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. 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. Crowds reach the entry gate to the basilica grounds for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The feast was placed in the Roman Missal under the title of Our Lady of Compassion in 1482, highlighting the love of Blessed Mother in suffering with her Son, Jesus. Jesus proclaimed your motherhood from the cross by entrusting you to John and John to you when He said, "Woman behold thy sonSon, behold thy Mother.". Mary, Mother of God, you are called Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament because you are associated in a special way with the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Mary, Mother of God, may the perfect gift of yourself to God through love in your presentation in the temple be an inspiration to me. I earnestly want to be filled with the dispositions in which you expected the coming of the Savior and thus prepare myself for His coming into my soul by faith and divine charity, as well as for His coming at the hour of my death and judgment. You were borne aloft to the palace of your Beloved. You said Yes so that we might live. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. You are the first apostle of your children not only because you are the most perfect of mothers, but especially because you are our spiritual Mother. Jesus invites me to do so, for He said, "Take my yoke upon youMy yoke is easy and My burden light" (Matt. You willingly became the Mother of Jesus when you answered the message of the Archangel Gabriel with the words "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word" (Luke 36, 38). As the surest refuge for a child is the heart of its mother, so your Immaculate Heart is my refuge. In you, and of your substance, was this day formed His adorable Body. Down through the ages numberless people have recovered health of body and of spirit through your intercession! It was so when you gave your consent to the divine plan of the Redemption. Mary, My Mother, you always lived under the divine influence of the Holy Spirit and in the closest possible union with Him. 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. Since 1958 and the merging of the two saint days into one celebration (known as the Cooperative Feast), the Giglio Feast has been celebrated in July, with all activities leading up to its culmination on July 16th, the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. But all heaven rejoiced at your birth, because you were destined one day to bring the Savior into the world; you were to become God's Mother and the Queen of heaven and earth. As our immaculate Mediatrix before your Son you have appeared at Lourdes to encourage us to amend our lives and to make sacrifices and offer prayers for sinners. How much I worry about my physical health! 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). 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. Help me to love Jesus with all my heart and to show my love for Him by loving you whom He has loved so dearly. During my whole life you continue to take care of me until Christ be formed in me. Make me a fervent apostle of the Eucharist. (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. Your great lover, Saint Bernard, along with many other saints and writers, reminds me: "Through you, Mary, heaven has been filled; through you hell has beheld itself robbed of an army of souls, in a word, through you eternal life was imparted to multitudes of wretched ones, who had made themselves unworthy of it." 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. Do not be afraid Mary, for you have found, not taken, grace, as Lucifer tried to take it. Grant that all these, men and women alike, may be freed from sin, to repose on His Heart of merciful love. 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. That date was not chosen by accident, but because it is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. You appeared as the Woman of the Apocalypse, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon. He is for us the source of all grace, the cause of our supernatural life. Help me to perform all my actions with youto look upon you as a model and helper. 3. With your heart breaking with sorrow, you had to die a spiritual death in order to become my spiritual Mother. Gazing sorrowfully on His lifeless body, you watched the soldier drive the spear into His Heart. 1. The repetition of the "Hail Marys" keep before my mind the importance of the Incarnation and your share in it. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. 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? May I have more of their love for you so that I may experience more of their joy in being devoted to you. 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. Responsorial Psalm Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8. God bless. You would be hailed by all generations as blessed above all other women because you are the Mother of God and at the same time a spotless Virgin. 'Teach me that the test of my following of your Divine Son is practical charity. But I want to be loved by you even more; hence, give me an ever growing love for you. 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!". OUR LADY OF SORROWS Feast day- September 15, 2022. Everything about Mary was fashioned by . Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son. 2. May my faith influence my conduct. You presented Him in sacrifice to the Father as your God and the Son of Man, as your offering and the offering of humanity for the redemption of the world. I am deeply conscious that I am unable to do good. Mary, My Mother, help me to take your requests at Fatima to heart. 