The Eternal Father takes pleasure in looking upon your Heart as the masterpiece of His Divine power. 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. You formed His Heart, to love us, and His Precious Blood, to shed for us and to be given to us for our drink. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day All Events. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. Since you have had such an intimate share in my redemption, I entrust my soul to your loving care. For vain joys or small profits people sacrifice much. Mary, Mother of God, I admire Your obedience and humility in submitting to the law of purification by presenting yourself in the temple like every other Jewish Mother, forty days after the birth of Jesus. 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. They beheld the dwelling place prepared for the Son of God. 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, My Mother, I firmly believe that the saints and blessed in Heaven can aid us by interceding for us with God. You used most perfectly every actual grace given you by God in acts and virtue. It also means unlimited confidence in your motherly intercession if I should have the misfortune of straying from Jesus by sin. His mother named him after the great St. Francis of Assisi. From your pure blood the Holy Spirit formed the pure Body of Jesus. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. Because of your dignity, you reach to the borders of the divine. If I confide my salvation to your loving care and faithfully imitate your virtues, I know you will keep me in your immaculate Heart both now and at the hour of my death. Not all the affection you pour out upon countless other souls lessens your love for me. It was so when you renewed your consent at the birth of the Savior at Bethlehem, at His presentation in the temple at Jerusalem and finally at the foot of the cross on Calvary. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. You are all-powerful because your divine Son instantly fulfills all your desires in order to honor you. In your greater sorrow may my own be lost, and in calm resignation may my anguished soul find peace and strength. You stood close to Jesus, your head raised to drink the bitter chalice offered your arms stretched out and reaching upward, like a priest at the altar. The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Feasts, Friday of Passion Week and September 15 (Novena, Wednesday after the Fourth Sunday of Lent; also September 6-14). Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. Mary, My Mother, help me to realize that the closer my union with you, the more intimate is my union with your Son. Your intimate union with your Divine Son is the reason for your power with Him. He made you immaculate in view of the fact that Jesus Christ, the God-man, was to take His Flesh and Blood from you. As a slave of love, I willingly deliver myself to the everlasting service of so wonderful and majestic a Lady. Mary, My Mother, pray that the love of God above all things and detachment from the world and its false pleasures, may also make my soul the temple of the living God. Rather, your death was accompanied by three graces that made it precious and full of joy. To the working of this great mystery you also were chosen to cooperate by your free consent. Yours is a queenship of dominion. In your humility, you looked upon yourself as His lowly handmaid. You were not bound by the Law, because you were a virgin as well as a 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. Though you are raised to the high dignity of Queen of Heaven, you have not forgotten man's wretched condition. Everything inside and outside of me should reflect His divine perfections. How great must have been that longing! Only after many years of fervent prayers did God reward them. 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. Only childlike humility entitles me to the first place in God's estimation and consequently, in heaven also. You love us as a mother loves her children. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. It was possible for God to confer it, and He did confer it! Mary, Mother of God, your Immaculate Heart is the Hope of the world. She humbly exclaimed, "How have I deserved this happiness that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" Your Immaculate Conception, purchased by the Precious Blood of the Son of God Himself and freely bestowed upon you as the highest gift of God, is the most wonderful work of sanctification that the world has ever seen. When you lived in this valley of tears, you were ever loving and merciful toward the afflicted. Thus my soul in sanctifying grace is always, in a spiritual manner, like your womba sanctuary of the living God! May my faith influence my conduct. Mary, Mother of God, since the United States was dedicated to your Immaculate Conception, be pleased to take our country under your special protection and grant that, guided by justice and nurtured by charity, it may serve God faithfully and be blessed with peace and prosperity. Be merciful to us. Mary, Mother of God, you are my Mother of Perpetual Help because of your love for me. As in Heaven the Divine Word is like the Father, so on earth the Son, according to the flesh, is like you His Mother. Therefore, you gave your praise to the Creator and Giver of every good and perfect gift. Your heart and His burned with one flame of love to the glory of the Father there at the altar. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. You are our Mother, the Mother of all the living. You are indeed all-powerful in Heaven, but your omnipotence is not one of authority and command, but of intercession. Mary, Mother of God, your Heart is a counterpart of the Heart of Jesus. To you then we owe the salvation which Jesus brought to us. All that I am or have. I admire the holiness of their lives and the nobility of their family. Thus you became in some way the source of that grace which Jesus would pour forth over all mankind. He alone has paid the full price of our ransom, and to this price no one else has contributed. In His infinite mercy God chose Abraham who was to be the Father of a Chosen Nation. As Co-Redemptrix, you must finish your work by applying the grace of redemption to each individual soul, for only then the redemption is achieved. But your holiness is so great, that the power of your intercession is greater than that of all the other saints. May this remembrance fill me with love and gratitude to you, and be the reason for my trust in your powerful protection and in your prayers in Heaven, where you plead with your Divine Son for the salvation of us all. 