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You are a Mediatrix because since your Assumption, with Christ you obtain all graces for men. When He had finished the work of our Redemption by His labors, suffering and death, the Eternal Word, clothed in our nature, entered into His glory and was seated on the right hand of the Eternal Father. 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. 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. He promised that my prayers would be heard when He said, "Ask, and it shall be given you" (Matt. 1. 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. Then, through your compassion be pleased to send down to us, your poor servants, a rich abundance of your graces and blessing. Teach me to answer such love with childlike confidence. The reredos is in gold relief, being copied from work in the chapel of the Duchess of Newcastle. Through your powerful intercession obtain for them the graces they need. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your name means "full of light" and "light-giving." Now you realize human misery more fully and, therefore, show your mercy and compassion and help more generously. But God has willed that you should be exempted from this general rule because, by an entirely singular privilege, you completely overcame sin by your Immaculate Conception. Bless our prayers and labors for the conversion of the world and support them by your powerful intercession with your Son, Jesus, that His Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace Justice. Though receiving all you obtain through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for it in the Name of Jesus, yet whatever graces we receive, come to us through your intercession. All your privileges increased your power to love God. The Holy Spirit overshadowed you at the Annunciation, and on Pentecost He made your heart a furnace of Divine love. I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. Be pleased to intercede with Jesus, your Son, for Christian families. 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. Who can describe the merits and graces that adorned your soul at the glorious instant of your Nativity at a period when all other children have no merit! 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. Mary, Mother of God, your apparition at Guadalupe teaches me that devotion to you is a source of great graces. 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. I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. In this mystery Jesus is plainly a Victim, and not so plainly a Priest; He could not better communicate His spirit of priesthood than by allowing you, His Mother, to present His outward offering He could find no worthier altar on which to offer Himself than your immaculate hands. But with these joys were also mingled bitter sorrows. When you heard Jesus utter these words and saw Him bow His head and die, you died a spiritual death. 1. 1. After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. But you merited the title Co-Redemptrix above all by your union with Christ in His redemptive sacrifice. But who can describe the matchless purity and beauty of your soul? Mary, Mother of God, your charity is strikingly shown forth in the Visitation. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. Keep me humble that I may be able to receive your counsel. Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). But though your soul was filled with grief, you bravely stood beneath the cross. Our Lady of Consolation, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28) Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8 The Most Holy Name of Mary, Sept. 12 Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15 Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Ransom), Sept. 24 Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7 Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 11 How many are now in heaven because of the protection given them by your merciful Heart! 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!". In heaven all your subjects are crowned by the King of kings, and they pay homage to you. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. Fr. In your contemplation of God, you behold our needs with our prayers, and you beg God to grant these favors to us. 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. Your soul contained all the marvels of God's grace, for which reason the Church calls you the Singular Vessel of Devotion. On the calendar, the feast day is after that of the Exaltation of the Cross. Wednesday, devoted to our Lady, is a day of reflection and spiritual orientation; Friday emphasizes conversion and penance; Saturday, a preview of Easter, marked the renewal of our baptismal covenant. Jesus is the Son of God by His marvelous and eternal birth "in the bosom of His Father." I should learn from your conduct never to oppose the divine will, even though conformity to it may mean a severe test of my faith. Gazing sorrowfully on His lifeless body, you watched the soldier drive the spear into His Heart. Your Heart is a shrine adorned with all the skill of the Divine Creator, Who has lavished upon it the riches of His treasure-housesanctifying grace, greater in worth than all the riches of the world. The early writers of the Church already speak of you as a second Eve, who fulfilled in the restoration of mankind a role closely corresponding to that of Eve in the ruin of our race. With my whole heart I thank God for all He has done for you and for all mankind through you! Everyday, somewhere in the world, local, regional or universal feast of Our Lady is celebrated. You brought me forth to the divine life. Clothe me with your own humility. In God there are no disappointments, no false promises. 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. 2. Your faith taught you that the predictions of both were inspired by the Holy Spirit. December 12, 2021: "Our Lady of Guadalupe came to be the Mother of the Americas, to announce the new birth of Jesus Christ among the peoples and nations of the New World. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. Whatever graces we receive, come to us through your intercession. By Francesca Merlo The Virgin of Guadalupe, like the shroud of Turin, appears on a piece of fabric. The pangs of this childbirth were the sufferings you felt on Calvary. 