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. His Heart is a loving Heart, and that love is symbolized by the flames which St. Margaret Mary saw coming forth from it. Thus you became in some way the source of that grace which Jesus would pour forth over all mankind. 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. But the true sanctuary in which you dwelt with God was not the palace of worship at Jerusalem but the immaculate temple of your heart. It was your exclusive privilege to be Christ's Mother according to the flesh. You love them still, in spite of their sins, and you follow them with your motherly gaze and your prayers. 5, 7). You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. By granting them these graces you have performed a work of the apostolate. It has been reproduced many times in copies and in book illustrations. Jesus did this in union with you. I wish to do penance by giving up sin and amending my life, by asking pardon and making reparation to the Heart of Jesus and to your Immaculate Heart, so grievously offended by our sins. 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. Mary, Mother of God, how wonderful was your own interior life as you carried the Son of God in your womb and awaited His coming! I did it not once or twice but numberless times. 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. 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. 1. The moment of your exaltation, the highest to which God could raise a creature, finds you sunk in the abyss of your own nothingness. Once more He renewed His offering at the Presentation in the Temple. Mary, My Mother, your Son Jesus came to enlighten the world with His teaching and example. 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. Mary, My Mother, your apparition at Guadalupe as the Immaculate Conception is your only recorded appearance in North America. Thus you will be for me not only the Health of the Sick but also the Gate of Heaven. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mediatrix of All Graces. As Eve induced Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit which brought death upon us, so you prompt us to eat the Bread which gives us life. The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. Grant that we all may heed your warning, for only through penance and reparation can we blot out sin and the insult it afflicts on God. Everything that God may send me, or permit in my life, whether favorable or unfavorable, sweet or bittereven illness, is acceptable to me, for I have resolved, after your example to conform myself to the Divine Will in all things. Help me to imitate your zeal in assisting my neighbor in his needs. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Help of Christians because you are the Mother of the Mystical Body of Christ. Help me, above all, so that by my good example I may enrich and ennoble every human being whose life I touch. I have saved my soul.". Finally, they remind me of the everlasting glory of all the saints in Heaven united with your own glory and that of your Son. This is but a reminder that you are equally interested in providing for all your children in all their needs of soul and body. God looks for gratitude and humility which draw down upon us His favor and His gifts. Your fullness of grace brought you to a most intimate union with the Author of grace. 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). Mary, Mother of God, you are our spiritual Mother. Mary, Mother of God, help me to understand as clearly as God wishes to let me do so, the value of suffering and sickness. The holier a person is and the greater the intimacy of his union with God, the greater also is the power of his prayers. 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. For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Mary, My Mother, the angel said to you, "Blessed art thou among women." He was with you not only with His actual grace, touching your heart and enlightening your understanding. Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. I became a child of God. For the small sacrifice of being devoted to you I can obtain a happy death and eternal life. Though you are raised to the high dignity of Queen of Heaven, you have not forgotten man's wretched condition. You are a Mediatrix because since your Assumption, with Christ you obtain all graces for men. You were longing to see the Face of God and to be happy in the vision. You are a Mediatrix in union with Christ from whom your mediation draws all its power. 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. And when Jesus instituted this Holy Sacrament, He surely thought especially of you. Help me to love God with my whole mindso that my mind may be habitually occupied with God and that I may value His good pleasure above everything elseabove my convenience, above all earthly treasures, above all knowledge and friendship, above health and life. It is through your prayers that God inspires me to receive It and grants me the grace to receive It worthily. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. 2. You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. You are above not only patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and all the saints but even all angels. