Mary, My Mother, at my baptism you gave me life at the moment when sanctifying grace was infused into my soul at the baptismal font. Make me a fervent apostle of the Eucharist. In the same way you, who freely delivered your son to a cruel death, parted with your Son. This Body, given to us at Christmas and immolated on Good Friday, was flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone. Grant that following your good counsel, I may avoid sin, practise virtue, save my soul and attain eternal life. From the moment of His entering the world, your loving Son Jesus, was the price of our salvation. 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. Mary, Mother of God, by your offering you sacrificed your own heart. Rather, your death was accompanied by three graces that made it precious and full of joy. In your heart and life the Eucharist took the place of His former presence in the flesh. Through your prayers and dignity the power and the fruits of the Passion of Jesus are applied to men No intercession, neither yours nor that of any saint, is of value except through Him, through His blessed wounds. You resigned yourself to the care of God, in the fullest confidence that He would guard your innocence and reputation. When His head was crowned with thorns, another crown of thorns encircled your Heart. In the hope that Life will triumph over death, from this moment and for ever more, we want to sing with you the glory of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Once more He renewed His offering at the Presentation in the Temple. Your eyes are the eyes of a good Mother, ever watchful to notice the need of your children, just as you looked out for the young couple at the marriage feast of Cana. Don Joslike the good Samaritansaw the lady, was filled with compassion . You formed His whole Self, to die for us as a sacrificial Lamb. Mary, Mother of God, God had a purpose in wanting you and Joseph to become man and wife. How wonderful, then, He must be in the Mother of the Saint of saints! I am filled with miseries both spiritual and temporal. 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. Mary, My Mother, How perfectly you have followed the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and acted on divine wisdom! No creature loved Jesus more than you, and consequently, no one loves the souls redeemed by His Blood more than you. When you learned from the angel that your cousin Elizabeth was with child and needed your help, you set out to care for her. 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. You passed amid the different choirs of the blessed, above all the heavenly spirits, and approached the throne of light prepared for you. If I have humility, God may flood my soul with grace here and exalt it eternally in heaven. 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. You commanded Him and He obeyed. Bishop Robert J. McClory. Through love you consecrated yourself with all your powers to God as the highest form of beauty and goodness. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." His role in our salvation is absolutely necessary. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. Mary, My Mother, your whole life was like a Mass. You so loved the world as to give your only Son for our redemption. 3. When Jesus was conceived in your womb by the infinite power of the Holy Spirit, you possessed the Author of grace, and He so adorned your soul with the richness of His heavenly gifts that you won the admiration of men and angels. With my whole heart I thank God for all He has done for you and for all mankind through you! We beg you for a burning charity for God to imitate the works of Christ. Let me never separate my sufferings from the sufferings of Your divine Son. As I gaze upon youthe ideal of perfection and sanctity, may a similar longing for God and complete dedication of myself to Him awaken in my soul. After the birth of your Divine Son, this grace grew in splendor within you as it daily united you more closely with your God. You know all our needsneeds of body and needs of soulinfinitely better than a mother. And finally when the sacrifice was completed by His death upon the cross you had your place beside Him. 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. Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your holiness to some degree. Help me to sacrifice myself generously for the love of Godto abstain from those many hurtful things that prevent the union of my soul with God. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. At your request He worked the first miracle of His public life. During His lifetime Jesus cured sickness and disease and even raised the dead to life, because people asked Him to do so in prayer. But God turned the scheme of the evil one back upon its inventor. Jesus belonged entirely to you, the holiest among women. Your Divine Son was destined to crush the serpent's head by releasing mankind from the slavery of Satan, thus putting an end to the empire of sin. She is forever imploring you to intercede in their behalf with Him who has clothed you with His light and His glory, and has poured out upon you the fullness of His grace. The divine maternity itself, more than any particular privilege, is a mark of God's unequalled love for you. If a single soul in the state of grace by far excels in beauty all other earthly beauty, what beauty must you possess, Virgin most pure, who surpassed in holiness all other souls in the state of grace! God wants His gifts recognized. You beheld His arms and feet roughly extended on the hard wood of the cross. Intercede for us that we may win the victory over evil and that we may live and reign with Jesus, your Son. This marked the beginning of your life of suffering together with Jesus. 