With sincere contrition for my sins I cry to you for help. 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 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. You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. 1. Obtain for me the grace of true conversion. In His infinite mercy God chose Abraham who was to be the Father of a Chosen Nation. As wax melts before fire, so do the devils lose their power against those souls who remember to speak your name and devoutly invoke it. After Almighty God and the Sacred Humanity of Jesus, there is no being so great as you. Mary, My Mother, help me to perform all my actions through youto ask through your intercession the graces I need in order to imitate you, and to go through you to Jesus. Feast, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28) (Triduum, Wednesday nearest the feast of St. Teach me to love Him with some of the love that glowed in your own heart so that my heart may always be His pleasing temple. Help me to strive to imitate your wonderful charity by aiding those who are in need, by sympathizing with those who are afflicted, by opening my heart and applying my hands to relieve every form of distress. I desire that all that is in me and around me may belong to you and may share in the benefits of your motherly blessing. The Calendar section will present a particular feast for Our Lady for each day of the year. Petition God that their hope may never fail amid the troubles and the cares of this life. Virgin of virgins, remember me in my needs, and show yourself my Mother. How unimportant are the infirmities of the body compared to the infirmities of the soul! If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. As I gaze upon youthe ideal of perfection and sanctity, may a similar longing for God and complete dedication of myself to Him awaken in my soul. You embrace the universe in the realm of your love and enrich it through your unfailing intercession. I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. But many of these straying children are ignorant and not fully responsible. With a "fiat" God created light, heaven, earth, but with your "fiat" God became Man. In 1668 the feast in honor of the Seven Dolors was set for the Sunday after September 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross. 3. 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. Protect, guard, and keep them in holy fear, in peace, and in harmony of Christian charity. Mary, Mother of God, you are more truly our Mother than any other mother by the way in which you have given us life. In your humility you wished to serve others rather than to be served. She told Juan to have a church built in her honor. In Jesus there was wrapped up the double love of a mother for her only Child and of the holiest creature for her God. He ordered most perfectly His whole creation, for He is the true fountain and highest source of light and wisdom. 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. Help me to love God with my whole strengthso that I may consecrate undividedly, unreservedly and continually to His service, my life, my health and all I am and have. I believe that all graces and heavenly favors flow to the Mystical Body of Christ as from the Head, but you are the channel, through which, by God's will, all graces come to humanity. 3. 1. 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.". From you all missionaries have received the salvation which they bring to the nations. All good things come to us through your hands. You are our Mediatrix with our Mediator. To you I give my body, my heart and my soul. Your heart and His burned with one flame of love to the glory of the Father there at the altar. Jesus is the Son of God by His marvelous and eternal birth "in the bosom of His Father." 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. 1. 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. Let this be my consolation to know that I am doing God's Will. Your soul contained all the marvels of God's grace, for which reason the Church calls you the Singular Vessel of Devotion. When His head was crowned with thorns, another crown of thorns encircled your Heart. You stood by its side never turning your eyes from Him. O powerful answer which rejoiced Heaven and brought an immense sea of graces and blessings into the world! 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. Holy Cards will continue to be added as our collections align with Feast Days of the Saints in our collection. They then left a small offering of silver required by the Law of Moses. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mother of mankind and therefore the Help of Christians, the all-powerful suppliant. 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. 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. With greatest confidence in the mercy and kindness of Your Son, you left Him free to give assistance or withhold it, as He saw fit. No one could have had a closer approach to God than you, for it is impossible for any creature to be closer to God's Son than His own Mother. The Heart of Jesus was a pure Heart, symbolized by the light that St. Margaret Mary saw streaming round it. Your charity for the souls redeemed by the precious blood of your divine Son is so great that you ask mercy for those who flee to you for refuge, with all the earnest tenderness of a mother pleading for her only child. Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. 1. You saw the heavy cross placed on His bent shoulders. Mary, Mother of God, you are the new Eve. 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). August 9: OUR LADY OF THE BURNING CLOUD (ATOM BOMB) On Thursday, August 9, 1945, a blinding flash split the sky above Nagasaki. I long for your complete dominion over meover my body, my soul, my senses, over all that I am and have. Help me to share actively in Holy Mass by sharing in your spirit. You were born into the world in the humble city of Nazareth. Infirmities of the body, patiently endured, may become the occasion of great merit. 1. Those words include us all. We celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows on September 15th. 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. 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. But, because you surpass all other creatures in holiness and in the closeness of your union with Jesus and. For that reason you were conceived by your mother, Saint Anne, without even the shadow of sin. People became the poor banished children of Eve. 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. 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. 