1. In that moment the mystery of love and mercy, promised to mankind thousands of years earlier foretold by so many prophets, desired by so many saints, was accomplished upon earth. It was indeed a divine life that Jesus led in Your womb, a life most active, and yet one of unbroken calm. Keep my soul in good health so that when my body fails, my soul may be prepared to meet its Maker and Judge. 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. 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. Mary, Mother of God, you are the mother of the Judge: you are also the Mother of the sinners. On April 3rd, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X will have the joy of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion for the first time in all our houses. If at any time you had been without Divine grace even for the shortest moment, there would not have come between you and the serpent that everlasting enmity spoken of by God. Mercy proceeds from you as from an abundant, never-failing source. Through Joseph your descent from David would be known. Holiness is a complete separation from creatures and perfect union with God through love. 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. But we do find you standing beneath the cross on Calvary, when your Son was derided and mocked. God destined you to be a Mother of Mercy, a Refuge of Sinners and an Advocate of the Afflicted, and you fulfill these offices perfectly. 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. And grant that after having suffered with you and your loving Son in this life, I may be glorified with You both in His Kingdom beyond the stars. For my proud nature, humility is most difficult to practise. 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. I believe the teaching of the Church concerning the union of the human and divine natures in Christ: that Jesus Christ is God and man, perfect God and perfect man and that this divinity and humanity are united in only one person so that the actions of the divine nature or the human nature are the actions of one person, the divine Person. But you are the Mother of the living, for by your fidelity to your Maker you deserved to give to mankind a Redeemer who by His death has destroyed the reign of death and has thrown open to us the gates of everlasting life. 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 ardent faith and intense love pierced that thin veil which separated you from your loving Son. because you have been, according to the Divine Plan, associated with Jesus in the work of Redemption, you have merited by a merit of fitness all that Christ has merited by a merit of justice, and God has made you the Giver of His Graces. His Holiness St. John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and. Thus He clearly revealed that in His kingdom you were to be the dispenser of His riches. You did not go to a distance, but drew nearer to the crossthe hard bed on which Jesus had to die. At the same time your name brings before me your virtues, your merits, your beauty. Through the sorrow which you felt during your whole life, but especially when you saw Jesus led to His death and then crucified, obtain for me the grace that I may patiently bear the sufferings which God has seen fit to send me, even as you bore your sufferings. The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. 2. Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of Good Counsel, I appeal to you for advice and guidance. 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. After Holy Communion Jesus is with me as God and Man, with His Body and Blood, soul and divinity. Even from the days of the Apostles you were honored under this mystical title. You are indeed the most wonderful Mother that has ever walked this earth. And finally when the sacrifice was completed by His death upon the cross you had your place beside Him. But I can never be your true child if I am not humble. 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. Let my consecration of myself to God be made under your patronage and assisted by your intercession and in union with your merits. Your heart beat in unison with His Heart. You are the Glory of Jerusalem; you are the Joy of Israel; you are the Honor of our people. May my soul always find comfort in your holy name! How unimportant are the infirmities of the body compared to the infirmities of the soul! Mary, My Mother, how kindly you provided for the needs of this newly-married couple! You have such a desire to save sinners that you look for them in order to help them. Mary, I beg you to lead me to my Sacramental Jesus! Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. 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. Later in the public life of Jesus, you sought no attention. You are the Virgin to whom God the Father decreed to give His only Sonthe Divine Word, equal with Himself in all thingsthat entering the natural order He might become your Son as well as His. Intercede for us that we may win the victory over evil and that we may live and reign with Jesus, your Son. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. Jesus is the Head of the Church, and you are its neck. You experienced a sea of bitterness in your life so that you might be an example to us in our sufferings and so that we might learn from your own sorrow to sympathize with others in theirs. Rather, your death was accompanied by three graces that made it precious and full of joy. He forms Himself in me by supernatural principles, which He implants in my mind; by supernatural intentions and meritorious actions. 