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. In becoming my Mother, you became the Queen of Martyrs! I wish to make reparation by offering sacrifices to atone for sin by fulfilling my daily duties well, by accepting the crosses of life with resignation and love, by obeying the commandments, by going to Mass, confession and Communion frequently, above all on the first Saturday of each month, and by praying much, especially your holy Rosary. You were declared to be the spiritual "Mother of all the living." 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. You are the channel of all good things after the Trinity, Mediatrix of the world after the Mediator. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. Through your prayers, may Jesus make me live of His life through sanctifying and actual grace. The words of the prophet are applied to you: "O all you that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be sorrow like unto my sorrow.". Mary, Mother of God, as Refuge of sinners, you will never turn away those who have recourse to your compassion. Mary, Mother of God, how great was the honor given to you at the Annunciation! Augustine.). Your eyes ever watch over us; your ears ever listen to our cries; your hands are ever extended over us to help us and impart heavenly gifts to us; above all, your Heart is full of tenderest care for us. Many parishes, in addition to having a special feast day Mass, also host a reception or party in honor of the day. I can picture you alone with your God, following with devotion the life led in common by the virgins of God's house. The attitude of the Church toward you, symbolized by the moon under your feet, is that of a suppliant who is forever entreating you to use your power in favor of your children. 12, 1). Don Jos's actions made me think of another passage, this time from the Gospel of Luke ( 10:29-37 ). 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. God reserves to Himself the dispensing of justice to all creatures. By Francesca Merlo The Virgin of Guadalupe, like the shroud of Turin, appears on a piece of fabric. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, I see you in Bethlehem lovingly pressing to your heart your Child, your God, the future Eucharistic Christ. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with the Blessed Trinity on your birthday because you were to take part in the Incarnation and Redemption of the world, I rejoice with all mankind because you became the Mother of our Redeemer. Your soul filled with love and sorrow, you embraced your Son now pale in death, a victim for the sins of mankind. 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. Mary, My Mother, your first presentation to God, made by the hands of your parents, was an offering most acceptable in His sight. This is the very heart of your apostolate. Due to her feast day on September 15, the month of September has traditionally been set aside to honor Our Lady of Sorrows. 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. For the first time after four thousand years God in His Wisdom and power and love, created again a human being in that state in which He had created our first parents. Even before His coming your Heart was filled with love for those whom later He was to love with a tremendous love. Mary, Mother of God, your greatness began at the first instant of your existence with the privilege of your Immaculate Conception. You were not to raise up children unto Godnot ordinary offspring, but a Child, the Son of God! R. (1b) Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! 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. You are all-merciful that you may obtain for me pardon and mercy. 2. The privilege of the Immaculate Conception was suitable to your dignity. Manila Archdiocese Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula will preside over the grand fiesta mass at 12 noon Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City, in solemn commemoration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the principal patroness of the Philippines, Mexico, and the Americas, and the protector of the unborn. Look with pity on me for in You is my hope. When the Holy Spirit descended, you received the richest outpouring of His graces. Everything about Mary was fashioned by . Jesus rewarded your confidence and resignation by working His first miracle at your request. If to live of the Eucharist and by the Eucharist was the very special spirit of the early Church"And they continued steadfastly in the communion of the breaking of the bread" (Acts 2, 42)it must have been the summary of your last years on earth. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12th is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. You bore your sorrows bravely because you received them from God's hands. Thus He clearly revealed that in His kingdom you were to be the dispenser of His riches. Your soul is the creation and the masterpiece of almighty workmanship. Though worn with sorrow, you at once took your place at the foot of the cross. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Help of Christians because you are the Mother of the Mystical Body of Christ. Mother you are and that doubly in the terms of our Catholic belief: human Mother of Jesus, supernatural Mother of every Christian. Your Heart was also a pure Heart, pure as the light, purer than the snow, free from the stain of original sin, from the least taint of actual sin, from the least evil tendency of our fallen naturea heart full of light and beauty reflecting to the full the radiance of the Sacred Heart of your Divine Son. You are full of grace, the Lord's free gift, and it overflows in you filling your soul with every virtue and perfection. Mary, My Mother, during all eternity it will be one of our greatest joys to admire the infinite love of God for you whose Son He willed to be, just as He is in all truth the Son of the Father. Holiness is a complete separation from creatures and perfect union with God through love. Mary, My Mother, through your divine maternity you procure for the three divine Persons a new and singular glory. Your dying Son declared this in His words to you from the cross, "Woman, behold thy Son." Your humility was rewarded with the greatest privilege ever given to a creature. