What a beautiful example for parents to imitate! Mary, Mother of God, teach me to be truly humble. 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. 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 to see this Face unveiled, in all the beauty and grace of childhood as the face of your own child. You suffered with your Divine Son. Hence with Holy Church I repeat, "You are all fair, Mary, and the stain of original sin is not in you. It also means unlimited confidence in your motherly intercession if I should have the misfortune of straying from Jesus by sin. In you, and of your substance, was this day formed His adorable Body. "And thy own soul a sword shall pierce." 2. Jesus is the Head of the Church, and you are its neck. 3. Yours is a queenship of dominion. I need not see you appear, as you did to so many others. I wish to make reparation by offering sacrifices to atone for sin by fulfilling my daily duties well, by accepting the crosses of life with resignation and love, by obeying the commandments, by going to Mass, confession and Communion frequently, above all on the first Saturday of each month, and by praying much, especially your holy Rosary. "The altar was designed by Mr. W. J. Devlin and executed by the well-known firm of Boulton of Cheltenham. Jesus was a Son to you and a sword to you: a Son on your breast, a sword in your heart. 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. I am happy at the thought that you, a human creature, have escaped completely from the clutches of Satan, that born of a race universally tainted, you are more pure and more brilliant than the most sublime of the angels; and that you are my Mother.
Feast Days of Mary | Marians of the Immaculate Conception Teach me to understand something of your love for the Holy Spirit and His love for you in keeping your soul beautiful and holy. How well your name gives expression to your position and your mission in lifeyour divine Motherhood In virtue of this privilege, you reflect as a spotless mirror the eternal Light of the Word, which is first poured into you and illuminates you. The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. 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. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. Such love set your Heart on fire with love for your Divine Son, not only as your Son, but also as your God and Savior since you had shared in advance in the merits of His Passion and death. You obtain graces for us even without our asking you for them. You "found grace with God" to restore salvation to all men. God reserves to Himself the dispensing of justice to all creatures. Though you felt joy in the birth of your first-born Son, you brought us forth in sorrow at the death of that same Son. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. With your arms outstretchedthose arms in which the Eternal God delighted to rest when He became our Brotherplead our cause. You concealed even from your beloved spouse, Saint Joseph, the important fact that you were the chosen Mother of God, and you awaited God's good pleasure to reveal the great mystery to him. You could not of yourself provide the protection and training the Child needed. Hence the Church sings of you: "You are all fair, O Mary, and the original stain is not in you.". I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. After the birth of your Divine Son, this grace grew in splendor within you as it daily united you more closely with your God. I wish to attend Holy Mass, receive Holy Communion, and visit Jesus in the tabernacle in union with you, in the spirit in which you yourself did so. 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. But you are a creature so holy and so perfect that you are superior to all other creatures. Jesus did this in union with you. Do not be afraid Mary, for you have found, not taken, grace, as Lucifer tried to take it. You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. You did not go to a distance, but drew nearer to the crossthe hard bed on which Jesus had to die. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. Mary, Mother of God, you are more truly our Mother than any other mother by the way in which you have given us life. You are the Virgin to whom God the Father decreed to give His only Sonthe Divine Word, equal with Himself in all thingsthat entering the natural order He might become your Son as well as His. To become the Mother of God meant for you a knowledge of and a share in the Passion of Christ that would plunge you into the depths of a sea of lonely desolation. During this long period of concealment in your womb, you perfected His bodily faculties for our benefit. Saint Elizabeth received the Holy Spirit through your intervention, in order to teach us that we must make use of you as our Mediatrix with your Divine Son, if we wish to obtain the Holy Spirit. Whatever graces we receive, come to us through your intercession. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. Penance and reparation is the one sure way of winning God's love and blessing for a misguided and sinful world. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. I give you my intellect by holding you in loving reverence because of your dignity as Mother of God. Having deigned to come down to you, He wished to raise you up to Himself in order that you might enter into glory. He was with you in a manner more intimate, more perfect, and more divine than He ever was or will be with any other creature. All your trials and sufferings are now transformed into jewels that decorate your triumphal throne in Heaven. I ask this with special earnestness from you who are the Health of the Sick. At the Crib, you were the first ostensorium of your Son, showing Him to the shepherds, to the Magi and to the world. Indeed, I will suffer with joy if I realize that Christ is suffering with me and in me and that He sends me the cross only to trace His image in my soul by uniting me closely with Himself. Jesus died because He willed to die. In so doing I simply imitate God who gave Himself and His Son to us through you. Your heart was visited with seven swords of sorrow before you became the Comforter of the Afflicted and the Cause of our Joy. You brought me forth spiritually to a new life of grace. 3. God has created nature and all the wondrous functions of the human body. As a child runs to its mother in every need and finds comfort in her glance and kind word, I can turn to you for help when I need it, for you are truly my Mother, whose heart is overflowing with kindness and mercy. In the same way you, who freely delivered your son to a cruel death, parted with your Son. You are my Queen, my Lady. In 1727, Pope Benedict XIII placed the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion in the Roman Calendar on Friday before Palm Sunday. My imitation of both Jesus and you depends upon my response to the amount of grace that God sees fit to give me. You will obtain for me grace to be faithful to God during the rest of my life. 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. 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. With your foot you crushed the head of the serpent and conquered evil with goodness. Our Lady of Good Counsel, I beg you to teach me true heavenly wisdom which was the source of every good deed you performed.