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. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind so deeply as your heart, and, therefore, you wanted to unite your will to His, offering to Almighty God this Holy Sacrifice out of pure charity for the human race. As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. Whoever abides in this Church will bring forth much salutary fruit; whereas they who willingly separate themselves from it must wither away spiritually. Your heart sank each time He fell beneath its weight. When you later returned to your home, you were under the loving care of your mother, Saint Anne. At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. It urges my senses to lower desires, because I seek sensible pleasure in its every degree. Mary, Mother of God, in the Kingdom of Heaven you are continually employed in deeds of kindness and mercy, therefore you are truly the Mother of Divine Providence. Those words include us all. How great was your trust in God! Though you prophesied that all generations would call you blessed, you attributed all holiness to God. Heaven and earth shall perish before you are seen to abandon the miserable who pray to you sincerely. Aid me through your influence with your Divine Son, to be a true child of yours and to grow daily into your likeness. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. Mary, Mother of God, your charity is strikingly shown forth in the Visitation. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. (2) You took part in this offering also by the consent which you gave to the whole plan of the Redemption, and by your union of will with that of your divine Son even to the point of His sacrifice on the cross. 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. By His almighty power He would form the body of the Savior of the world, and the Divine Son would unite it to Himself forever. For that reason you were conceived by your mother, Saint Anne, without even the shadow of sin. Pray to Him for us, your children, that in our exile we may resemble you, His most devoted follower, and at last may glorify Him in union with you forever. But because of my sinfulness, I also have need of an intercessor with Him. 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." 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. After the Sacred Heart of Jesus, never was there a heart more pure and more holy. 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. 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. I may address myself to the saints for favors of various kinds, but my prayer must always pass through your hands if it is to reach the throne of grace and draw down the divine blessing. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you in the joyful expectation of your little Son. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Feast day: June 27 Patroness of the Republic of Haiti and Almoradi, Spain Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and Our Mother of Perpetual Help is the title given to a 15th-century icon that originated in the Keras Kardiotissas Monastery and has been in Rome since 1499. This is why you were greeted by the angel in the words, "Hail, full of grace." You abound in divine life for yourself; for us you abound in grace. Your body, which was the living tabernacle of the Eternal God and the temple of the Adorable Trinity, was not meant to crumble into dust. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. As mentioned in previous posts, this is an ongoing display of our Holy Card Collection. O powerful answer which rejoiced Heaven and brought an immense sea of graces and blessings into the world! The divine light, received from Him, led you deeper into the mystery of the Redemption and its effects in the past and in the future. When I say "Hail, Mary!" An event every year that begins at 12:00 am on day 15 of September, repeating indefinitely The title "Our Lady of Sorrows" focuses on Mary's intense suffering during the passion and death of Christ. Mary, Mother of God, your name means "full of light" and "light-giving." You would be hailed by all generations as blessed above all other women because you are the Mother of God and at the same time a spotless Virgin. Mary, My Mother, the angel said to you, "Blessed art thou among women." This doctrine was received in the early Church and handed down by the Fathers who praised you with extraordinary titles and most important writings. The climax of that sorrow came when the innocent Victim for the sins of mankind was given, dead, into your arms. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. Jesus is our life and you have given Him to us. View the Flyer. You truly deserve to be called the Mediatrix of Grace. 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. Corruption is a consequence of sin, but you were sinless. Your life with Jesus was one of deepest recollection, which gathered all the powers of your soul around the God-Man. I cannot have Jesus for my Brother if I do not have you for my Mother. My imitation of both Jesus and you depends upon my response to the amount of grace that God sees fit to give me. It is Mary's selfless act of letting her son be sacrificed for our salvation that makes her the Queen of martyrs. 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. 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. Feast, February 2 (Novena, Jan. 24-Feb. 1). Increase the number of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life and awaken in many young hearts a zeal for the salvation of pagans and sinners. 