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. Mary, My Mother, from your early years you adored the one true God in the Temple at Jerusalem. At the very beginning of His public ministry, you observed the hatred and jealousy of His enemies and the false accusations which would bring about His death. Enlighten the beginning of my efforts, direct my progress, bring my completed work to perfection. Help me, above all, so that by my good example I may enrich and ennoble every human being whose life I touch. The Holy Spirit overshadowed you at the Annunciation, and on Pentecost He made your heart a furnace of Divine love. 1. May the love and peace and happiness of your Holy Family reign in the Christian families of all times. This intimacy with God was the soul of your soulyour very life. God is the source of every good and the absolute Master of all graces. In doing so you uttered the most gracious act of humility that ever fell from human lips, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word." And thy own soul a sword shall pierce " Since you were enlightened by the Scriptures, you realized that your Child would be contradicted and utterly rejected by the Jews, who had, for forty centuries, unceasingly sighed for Him as a Savior. We recommend to you our hopes and our fears. Advise me what to do. Mary, Mother of God, I pour out to you the sorrows of my own troubled heart. Help me to realize that it is only through the cross that I can attain to its glory and that it is only through suffering that I can possess the kingdom of heaven. The Woman is a striking image of you, the Immaculate Conception. Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you in the joyful expectation of your little Son. nothing could be happier than the choice of the day on which this Feast was to be kept.On the 24 th of May, in the year 1814, there was . Since you bore a much heavier one together with your innocent Son, should not I, a sinner deserving of eternal punishments, carry mine patiently? As the Mother of the Incarnate Son you were so preserved from inheriting original sin that never for a moment was as much as a shadow cast by sin upon your spotless soul. Your will was one with His, faithful to your promise made at the Incarnation. Mary, Mother of God, the joyful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the mysteries in which the Word was made flesh and you, the inviolate Virgin and Mother, performed your maternal duties with holy joy. You were fully enlightened as to the greatness of the dignity of a Mother of God. Its martyrdom began with holy Simeon's prophecy in the temple and was completed on Calvary. God inflamed no other heart, after that of the Heart of His Son, with His love so much as yours. I can best thank Jesus for His dying bequest by striving daily to become like John in his love and imitation of you. I cannot advance in the path of sanctity without humility, which is the heart and soul of virtue. Yet Jesus was active in your womb adoring and praising God. You took part in this offering of the life and death of Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." You obtain graces for us even without our asking you for them. I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. 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. 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. You could also hold your own celebration of Our Lady by inviting friends and family to your home for a traditional Mexican meal. The words of Simeon were then fulfilled. You rule in heaven and on earth. Mary, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. But no child ever belonged to its mother as Jesus belonged to you. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. Mary, My Mother, you stand in the presence of your Son, interceding for sinners. 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. Teach me to imitate you by accepting willingly all the suffering which my service of God involves, my struggles against temptation, my difficult acts of virtue, my little penancesin union with the Victim Jesus on the altar out of love for God and mankind. With sincere contrition for my sins I cry to you for help. Don Luis de VelascoII, when he was Viceroy of New Spain, had as his confessor a Dominican, Fray Cristobal de Ortega, who also acted as his financial adviser. In the fulfillment of the law you gave an example of the most perfect obedience and zeal for the edification of others; for since the real nature of your motherhood was not known to your Jewish neighbors, you might have been the cause of scandal to them if you had failed to comply with the law. The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on September 15 and is dedicated to honoring the spiritual martyrdom of Mary. Having once given us Jesus Christ by you, God does not change His way of helping us. You are indeed all-powerful in Heaven, but your omnipotence is not one of authority and command, but of intercession. I cannot even imagine the heavenly beauty that adorned your innocent soul as you were being prepared by the Eternal Father to be the Mother of His Divine Son and the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. Mary, My Mother, your whole life was like a Mass. I regard that dominion as a shining star lighting and guiding my life. As you knelt before the Sacred Species, you truly influenced the First Christians to be ardent lovers of your loving Son in the Blessed Sacrament. In your humility you gladly suffered contempt with Jesus. It impels my mind to self-exaltation, because I am proud. Monday, September 15, 2014. It is your Son who abides with me in the tabernacle as the best Friend I have in this world, who offers Himself to the Father for me as the Victim of Calvary at Holy Mass, who gives Himself to me as Food in Holy Communion. And so it is even now in heaven. 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. 2. No creature loved Jesus more than you, and consequently, no one loves the souls redeemed by His Blood more than you. 3. Mary, Mother of God, how beautifully you expressed your gratitude and humility! This humility was richly rewarded. View the Flyer. 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. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. 