Our Lady of Palestine stands watch over the land where she - Aleteia 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. Even when I forget you and begin to complain in my sufferings and crosses, you try to console me. Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. 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. I am afflicted with many sorrows in body and soul, and I take refuge, like a child, in the embrace of your motherly protection. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. 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! Your apostolate is universal because you are the spiritual Mother of all men and the universal Co-Redemptrix. 1. As cooperator with your Son in that work of redemption, you also acquired the right to reign with Him. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. Though you prophesied that all generations would call you blessed, you attributed all holiness to God. How God rewarded your humble and deep faith! Who can understand the joy you feel to be able to give happiness to the whole world? Grace comes to us from Jesus and reaches us through you. You are truly His beloved Daughter, the only one in whom there was never a stain. More than 130 years ago, Mercy Home was first established as the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy. As Mother of God, you became a cooperator in the Redemption of mankind. Altogether 24 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. 3. 1. Your dignity as Mother of God is so lofty that nothing created can rank above it. You are the Mother of the Son of God. They spoke of you as His Virgin Mother and of the part you would play in the Redemption of mankind. You offered Him on the altar of the Crossthe future Eucharistic Christin perfect adoration to the insulted majesty of God, in thanksgiving for all the blessings showered on mankind; in reparation for our sins and in petition for sinners. May your holy marriage be an inspiration to Christian husbands and wives so that they may always live in sincere love and peace and be obedient to the commandments of God. Mary, My Mother, in your womb, the sanctuary of the living God, Jesus was occupied with the sanctification and government of the world. 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. With this job opportunity, you will be able to foster compassion, character, knowledge and service for all. 2. You were taken to Heaven by the power of God, accompanied and upheld by the angels, raised aloft by grace, not by nature. During my whole life you continue to take care of me until Christ be formed in me. Your heart sank each time He fell beneath its weight. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are my Mother of Perpetual Help because of your love for me. You appeared as the Woman of the Apocalypse, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon. Mary, My Mother, what joy for you never to have been, even for a single instant, in the state of enmity toward God! Fr. Mary, My Mother, your power as Mother of Divine Providence is indeed as great as your compassion and willingness to help. Have pity on the sinners of the world. You are kind and loving for you have a mother's heart, full of pity for the erring. Mary, My Mother, the day of your Assumption was the great day of your triumph. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you that you are so privileged, so exalted as to become the worthy Mother of God. All that He could give, He bestowed upon you, His Immaculate Bride. Help me to make good use of the graces given me by God. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.". 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. continue our lady of sorrows feast day. But Jesus was constantly sanctifying you, His loving Mother, transforming you ever more and more into Himself by wondrous graces of knowledge of the mystery of the Incarnation, and by graces of love which united you to Him. PRAYER: O most holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ: by the overwhelming grief you experienced when you witnessed the martyrdom, the crucifixion, and death of your divine Son, look upon me with eyes of compassion, and awaken in my heart a tender commiseration for those sufferings, as well as a sincere detestation of my sins, in order . 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. It was fitting that you receive into your holy womb the One who contained all graces. Mary, My Mother, the Church puts these words of the Canticle on your lips: "I love those who love me." The more your humility was tried, the more lowly you became in your own estimation. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. Everything which Jesus may claim in justice is yours by friendship's title. How great was your trust in God! May I have more of their love for you so that I may experience more of their joy in being devoted to you. Being the new Eve who was to be the Mother of the new Adam you were, by the eternal decree of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. I have carried my cross patiently which He gave me to carry. 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. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that the dignity, holiness and glory of Joseph rests on the fact that he was your spouse and that he was the foster father of Jesus Christ. After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. 3. Preserve their faith, assailed at every hour by the forces opposed to Christ. I became a child of God. 3. Mary, My Mother, the divine Motherhood meant for you deepest suffering. 