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. I became a child of God. . Sanctifying grace made you God's adopted child and the lawful heir to His eternal kingdom, putting you in possession of God's goods and of God Himself forever. As you cradled the new-born Savior and nourished and cared for Him, so at Pentecost you cradled the new-born Church, watched over its frail, delicate body and fostered and nourished it with motherly care. You are this woman, and you are a virgin. 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 . The effects of the presence of Jesus and you are still the same. You beheld His arms and feet roughly extended on the hard wood of the cross. 2. This thought wonderfully strengthens my confidence in you, Help of Christians. You were concerned in both, and on each occasion you were present as Mother of the human race. Mary, My Mother, what joy for you never to have been, even for a single instant, in the state of enmity toward God! The dangers facing the Church and the world are grave and evil. This truth was confirmed on Calvary, when at the very moment our redemption was to be completed by the death of Jesus, He said to you: "Behold thy son," then to St. John, who took our place beneath the cross: "Behold thy mother." Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mediatrix of All Graces. He was pleased to help others for your sake. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. In your contemplation of God, you behold our needs with our prayers, and you beg God to grant these favors to us. When you agreed to the proposal made to you by the Angel, you gave Jesus to us by your own free act. 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. You remained there working for God, meditating on His holy Law, praying and praising His divine Goodness. You are the Glory of Jerusalem; you are the Joy of Israel; you are the Honor of our people. Since the angel saluted you "full of grace" and "blessed among women" (Luke 1,28), you were the abode of all Divine graces, adorned with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, so that you were never subjected to the evil spirit. Moreover, I am confident that you will obtain for me. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. May I always be most grateful by striving to grow in this divine life. In Bethlehem you first adored Him in His visible presence as He lay in all His helplessness before your joyful eyes. From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. You became more and more filled with His spirit; you grew into Him, as it were, and became in your soul ever more the Mother of God and Mother of Jesus. 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. I rejoice with the whole Church because you are our life; you bore Jesus, who is the Way and the Truth and the Life and who was to restore to mankind that supernatural life which had been lost. I look to you, Mother of Mercy. You are our Mother, because you have begotten us to the life of grace. 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 will be inspired by the overflow of love for Our Lady. The climax of that sorrow came when the innocent Victim for the sins of mankind was given, dead, into your arms. It is through you that I am able to eat the Bread of Heaven even every day. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. Holiness is a complete separation from creatures and perfect union with God through love. The word compassion derives from the Latin roots cum and patior which means "to suffer with." God wants His gifts recognized. Jesus rewarded your confidence and resignation by working His first miracle at your request. The Holy Spirit dwells in you as in a temple. Your blessedness was due to your unexcelled sanctity. You are "Suppliant Omnipotence" because your prayer obtains all graces from the infinite treasures of God. 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. I know that He wants you ever to be my Mother of Perpetual Help so that the graces He has merited for me may effect the salvation of my soul. 2. 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. 2. 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. 3. Your aid at the hour of my death will be for me a guarantee of salvation if through life I have sought to imitate the beautiful example of your life. Mary, My Mother, I unite myself with you in the spirit in which you offered yourself as a sacrifice of love during your lifetime. You saw in the cross an altar, in your Son a Priest, and in His Blood the price of our Redemption. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. Since you had your place beside Jesus when there was question of ransoming us and meriting for us all the graces necessary for our salvation, you must in like manner have your place beside Him now, when there is question of securing for us by your prayers in heaven the graces prepared for us in view of the merits of Christ. Feast of Our Lady of Compassion - Friday, 3 April, 2020. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. The part that you have played in the spread of the Church and in its struggles and triumphs, clearly shows the Divine Plan in your regard. 2. As the seed of the serpent includes all those descendants of the first man and woman who by their sinful lives bear within them the traits of the devil, so, too, the seed of the Woman includes all who in the course of ages will take their stand with your Son, Jesus Christ, in His ceaseless conflict with the enemy of God. The Heart of Jesus was a suffering Heart, symbolized by the thorns encircling it, the cross above it, and the gash opened in its side. The Eternal Father unfolded His Omnipotence in order to form in you a heart full of sweetness and obedience to your Creator. This was the earliest promise of a Redeemer to come, and you were to be His immaculate Mother. How consoling to know that I have Christ, my elder Brother, "always living to make intercession for me," and you, my Mother, ever pleading for me before the throne of God. 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. Joseph, so humble, so pure, so loving respected your consecration to God, and he was willing to live with you a life of spotless virginity. The Holy Spirit gave you the heart of a bride, all burning with a love pure and ardent. He had to crown the gift of His love with the grand gift of you, His Mother. As part of the Traditional Missal, the Feast of Consolation occurs on the Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, which falls on August 28th. 