On April 3rd, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X will have the joy of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion for the first time in all our houses. Your directions to the waiters: "Do whatever He tells you" (John 2, 5), show that you regarded your Son's answer as a striking sign of His special love for you. The more you beheld yourself enriched, the more humble did you become, remembering that all came to you from the infinite generosity of your Maker. 3. It was a life of concealment, and yet Jesus is infinite, the light of the angels and of the whole world. There before the tabernacle you relived in memory all the happy and sorrowful events of your life with Jesus. 1. Protect, guard, and keep them in holy fear, in peace, and in harmony of Christian charity. Help me to become a child in your school. You used most perfectly every actual grace given you by God in acts and virtue. 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. 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. Truly then, you are entitled to be called our Mediatrix. You were never under the power of the serpent, whose head you crushed in giving a Redeemer to the world. You have given to the world the Savior whom the Apostles have proclaimed. But because of my sinfulness, I also have need of an intercessor with Him. He wished to adapt Himself to our nature by giving us life and aid through the heart of a mother, having placed in your heart some of His own love for mankind to make you the spiritual Mother of the redeemed. 3. You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. May my faith influence my conduct. Many parishes, in addition to having a special feast day Mass, also host a reception or party in honor of the day. She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. Mary, My Mother, you alone never knew shipwreck in the deep ocean of humanity's crimes. Even when I forget you and begin to complain in my sufferings and crosses, you try to console me. Mary, Mother of God, by your offering you sacrificed your own heart. Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom we acclaim our Queen and Mother, lead our country to God. Hasten the reign of Christ by ruling over all of us, your children. It was life of the utmost weakness and helplessness, and yet His is the strength of God Himself. Never did a mother love her son as you loved Jesus; and so never did a mother share in her son's agony so deeply as you shared the Passion. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. 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. Decorate your table with colorful flowers . In your apparitions at Fatima you revealed that it is in the designs of the Divine Mercy to cure the world through your Heart. Give me a deep sorrow for my sins which have hurt God so very much. 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. You had a share in that work; it was part of your life-work. 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. Mary, Mother of God, God had a purpose in wanting you and Joseph to become man and wife. 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.
Our Lady of Lourdes - Feast Day - All Saints Museum This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. Your sorrow would be as deep as the sea. I long for your complete dominion over meover my body, my soul, my senses, over all that I am and have. Help me to perform all my actions in youto be entirely dependent upon you, taking your point of view, doing all things as you did them for God's honor and glory. You were chosen as Mother predestined before all creatures, filled with all grace, all virtue, all holiness so that the Son, infinitely pure, who in Heaven has an immortal and eternal Father, on earth has a Mother exempt from all sin. 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. With the Father you, too, can say: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.". Heaven and earth shall perish before you are seen to abandon the miserable who pray to you sincerely. These mysteries remind me also of your own glory, the Assumption of your soul and body into heaven and your crowning there as Queen of Heaven and Earth. You possessed, according to the words of the Archangel, such a fullness of grace that you were worthy to become the Mother of God. Our present century, the 19 th, has had the happiness of seeing another Pontiff, also named Pius, institute a Feast under this same titlea Feast which is intended to commemorate the Help bestowed on Christendom, and in all ages, by the Mother of God. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. Yet more powerfully still than even your exalted merits does the Precious Blood render God merciful to the sinner, for all comes to us through the Passion and death of Christ, your Son. You always had so lowly an opinion of yourself that, although you realized how many more graces and favors were bestowed upon you than upon others, you still preferred all others before yourself. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. Thus my soul in sanctifying grace is always, in a spiritual manner, like your womba sanctuary of the living God! If to live of the Eucharist and by the Eucharist was the very special spirit of the early Church"And they continued steadfastly in the communion of the breaking of the bread" (Acts 2, 42)it must have been the summary of your last years on earth. Let me fear such sickness of soul as avarice, lust, luxury, ambition, hatred, angerbecause, unless these are cured, they may bring about the eternal death of my soul. Your Heart remained spotless as a lily, and you are, therefore, justly called the "Queen of Virgins. But as Joseph had been united to you by the ties of marriage, he approached nearer than anyone else to your eminent dignity. 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. Previous; Play Quiz; Lent Day 6 - The Wedding at Cana. 16, 24). Yours is a queenship of dominion. The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. After the fall of our First Parents, earth which was to be paradise, was changed into a valley of tears on which the curse of God fell. Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. The title "Our Lady of Sorrows" focuses on Mary's intense suffering during the passion and death of Christ.
