You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. They roamed about in the darkness of sin and despair. You used most perfectly every actual grace given you by God in acts and virtue. But God has willed that you should be exempted from this general rule because, by an entirely singular privilege, you completely overcame sin by your Immaculate Conception. Prayer was the soul of your preparation, and the Apostles were inspired by your example. You are beautiful at your presentation in the temple; in prayer before Gabriel as he awaited your answer, in Nazareth's hidden life and later as you followed Jesus and listened to Wisdom speak. You often discussed the coming of the Messias, since you knew He would be of your race and family. Mary, My Mother, you did acknowledge having received greater graces from God than had any other creature, for a humble heart always acknowledges the special favors of God that it may humble itself the more. Before you were crowned Queen of Heaven you became the Mother of Sorrows. Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary | MaryPages "Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. 1. 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! September 15 | Recurring Event . ", Your Heart is a shrine of peace, for it is the Heart of the Mother of the Prince of Peace, a Heart never for a moment disturbed by evil passions, a Heart whose gifts to mankind are mercy, love and peace. I am your merciful mother, the merciful mother of all of you who live united in . Mary, Mother of God, I believe what Holy Mother Church teaches about your Immaculate Conception: that from the first moment of your conception you possessed justice and holinessthat is sanctifying grace, even the fullness of grace, with the infused virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit, and with integrity of nature; yet you remained subject to death and other pains and miseries of life that your Son Himself willed to undergo. I want to be devoted to you by giving myself entirely to you and through you to God. The Holy Spirit gave you the heart of a bride, all burning with a love pure and ardent. 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. Through your prayers, may Jesus make me live of His life through sanctifying and actual grace. the seven dolors devotion approved by pope pius vii in 1815 view banner image of our lady of sorrows without the frame the feast day of the seven dolors is traditionally either the friday of passion week, which is the friday before good friday, or more generally on september 15, the official date for the feast. I plead for these sinners and I beg you to help them to break their chains, to shake off their human respect, to hope in the mercy of your Son. You are also called the temple of the Holy Spirit because, in virtue of your Immaculate Conception and your fullness of grace, He dwells within you in a most singular manner. Yet no selfish thought, no bitter resentment has marred your beauty. It was not enough for the Infinite Lover of souls to free us from the slavery of hell by His Passion and death and to bestow upon us His body and blood, soul and divinity. Such love set your Heart on fire with love for your Divine Son, not only as your Son, but also as your God and Savior since you had shared in advance in the merits of His Passion and death. How happy Jesus must have been to receive the homage that you paid Him! Mary, My Mother, I am the work of the wisdom of God together with all other creatures. She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. How much more precious you were than any chalice of richest gold. When He had finished the work of our Redemption by His labors, suffering and death, the Eternal Word, clothed in our nature, entered into His glory and was seated on the right hand of the Eternal Father. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." 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. His Holiness St. John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and. Protect me from the snares of the world, the flesh and the devil. You also conceived His members who have been born again and are called to incorporation with Him. But no child ever belonged to its mother as Jesus belonged to you. You possessed a perfect faith, a firm hope, a burning charity, a deep humility, a purity greater than that of the angels. To you I give my body, my heart and my soul. Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your holiness to some degree. Having heard the prophecy of your Son's suffering, you almost rejoiced to hear that you would share His suffering. Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows - September 15, 2022 - Liturgical 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. You are a Mother of Mercy to the sinner and the fallen; have pity on me! May God dwell in me and may I live to Him alone through frequent Holy Communion and still more frequent prayer so that God may direct my whole lifemy thoughts, words and actionsto His greater honor and glory. 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). Jesus is the new Adam and you are the new Eve. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. This gift of Your Heart entitles you to be called the Mother of the Holy Eucharist. Don Jos's actions made me think of another passage, this time from the Gospel of Luke ( 10:29-37 ). Queen of the Holy Rosary, in times past, when the enemies of the Church sought to break its unity, you came to the aid of your suffering children. At the mention of it, the angels rejoice and the devils tremble; through the invocation of your name, sinners obtain grace and pardon. Your kingdom, like His, is a kingdom of imperishable glory, because yours is a throne of clemency, mercy and pardon. Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. Thus in consenting to the Incarnation, you cooperated directly in the redemption of the world, for the Incarnation was the first step in the work of our salvation. You receive all graces through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for them in the Name of Jesus Christ. In your greater sorrow may my own be lost, and in calm resignation may my anguished soul find peace and strength. Your birth was a miracle of the power of God because both of your parents were far advanced in years. Mary, My Mother, glorious is your name for those who pronounce it at death, for they need not fear all the powers of hell. You are indeed our Mother, and a mother can never forget her children. Aid me through your influence with your Divine Son, to be a true child of yours and to grow daily into your likeness. You love me with a love that is greater than the love of my own mother; you love me with the very love with which you love Jesus, since all your children form but one body with Him. Mary, Mother of God, your Heart is a shrine of holiness, into which the demon of sin has never entered; whose sanctuary was never once defiled by the least touch of evil, whose altar was the chosen resting place of the Holy Spirit. 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. In giving you to Joseph as spouse, God appointed him to be not only your life's companion, but also a sharer of your dignity. The Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. Give me enthusiasm and joy in the knowledge, the love and the service of the Lord. The last beat of His Heart was to be one with yours just as the first had been. During this long period of concealment in your womb, you perfected His bodily faculties for our benefit. I can picture you alone with your God, following with devotion the life led in common by the virgins of God's house. