It was life of the utmost weakness and helplessness, and yet His is the strength of God Himself. You became the Mother of a Son who is almighty, eternal and infinite in all perfections, equal to the Father and the Holy Spirit. In his soul they saw no more than they see in each little soul as it leaves the baptismal font, grace having taken the place of original sin. Mercy proceeds from you as from an abundant, never-failing source. You are the holiest of God's creatures because you are the Mother of God. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. I believe, according to the inspired teaching of St. Paul, that there is but one Mediator between God and manyour Son Jesus. No creature in the world has been more exalted than you, because no creature in the world has ever humbled himself more. This was the earliest promise of a Redeemer to come, and you were to be His immaculate Mother. You were not bound by the Law, because you were a virgin as well as a mother. Due to her feast day on September 15, the month of September has traditionally been set aside to honor Our Lady of Sorrows. Mary, My Mother, who crushed the head of the serpent, I pray for my country. December 9 marks the feast day of Saint Juan Diego and December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. For the first time in the public life of Jesus you appeared in the exalted character of our Advocate, a character which would be yours as long as time would last. By conforming themselves to the divine model of your Family, may they attain to eternal happiness. With heavenly homage the angelic messenger greeted you "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women" (Luke 1, 28). 18, 3). You are, indeed, the ladder by which Christians may ascend to heaven; you are their greatest hope, and the whole ground of their hope. Mary, My Mother, how shall I stand before my Judge at the day of judgment? 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. I need you desperately. Sanctify them first, so that they may then more effectively sanctify others. You are ever imploring favors for the just, as well as for sinners. 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 . 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. Having loved your sinful children so much as to sacrifice for them your only Son in His Passion, you loved them to the end by giving them the Holy Eucharist. Just as the patriarchs in Limbo had beheld your birth as the breaking of that dawn which announced to them their near deliverance, so, too, your Assumption, together with the Ascension of Jesus, became for mortal man a sure pledge of resurrection and immortality. Mary, Mother of God, the glorious mysteries of the Holy Rosary remind me of the glory of your Son, Jesus Christ. You embrace the universe in the realm of your love and enrich it through your unfailing intercession. Everything inside and outside of me should reflect His divine perfections. All that He could give, He bestowed upon you, His Immaculate Bride. How fervently your mother and father thanked God for having given you to them and begged Him to accept the offering which they were making! 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! You are the spouse of the Holy Spirit because according to the gospel and the teaching of the Apostles' Creed, you conceived of the Holy Spirit the Son of God, made man. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Queen of the Apostles because you were the source of their inspiration and zeal. You were fully enlightened as to the greatness of the dignity of a Mother of God. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." 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. Jesus is the new Adam and you are the new Eve. Mary, My Mother, as Mother of Divine Providence, remember your children in need of God's mercy and help. Mary, My Mother, how kindly you provided for the needs of this newly-married couple! 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, you stand in the presence of your Son, interceding for sinners. It died that we might never die, that It might nourish us unto eternal life. 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 yourself are full of grace, and from the Holy Spirit, your Divine Spouse, you have received in overflowing measure His boundless love for all mankind. This is truly your spirit, as you expressed it at the Visitation: "Behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed: because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name" (Luke 1, 48). Make me strong in the midst of the temptations and bitterness which so often trouble my soul. Jesus caused the wonderful effects of grace in the soul of John the Baptist, but at the sound of your voice his sanctification was effected, and both he and his mother Elizabeth were filled with the Holy Spirit. To single nations, to private families, to individual persons, you have always provided help, given solace and rekindled hope, especially when they turned to you with Rosary in hand. You are indeed our Mother, and a mother can never forget her children. Evening Prayer to Our Blessed Mother 1. 1. En life's dark hours you always remembered that you were God's handmaid, and you always wanted everything to be done according to His holy Will. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. 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. She heard the voices of Archangel Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret - they are on the banner over her left shoulder! 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. 2. I realize that imitating you is the best way of imitating Jesus and of obtaining your all-powerful intercession. The first feast of Our Lady of Silence will be celebrated on Sunday, August 1, in Avezzano, in the. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. You desire more to do good to me than I can desire to receive favors from you, for your Heart is all love and mercy. Figures below show what proportion of half-day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to local and national averages. You are the immaculate Virgin whom the Son Himself chose to make His Mother. 1. This love for you was the source of great joy in the hearts of the saints. 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. It was your exclusive privilege to be Christ's Mother according to the flesh. Amen!