1st Feast of Our Lady of Silence is August 1 - Aleteia There the poor find aid; the sick and needy, remedy, the afflicted, consolation; the doubting, counsel; the distressed, help. You nourished Him, clothed Him, educated Him. You suffered with your Divine Son. You embrace the universe in the realm of your love and enrich it through your unfailing intercession. He was with you not only with His actual grace, touching your heart and enlightening your understanding. You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. I give you my whole being by copying as far as possible all your virtues by performing each of my actions through you, with you and in you This is the most pleasing homage I can render you. In you I behold the charm of the purest of virgins, the majesty of the noblest of mothers. By conforming themselves to the divine model of your Family, may they attain to eternal happiness. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. I thank you for consenting to become my spiritual Mother by giving me Jesus. When you agreed to the proposal made to you by the Angel, you gave Jesus to us by your own free act. From Him there flowed heavenwards an unceasing stream of glory, the waves of His grace ever poured over the earth. 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. The divine maternity itself, more than any particular privilege, is a mark of God's unequalled love for you. With your own eyes you saw Him brought first to Pilate, then to Herod and then again to Pilate. Great must have been the childlike reverence and respect with which you watched over your every action and which preserved you from ever displeasing the Divine Wisdom. Your power and motherly care not only embrace spiritual miseries but also extend to the ills of the body. As the loving Mother of Jesus, the glorious daughter of the Father, the cherished Bride of the Holy Spirit, you can never meet with a refusal. 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. Though the designs of God were unknown to you, you, nevertheless, detached your heart from the world in order to give all your love to God. It was not enough for the Infinite Lover of souls to free us from the slavery of hell by His Passion and death and to bestow upon us His body and blood, soul and divinity. Mary, My Mother, help me to realize that the closer my union with you, the more intimate is my union with your Son. This feast was suppressed with the revision of the calendar published in the Roman Missal of 1969. 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. This event has passed. On the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, 28 First Holy Communion students received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time. 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. You are the Glory of Jerusalem; you are the Joy of Israel; you are the Honor of our people. A blessed feast of OUR LADY of the MIRACULOUS MEDAL to you. We do not attribute to you the power of producing supernatural grace, even though you are the Mother of God, for this power belongs to God alone. Though it was out of sheer goodness that God decreed to give us His very Son in the Blessed Sacrament, I believe that your prayers had much to do with the carrying out of that plan; for you, too, must have prayed, "Give us this day our daily bread." As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. Mary, My Mother, God has willed that you should distribute His graces because you far surpass all other creatures in holiness: you are the masterpiece of His creation, who more than all the others honored and loved Him during your life; because you are the one whom He has chosen to be the Mother of His Son, and because you have been, according to the Divine Plan, associated with Jesus in the work of Redemption. Holiness is union with God through love. Mary, Mother of God, already in your childhood you dedicated yourself to the love and service of God. Make me your faithful child. 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. 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. Grant that all these, men and women alike, may be freed from sin, to repose on His Heart of merciful love. How can I ever understand the great love that bound your hearts together! 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. you. It urges my senses to lower desires, because I seek sensible pleasure in its every degree. Through your prayers may they and their children honor God by a virtuous life so as to be worthy of a heavenly reward. But with the same humility with which you had conceived Him, you consented to the supreme loss of your God. You were willing to offer Him at this tender age, for the salvation of the world. 2. Led by divine inspiration to His house, you prepared yourself for your sublime dignity of Divine Motherhood in silence and solitude with God. Mary, Mother of God, how pleasing to God was your humility! You are kind and loving for you have a mother's heart, full of pity for the erring. 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. You are pure and sinless. 3. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin who was promised as the Mother of the Savior. We all rejoice because all the graces and spiritual benefits we have received and shall receive, all our future glory comes from this exalted mystery of the Incarnation. Inflame me with that heavenly love with which you loved your dear Son, Jesus Christ . Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. I can picture you alone with your God, following with devotion the life led in common by the virgins of God's house. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. 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. 1. The divine maternity explains everything in you; without this maternity nothing in you can be explained. Virgin of virgins, remember me in my needs, and show yourself my Mother. The prayers of the saints avail only in a limited way. May I always be most grateful by striving to grow in this divine life. 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. It died that we might never die, that It might nourish us unto eternal life. 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. For the small sacrifice of being devoted to you I can obtain a happy death and eternal life. Mary, My Mother, your little life held a mystery immeasurably deeper than that of any other human life, since no mind could measure the distance that lay between the chosen Maiden who was not only the servant of the Lord but also His true Mother, and the rest of mankind who were His servants and no more. Mary, My Mother, as Dispenser of all graces, you make the world share in the infinite merits of the redemption. The Expectation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast, December 18 (Triduum, December 15-17 or until Christmas). I see you offering Him to the heavenly Father in the temple for our salvation. The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. Feast, February 2 (Novena, Jan. 24-Feb. 1). 1. It is from you alone that Christ took His human nature. Your own extraordinary grace and merit, your own wondrous privileges give to your prayer an irresistible force and power.
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