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 husband whom God has destined for you was a man of faith of character, of purity, "a just man." Augustine.). You stood there silently fulfilling a part assigned you by Providence. The dignity of the divine maternity raised you above all the rest of creation. This was a declaration that all Christians are your spiritual children. Your prayers are those of a Mother and, therefore, have a certain maternal authority with Jesus Christ so that you obtain the grace of pardon even for those who, though guilty of grievous crimes, commend themselves to you. You love me with a Heart human like my owna Heart that can understand my sorrows and problems since you experienced all that I must bear; a Heart that can sympathize with me and befriend me in my hour of need. They apply these words of Scripture to you: "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. He was pleased to help others for your sake. When you became the Mother of Jesus according to the flesh, you became the Mother of men according to the spirit. 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. Your motherly interest in my needs and the salvation of my soul encourage me to make a prompt appeal to you in all my needs and dangers. 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.". GLADE PARK, Colorado (Catholic Online) - The feast dedicated to "Our Lady of the Rosary" was instituted by Pope Pius V. It was to commemorate the anniversary of the defeat of the Turkish fleet at the battle of Lepanto on the first Sunday in October 1571. You were one of us, and yet you stood above us! 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! Penance and reparation is the one sure way of winning God's love and blessing for a misguided and sinful world. In 1727, Pope Benedict XIII placed the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion in the Roman Calendar on Friday before Palm Sunday. Our Lady appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858, and the rest as they say is history! To the working of this great mystery you also were chosen to cooperate by your free consent. R. (1b) Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! In all of the mysteries of Jesus, in every part of His life, the Father always thought of you two together; together you labored to save men. The Father crowned you by making you a sharer in His power, the Son by making you partaker of His wisdom; the Holy Spirit, by making you partaker of His love. The holy couple offered you to God by the ministry of the priest in charge, who invoked the blessing of God upon you and your parents. 2. To bring us forth, you gave much more than our earthly mothers gave. From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. You did not-abandon Jesus as the apostles did; you remained with Him until He expired. It commemorates the profound union of heart that existed between the Mother of the Redeemer and the Savior, through which she experienced many interior sorrows as a consequence of His Mission, but particularly during His Passion and Death. Protect me from losing the Holy Spirit by sin. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." Mary, My Mother, give me a rich share in the graces merited for me by your Son. This gift of Your Heart entitles you to be called the Mother of the Holy Eucharist. God has made you so kind even to sinners that your goodness restores us to hope. 2. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. Jesus had delivered Himself in His Passion to the will of His Father, and before His sacrifice for sinners could be perfect, He had to be forsaken by that Father. 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. we celebrated the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Jesus rewarded your confidence and resignation by working His first miracle at your request. All your privileges increased your power to love God. Fulfill your apostolic mission of winning the world for Christ. Help me to receive Holy Communion frequently, at least each week, if not daily. 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. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. 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. With the Father you, too, can say: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.". You passed amid the different choirs of the blessed, above all the heavenly spirits, and approached the throne of light prepared for you. 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. I, too, am a sinner. But your love for God was even greater. But with these joys were also mingled bitter sorrows. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. Only then can I really love you as you desirewhen Jesus is formed in me so that I can love you as Jesus does. All that I am or have. I have every reason to rejoice, for as the Mother of Jesus and my Mother you are my hope of salvation. Do not forsake me sweet Mother of Sorrows, because you are my spiritual Mother. Your humility was rewarded with the greatest privilege ever given to a creature. 2. 1. He has reconciled us to God. It was fitting that you, a Virgin Mother, should conceive the Man Who was also the Son of God. 1. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. We encourage you to bring a flower to offer Our Blessed Mary. I fix my gaze on that star and wish never to turn from it. This miraculous defeat broke the back . But it is most reasonable and proper to say that God, who honored and loved You more than all others during your life, and whom He had chosen to be the Mother of His Son and our Redeemer, wills that all graces that are granted to those whom He has redeemed should pass through your hands and be distributed by you in order to exalt you. You became the Mother of a Son who is almighty, eternal and infinite in all perfections, equal to the Father and the Holy Spirit. I want to turn to you in all my pressing needs and difficulties as to a most sure refuge, imploring the help of your protection, choosing you as my advocate, whole-heartedly entrusting my cause to you who are the Consoler of the Afflicted. Just as in my tenderest years I learned to love God at my mother's knee, so now I desire to learn to love my Eucharistic God, as it were, at your knee, for I firmly believe that you are the shortest and surest way to the Heart of the Eucharistic Christ. God bless. Holiness is union with God through love. You had a share in that work; it was part of your life-work. This feast was suppressed with the revision of the calendar published in the Roman Missal of 1969. After Holy Communion Jesus is with me as God and Man, with His Body and Blood, soul and divinity. 