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. May the love and peace and happiness of your Holy Family reign in the Christian families of all times. | Irondale, AL 35210 |. You loved God with your whole heart and mind and strength. How well your name gives expression to your position and your mission in lifeyour divine Motherhood In virtue of this privilege, you reflect as a spotless mirror the eternal Light of the Word, which is first poured into you and illuminates you. Mary, My Mother, the word which best summarizes your whole career is "Mother." Mary, Mother of God, you are my Mother of Perpetual Help because of your love for me. Grant that all these, men and women alike, may be freed from sin, to repose on His Heart of merciful love. Your will was one with His, faithful to your promise made at the Incarnation. Feast, September 12 (Triduum, September 9-11). He sanctified your marriage with St. Joseph so that it might be an example for all Christian marriages. Mary, My Mother, I wish to offer myself as a sacrifice to God in union with Jesus and through your hands. You were not bound by the Law, because you were a virgin as well as a mother. I entrust my cause to you who are the Mother of Mercy, and I wish to offer you day by day my most reverent love. You are our Mediatrix with our Mediator. You receive all graces through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for them in the Name of Jesus Christ. 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. 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. . Mary, My Mother, your love for Jesus made this sacrifice very great in the eyes of God. Let me fear such sickness of soul as avarice, lust, luxury, ambition, hatred, angerbecause, unless these are cured, they may bring about the eternal death of my soul. I give you my will by an absolute confidence in you, a confidence founded on your power and your goodness. O powerful answer which rejoiced Heaven and brought an immense sea of graces and blessings into the world! Evening Prayer to Our Blessed Mother 1. You are called the Mother of Mercy because God has given you power to deal with every sort of misery to which mankind is subjected. 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. In consecrating your virginity to God, you had given up all hope of becoming the Mother of the Messias because you considered yourself unworthy of the highest honor of the divine maternity. 1. 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. 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. May the instructions I receive increase the love of God in me and strengthen my determination to serve Him with greater zeal. 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. God inflamed no other heart, after that of the Heart of His Son, with His love so much as yours. 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. Your Divine Son was destined to crush the serpent's head by releasing mankind from the slavery of Satan, thus putting an end to the empire of sin. Mary, My Mother, you were to complete the offering of your Son, which you had begun on the day of His presentation in the temple. Even when I forget you and begin to complain in my sufferings and crosses, you try to console me. He is King and you are Queen of all hearts. 2. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. Now you realize human misery more fully and, therefore, show your mercy and compassion and help more generously. 55. . Since you are my Mother, I share in the love you have for your Divine Son. 2. I should learn from your conduct never to oppose the divine will, even though conformity to it may mean a severe test of my faith. To you I entrust my soul for which Jesus died and I beg you to help me to save it. You took part in this offering of the life and death of Jesus. 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. Jesus did this in union with you. In God there are no disappointments, no false promises. How earnestly you wish God's grace for us! I have but to ask for them for the salvation of my soul. Your life with Jesus was one of deepest recollection, which gathered all the powers of your soul around the God-Man. You are truly the pledge of Divine mercy. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE DAY CELEBRATION Sunday, December 11 from 1 to 3 PM Celebrate the Patroness of our Community & the Americas with live Mariachi Music, Food, Drinks, Games, Procession, and Blessing In honor of Our Lady. You "found grace with God" to restore salvation to all men. But your holiness is so great, that the power of your intercession is greater than that of all the other saints. For from the moment when Jesus told you to see Him, in John, you saw Jesus in all Christians. The sacrifice of the cross began at Bethlehem. By your humility you have found such great grace with God that you were chosen to co-operate with His Divine Son in restoring man to a dignity far superior to that which he had lost by sin. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . I am most grateful for such devoted love and sympathy. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. Infirmities of the body are nature's warning voice concerning the approach of death, which I cannot finally escape. After the prophecy of Simeon, the Scriptures mention that "His father and mother" were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him. This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. 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. Behold I come to you to show you the wounds sin has inflicted on me. Mary, My Mother, I wish to recall this triumph and to share in your greatness and glory. The Holy Spirit gave you the heart of a bride, all burning with a love pure and ardent.
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