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. His Heart is a loving Heart, and that love is symbolized by the flames which St. Margaret Mary saw coming forth from it. This feast will take place this year under very special circumstances for us all. Mother you are and that doubly in the terms of our Catholic belief: human Mother of Jesus, supernatural Mother of every Christian. And yet, in the whole work of the redemption, your Son wanted to associate you with Himself. How often I do not know where to turn. You adored your God incarnate within your chaste womb from the time of the Incarnation to His birth. But how careless I am about my spiritual health! 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 . What songs of gladness by the elect as you were crowned by the Blessed Trinity and made Queen of heaven, advocate of the human race and dispenser of the graces of the Redemption! Though worn with sorrow, you at once took your place at the foot of the cross. I believe that all graces and heavenly favors flow to the Mystical Body of Christ as from the Head, but you are the channel, through which, by God's will, all graces come to humanity. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. I already know of your great love for me for the sake of your Son who entrusted the care of my soul to you. Grant that following your good counsel, I may avoid sin, practise virtue, save my soul and attain eternal life. You are the morning star,the morning star that announces the arrival of the sun of justice. Having heard the prophecy of your Son's suffering, you almost rejoiced to hear that you would share His suffering. The repetition of the "Hail Marys" keep before my mind the importance of the Incarnation and your share in it. Jesus belonged entirely to you, the holiest among women. 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. Mary, Mother of God, as Mediatrix of All Graces you have entered into the highest state of power and glory in heaven in order that you may help us on our difficult journey to the heavenly City of God. Pray for more lay apostles, who in every walk of life will defend the rights of God, proclaim His Truth and preach His holy Will by word and example. Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. I believe that all graces, all heavenly blessings descend from Jesusas from the Headby means of youas the neckto the body of the Church. 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. You learned to read the sacred books by yourself and tried to penetrate their hidden meaning. With you all is pure, virginal, immaculate In you there is no inclination to evilno impure thoughts or desires. Through your all powerful prayers, obtain for me not only God's forgiveness, but also the grace to amend my life and to save my soul. Jesus is in me, too, through sanctifying grace, I bear within me the supernatural image of the Divine Sonship. 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. This humility was richly rewarded. Since the conception of the Son of God is all holy, all pure, infinitely removed from every appearance of sin, it was supremely fitting that your conception should be equally far from sin. Thus my soul in sanctifying grace is always, in a spiritual manner, like your womba sanctuary of the living God! 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. our lady of sorrows feast day. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. In your contemplation of God, you behold our needs with our prayers, and you beg God to grant these favors to us. Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of Good Counsel, I appeal to you for advice and guidance. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. 3. 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. At one time when you wanted to speak with Jesus, your humility forbade you to enter the house where He was preaching until you were asked to do so. 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. The degree of childlike humility I have attained in life will be the degree of my greatness in heaven. When the Triune God destined and elevated you, a mortal Virgin, to the dignity of Mother of the Redeemer, the Father had to endow you with a fullness of perfection suitable for such a dignity. 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. Mary, My Mother, you stand in the presence of your Son, interceding for sinners. 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, your dear parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne, rejoiced at your birth. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. Here there was a sacrifice, and Jesus was the Victim. Mary, Mother of God, you are our true Mother because you have given us supernatural life. It was fitting that you, a Virgin Mother, should conceive the Man Who was also the Son of God. You nourished Him, clothed Him, educated Him. 11, 29). You are truly the pledge of Divine mercy. Through prayer may grace fill my soul with the life of God and transform me into a living image of Jesus, just as you were. The corresponding feast, however, did not . The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th.
The Feast of Our Lady of Mercy | Mercy Home for Boys & Girls Her name, feast day, location of her monastery, and attributes are those of the Celtic Goddess Brigit. 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." Mary, Mother of God, as Refuge of sinners, you will never turn away those who have recourse to your compassion. Your womb was so pure, so immaculate that it became the Holy of Holies, in which Jesus Christ our Lord, the Eternal High Priest, alone found entrance. You really had the right to offer Jesus to His Heavenly Father in this mystery.