2. He was with you not only with His actual grace, touching your heart and enlightening your understanding. At the marriage feast of Cana you asked your Son to perform a miracle for the distressed bride and groom. And the Holy Spirit, who descended upon you in the Incarnation with all His fullness, must have conferred upon you such treasures of sanctity as would prepare you to receive the Son of God in your most pure womb. It is but a symbol of the endless victories which you are to win over him to the last day. Balaam referred to you as a star: "The star which shall arise from Jacob." Enlighten the beginning of my efforts, direct my progress, bring my completed work to perfection. The sacrifice of the cross began at Bethlehem. It takes me back to the days of the prophet Elias when you were prefigured on Mount Carmel under the form of the little cloud from which, as it grew larger, there fell a kindly rain, a symbol of the sanctifying graces that come to us from you. Mary, My Mother, you showed your humility by striving to conceal from others the gifts you received from God. God's grace can also do wonders in me if only I do not refuse to cooperate with it. There were two great altars on Calvary; one in the Body of Jesus, the other in your heart; for on that mount, at the same time that your Son sacrificed His body by death, you sacrificed your soul by compassion. You conceived Him as victim, you prepared Him for this sacrifice beneath the cross you offered Him to the Father for our salvation. Like you, he was of the tribe of Juda and the family of David. Jesus, not satisfied with having given Himself to all mankind in the Incarnation, wished to become united with each of us in a most intimate manner by means of the Holy Eucharist, for by an unceasing act of love He gives Himself to us in each Consecration and in each Communion. I thank you for all you mean to me as my spiritual Mother. Help me to make good use of the graces given me by God. What was true of the effusion of the Holy Spirit on that day, is equally true of every outpouring of grace: God gives nothing to earth without causing the gift to pass through your hands. For He was everything to you, and all else was nothing without Him. The Eternal Father unfolded His Omnipotence in order to form in you a heart full of sweetness and obedience to your Creator. God might have created a more beautiful world, perfect men. You have the charge of keeping faith intact and love unimpaired in the Church founded by our Lord, and of spreading through the nations and over continents the knowledge of the Kingdom of God. 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. From the first instant of your existence your mind was filled by the supernatural light of faith and your soul with love of God. Mary, Mother of God, the apostolic mission confided to you as Queen by your Son is to help Him to the end of time in the sanctification and the salvation of all the souls that come into the world. 3. 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. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. Make me strong in the midst of the temptations and bitterness which so often trouble my soul. Your Immaculate Conception permitted you to love God from the first instant of your existence; your virginity led you to vow an undivided love to Him, your fullness of grace made you capable of loving Him with the most intense love possible. Mary, My Mother, your birth was awaited as the near sign of the deliverance of the human race. He renders it possible to give greater expression to His own love and mercy through your Heart. You beheld His arms and feet roughly extended on the hard wood of the cross. Make me ever attentive to His inspirations that I may grow in holiness and may merit to see this Divine Guest of my soul in the glory of His heavenly kingdom. You brought Him into the world that He might be King, according to the words of the archangel: "And of His kingdom there shall be no end." As Mother, it is your mission to preserve your children from sin and to make them live the supernatural life. . September 14, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality. He alone has paid the full price of our ransom, and to this price no one else has contributed. You resigned yourself to the care of God, in the fullest confidence that He would guard your innocence and reputation. Mary, My Mother, I am the work of the wisdom of God together with all other creatures. Rather, your death was accompanied by three graces that made it precious and full of joy. You are truly His beloved Daughter, the only one in whom there was never a stain. Mary, My Mother, I am happy to be your child. You commanded Him and He obeyed. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. 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. Your Child, becoming the King of Martyrs, would make you their Queen. The Heart of Jesus was a suffering Heart, symbolized by the thorns encircling it, the cross above it, and the gash opened in its side. I may address myself to the saints for favors of various kinds, but my prayer must always pass through your hands if it is to reach the throne of grace and draw down the divine blessing. You brought me forth to the divine life. They roamed about in the darkness of sin and despair. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Comforter of the Afflicted because in your lifetime you bore every sort of affliction and you can now sympathize with me in my sufferings. The Holy Spirit dwells in you as in a temple. Mary, My Mother, as often as your sweet name comes to my lips, you appear to me as a masterpiece of God's power, so perfect and so sublime that even the hand of Almighty God could not produce anything more perfect in the form of a pure creature. Teach me to understand something of your love for the Holy Spirit and His love for you in keeping your soul beautiful and holy. 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. 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. 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. It was life of the utmost weakness and helplessness, and yet His is the strength of God Himself. 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 . Mary, My Mother, I could go directly to God and ask Him for His grace without your help and that of the Saints, but God has not willed it so. Filled with deep humility, and yet on fire with desire to unite yourself still more closely to God, you abandoned yourself entirely to the Divine will and answered, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word" (Luke 1, 38). Pray for us, you who are so powerful, be all-powerful in our behalf! The prayers of the saints avail only in a limited way. Aid me through your influence with your Divine Son, to be a true child of yours and to grow daily into your likeness. Your own extraordinary grace and merit, your own wondrous privileges give to your prayer an irresistible force and power. 500 days. Feast, September 8 (Novena, Aug. 30-Sept. 7). In union with you may my heart yield itself up to childlike confidence in Jesus so that the graces of His Nativity may be brought to my soul in abundance, and He may be born anew within my heart. The effects of the presence of Jesus and you are still the same. Mary, Queen of the Apostles, pray for the triumph of God's Kingdom upon earth.
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