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. By your Divine Motherhood you formed the closest bond of union with the adorable Trinity, the privileged Daughter of the Father, the loving Mother of the Son and the immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit. He made His taking of the role of Mediator dependent on your consent, and it was your motherly care, shown toward Him through life, which made Him ready for the sacrifice that reconciled the world to God. When He changed the water to wine, He did your bidding as God, since as man He could not perform miracles. Jesus did this in union with you. For my proud nature, humility is most difficult to practise. Your Son, though He was Life itself, did not exempt Himself from death. In becoming His Mother, you became ours. Though Joseph planned to put you away privately when he recognized that you were with child, you still were unwilling to reveal your secret to him, lest you might seem to boast of your gifts. This universal distribution of grace enables you to exercise your spiritual motherhood, to make your children live the divine life by obtaining for them sanctifying grace and all their actual graces. Behold I come to you to show you the wounds sin has inflicted on me. Help me to return unceasing thanks to God for His many favors, and keep me humble in possessing and using them. But God turned the scheme of the evil one back upon its inventor. He was endowed by God with all a father's tenderness and love for Him who was confided to him as his Child. 3. Enlighten the beginning of my efforts, direct my progress, bring my completed work to perfection. You are the immaculate Virgin whom the Holy Spirit willed to make His bride and in whom He would work the tremendous miracle of the Incarnation. 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. Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day. They then left a small offering of silver required by the Law of Moses. You are Queen of the universe, not by force, but by the power of love. Your soul was most beautiful, lovable and immaculate, rich in graces and virtues. In presenting your only Son you present your all. He is your child and you are His Mother. Mary, My Mother, as Dispenser of all graces, you make the world share in the infinite merits of the redemption. 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. Mary, Mother of God, by your offering you sacrificed your own heart. From your pure blood the Holy Spirit formed the pure Body of Jesus. But you are a creature so holy and so perfect that you are superior to all other creatures. Thereby you sanctified all our afflictions and united them with those of Jesus. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius XII, decreed Our Lady of Guadalupe to be "Patroness of all the Americas." . You are so tender and compassionate, so watchful to relieve the needy, that it would seem you had no other desire, no other concern except this. The Feasts of Our Lady Note: Only Universal Feasts have the Month cited with each Feast; Local Feasts, etc., are cited by date within each month, unless the particular Local Feast begins a month. Mother of God, you have very great power. Our Lady of Guadalupe, mystical rose, make intercession for holy Church, protect the Sovereign Pontiff, help all those who invoke thee in their necessities, and since thou art the ever Virgin Mary and Mother of the true God, obtain for us from thy most holy Son the grace of keeping our faith, sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life, burning charity and the precious gift of final perseverance. I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. We do not attribute to you the power of producing supernatural grace, even though you are the Mother of God, for this power belongs to God alone. Preserve their faith, assailed at every hour by the forces opposed to Christ. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. 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. How earnestly you invite me to come and partake of this Bread of Life. Copyright by FATHERS RUMBLE AND CARTY Radio Replies Press Society St. Paul 1, Minn., U.S.A. EWTN | 5817 Old Leeds Rd. You are a second and more blessed Eve. Never did a mother love her son as you loved Jesus; and so never did a mother share in her son's agony so deeply as you shared the Passion. From that hour, we were members of the Mystical Body of Christ. 3. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you in the joyful expectation of your little Son. After the name of Jesus, neither heaven nor earth can utter a name by which my faith and love receive more abundant grace, and reassuring hope, and lasting sweetness. When you later returned to your home, you were under the loving care of your mother, Saint Anne. I rejoice with you in the happiness which filled your heart because of such love. To you I entrust my soul for which Jesus died and I beg you to help me to save it. Your loving submission to the Divine Will could not dry your tears, but it quieted the agony of your mother-heart. 1. It is Mary's selfless act of letting her son be sacrificed for our salvation that makes her the Queen of martyrs. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. Your action is above all one of intercession. God chose you to be His Mother and by that very choice has associated you with Himself in the work of the salvation of men. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates 491 years Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. Mary, Mother of God, how sacred was the life of Jesus in your womb while you awaited His coming! For vain joys or small profits people sacrifice much. 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. How God rewarded your humble and deep faith! The Son takes pleasure in it as the Heart of His Mother, the source from which He drew the blood that ransomed us. You thought only of praising Him as your greatest Benefactor when you exclaimed, "My soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my SaviorFor He who is mighty has done great things for me." I cannot for a moment suspect, all good and all powerful as you are, that you are unwilling to implore for me the graces which I need so much and above all. 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 . Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, I see you in Bethlehem lovingly pressing to your heart your Child, your God, the future Eucharistic Christ. You heard Simeon's words as if they had been spoken to you by God Himself, "Behold, this child is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, and for a sign that shall be contradicted. 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. Your soul filled with love and sorrow, you embraced your Son now pale in death, a victim for the sins of mankind. You have found uncreated grace, that is, God Himself became your Son; and with that grace you have found and obtained every created good. This is but a reminder that you are equally interested in providing for all your children in all their needs of soul and body.