The more fully you are Queen in a soul, the more does Jesus reign there as King. 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. You shared more in this wisdom than did any other creature, because you approached nearer to the Source from which it cameJesus, the Eternal Wisdom. 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. From the moment you said, "Be it done to me according to thy word," the Father in heaven made Jesus and you, as it were, a redemptive pair; you, of course, have always been dependent on Him. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. Saturday of the First Week of Lent - Society of the Little Flower You were beautiful when you stood as the brave Queen of Martyrs beneath the cross of your dying Son; in the supper room beneath the fiery tongues of the Divine Spirit; beautiful, above all, in the glory in which you reign with Jesus. Your apostolate is universal because you are the spiritual Mother of all men and the universal Co-Redemptrix. The Archangel Gabriel expressed this very clearly: "Hail, full of grace"there was no room left for sin; "the Lord is with thee"where God dwells, Satan can have no rights; "blessed art thou among women"you were elevated above all other women in the world. For the first time after four thousand years God in His Wisdom and power and love, created again a human being in that state in which He had created our first parents. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." the seven dolors devotion approved by pope pius vii in 1815 view banner image of our lady of sorrows without the frame the feast day of the seven dolors is traditionally either the friday of passion week, which is the friday before good friday, or more generally on september 15, the official date for the feast. I am unworthy of that. Hymns for Our Lady of Sorrows / The Seven Sorrows of of the Blessed May I remember always your sorrows on Calvary, through which you begot us to God and became the co-redemptrix of our race. But that my devotion may be acceptable and my homage pleasing, let me endeavor to maintain within my soul, as much as possible the spotlessness of your purity and try to walk in your footsteps humbly and gently. I realize that it is the command of God that I take ordinary care to insure bodily health. 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). Don Luis de VelascoII, when he was Viceroy of New Spain, had as his confessor a Dominican, Fray Cristobal de Ortega, who also acted as his financial adviser. I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. God might have created a more beautiful world, perfect men. 3. To understand your dignity as Mother of God in all its fullness, we would have to understand fully the dignity of the Son of God whose Mother you are. 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 Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. He overshadowed you at the Annunciation and on Pentecost He made your heart a furnace of divine love. I, too, am a sinner. Virgin of virgins, remember me in my needs, and show yourself my Mother. Thus you associated yourself yet more directly and intimately with our salvation. Solemnity of Mary Mother of God 2. You thought only of praising Him as your greatest Benefactor when you exclaimed, "My soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my SaviorFor He who is mighty has done great things for me." For your generosity the Eternal Father made you, through Christ, the dispenser of the riches of God. It has been reproduced many times in copies and in book illustrations. His triumph over death His Ascension into Heaven, the sending of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Head of the Church, and you are its neck. Your loving submission to the Divine Will could not dry your tears, but it quieted the agony of your mother-heart. Help me to share actively in Holy Mass by sharing in your spirit. Since 1958 and the merging of the two saint days into one celebration (known as the Cooperative Feast), the Giglio Feast has been celebrated in July, with all activities leading up to its culmination on July 16th, the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. 1. By Francesca Merlo The Virgin of Guadalupe, like the shroud of Turin, appears on a piece of fabric. From all eternity God chose you to be His Mother that those who could not be saved according to the rigor of divine justice, might be saved with the help of your sweet mercy and powerful intercession. Prophets foretold the coming of the Savior and the manner in which the Redemption would take place. Your heart watches over them tenderly. For as often as I offended God by mortal sin, so often have I crucified the Son of God and made a mockery of Him. No one has found or received such grace as you. 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 Mary, My Mother, I firmly believe that the saints and blessed in Heaven can aid us by interceding for us with God. How wonderful were the workings of divine power to make you a fitting dwelling for the Redeemer of the world! I long for your complete dominion over meover my body, my soul, my senses, over all that I am and have. 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 Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. In 1668 the feast in honor of the Seven Dolors was set for the Sunday after September 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross. According to earthly standards, nothing could be added to your fullness of grace. But your love for God was even greater. