2. Teach me to desire ardently all that is pleasing to God, to seek after it prudently, to accept it truthfully and to do it perfectly, for the praise and glory of God. 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. Balaam referred to you as a star: "The star which shall arise from Jacob." How precious is your love, my Mother! Your motherly love contributed so much to our salvation in the Incarnation of the Son of God, who is the Universal Source of Grace, that you will eternally contribute as much to all the works of grace, which come to us because of the Incarnation. I beg you to take care of me for I am a poor sinful child. The Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are called Mother of Mercy because of the fullness with which mercy is given to those who seek it at your hands. Joseph was a virgin for your sake, that a Virgin Son might be born of a virginal marriage. Feast, January 23 (Triduum, January 20-22). Mary, My Mother, give me a rich share in the graces merited for me by your Son. It impels my mind to self-exaltation, because I am proud. Mary, My Mother, I beg you to aid me in being watchful over myself, guarding my exterior and interior senses, avoiding all outward haste and inward passion, trying to make a virtuous action of everything I do, and by talking to God frequently in prayer. Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. I am deeply conscious that I am unable to do good. 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). I cannot rise to the heights of your holiness because I cannot grasp the intimacy of your union with Christ when you became His Mother. It was fitting that the God of all purity should spring from the greatest purity. At the same time you had to offer the most intense human suffering, in union with the Passion of your Son. Your soul is the creation and the masterpiece of almighty workmanship. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." With the Father you, too, can say: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.". I find faith in its light, hope in its help. Feast, September 8 (Novena, Aug. 30-Sept. 7). 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!". Your fear arose entirely from your humility, which was disturbed at the sound of praises so far exceeding your own lowly estimate of yourself. continue our lady of sorrows feast day. Therefore, I offer Jesus to the Father through your hands, and in Holy Communion I ask for graces through you. Don Joslike the good Samaritansaw the lady, was filled with compassion . You love them still, in spite of their sins, and you follow them with your motherly gaze and your prayers. 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. In 1668 the feast in honor of the Seven Dolors was set for the Sunday after September 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross. The Woman is a striking image of you, the Immaculate Conception. He who gives grace, takes your prayers for commands. When the Persons of the Blessed Trinity gaze on you, the Immaculate One, most pure, most beautiful, supremely pleasing to eternal love, what can they refuse you? Filled with grief, you saw how the disciples removed the nails from the Redeemer's hands and feet, extracted the thorns from His head, and took Him down from the cross. What a striking lesson you give me by this unlimited confidence in the power and goodness-of your Divine Son! 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 . I give you my intellect by holding you in loving reverence because of your dignity as Mother of God. You saw His virginal flesh torn open again when the soldiers pitilessly stripped Him of His garments. Whoever abides in this Church will bring forth much salutary fruit; whereas they who willingly separate themselves from it must wither away spiritually. In your six apparitions at Fatima you made repeated demands for penance and reparation. Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Online Saints & Angels Facts Feastday: December 12 Patron: of the Americas Author and Publisher - Catholic Online Printable Catholic Saints PDFs Shop Our Lady of Guadalupe An elder Mexican man makes his way to Mass in the early morning twilight of December 9, 1531. You are all-powerful because your divine Son instantly fulfills all your desires in order to honor you. The divine maternity explains everything in you; without this maternity nothing in you can be explained. (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. 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. Appeared to St. Jerome Emiliani, 1530 5. "The Lord is with thee." You had a Heart of love from which in the course of time was to be formed the Sacred Heart of the loving Christ. 2. Help me to imitate your zeal in assisting my neighbor in his needs. He also willed that (2) everywhere the offering of Himself should be presented to the Father through your hands. Mary, My Mother, may the thought of your tenderness and charity increase my confidence in you and make me look up to you in all the dangers that surround me in life. Mary, Mother of God, in honoring you as Our Lady of Guadalupe, we honor you as the Immaculate Conception. Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. I need an advocate with God, and therefore I turn to you, the Mother of God. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. . Your holiness was not the result of the privilege of your Immaculate Conception and sanctifying grace alone, but it followed from your gift of yourself to God and your constant cooperation with His graces. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your Immaculate Heart is the Hope of the world. Mary, My Mother, I am the work of the wisdom of God together with all other creatures. Virgin of virgins, remember me in my needs, and show yourself my Mother. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. Yet no selfish thought, no bitter resentment has marred your beauty. In Jesus there was wrapped up the double love of a mother for her only Child and of the holiest creature for her God. 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. How humble you were! You had to become the Mother of Sorrows before you were raised above the angels as Heaven's Queen. For from the moment when Jesus told you to see Him, in John, you saw Jesus in all Christians. You were not bound by the Law, because you were a virgin as well as a mother. Your birth was represented beforehand by many figures, announced by prophets, desired for many ages by the human race. Merit and glory attend your name. The Son takes pleasure in it as the Heart of His Mother, the source from which He drew the blood that ransomed us. 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 brought forth Jesus, your First-born, without pain; but in giving birth to your second-born, what agony did you not have to endure? Infirmities of the body are nature's warning voice concerning the approach of death, which I cannot finally escape. Through your all powerful prayers, obtain for me not only God's forgiveness, but also the grace to amend my life and to save my soul. 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. Look with pity on me for in You is my hope. Since God was born of you, you are the Mother of God. Having deigned to come down to you, He wished to raise you up to Himself in order that you might enter into glory. Thus an angel appeared to Joseph and said, "Do not be afraid, Joseph, son of David, to take to thee Mary thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit. 16, 26). Have pity on the sinners of the world. Being filled with light from Heaven, you have shed brightness upon the whole world, by giving birth to the Eternal Light, Our Lord Jesus Christ, although still remaining in the glory of your virginity. In becoming my Mother, you became the Queen of Martyrs! How God has loved you by making you His Mother! As the heart of a mother triumphs over the just anger of a father in an earthly family so your Heart will triumph by averting the force of God's justice upon this sinful world. Mary, Mother of God, how pleasing to God was your humility! 3. Your will was one with His, faithful to your promise made at the Incarnation. Grant that following your good counsel, I may avoid sin, practise virtue, save my soul and attain eternal life. 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. Through love you consecrated yourself with all your powers to God as the highest form of beauty and goodness. And when the days of my earthly pilgrimage are over, according to God's holy will, grant that my soul may obtain the glory of heaven, through the merits of Christ and through your intercession. From you all missionaries have received the salvation which they bring to the nations. Everyday, somewhere in the world, local, regional or universal feast of Our Lady is celebrated. What untold merit you must have laid up for eternity during the nine months that preceded your Nativity. 1. By this title I understand: (1) upon your mediation and intercession depends the distribution of the riches of the treasury which Jesus acquired for the salvation of men; (2) consequently, no grace comes to all of us as a body or to any of us in particular which you have not asked for in our behalf; (3) according to the order of things established by God, you have become, under Jesus Christ, after Jesus Christ, and through Jesus Christfrom whom you can never be separatedthe source and principle for us of all supernatural life. 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. 3. You have found uncreated grace, that is, God Himself became your Son; and with that grace you have found and obtained every created good. You have never turned away your eyes from souls in need. Save me, a poor sinner who confidently invokes your intercession, through the graces merited for me on the cross by the precious Blood of your Son. 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. How happy Jesus must have been to receive the homage that you paid Him! Mary, Mother of God, the offering of Jesus was presented by your virginal hands. Your blessedness was due to your unexcelled sanctity. Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. But you help Christians also by your prayers. Mary, Mother of God, you are the hope of sinners, you are my hope! Your fullness of grace brought you to a most intimate union with the Author of grace. How much more precious you were than any chalice of richest gold. All your trials and sufferings are now transformed into jewels that decorate your triumphal throne in Heaven. Our Lady of Fatima Prayer O Mary Immaculate, who at Fatima predicted to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta that unless men converted and thy requests were fulfilled, worse calamities would befall, show thyself a mother to us in these perilous times. 1. 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. 3. IMPRIMI POTEST Raymond Weisenberger, Provincial, Girard, Pa. NIHIL OBSTAT A. H. Wiersbinski, LL.D. If the honor of parents descends upon their children, what glory and joy for all of us, your children, to see you raised to such heights of glory! The words of the prophet are applied to you: "O all you that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be sorrow like unto my sorrow.". Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.". This is but a reminder that you are equally interested in providing for all your children in all their needs of soul and body. How consoling it is to know that you have these heavenly blessings at your disposal! 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. Mary, Mother of God, God had a purpose in wanting you and Joseph to become man and wife. Help me to realize that it is only through the cross that I can attain to its glory and that it is only through suffering that I can possess the kingdom of heaven. 1. It is the will of God that His aid should reach me through your heart, because you are my Mother, and motherliness means willingness to help. 2. I admire the holiness of their lives and the nobility of their family. Through Joseph your descent from David would be known. 2. In short, the first reason we can rightfully call Mary our "Mother of Mercy" is that by God's special, prevenient grace, He created her soul to be the masterpiece of His Mercy in the world, and this special gift of grace within her was the foundation of His whole work of mercy in the world through Christ. I am most grateful for such devoted love and sympathy. Since you have had such an intimate share in my redemption, I entrust my soul to your loving care. Your Heart was also a suffering Heart. No creature in the world has been more exalted than you, because no creature in the world has ever humbled himself more. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27. Your faith taught you that the predictions of both were inspired by the Holy Spirit. Help me to imitate your virtues that I may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. You "found grace with God" to restore salvation to all men. 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. 3. There is nothing you want more than to give them to me, since you are even more anxious to save my soul than I am, for you know better than anyone else the price your Son has paid for it and the precious worth of each grace He so graciously offers to me through you. The seven sorrows are: The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:25-35) Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mediatrix of All Graces. Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. The crucifixion was not only the sacrifice for sin, it was also the new birth of mankind to the spiritual life, lost by the sin of Adam. 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. When Jesus said to John, "Behold thy Mother," He wanted John to respect and to love you as his Mother. 1. 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. When you lived in this valley of tears, you were ever loving and merciful toward the afflicted. except through you. Mary, Mother of God, you are the mother of the Judge: you are also the Mother of the sinners. Mary, My Mother, as Dispenser of all graces, you make the world share in the infinite merits of the redemption. I have carried my cross patiently which He gave me to carry. You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. May my soul always find comfort in your holy name! 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. Mary, My Mother, your birth was awaited as the near sign of the deliverance of the human race. When I say "Hail, Mary!" There before the tabernacle you relived in memory all the happy and sorrowful events of your life with Jesus. Christ is universal King because He rules all creatures by His personal union with the divinity. You received from the Adorable Trinity the crown and sceptre, which made you Queen of all the angels and saints and the all-powerful Mediatrix between God and men. I realize that imitating you is the best way of imitating Jesus and of obtaining your all-powerful intercession. Crush the evil which strives to destroy all that is Catholic, all that is Christian, all that is civilized. Your Heart was also a pure Heart, pure as the light, purer than the snow, free from the stain of original sin, from the least taint of actual sin, from the least evil tendency of our fallen naturea heart full of light and beauty reflecting to the full the radiance of the Sacred Heart of your Divine Son. Their children also belong to God, for they are His gift. Help me to use the graces God gives me for my sanctification. And yet, Refuge of Sinners, you are my refuge, if I but have recourse to you, and you will extend your loving hands to receive me, to shelter me from the divine anger I so justly deserve. In your humility you refused praise, giving all the praise and glory to God. From Him there flowed heavenwards an unceasing stream of glory, the waves of His grace ever poured over the earth. 2. That date was not chosen by accident, but because it is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! I earnestly wish to make atonement for all of them. May my life thus become a copy of your own life especially during this time of your expectation! I am afflicted with many sorrows in body and soul, and I take refuge, like a child, in the embrace of your motherly protection. He had to crown the gift of His love with the grand gift of you, His Mother. Jesus is the only Mediator of justice, and by His merits He obtains for us all graces and salvation but you are the Mediatrix of grace. God, having once given us Jesus Christ by you, Holy Virgin, does not change His way of blessing us with His gifts. God said to the serpent: "Because thou hast done this, I will place enmities between thee and the Woman, between thy seed and her Seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel" (Gen. 3.14). Without God I can do nothing. Mary, My Mother, you were never without grace. I give you my heart by the gift of a tender and childlike love, because you are my Mother and you love me more than my own mother could ever think of loving me. 