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are full of grace. In return for the natural strength that you gave Him, He gave you His divine strength. How delightful a sight must your beautiful soul have been to heaven! When your cousin Saint Elizabeth greeted you as blessed among women, you answered, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior because he has regarded the lowliness of his handmaid" (Luke 1, 46). You are Queen of the universe, not by force, but by the power of love. 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. We do not find you in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, when your divine Son was received with so much honor by the people. Mary, Mother of God, God had a purpose in wanting you and Joseph to become man and wife. 2. Keep me humble that I may be able to receive your counsel. Devotion to you brings with it sweetness and consolation for the soul. Whoever abides in this Church will bring forth much salutary fruit; whereas they who willingly separate themselves from it must wither away spiritually. With your own eyes you saw Him brought first to Pilate, then to Herod and then again to Pilate. 1. You add a degree of motherly sweetness to the joy of the angels and saints and to the blessed of the Church triumphant. 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. He promised Our Lady that if he were cured, he would become a priest. God has created nature and all the wondrous functions of the human body. Turin Our Lady of Consolation, Turin This icon was presented to the city of Turin. In this I see God's plan that in the Kingdom of Jesus all graces should go through your hands and Heart. Pray to Him for us, your children, that in our exile we may resemble you, His most devoted follower, and at last may glorify Him in union with you forever. Mary, My Mother, the Heart of Jesus was a generous Heart, symbolized by the wound in His side from which came forth the last drops of His Heart's Blood shed for us, and by which w e can reach the treasures of that Divine Heart. 10/7/2009 (1 decade ago) Published in Living Faith. Sanctify them first, so that they may then more effectively sanctify others. You invite none to come to you but the lowly of spirit. The glory of the great things that had been done in you, you attributed to God's mercy and power and love. The object of these feasts is the spiritual martyrdom of the Mother of God and her compassion with the sufferings of her Divine Son. You were soon really to see the Face of God the created image of divine perfection, the sight of which rejoices heaven and earth, from which all beings derive life and joy; the Face whose features enraptured God from all eternity, the Face for which all ages had expectantly yearned. From the cross Jesus gave you to me to be my Mother, and I was entrusted to your care as your child. How wonderful were the workings of divine power to make you a fitting dwelling for the Redeemer of the world! It is still . It was your duty to represent the whole of mankind and to offer those acts of adoration faith, hatred of sin, love and prayer, which were due from those who shared in this sacrifice. Mary, Mother of God, the offering of Jesus was presented by your virginal hands. You were charged with dispensing the supernatural life to men because this was fitting. There before the tabernacle you relived in memory all the happy and sorrowful events of your life with Jesus. You lovingly served her till you saw her happily delivered of the child of promise with which God had blessed her. 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. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. Through the sacraments, prayer and good deeds, I can make my own the merit of the atonement of Jesus. You resigned yourself to the care of God, in the fullest confidence that He would guard your innocence and reputation. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. Mary, My Mother, you showed your humility by striving to conceal from others the gifts you received from God. But with the same humility with which you had conceived Him, you consented to the supreme loss of your God. May these graces become most fruitful in my soul till I become like you, another Christ. On the right of the Sanctuary stands the shrine of Our Lady of Compassion, under whose protection the church is placed. From that hour, we were members of the Mystical Body of Christ. 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. 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. May your name be the last sound that escapes my lips upon this earth and the first I breathe in heaven. View the Flyer. At the marriage feast of Cana He worked His first miracle because you asked Him for this favor. The icon is now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Russian calendar commemorates the feast of Our Lady of Vladimir on May 21. Their children also belong to God, for they are His gift. Mary, My Mother, at my baptism you gave me life at the moment when sanctifying grace was infused into my soul at the baptismal font. But I see the relation between you and the Blessed Sacrament above all in your life after Good Friday when you began your new motherhood at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist. Bless the work of those who spend themselves to bring souls to your loving Son. 1. 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. You fulfill the duties and enjoy the rights of a true mother. Liturgical feast Our Lady of Compassion. Forgetting yourself completely, you were most intimately united with God. To the Church suffering you bring consolation, relief, deliverance, to the Church militant you offer aid, confidence, victory.
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