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. You were born into the world in the humble city of Nazareth. Then for His sake, be our Help! With no tendency to evil, but with a deep yearning for the highest virtue, you glorified God more than all His other creatures. In your humility you wished to serve others rather than to be served. You obtain graces for us even without our asking you for them. He is Son of man by His birth, in time, in the bosom of a woman. But saints and writers of the Church speak of devotion to you as a sign of perseverance in good and a happy death. All that He could give, He bestowed upon you, His Immaculate Bride. Mary, Mother of God, your greatness began at the first instant of your existence with the privilege of your Immaculate Conception. . On Feb. 11, 2020, I was ordained a bishop and installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates 491 years Robin Bradshaw , Hearst Dec. 12, 2022 Comments This is an image of a Spanish Baroque altar located inside of the Monastery of Santo. 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. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. Merit and glory attend your name. Let this be my consolation to know that I am doing God's Will. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. The more fully you are Queen in a soul, the more does Jesus reign there as King. 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. Though you had already been assured by the angel that you were this happy Mother chosen by the Lord, you did not stop to rejoice in your exaltation. Processions and Penitence In Malta, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, and the Philippines the Friday of Passion Weekthe Friday of Sorrows or Viernes de Dolores is celebrated with. Take my cold heart; put it into your own and inflame it with a fire of love like your own. A mother, as she hears her child lisping her name, is thrilled beyond all telling, at all times; and better than she, you will understand me when I say, "Hail Mary!". If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. Mercy is your special work in this drama of human life. I long for your complete dominion over meover my body, my soul, my senses, over all that I am and have. You are the first apostle of your children not only because you are the most perfect of mothers, but especially because you are our spiritual Mother. From your pure blood the Holy Spirit formed the pure Body of Jesus. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . The Sanctuary in 1906. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Comforter of the Afflicted because in your lifetime you bore every sort of affliction and you can now sympathize with me in my sufferings. You took your only Son to heart in all men born. You formed His Body in order that it might be given us in death and in the Blessed Sacrament. 2. You add a degree of motherly sweetness to the joy of the angels and saints and to the blessed of the Church triumphant. Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited. Amen. Mother of God, you have very great power. I believe with the Church that from the great treasury of graces that Jesus has merited for us, nothing comes to us, by the will of God. 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, Mother of God, make my interior life of union with Jesus more like your own. With sincere contrition for my sins I cry to you for help. This Feast day is kept by various religious orders in the Church. You conceived Jesus as the Head of regenerated mankind, the Head of a mystical body whose members we are. When I have pain, you are ready to comfort and strengthen me. Give me enthusiasm and joy in the knowledge, the love and the service of the Lord. But I can never be your true child if I am not humble. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. Your offering of the bloody sacrifice of Calvary is the perfect model for my offering Holy Mass. Such a stain would have reflected upon your Son, who is Holiness itself. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. There is nothing you want more than to give them to me, since you are even more anxious to save my soul than I am, for you know better than anyone else the price your Son has paid for it and the precious worth of each grace He so graciously offers to me through you. 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. 2. The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. 3. Though they had both vowed to consecrate their first-born child to the service of the Lord, they remained childless, a condition considered a disgrace among the Jews and a mark of heavenly disfavor. I believe, according to the inspired teaching of St. Paul, that there is but one Mediator between God and manyour Son Jesus. Mary, My Mother, I unite myself with you in the spirit in which you offered yourself as a sacrifice of love during your lifetime. At the Crib, you were the first ostensorium of your Son, showing Him to the shepherds, to the Magi and to the world. The Eternal Father takes pleasure in looking upon your Heart as the masterpiece of His Divine power. Like you, let me learn divine wisdom and see God in all things, so that I may rise from the creature to the great Creator. In His infinite mercy God chose Abraham who was to be the Father of a Chosen Nation. Penance and reparation is the one sure way of winning God's love and blessing for a misguided and sinful world. Yet these three have become for us a principle of life. This gift of Your Heart entitles you to be called the Mother of the Holy Eucharist.