February 07, 2021. 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. The holier a person is and the greater the intimacy of his union with God, the greater also is the power of his prayers. 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). If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. 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. All the tsars were crowned and patriarchs installed in the presence of this image, up until the revolution. Let my consecration of myself to God be made under your patronage and assisted by your intercession and in union with your merits. As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. Mary, Mother of God, your divine maternity is most cherished by you, because it is a token of God's special love for you. Your body, which was the living tabernacle of the Eternal God and the temple of the Adorable Trinity, was not meant to crumble into dust. Help me to be deeply grateful for God's generosity toward me. 2. 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. DEC. 12 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE. How much I worry about my physical health! 1. 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). Be a mother to me and save me. In Jesus there was wrapped up the double love of a mother for her only Child and of the holiest creature for her God. 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 indeed a divine life that Jesus led in Your womb, a life most active, and yet one of unbroken calm. 16, 26). It is from you alone that Christ took His human nature. You are our spiritual Mother in the order of grace. With this job opportunity, you will be able to foster compassion, character, knowledge and service for all. May your name be the last sound that escapes my lips upon this earth and the first I breathe in heaven. Little by little the links between your body and soul were dissolved by the resistless force of love. more marvelous spirits; He could not have made anything more wonderful than a Mother of God. I beg you to take care of me for I am a poor sinful child. I rejoice with you in the happiness which filled your heart because of such love. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. She told Juan to have a church built in her honor. The holy old man Simeon took your Son in his arms. You express your wishes to God, those wishes which have to do with our needsneeds of body and needs of soul. Mary, My Mother, your whole life was like a Mass. You were not to raise up children unto Godnot ordinary offspring, but a Child, the Son of God! Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day. This wisdom and prudence showed itself at a very early age, when you willed to devote yourself entirely to God and were presented by your saintly parents, at your own request, for the temple service. Let me find consolation and strength in your favorite devotionthe rosary. Even when I forget you and begin to complain in my sufferings and crosses, you try to console me. There are some who are far from their Father's house, who even refuse to turn to you. No wonder the angels were lost in admiration! 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. Tell me how to embrace whatever is best that I may attain the great purpose of my lifeheaven and the possession of Godand how to reject whatever is opposed to it or likely to make this attainment difficult. 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. except through you. 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. 2. I am in need of forgiveness of sin, of strength in temptation. As Mother, it is your mission to preserve your children from sin and to make them live the supernatural life. The Holy Spirit gave you the heart of a bride, all burning with a love pure and ardent. Saints Stories for All Ages Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day December 12 Printer Friendly On December 9, 1531, a 57-year-old Aztec, Juan Diego, saw the Blessed Mother on a hill in Mexico City. 1. 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. Help me to imitate your fullness of grace by receiving Holy Communion frequently, where I shall obtain the sanctifying grace that will make my soul holy and pleasing to God, more like your own, and where I shall obtain the actual graces I need to practise virtue and to walk in your footsteps. To love Jesus, to do His will, to accept all from His handslet this be my humility, as it was yours! Bless our prayers and labors for the conversion of the world and support them by your powerful intercession with your Son, Jesus, that His Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace Justice. As you led an interior life and centered all your thoughts and life upon the Word Incarnate in your womb, so help me to lead an interior, supernatural life, always guided and directed by supernatural principles, having always supernatural intentions and performing supernatural actions. 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. You show your compassion toward all so that there is no one in this world who does not, if he seeks it, share in the kindness and mercy of your motherly Heart. How great was your trust in God! Your holiness was due to this Spirit of Love, to Whose guidance you abandoned yourself. Teach parents to care for their children as God's sacred trust, to guard them from sin and to lead them in the way of virtue. At the very instant of your conception your mind was filled with the light of God, and your will was entirely conformed to the divine will. The Holy Spirit would work in you the greatest work of His omnipotence, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee." Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me! Continue to work wonders on our shores for our spiritual and material prosperity and keep us in peace and charity. Your Heart is pure and spotless because sanctified beyond all other hearts by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, making it worthy to be the dwelling-place of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In order to live, not to myself, but to God, I must bear the cross in union with Jesus. Mary, My Mother, you alone never knew shipwreck in the deep ocean of humanity's crimes. All these souls were given to you by Jesus on the crossthey are your children. 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. 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. You saw clearly the agony you would feel at the crucifixion. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. As cooperator with your Son in that work of redemption, you also acquired the right to reign with Him. This apostolic mission is a consequence of your office as Mother, as Co-Redemptrix and as Dispenser of all graces. On Feb. 11, 2020, I was ordained a bishop and installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. The gift that God conferred upon you when He chose you to be the Mother of His Divine Son, and the grace that was in proportion to that gift, are beyond the understanding of men and even angels. How great must have been that longing! You hid your miraculous virginity under the mantle of humility. It was fitting that you, a Virgin Mother, should conceive the Man Who was also the Son of God. I am your merciful mother, the merciful mother of all of you who live united in . 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.