Our Lady of Guadalupe | Loyola Press 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. In 1482 the feast was added to the Missal under the title of "Our Lady of Compassion." Pope Benedict XIII added it to the Roman Calendar in 1727 on the Friday before Palm Sunday. Whereas pride and ingratitude repel grace from our souls, gratitude and humility, like golden keys, unlock the treasury of heaven. I realize that it is the command of God that I take ordinary care to insure bodily health. When God pronounced doom against the evil one, He also announced His merciful plan of saving mankind from the effects of the guilt of our first parents. We can certainly call you "Suppliant Omnipotence.". 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. When Jesus said, "Woman, behold thy sonBehold thy Mother," He gave you to me to be my Mother for all Christians form one body with Christ, and Saint John represented them all beneath the cross. 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. Fully acknowledging your unworthiness to be the Mother of Christ, you accepted the exalted privilege only in obedience to the divine will. This doctrine was received in the early Church and handed down by the Fathers who praised you with extraordinary titles and most important writings. You are the most beautiful of creatures, the one in whom there is no spot, God's masterpiece. And I did this, not under the sudden influence of passion, but deliberately with full knowledge of the act, of its horrible malice in the sight of God and of the terrible consequences in which it involved me. The Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. 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. 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. Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). Like the injured man in the parable of the good Samaritan, the lady lacked proper clothing, "looked beaten" and abandoned, and came across as "half-dead.". What a beautiful example for parents to imitate! In you He reposed for nine months, with His whole divinity and humanity. It was so when you gave your consent to the divine plan of the Redemption. You are the morning star,the morning star that announces the arrival of the sun of justice. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was suitable to your dignity. From you was derived the Precious Blood which was shed upon the cross for our salvation and the adorable Body which, after having been made the price of our Redemption, has become the food of our souls in the Holy Eucharist. You offered to the Father in Heaven the Body and Blood of the Lamb you bore and sacrificed Him with the knife of your will on the altar of your heart. Mary, My Mother, help me to take your requests at Fatima to heart. You are my Queen, my Lady. I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. Jesus invites me to do so, for He said, "Take my yoke upon youMy yoke is easy and My burden light" (Matt. Prayer was the soul of your preparation, and the Apostles were inspired by your example. Corruption is a consequence of sin, but you were sinless.
Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day On the day of Pentecost the Apostles' worldly views about the Kingdom of God on earth were banished by the Spirit of God, and holiness replaced their imperfections, but no-taint of the slightest sin had to be removed from your virginal soul. May the instructions I receive increase the love of God in me and strengthen my determination to serve Him with greater zeal. Attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you diligently gathered up all His lessons, preserving them in your soul with zealous care. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. God might have created a more beautiful world, perfect men. Mary, Mother of God, how pleasing to God was your humility! The Nativity and the Crucifixion were as one action. You abound in divine life for yourself; for us you abound in grace. Such a stain would have reflected upon your Son, who is Holiness itself. You are all-powerful because your divine Son instantly fulfills all your desires in order to honor you. I believe with the Church that from the great treasury of graces that Jesus has merited for us, nothing comes to us, by the will of God. May I derive all the beneficial results the holy sacraments are to produce in my soul. In the spirit of loving confidence we have recourse to you. Francis became very sick, nearly dying twice.
The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe - Vatican News Dec. 12: 12 Amazing Facts of Our Lady of Guadalupe'S Tilma. Happy Feast 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. And for our sake, you were ready to devote this Child to a life of suffering, persecution, and scorn, even to a shameful death on the cross. His role in our salvation is absolutely necessary. Jesus is the Son of God by His marvelous and eternal birth "in the bosom of His Father." You are a Mediatrix because since your Assumption, with Christ you obtain all graces for men. Mary, Mother of God, as the Mother of Divine Providence, you provide for us in our varied needs through your prayers in the presence of God. Never were you guilty of the least fault; never did you offer the least resistance to grace. In every struggle l am sure to find in you both help and consolation because you are the Mediatrix between sinners and your Divine Son. And now as Mother of God and Mother of men, and as Queen of Heaven and Earth, you serve as a bond between God and men. 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. 2. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity places you in a very wonderful relationship with the three divine Persons. Home Feasts & Holy Days Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico) Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Free from all attachment to earthly things, you were most capable of being filled with Divine love. Refuge of sinners, do not turn us away when we entreat you. Mary, Mother of God, the instant that you gave your consent to the archangel, the Holy Spirit overshadowed you and wrought in your most chaste womb the Incarnation of the Son of God. 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. At the sound of your voice Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and began to prophesy: "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."