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. The cross is the measure of God's love for us and the sum total of our love for God. As breathing is not only a sign but even a cause of life, so your name, which is constantly found on the lips of your servants, both proves that they are spiritually alive, and at the same time causes and preserves their life, and gives them every help in their needs. With your heart breaking with sorrow, you had to die a spiritual death in order to become my spiritual Mother. Only give me the grace to abandon myself completely to your motherly guidance. By consenting to give natural life to Jesus, you consented to give us supernatural life. Through your powerful intercession obtain for them the graces they need. He was with you not only by His sanctifying grace, making you pleasing in His sight, as He is present with all the just. 2. Let me know nothing else except this entire surrender of myself to God, this simple childlike act of the heart, as I cast myself into the Arms of Jesus and promise Him my fidelity. 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. 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. I want to take devotion to you seriously. Thus in consenting to the Incarnation, you cooperated directly in the redemption of the world, for the Incarnation was the first step in the work of our salvation. 1. I earnestly want to be filled with the dispositions in which you expected the coming of the Savior and thus prepare myself for His coming into my soul by faith and divine charity, as well as for His coming at the hour of my death and judgment. September 14, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality. How happy Jesus must have been to receive the homage that you paid Him! Enlightened by God, you knew that He would grant your request. In your humility you gladly suffered contempt with Jesus. Whatever graces we receive, come to us through your intercession. You are full of grace, the Lord's free gift, and it overflows in you filling your soul with every virtue and perfection. You were the instrument used by your Son. You took part in this offering of the life and death of Jesus. 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. 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. I find faith in its light, hope in its help. If I have humility, God may flood my soul with grace here and exalt it eternally in heaven. 1. The divine maternity permits you to love God with a very singular kind of love and to be loved by Him with an equally singular love. As you were the Mother of Jesus in the Incarnation, when He assumed a physical Body, so also you are the Mother of Jesus in His Mystical Body, and of all those who, as members of that Body, are the brothers and sisters of Christ by Divine adoption. The divine maternity explains everything in you; without this maternity nothing in you can be explained. What a striking lesson you give me by this unlimited confidence in the power and goodness-of your Divine Son! You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. Thus you became in some way the source of that grace which Jesus would pour forth over all mankind. 2. You formed His Body in order that it might be given us in death and in the Blessed Sacrament. 1. Furthermore, Jesus made the revelation of His divinity and the strengthening of the faith of His disciples the effect of your intercession. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. May your name be the last sound that escapes my lips upon this earth and the first I breathe in heaven. God bless. Mary, Mother of God, the joyful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the mysteries in which the Word was made flesh and you, the inviolate Virgin and Mother, performed your maternal duties with holy joy. What marvels of grace possessed your soul! . The Father crowned you by making you a sharer in His power, the Son by making you partaker of His wisdom; the Holy Spirit, by making you partaker of His love. I realize that imitating you is the best way of imitating Jesus and of obtaining your all-powerful intercession. This loving union will sustain me no matter how heavy my cross. Let me never separate my sufferings from the sufferings of Your divine Son. You became the Mother of God and remained a virgin. Once more He renewed His offering at the Presentation in the Temple. May I always be most grateful by striving to grow in this divine life. The first characteristic of humility of heart is a humble opinion of oneself. Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. 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. . 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. The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. Our Lady appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858, and the rest as they say is history! Mary, My Mother, though your body was separated from your soul in death, your soul was reunited in your incorrupt body, and you were taken up into heaven by angels. 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. Through love you consecrated yourself with all your powers to God as the highest form of beauty and goodness. Your life, like that of your Divine Son, was a daily crucifixion and martyrdom, but on Good Friday that crucifixion reached its climax. Francis Possenti was born in Assisi. All your trials and sufferings are now transformed into jewels that decorate your triumphal throne in Heaven. Because of your dignity, you reach to the borders of the divine. You are a second and more blessed Eve. I am grateful to your divine Son for this priceless gift of God, for by His Passion and death He not only reinstated us in the friendship of His heavenly Father, but also purchased for us all the graces we stand in need of to attain eternal life. 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. Even if I have committed all possible sins, let me never lose confidence in you, for I know I shall always find your Heart filled with mercy The Son of God has His justice, but you, the Mother, have only your mercy. More than ever before, we have need of your help today. You knew that thousands even of His faithful followers throughout the world would turn from Him and would make His coming the occasion of their eternal ruin. With Christ you have contributed to our redemption; hence you may be called Co-Redemptrix. You saw Barabbas preferred to Jesus when the Roman governor showed the Man of Sorrows to the angry mob. Whatever of sanctity, of dignity, of merit, of grace and of glory, that we can imagine, all is in you. 2. Help me to use the graces God gives me for my sanctification. You have never turned away your eyes from souls in need. In this time of crisis there is need that we hasten to you for aid, strength and direction. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. Our Lady of Sichem, Belgium (474) 4. 1. On November 27, 1830, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Catherine Labour in her Daughters of Charity convent in Paris, asking that a medal be cast according to the pattern which Our Lady displayed, and promising that all who wear this medal will receive great . Give me a deep sorrow for my sins which have hurt God so very much. Even when I disappoint you by doing my best to shake off the cross God has placed upon my shoulders, you pray for me. 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. Your heart sank each time He fell beneath its weight. Elizabeth proclaimed that you were the Mother of Christ and declared you blessed among women because you were the most holy dwelling of the Eternal God. Mary, My Mother, all the saints have prayed to you for help: the prophets, the evangelists, the apostles, the martyrs, the confessors, the heroic virgins and chaste widows. You bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. Our Lady is not looking at Jesus, but rather to us, to express compassion for us in our fears and sorrows. 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! It is but a symbol of the endless victories which you are to win over him to the last day. 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. 67, 36). You come nearest to the holiness of God. 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. Copyright by FATHERS RUMBLE AND CARTY Radio Replies Press Society St. Paul 1, Minn., U.S.A. EWTN | 5817 Old Leeds Rd. May each pain and disappointment of my life become a perfect act of love of God because I offer all to God through your immaculate hands. He was endowed by God with all a father's tenderness and love for Him who was confided to him as his Child. First of all, because of your humility you merited to be exalted above all creatures. He died out of love for us; this was His final proof of love. You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. You must have willed your Son's death, because, hard as it was to make this sacrifice, it would have been quite impossible for your will to be the least separated from His. How God has loved you by making you His Mother! May the Rosary also be a means of obtaining all the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. The divine maternity itself, more than any particular privilege, is a mark of God's unequalled love for you. Help me to imitate your fullness of grace by receiving Holy Communion frequently, where I shall obtain the sanctifying grace that will make my soul holy and pleasing to God, more like your own, and where I shall obtain the actual graces I need to practise virtue and to walk in your footsteps. 2. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are the holiest of God's creatures. For vain joys or small profits people sacrifice much. Inflame me with that heavenly love with which you loved your dear Son, Jesus Christ . He forms Himself in me by supernatural principles, which He implants in my mind; by supernatural intentions and meritorious actions. Your life with Jesus was one of the purest, most fervent, most perfect emotions of love to God, whom you sheltered within yourself. Help me to become a child in your school. Do not forsake me sweet Mother of Sorrows, because you are my spiritual Mother. Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. Because you freely consented to become the Mother of God, you experienced mentally all the bitterness of your Son's Passion and death. He has given me. Mary, Mother of God, your life, like that of your Divine Son, was a daily crucifixion and martyrdom. I have saved my soul.". 1. We join you, Queen of the Holy Rosary, in praying for peace in the world. I also believe that grace is a free gift of God, and I have no claim to it except as a member of His holy Church, which is the mystical body of Christ. . 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. Let me find consolation and strength in your favorite devotionthe rosary. 1. Hell is forced to bear the weight of your lasting hatred. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. Take my cold heart; put it into your own and inflame it with a fire of love like your own. Everyday, somewhere in the world, local, regional or universal feast of Our Lady is celebrated. 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. Help me to perform all my actions with youto look upon you as a model and helper. May my life thus become a copy of your own life especially during this time of your expectation! . 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. I give you my will by an absolute confidence in you, a confidence founded on your power and your goodness. Whereas pride and ingratitude repel grace from our souls, gratitude and humility, like golden keys, unlock the treasury of heaven. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27. Pray for us Christians who sigh to you in this vale of tears so that we may be comforted, enlightened, strengthened, guided, and finally saved! We can certainly call you "Suppliant Omnipotence.". You are our spiritual Mother in the order of grace. 1. Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows - September 15, 2012 - Liturgical Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! 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.

Carlton County Court Calendar, Ahlberg Funeral Home Obituaries, Toro Timemaster Discontinued, Wegmans Maternity Leave Policy, Articles O