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. If I have humility, God may flood my soul with grace here and exalt it eternally in heaven. Jesus is our life and you have given Him to us. 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. Joseph could rest assured and marry you, his betrothed bride. I am unworthy of that. After the most holy and adorable Name of Jesus, there is no name more glorious and more powerful than yours. Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of 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. 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. 2. The victim had to belong to the person who offered it. Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. Mary, My Mother, your apparition at Guadalupe as the Immaculate Conception is your only recorded appearance in North America. May I always be most grateful by striving to grow in this divine life. This is why you were greeted by the angel in the words, "Hail, full of grace." 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. "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus. This posture is not the one usually describing a mourner who is affected with only human grief. I am sure that you, who are all-powerful as my advocate, will not desert me but will bring to my poor afflicted soul grace and sanctification. You conceived Him as victim, you prepared Him for this sacrifice beneath the cross you offered Him to the Father for our salvation. You truly deserve to be called the Mediatrix of Grace. 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. I can easily picture Saint John, the Apostle of love, saying Mass each day in his own home and daily giving you the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist. This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. Mary, My Mother, your love for Jesus made this sacrifice very great in the eyes of God. He paid the debt that original sin might not be incurred. O powerful answer which rejoiced Heaven and brought an immense sea of graces and blessings into the world! For thirty-three years you enjoyed the company of the only-begotten Son of God in the intimate relation of Mother and Son, and under your care, according to the Evangelist, He "advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace, before God and man" (Luke 2, 52). Through prayer may grace fill my soul with the life of God and transform me into a living image of Jesus, just as you were. Francis Possenti was born in Assisi. Mary, Mother of God, humility is the virtue you especially practised from childhood. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. 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." Take my cold heart; put it into your own and inflame it with a fire of love like your own. Your slightest wish carries with it a powerful appeal. We do not find you in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, when your divine Son was received with so much honor by the people. The Eternal Father once gave you the most precious treasure that heaven possessedHis own Divine Son. You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. Through your prayers, may Jesus make me live of His life through sanctifying and actual grace. The Apostles, who had abandoned their Master informed you of your Son's betrayal by Judas and of His brutal capture after His agony. But that my devotion may be pleasing to you, help me to maintain my soul and body in the spotlessness of your purity, help me to try as best I can to walk in your footsteps, humbly seeking to be like you. 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. Your Heart is truly a mirror of all the virtues, a vivid image and a faithful copy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; hence you are called the "Mirror of Justice.". The Gospel speaks of you as standing beneath the cross. As Mother of God you surpass, in an immeasurable degree, all other creatures, angels and men. You died of no infirmity. They beheld the dwelling place prepared for the Son of God. He was endowed by God with all a father's tenderness and love for Him who was confided to him as his Child. Give my heart sentiments like His and your own so that, through frequent Holy Communion and prayer, I may become a worthy co-victim with Jesus, holy and pleasing to God, and so that all the actions, sufferings, tears and disappointments of my life may be thus consecrated to God as a sacrifice for His glory and the salvation of souls, especially my own. In you I behold the charm of the purest of virgins, the majesty of the noblest of mothers. Through your prayers all graces have come to the apostle and to the souls converted or sanctified. In His infinite mercy God chose Abraham who was to be the Father of a Chosen Nation. The Lord being your portion, you renounced all elsethe honors, the pleasures, and the rewards of marriageand joyously chose the life of a virgin. And grant that after having suffered with you and your loving Son in this life, I may be glorified with You both in His Kingdom beyond the stars. The first feast of Our Lady of Silence will be celebrated on Sunday, August 1, in Avezzano, in the. Heaven and earth shall perish before you are seen to abandon the miserable who pray to you sincerely.

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