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. The degree of childlike humility I have attained in life will be the degree of my greatness in heaven. You are only a pure creature, who receives whatever you obtain as a pure favor from God. 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. To the Son you give His human nature which allows Him to make full reparation to the honor of His Father outraged by our sins. Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. God is infinite good; sin, horrible evil. Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. I cannot have Jesus for my Brother if I do not have you for my Mother. Only when I have understood your martyrdom, will I understand the greatness of the love of Jesus for you and the intensity of your love for your Son. 3. I beg you to make me strong enough to bear my trials for the love of God so that I may become like you in suffering. Copyright 2023 Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. Irondale, Alabama. Mary, My Mother, may the example of your sinlessness urge us to that innocence and purity of life which flees from and abhors even the slightest stain of sin. We encourage you to bring a flower to offer Our Blessed Mary. From eternity, before anything was, you were united to your Son in the mind of God as His most pure Mother. He can and does suspend the laws of nature for those who have faith in His goodness and entreat Him in fervent prayer. Your Heart remained spotless as a lily, and you are, therefore, justly called the "Queen of Virgins. 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. Confidence fills my soul, for you were raised to this glory not for your own advantage only, but for that of your children also, in order to make us feel the effects of your powerful protection and intercession. except through you. 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. Ask Him to favor me with a ray of His brightness to enlighten the darkness of sin and ignorance in which I was born. 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. Mary, My Mother, I could go directly to God and ask Him for His grace without your help and that of the Saints, but God has not willed it so. 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. continue our lady of sorrows feast day. Mary, Mother of God, as Refuge of sinners, you will never turn away those who have recourse to your compassion. Only then can I really love you as you desirewhen Jesus is formed in me so that I can love you as Jesus does. 3. My imitation of both Jesus and you depends upon my response to the amount of grace that God sees fit to give me. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. I beg you to pray for me that by the light of the Holy Spirit and your direction, I may see my duty, and by God's grace and your help I may fulfill it. Mary, Mother of God, since you are the Mother of Jesus Christ, you are the Mother of Grace as well. Obtain for me the grace to love God with my whole heartso that all the love my heart is capable of may be consecrated to Him, and all other affection subordinated to the love I owe God. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. But you are a creature so holy and so perfect that you are superior to all other creatures. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Queen of the Apostles because you were the source of their inspiration and zeal. He became Sovereign Master of the universe and Supreme Judge of the living and the dead. . Jesus invites me to do so, for He said, "Take my yoke upon youMy yoke is easy and My burden light" (Matt. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12th is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. You saw the heavy cross placed on His bent shoulders. Give strength and courage to those who work for the salvation of souls as apostles of our own time so that following the example of the divine Missionary, Jesus Christ, they may labor zealously for the spread of God's Kingdom. I can only faintly imagine with what tenderness the Eternal Father received you, His loving daughter the Divine Son, His chosen Mother; and the Holy Spirit, His immaculate Bride. Mary, My Mother, I turn to you rather for health of soul than of body. 1. You are the morning star,the morning star that announces the arrival of the sun of justice. 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! This miraculous defeat broke the back . You abandoned yourself to God's will with deep faith and confidence. He found joy in God, His Heavenly Father, and in the Holy Spirit, joy in all the wonderful perfections of God. I thank God for the great glory He has bestowed upon you for which all generations shall call you blessed. I believe that all graces, all heavenly blessings descend from Jesusas from the Headby means of youas the neckto the body of the Church. Amen. We know that you are ever ready to be our help in trouble, our solace in affliction, our hope in despair. And I am sure there is nothing you want more than that, to see me perfectly dedicated to God even as you are. After the Ascension you found the past under another form; the consecrated Bread the Apostle John placed on your lips was Jesus, who was formed from your own flesh and with whom your body was again united. 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. You bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. The Feast of Our Lady of Palestine was established in 1927 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, . Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. I can picture you alone with your God, following with devotion the life led in common by the virgins of God's house. I want to love you with all my heart that I may in some way merit that you love me in return. Because of sanctifying grace infused into your soul, you were from the first moment of your existence most intimately united with God and endowed with the most precious gifts of heaven. Unlike martyrs who endured physical torments, Mary suffered torment in her soul. Never were you guilty of the least fault; never did you offer the least resistance to grace. Pray to Jesus, the Divine Word and Eternal Wisdom, who is "the life that is the light of men" (John 1, 4), that through you He may teach me His divine wisdom.

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