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. The Calendar section will present a particular feast for Our Lady for each day of the year. Be a mother to me and save me. Appeared to St. Jerome Emiliani, 1530 5. Refuge of sinners, do not turn us away when we entreat you. Mary, Mother of God, your name is most glorious and most powerful. In 1668, the feast in honor of the Seven Sorrows (Dolors) was set for the Sunday after September 14, the feast of the exaltation of the Cross. 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. It is from you alone that Christ took His human nature. Your action is above all one of intercession. You are the Mediatrix of our peace with God and the Giver of heavenly graces. May these graces become most fruitful in my soul till I become like you, another Christ. You have given me life without end, a life of happiness for all eternity, not a created life, but a share in uncreated life, in the very life of God. When the Angel Gabriel came as a messenger from God, it was not only to ask your consent to become the Mother of the Son of God, but also to treat with you of the salvation of the human race, of the birth of the Savior of the world, of the regeneration of mankind and the setting up of an everlasting kingdom. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. Help me to esteem the light of my reason as a sharing in the divine wisdom, especially when I try to follow the teaching of the Gospel. I shall realize that God, in His infinite wisdom will make all things work together unto my good. For that reason you were conceived by your mother, Saint Anne, without even the shadow of sin. You obtain graces for us even without our asking you for them. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.". Unmindful of your dignity and greatness, you thought only of returning thanks to God, to whom you attributed all your greatness and privileges. 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. Your loving Son came to teach this virtue to mankind by His example, and He desired that we should especially strive to imitate Him, for He said, "Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls" (Matt. He also willed that (2) everywhere the offering of Himself should be presented to the Father through your hands. 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. 16, 24). Intercede for us that we may win the victory over evil and that we may live and reign with Jesus, your Son. . Joseph was chosen by God the Father to take His own place, in regard to His Divine Son, during the early years of that Son's life on earth. It was His will that you dispense mercy by helping sinners, healing the sick, relieving the distressed and comforting the sorrowful everywhere. 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. It was, therefore, befitting that you, His Immaculate Mother, destined to cooperate with Him in the work of Redemption, should teach the world, by your submission to the law of purification, this great truth, that humility is the beginning of our salvation, as pride has been the root of our ruin. Teach me to admire your virtues that I maybe constantly reminded to imitate them and become like you. The Church venerates many holy virgins, martyrs and other saints, but no one of them has merited or obtained your title of Holy Virgin, Virgin most pure. Amen. What merits did not your perfect immolation gain! 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. You saw His virginal flesh torn open again when the soldiers pitilessly stripped Him of His garments. pray for me! Each Communion is a mystery of your love for us and a grace which you obtain and bestow on us. Mary, Mother of God, I choose you as my model of Eucharistic devotion. 2. (1) The seven founders of the Servite Order, in 1239, five years after they established themselves on Monte Senario, took up the sorrows of Mary, standing under the Cross, as the principal devotion of their order. I have saved my soul.". They then left a small offering of silver required by the Law of Moses. He ordered most perfectly His whole creation, for He is the true fountain and highest source of light and wisdom. 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 . Here on earth kings and rulers lay at your feet their crowns, their very selves. 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 protection never ceases, your intercession brings hope and life. It impels my mind to self-exaltation, because I am proud. May I be found worthy of your frequent visits with Jesus to my heart in this life and of the invitation to come and live with You both for all eternity in heaven. To bring us forth, you gave much more than our earthly mothers gave. At the very instant of your conception your mind was filled with the light of God, and your will was entirely conformed to the divine will. Note: This prayer was approved and enriched with an indulgence of five hundred days by Pope Pius X at all audience held on August 18, 1908, and was included in the official edition of approved indulgenced prayers (1950). We obtain everything for our peace of soul in time and eternity from the Father through the Heart of Jesus and everything from Jesus through your Heart. Mary, My Mother, yours is a queenship of conquest. This Body, given to us at Christmas and immolated on Good Friday, was flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone. Enlightened by God, you knew that He would grant your request. From the cross Jesus gave you to me to be my Mother, and I was entrusted to your care as your child. 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. Yet no selfish thought, no bitter resentment has marred your beauty. 3. When God decreed the incarnation of the Word, His very own Son, through you alone, you had a place in the same plan as Jesus. JANUARY (click on the month to view in full detail) Fully acknowledging your unworthiness to be the Mother of Christ, you accepted the exalted privilege only in obedience to the divine will. 1. Your holiness was due to this Spirit of Love, to Whose guidance you abandoned yourself. 3. Of course, you never thought of yourself as a sinner for humility is truth, and you knew that you had never offended God. He was pleased to help others for your sake. In you, to an eminent degree, all the privileges of other saints meet. But I want to be loved by you even more; hence, give me an ever growing love for you. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. Your name means Sea of Bitterness. Mary, My Mother, you alone never knew shipwreck in the deep ocean of humanity's crimes. Feast, August 22Octave of the Assumption (Novena, August 13-21) 1. Our Lady is not looking at Jesus, but rather to us, to express compassion for us in our fears and sorrows. In the spirit of loving confidence we have recourse to you. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," says the psalmist (110, 10). The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. But we do find you standing beneath the cross on Calvary, when your Son was derided and mocked. How generously you offered Jesus, your dearest treasure, as a Victim to the justice of His offended Father! Your birth was a miracle of the power of God because both of your parents were far advanced in years. Your dignity as Mother of God is so lofty that nothing created can rank above it. What greater wonder could the world behold, than a woman become the Mother of God, and a God clothed in human flesh? Due to her feast day on September 15, the month of September has traditionally been set aside to honor Our Lady of Sorrows. In your apparitions at Fatima you revealed that it is in the designs of the Divine Mercy to cure the world through your Heart. With joy you must have foreseen the millions of souls who by your presence in their lives would cast off the bonds of sin. "Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. Mary, Mother of God, you are our true Mother because you have given us supernatural life. The beloved disciple told you what he had seen in the houses of Annas and Caiphas: how Jesus had been accused as a blasphemer for stating that He was the Son of God. According to God's eternal standards, the sanctity proclaimed by Gabriel when he called you "full of grace," was but the beginning of your wonderful growth in holiness. You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. The cross is the measure of God's love for us and the sum total of our love for God. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12th is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. How delightful a sight must your beautiful soul have been to heaven! Mary, Mother of God, I pour out to you the sorrows of my own troubled heart. I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. I thank you for consenting to become my spiritual Mother by giving me Jesus. View the Flyer. You were dressed in your finest clothes and surrounded by your friends as you joined the procession by the light of lamps and the sound of music. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. It is still . Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. Within your humble home in the little town of Nazareth, the Holy Spirit willed to perform a miracle that was the masterpiece of infinite powerthe Incarnation of the Son of God. In becoming His Mother, you became ours. It died that we might never die, that It might nourish us unto eternal life. Because you were to be the Mother of God, original sin, which like all Eve's daughters you should have contracted, could not touch you. Mary, My Mother, you always lived under the divine influence of the Holy Spirit and in the closest possible union with Him. At the same time you had to offer the most intense human suffering, in union with the Passion of your Son. At the same time your name brings before me your virtues, your merits, your beauty. 3. You invite none to come to you but the lowly of spirit. You formed His feet, to search after and seek us as a Good Shepherd, His hands to heal us and to be pierced for us; and His shoulders to carry the cross. Through the sacraments, prayer and good deeds, I can make my own the merit of the atonement of Jesus. You nourished Him, clothed Him, educated Him. The divine maternity explains everything in you; without this maternity nothing in you can be explained. Mary, Mother of God, how wonderful was your own interior life as you carried the Son of God in your womb and awaited His coming! You would not be completely happy in heaven if you did not know the interests of those souls redeemed at the cost of so much pain to Jesus and you. 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. Its martyrdom began with holy Simeon's prophecy in the temple and was completed on Calvary. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. "The Lord is with thee." In you He reposed for nine months, with His whole divinity and humanity. You love us as a mother loves her children. This is what took place at His entrance into the world; and again when He took upon Himself the office of Savior in the mystery of the Circumcision, and received from you the Holy Name of Jesus. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. Like you let me realize my own nothingness. Before you were crowned Queen of Heaven you became the Mother of Sorrows. 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. OUR LADY OF SORROWS Feast day- September 15, 2022. 3. Rule over us by the queenly power of your love that the Kingdom of your Sonthe Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace, Justice, Love and Peacemay come upon earth. May your title of Mother of Divine Providence ever give us confidence that you will never fail us, but will provide for all we need in this present life that we may attain eternal life. As we have received through you the Universal Source of Grace Jesus your Son, so we still continue to receive, by your intercession, the various actual graces suited to our state and calling in Christ. 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. Neither your long absence from home, nor the inconvenience of a difficult and dangerous journey to the mountain country kept you from making this mission of love. Each event of the sorrowful drama of His sufferings was a sword that pierced your motherly heart. Sanctifying grace likened you to God as it did no other pure creature. 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. 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. 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. O powerful answer which rejoiced Heaven and brought an immense sea of graces and blessings into the world! He took to Himself our human flesh and became man in order that He might give Himself up for us to the death of the cross.

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