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. From you was derived the Precious Blood which was shed upon the cross for our salvation and the adorable Body which, after having been made the price of our Redemption, has become the food of our souls in the Holy Eucharist. Through prayer may grace fill my soul with the life of God and transform me into a living image of Jesus, just as you were. For that reason you were conceived by your mother, Saint Anne, without even the shadow of sin. HAPPY FEAST DAY! Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. Mary, Mother of God, I thank you for being my companion in suffering. We obtain everything for our peace of soul in time and eternity from the Father through the Heart of Jesus and everything from Jesus through your Heart. When still a child you consecrated yourself entirely to God, the Love of chaste souls; and afterwards you would rather be deprived of the great dignity of Divine Motherhood than to lose your virginity. Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your sinlessness by keeping my soul free from every willful sin by the faithful observance of God's commandments. He was obedient and immediately arranged with you the celebration of your chaste nuptials. On the appointed day, at nightfall, accompanied by friends, he went in procession to your parents' house, to conduct you to his own home. He promised that my prayers would be heard when He said, "Ask, and it shall be given you" (Matt. No one ever carried out the teaching of your Son with greater exactness than you; hence His words refer to you perfectly: "Everyone therefore who hears these my words and acts upon them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house on rock" (Matt. 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. 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. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. Mary, Mother of God, I choose you as my model of Eucharistic devotion. We encourage you to bring a flower to offer Our Blessed Mary. 2. 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. 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. Mary, Mother of God, your humility was expressed especially in the Annunciation. You are our Mother, the Mother of all the living. This country and every country in North and South America, is born "under God," and under the mantle of Holy Mary, every nation and every person under her . By your love of God and of His adopted sons, you aided the Apostles in the spread of Christ's Kingdom on earth. Bless the people of the Americas, citizens of those lands to which uncounted thousands have come to seek refuge and livelihood. The crucifixion was not only the sacrifice for sin, it was also the new birth of mankind to the spiritual life, lost by the sin of Adam. The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. Mary, Mother of God, I turn to you in all my pressing needs and difficulties as to a most sure refuge. For the first time in the public life of Jesus you appeared in the exalted character of our Advocate, a character which would be yours as long as time would last. 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. But you help Christians also by your prayers. He renders it possible to give greater expression to His own love and mercy through your Heart. Jesus ascended to Heaven by His own power as Lord and Creator, accompanied by angels who paid Him homage. Jesus continues ceaselessly to pray for us, offering for us to His heavenly Father His infinite merits and atonement, and causing the floods of grace to descend upon us to save us. You have merited by a merit of fitness all that Jesus has merited by a merit of justice. Mary, Mother of God, because of your influence in obtaining helpful remedies against spiritual and bodily maladies, the Church calls you the "Health of the Sick." But many of these straying children are ignorant and not fully responsible. But the same spirit of humility which had induced Jesus to obey the law of circumcision, made you also submit to the law of purification. Give me a deep sorrow for my sins which have hurt God so very much. You are ever imploring favors for the just, as well as for sinners. To you I entrust the preparation of my soul for the coming of my Savior on Christmas Day. It is to you, after God, that we are indebted for our spiritual life, the life of the children of God. 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. Mary, My Mother, in your womb, the sanctuary of the living God, Jesus was occupied with the sanctification and government of the world. 3. 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! With joy you must have foreseen the millions of souls who by your presence in their lives would cast off the bonds of sin. Mary, My Mother, you were laying the foundation of that hidden life in which by the practice of the highest virtues, you were to reach that sublime degree of holiness to which you were predestined as Mother of the Son of God and Mother of all the souls for whom He was to die. You are the Glory of Jerusalem; you are the Joy of Israel; you are the Honor of our people. Mary, My Mother, yours is a queenship of conquest. After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. You possessed a perfect faith, a firm hope, a burning charity, a deep humility, a purity greater than that of the angels. We beg you for a burning charity for God to imitate the works of Christ. The Church has always taught that God has entrusted to your hands all heavenly treasures, and many of the saints assure me that you give to your clients as much of these treasures as you wish and when you wish to do so. May my soul always find comfort in your holy name! Intercede for us that we may win the victory over evil and that we may live and reign with Jesus, your Son. Our Lady of Sorrows The devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows flourished in the Middle Ages, and the hymn Stabat Mater was composed for it. 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. All mankind may find a place there as your children, if they only choose to listen to your loving appeal. In union with Him you also did the will of God perfectly as He exclaimed "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.". 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. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son. 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. The reredos is in gold relief, being copied from work in the chapel of the Duchess of Newcastle.
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