As in Heaven the Divine Word is like the Father, so on earth the Son, according to the flesh, is like you His Mother. Seasons and Feast Days Prayer Requests In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. 1. Surely it is through your special influence as Mediatrix of Graces that this Life is shared with me. All that He could give, He bestowed upon you, His Immaculate Bride. You will obtain for me grace to be faithful to God during the rest of my life. You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. September 14, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality. Mary, My Mother, I realize that I have not always corresponded faithfully with these graces. Bless the work of those who spend themselves to bring souls to your loving Son. You received from the Adorable Trinity the crown and sceptre, which made you Queen of all the angels and saints and the all-powerful Mediatrix between God and men. 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. 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. If I put my trust in you, I shall be saved. The early Christians, all lovers of the Eucharist, who visited you frequently during your hidden life of adoration, must have taken away with them the spirit of your Eucharistic devotion. It is true that we could go directly to God and ask Him for His grace without your help, but God has not willed it so. Teach parents to care for their children as God's sacred trust, to guard them from sin and to lead them in the way of virtue. 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. Mary, Mother of God, since you are the Mother of Jesus Christ, you are the Mother of Grace as well. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity places you in a very wonderful relationship with the three divine Persons. God has willed that by your intercession we should obtain the graces Jesus has merited for us. It is under the mantle of humility that you will protect me. The sacrifice of the cross began at Bethlehem. Through you I hope to reach the heavenly Kingdom. 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. It is but a symbol of the endless victories which you are to win over him to the last day. 1. Since you are the Mother of men, God gave you a special knowledge of the needs of every Christian that you might help us to save our souls. Pray for us, you who are so powerful, be all-powerful in our behalf! In this I see God's plan that in the Kingdom of Jesus all graces should go through your hands and Heart. Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 12:00am. They beheld the dwelling place prepared for the Son of God. Mary, Mother of God, your dear parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne, rejoiced at your birth. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. 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. Help me to love God with my whole soulso that all the faculties of my soul may be consecrated to Him, and that I may make use of them only to make Him known, loved and served. Proclaim the Good News Jesus continues ceaselessly to pray for us, offering for us to His heavenly Father His infinite merits and atonement, and causing the floods of grace to descend upon us to save us. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. The Virgin of Vladimir, also known as Vladimir Mother of God, Our Lady of Vladimir (Russian: , Ukrainian: ), and the Theotokos of Vladimir (Greek: ), is a 12th-century Byzantine icon depicting the Virgin and Child and an early . Mary, Mother of God, the sorrowful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the sorrows, the agony and death of the suffering Christ, the price at which the salvation of our race was accomplished. Your example teaches me that Jesus will work miracles for persevering prayer that springs from confidence and humility. God would work a miracle so that you might remain a virgin, and yet become the Mother of God. You are all-powerful because your divine Son instantly fulfills all your desires in order to honor you. 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. On the right of the Sanctuary stands the shrine of Our Lady of Compassion, under whose protection the church is placed. Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. In presenting your only Son you present your all. 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. Each time Jesus becomes present in the hands of the priest, the Life given to us by the words of consecration comes originally from. You are truly our immaculate Mother for it is to you, after Jesus, that we are indebted for the supernatural life of grace and the hope of eternal life. But we do find you standing beneath the cross on Calvary, when your Son was derided and mocked. After Jesus, no one suffered as you did. 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. Mary, My Mother, in all infirmities of body and soul, you are a sure refuge and relief. Although He might have wrought our salvation alone, without inviting you to share in His work, He did not choose to do so. 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. From all eternity God chose you to be His Mother, and in time He adorned you with every spiritual charm. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. The God of holiness, having come upon the earth to take away the sins of the world, chose to appear among us as a sinner. Though you did not know the meaning of the archangel's inspired words, you serenely submitted to the will of God. 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. 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, My Mother, you associated yourself with the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus in order that you might share in His glorification. Hence the Church sings of you: "You are all fair, O Mary, and the original stain is not in you.". I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. 3. Your dignity as Mother of God is so lofty that nothing created can rank above it. Mary, My Mother, the angel said to you, "Blessed art thou among women." When your cousin Saint Elizabeth greeted you as blessed among women, you answered, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior because he has regarded the lowliness of his handmaid" (Luke 1, 46). Since the angel saluted you "full of grace" and "blessed among women" (Luke 1,28), you were the abode of all Divine graces, adorned with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, so that you were never subjected to the evil spirit. 2. Continue to work wonders on our shores for our spiritual and material prosperity and keep us in peace and charity. You died as you had lived, entirely detached from the things of the world, you died in the most perfect peace and in the certainty of eternal glory. Saints It was indeed a divine life that Jesus led in Your womb, a life most active, and yet one of unbroken calm. Our Lady of Vladimir - Roman Catholic Saints 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. 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 were taken to Heaven by the power of God, accompanied and upheld by the angels, raised aloft by grace, not by nature. Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. Help me to be deeply grateful for God's generosity toward me. 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. 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. Our Lady of Sichem, Belgium (474) 4. 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." How often do we see you restoring health to the sick who have recourse to you with childlike confidence? The object of these feasts is the spiritual martyrdom of the Mother of God and her compassion with the sufferings of her Divine Son. Look with pity on me for in You is my hope. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. You are the Mother of the Uncreated Wisdom, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Only you could love God as your Son; only you could love your Son as God. 3. The child in the womb of Elizabeth was sanctified and exulted for joy at the presence of Jesus. Because I am arrogant, it makes me rebel against God's law, the law forbidding me that abuse of liberty which insults Him. The dangers facing the Church and the world are grave and evil. 67, 36). Mary, My Mother, I thank you for having suffered and wept for love of me that you might become my consolation in affliction. 2. Our Lady of Treves, Italy (746). Then Satan could boast that he had overcome Jesus in you, His Mother. 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. Be a mother to me and save me. 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 appointed day, at nightfall, accompanied by friends, he went in procession to your parents' house, to conduct you to his own home. Though Joseph planned to put you away privately when he recognized that you were with child, you still were unwilling to reveal your secret to him, lest you might seem to boast of your gifts. As our immaculate Mediatrix before your Son you have appeared at Lourdes to encourage us to amend our lives and to make sacrifices and offer prayers for sinners. You rule over their minds, by making them understand better the teaching of Christ, over their hearts, by turning them to Jesus through the charm of your motherly affection, over their wills, by gently inclining them to observe all the commandments of your Son; over their bodies, by teaching men to subject their members to the law of God through the practice of temperance and chastity. You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. Mary, Mother of God, teach me to be truly humble. May I derive all the beneficial results the holy sacraments are to produce in my soul. 2. Petition God that their hope may never fail amid the troubles and the cares of this life. 3. The Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dec. 18The Espousals of the Virgin Mary, Jan. 23Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feb. 2Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate (Our Lady of Lourdes), Feb. 11The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Good Counsel, April 26Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, Saturday after AscensionOur Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, May 13Mary, Help of Christians, May 24Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, May 31The Queenship of Mary, May 31Mary, Virgin Mother of Grace, June 9Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 2Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 17Our Lady of the Snows, Aug. 5Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Aug. 13The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Aug. 22Our Lady, Health of the Sick, Saturday before the last Sunday in Aug.Our Lady of Consolation, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28)Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8The Most Holy Name of Mary, Sept. 12Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Ransom), Sept. 24Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 11Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 16Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nov. 21Mary, Mother of Divine Providence, Saturday before 3rd Sunday of Nov. Feast, December 8 (Novena, Nov. 29-Dec. 7). Whoever abides in this Church will bring forth much salutary fruit; whereas they who willingly separate themselves from it must wither away spiritually. With Christ you have contributed to our redemption; hence you may be called Co-Redemptrix. You truly deserve to be called the Mediatrix of Grace. Jesus ascended to Heaven by His own power as Lord and Creator, accompanied by angels who paid Him homage. Reign over my mind and heart and will and body, so that I may belong completely to Jesus through you. 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. 2. Mary, My Mother, the Heart of Jesus was a generous Heart, symbolized by the wound in His side from which came forth the last drops of His Heart's Blood shed for us, and by which w e can reach the treasures of that Divine Heart. 3. Help me to become a child in your school. This thought wonderfully strengthens my confidence in you, Help of Christians. Saturday of the First Week of Lent - Society of the Little Flower How many souls have still to be brought under the rule of Christ the King! 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. Not all the affection you pour out upon countless other souls lessens your love for me. 1. SEE AS WELL: Yet no selfish thought, no bitter resentment has marred your beauty. Thus was fulfilled the prophesy that Christ would be born of the family of David. You were the only one who was exempt from the universal curse that had fallen on the whole human race. Mary's Feast Days August - Our Lady's Rosary Makers Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. (1) You prepared in your virginal womb a fit temple for the union of the Son of Godthe Divine Wordwith our human nature. 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. But with these joys were also mingled bitter sorrows. A Blessed Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - Fatima He promised Our Lady that if he were cured, he would become a priest. This miraculous defeat broke the back . Your great lover, Saint Bernard, along with many other saints and writers, reminds me: "Through you, Mary, heaven has been filled; through you hell has beheld itself robbed of an army of souls, in a word, through you eternal life was imparted to multitudes of wretched ones, who had made themselves unworthy of it." It was a life of closest union with Jesusa union of body as well as of soul. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27. Eve was the mother of the dead, for all of us, her children, were doomed to enter this world under sentence of death, the slaves and children of Satan. The Apostles, who had abandoned their Master informed you of your Son's betrayal by Judas and of His brutal capture after His agony. Help me to receive Holy Communion frequently, at least each week, if not daily. 3. Let my consecration of myself to God be made under your patronage and assisted by your intercession and in union with your merits. 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. Your life with Jesus was one of the purest, most fervent, most perfect emotions of love to God, whom you sheltered within yourself. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. Jesus belonged entirely to you, the holiest among women. Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Catholic News Agency I have saved my soul.". Your eyes ever watch over us; your ears ever listen to our cries; your hands are ever extended over us to help us and impart heavenly gifts to us; above all, your Heart is full of tenderest care for us. Through thirty-three years of Jesus' life on earth you suffered in silence. May the love and peace and happiness of your Holy Family reign in the Christian families of all times. Without God I can do nothing. Fulfill your apostolic mission of winning the world for Christ. But it is most reasonable and proper to say that God, who honored and loved You more than all others during your life, and whom He had chosen to be the Mother of His Son and our Redeemer, wills that all graces that are granted to those whom He has redeemed should pass through your hands and be distributed by you in order to exalt you. However, my sick soul is entitled to more vigilant care, for Jesus reminded me, "What does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his own soul" (Matt. 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. Angels came to escort you.
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