne of divine mercy in whom we find solace of mercy. As you entered the house of Zachary and greeted your aged cousin, you offered kind words of comfort and congratulation.
Our Lady of Guadalupe | Loyola Press At the very beginning of His public ministry, you observed the hatred and jealousy of His enemies and the false accusations which would bring about His death. Mary, by your humility, you became the Mother of your Creator. Help me to make good use of the graces given me by God. Mary, Mother of God, as the Mother of Divine Providence, you provide for us in our varied needs through your prayers in the presence of God. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your death was entirely free from whatever might make death bitter: attachment to the world, remorse for sins and the uncertainty of salvation. 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. It urges my senses to lower desires, because I seek sensible pleasure in its every degree. 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. Mary, My Mother, as Mother of Divine Providence, remember your children in need of God's mercy and help. As your prayer brought about His birth as the Sun of Justice, so also your request decided His rise and shining in His public life. After the most holy and adorable Name of Jesus, there is no name more glorious and more powerful than yours. Don Joslike the good Samaritansaw the lady, was filled with compassion . In Bethlehem you first adored Him in His visible presence as He lay in all His helplessness before your joyful eyes. He made His taking of the role of Mediator dependent on your consent, and it was your motherly care, shown toward Him through life, which made Him ready for the sacrifice that reconciled the world to God. Help me to receive Holy Communion frequently, at least each week, if not daily. DEC. 12 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE. Mary, My Mother, the angel said to you, "Blessed art thou among women." Feast, September 15 (Novena, September 6-14) (See the Feast of Seven Sorrows, Friday of Passion Week), Feast, September 24 (Triduum, September 21-23). We beg you for a burning charity for God to imitate the works of Christ. Devotion to you brings with it sweetness and consolation for the soul. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. Through your powerful intercession obtain for them the graces they need. But we, too, by our union with Jesus, and by the power of His grace, will also be united with Him in His victory over the devil. It means imitating your humility, your purity, your detachment from the world, and your unselfish resignation to the will of God in every event of life. You are this woman, and you are a virgin. Only give me the grace to abandon myself completely to your motherly guidance. As the seed of the serpent includes all those descendants of the first man and woman who by their sinful lives bear within them the traits of the devil, so, too, the seed of the Woman includes all who in the course of ages will take their stand with your Son, Jesus Christ, in His ceaseless conflict with the enemy of God. It has been reproduced many times in copies and in book illustrations. Through the sacraments, prayer and good deeds, I can make my own the merit of the atonement of Jesus.
Feast Days of Mary | Marians of the Immaculate Conception You visited the house of Zachary to serve your cousin Elizabeth for three months. He also willed that (2) everywhere the offering of Himself should be presented to the Father through your hands. To the Holy Spirit you offer the possibility of giving a new existence to the Son and of making this Son live in the hearts of the faithful through the power of His grace.