Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. 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. You are kind and loving for you have a mother's heart, full of pity for the erring. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity is most cherished by you, because it is a token of God's special love for you. As the God-man, Jesus is the perfect Mediator between God and man, because He alone could in all justice merit our reconciliation with God as well as the graces which God would impart after the reconciliation. 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. "And thy own soul a sword shall pierce." Overshadowed by the power of the Holy Spirit, you were to conceive and bear the Messias, and at the same time remain a Virgin in every respect. He promised that my prayers would be heard when He said, "Ask, and it shall be given you" (Matt. For the small sacrifice of being devoted to you I can obtain a happy death and eternal life. Like you let me realize my own nothingness. The Catholic Church the Gospels, the sacraments, the Mother of Divine Grace as my advocatethese are among the special blessings with which I am favored. I am unworthy of that. Mary, My Mother, as Mother of Divine Providence, remember your children in need of God's mercy and help. 1. God has made you so kind even to sinners that your goodness restores us to hope. I promise to devote myself wholeheartedly to the spreading of devotion to your Immaculate Heart so that the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart may come and He may reign with you in my heart and in the hearts of all men. Since Jesus has given you charge of the dispensing of His graces, I know that you are most eager to use this power to help me. You learned to read the sacred books by yourself and tried to penetrate their hidden meaning. Refuge of sinners, do not turn us away when we entreat you. At the same time you had to offer the most intense human suffering, in union with the Passion of your Son. Processions and Penitence In Malta, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, and the Philippines the Friday of Passion Weekthe Friday of Sorrows or Viernes de Dolores is celebrated with. Mary, My Mother, your name means Star of the Sea. What a beautiful example for parents to imitate! The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of Good Counsel, I appeal to you for advice and guidance. After the birth of your Divine Son, this grace grew in splendor within you as it daily united you more closely with your God. Apart from your cooperation no grace descends to earth. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was suitable to your dignity. Your Assumption was for you not only the crowning of a holy life, but also a cause of joy and triumph for the human race. You became the Mother of a Son who is almighty, eternal and infinite in all perfections, equal to the Father and the Holy Spirit. 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. 2. 1. The supernatural life is the life of Jesus in us through grace. He saw sin and its terrible effects in God's kingdom and in souls; He saw the sufferings of His Church and His own and your sufferings. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. As a child runs to its mother in every need and finds comfort in her glance and kind word, I can turn to you for help when I need it, for you are truly my Mother, whose heart is overflowing with kindness and mercy. With no tendency to evil, but with a deep yearning for the highest virtue, you glorified God more than all His other creatures. However, my sick soul is entitled to more vigilant care, for Jesus reminded me, "What does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his own soul" (Matt. August 9: OUR LADY OF THE BURNING CLOUD (ATOM BOMB) On Thursday, August 9, 1945, a blinding flash split the sky above Nagasaki. Your union with Joseph was ordained in the designs of God for the education of Jesus. 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. 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. Our Lady of Guadalupe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Our Lady of Guadalupe - December 12 - Catholic News Agency The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on September 15 and is dedicated to honoring the spiritual martyrdom of Mary. When I have pain, you are ready to comfort and strengthen me. Advise me what to do. 18, 3). The cross is the measure of God's love for us and the sum total of our love for God. Rather, your sorrows were ordained by God from all eternity as part of the penalty to be paid for sin and were to mingle with the sufferings of your Son in that great sacrifice which was to redeem the world. You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." And so it is even now in heaven. You were chosen as Mother predestined before all creatures, filled with all grace, all virtue, all holiness so that the Son, infinitely pure, who in Heaven has an immortal and eternal Father, on earth has a Mother exempt from all sin. The suffering of Jesus in His dereliction was the most difficult test of your faith. The title "Our Lady of Sorrows" focuses on Mary's intense suffering during the passion and death of Christ. Mother you are and that doubly in the terms of our Catholic belief: human Mother of Jesus, supernatural Mother of every Christian. Indeed, all were awaiting your Son: the world, to gain rest and peace, the angels, to see God's plans fulfilled; the Heavenly Father Himself to behold His created Image: and all this longing was united in your heart. 2. But many of these straying children are ignorant and not fully responsible. He was with you not only by His sanctifying grace, making you pleasing in His sight, as He is present with all the just. Sept 15: Our Lady of Sorrows - Feast of Holy Cross - Blogger 1. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. Make me your faithful child. How many and how great then, were the graces you received in order to reach the eminent virtue that was yours when, on Calvary, you became the Queen of Martyrs. God freed His future messenger from original sin and enriched him with grace. If you had part in the work of the Redemption, then you also had part in all those graces which were prepared for us in view of the merits of Jesus for our salutation. You also conceived His members who have been born again and are called to incorporation with Him. 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 As Mother, it is your mission to preserve your children from sin and to make them live the supernatural life. 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. 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. Have pity on the sinners of the world. That very same Christ is mine in the Holy Eucharist when I look upon Him as a Victim on our altars, when I kneel before Him as my Friend in the Tabernacle; when I receive Him into my soul as my Guest in Holy Communion. Saint Elizabeth received the Holy Spirit through your intervention, in order to teach us that we must make use of you as our Mediatrix with your Divine Son, if we wish to obtain the Holy Spirit. 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. Why do we call Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows"? You had a share in that work; it was part of your life-work. He did so through your hands when you presented Him in the Temple, and in union with Him you offered yourself to the Father on Calvary. ." Wherefore the Church applies to you the words Jesus spoke of that other Mary who sat at His sacred feet, drinking in the words of divine wisdom flowing from His blessed lips: "Mary has chosen the best part, and it will not be taken away from her" (Luke 10, 42). She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. Teach me to admire your virtues that I maybe constantly reminded to imitate them and become like you. With this job opportunity, you will be able to foster compassion, character, knowledge and service for all. The more your humility was tried, the more lowly you became in your own estimation. God, having once given us Jesus Christ by you, Holy Virgin, does not change His way of blessing us with His gifts. Mary, My Mother, to conceal the miraculous conception and birth of His Divine Son, the Eternal Father inspired Joseph to marry you before the annunciation by the archangel Gabriel. Through the mystery of your Visitation enlighten my mind with divine truth, warm my heart with heavenly love; strengthen me to win the victory over my evil inclinations and the power of evil. Since this is the mission of your life, to bring souls to God through Jesus, lead me to your loving Son. 16, 26). Your soul contained all the marvels of God's grace, for which reason the Church calls you the Singular Vessel of Devotion. I entrust to you all my anxieties and needs so that through the merits of your sorrows I may bear the trials and sufferings of life with the same love and resignation to God's Will with which you bore yours. Help me to make good use of the graces given me by God. I beg you for this humility which is loved both by God and men for in it lies something sublimea living resemblance to Jesus and to you. He who gives grace, takes your prayers for commands. 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. Only thus could you become one with Your God in the salvation of souls. As Mother of the Son of God, you are associated with the Father in the generation of His Son. 3. The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. Mary, My Mother, your intercession is all-powerful. Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. By conforming themselves to the divine model of your Family, may they attain to eternal happiness. But in you they saw a soul whose sanctity surpassed that of angels and of men, a soul which would glorify God more perfectly than any other creature ever had glorified Him, or ever would glorify Him. Although it is true that Jesus in glory, by means of His divine wounds, is our intercessor before the Father and all God's gifts come to us through His merits, you are the all-powerful suppliant, through whom every prayer reaches up to Him and every grace comes down. At your prayer Jesus changed the water into wine in Cana. Help me to love God with my whole soulso that all the faculties of my soul may be consecrated to Him, and that I may make use of them only to make Him known, loved and served. 1. 2. Mary, My Mother, since it is the will of God that we should obtain all through you, teach me to turn to you in all my needs. The Son takes pleasure in it as the Heart of His Mother, the source from which He drew the blood that ransomed us. 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. Give me your good counsel, so that following it humbly I may ever please God, find true happiness on this earth and eternal life in the world to come. You knew nothing but God and His love you wished for nothing but Him and His holy will; you sought nothing but His greater honor. IMPRIMI POTEST Raymond Weisenberger, Provincial, Girard, Pa. NIHIL OBSTAT A. H. Wiersbinski, LL.D. Your fear arose entirely from your humility, which was disturbed at the sound of praises so far exceeding your own lowly estimate of yourself. This miraculous defeat broke the back . How often am I confused in the problems of life. February 07, 2021. 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. Latest news Portuguese bishops announce steps to end sexual abuse in the Church She humbly exclaimed, "How have I deserved this happiness that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. The dangers facing the Church and the world are grave and evil. 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. Teach me to seek all things through your prayers, for your intercession is most powerful and Jesus can refuse you nothing. 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 . Jesus purchased me at the cost of His own life, and you offered that life to God for me. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. You died as you had lived, entirely detached from the things of the world, you died in the most perfect peace and in the certainty of eternal glory. 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. She told Juan to have a church built in her honor. Enlighten the beginning of my efforts, direct my progress, bring my completed work to perfection. Hence, it is through you that we must go to Christ, almost in the same way as through Christ we approach our Heavenly Father. This humility was richly rewarded. You could not of yourself provide the protection and training the Child needed. You offered Him on the altar of the Crossthe future Eucharistic Christin perfect adoration to the insulted majesty of God, in thanksgiving for all the blessings showered on mankind; in reparation for our sins and in petition for sinners. 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. The Eternal Father unfolded His Omnipotence in order to form in you a heart full of sweetness and obedience to your Creator. Though you had already been assured by the angel that you were this happy Mother chosen by the Lord, you did not stop to rejoice in your exaltation. So, as daughter of Adam you submitted to the sentence passed in the garden of Eden. To bring us forth, you gave much more than our earthly mothers gave. Preserve their faith, assailed at every hour by the forces opposed to Christ. Holiness is union with God through love. 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. Not for this reason alone did He love you. Since God was born of you, you are the Mother of God. Through your hands I offer myself with Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. In your humility you gladly suffered contempt with Jesus. Her name, feast day, location of her monastery, and attributes are those of the Celtic Goddess Brigit. After the fall of our First Parents, earth which was to be paradise, was changed into a valley of tears on which the curse of God fell. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. Had the angel said you were the most wicked sinner in the world, your wonder would not have been so great, as it was at the sound of his praises. He also found joy in His Divine Sonship and glorious human nature, joy in His intellect, with its immeasurable knowledge and the contemplation of God; joy in His will, with its freedom, sinlessness, holiness and unbounded power joy in His destiny as our Redeemer; joy in the future kingdom of His Church, which was to arise from His life and death. The Son, the Eternal Wisdom of God, in choosing you for His Mother, bestowed on you a certain fullness of grace, so that as you gave Christ His human nature, Christ, in a certain sense, raised you as close to God as a mere creature can come. Due to her feast day on September 15, the month of September has traditionally been set aside to honor Our Lady of Sorrows. I ask this with special earnestness from you who are the Health of the Sick. Help me to receive Holy Communion frequently, at least each week, if not daily. You saw the cross raised and heard the mob, not yet satisfied with their bloody work, continue to torment their dying Victim. Ask Him to favor me with a ray of His brightness to enlighten the darkness of sin and ignorance in which I was born. He was with you not only by a special protection guiding you in His ways and leading you securely to salvation. Through Joseph your descent from David would be known. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. Mary, by your humility, you became the Mother of your Creator. In consecrating your virginity to God, you had given up all hope of becoming the Mother of the Messias because you considered yourself unworthy of the highest honor of the divine maternity. Mary, Mother of God, as Mediatrix of All Graces you have entered into the highest state of power and glory in heaven in order that you may help us on our difficult journey to the heavenly City of God. Mary, Mother of God, the miracle of the Marriage feast of Cana shows that you are the Mother of Divine Providence. How fortunate I will be, if at death I am bound with the sweet chains of love to you! In your apparitions at Fatima you revealed that it is in the designs of the Divine Mercy to cure the world through your Heart. Feast of Our Lady of Compassion - Friday, 3 April, 2020 Home Feasts & Holy Days Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico) Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Having once given us Jesus Christ by you, God does not change His way of helping us. His Heart is a loving Heart, and that love is symbolized by the flames which St. Margaret Mary saw coming forth from it. Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows Your birth was represented beforehand by many figures, announced by prophets, desired for many ages by the human race. At the Crib, you were the first ostensorium of your Son, showing Him to the shepherds, to the Magi and to the world. 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. Their children also belong to God, for they are His gift. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. This thought wonderfully strengthens my confidence in you, Help of Christians. It was an answer which had scarcely fallen from your lips, before It drew the only-begotten Son of God from the bosom of His Eternal Father, to become Man in your most pure womb! Without that maternity, your other privileges would not exist; you yourself would not exist, for you were created only to be the Mother of God. You took your only Son to heart in all men born. You are this woman, and you are a virgin. Mary, Mother of God, though marriage and motherhood were the cherished ideals of every Jewish maiden, you vowed your virginity to God, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. 1. But God turned the scheme of the evil one back upon its inventor. 1, 20). Jesus is in me, too, through sanctifying grace, I bear within me the supernatural image of the Divine Sonship. If we could not say that you are the Mother of God for having given a body to the Son of God, then we could neither adore this Body; nor would we have been redeemed by the sacrifice of this Body on the cross, nor would we be united to the divinity in receiving this Body in the Eucharist. Our Lady appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858, and the rest as they say is history! Even though my past sinfulness may have made me unworthy to appear before God, I trust that you will appeal to God in my behalf as the Mother of Divine Grace. This marked the beginning of your life of suffering together with Jesus. 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. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion September 15th Feast Day Liturgical Color: White The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. King Solomon described your beauty: "Thou art all fair my beloved, beautiful as the moon, brilliant as the sun.". You are the channel by which all the favors of Jesus descend upon us, even as it was through you and in union with you that during His mortal life He won for us whatever title we have to His gifts and graces. Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Catholic News Agency You want to give me help every time I need it. Your example teaches me that Jesus will work miracles for persevering prayer that springs from confidence and humility. He is for us the source of all grace, the cause of our supernatural life. Mary, My Mother, from your early years you adored the one true God in the Temple at Jerusalem. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. 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. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). We praise your virginity and admire your humility; but because we are poor sinners, your mercy attracts us more and we embrace it more lovingly. It also means unlimited confidence in your motherly intercession if I should have the misfortune of straying from Jesus by sin. Through you we have received Jesus Christ, the Universal Source of Grace, so through your intercession, we still continue to receive the various actual graces suited to our state of life. In His infinite mercy God chose Abraham who was to be the Father of a Chosen Nation. You became a victim and holocaust to the divine will, the Queen of Martyrs, the most perfect imitator of the Victim of Calvary. Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates 491 years Robin Bradshaw , Hearst Dec. 12, 2022 Comments This is an image of a Spanish Baroque altar located inside of the Monastery of Santo. Give me the same virtues in my state of lifea will inflamed with the desire that God's Will be done and a mind steeped in the knowledge of what that Will is. Collected by the web master from various calendars; if you have a Feast that I missed, please let me know, so I can include it. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. (2) You took part in this offering also by the consent which you gave to the whole plan of the Redemption, and by your union of will with that of your divine Son even to the point of His sacrifice on the cross. 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. You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. Satan is more humiliated at seeing himself under the heel of the lowliest of creatures than at feeling himself crushed by God's almighty arm. 22nd Meu Awards, Berry And Warmington Scales, Articles O