He saved us by offering to the justice of God perfect atonement for our sins. He sanctified your marriage with St. Joseph so that it might be an example for all Christian marriages. 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. If I have humility, God may flood my soul with grace here and exalt it eternally in heaven. You expressed this to Saint Bernadette at Lourdes when you said, "I am the Immaculate Conception.". He has reconciled us to God. 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. In this mystery Jesus is plainly a Victim, and not so plainly a Priest; He could not better communicate His spirit of priesthood than by allowing you, His Mother, to present His outward offering He could find no worthier altar on which to offer Himself than your immaculate hands. You were not to raise up children unto Godnot ordinary offspring, but a Child, the Son of God! Eve listened to the voice of the serpent and brought death to the human race, you became a source of salvation to all mankind by receiving with humility the word of God brought to you by the angel Gabriel. September 15 | Recurring Event . How earnestly, too, you want to help us in all our needs! You fulfill the duties and enjoy the rights of a true mother. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. Your ardent faith and intense love pierced that thin veil which separated you from your loving Son. You formed His eyes, to look upon us with mild and pitying glance and to weep over us. But saints and writers of the Church speak of devotion to you as a sign of perseverance in good and a happy death. Let this be my consolation to know that I am doing God's Will. You treasured up all the words spoken by the holy angels concerning your divine Son, as well as those pronounced by the prophetess Anna and by holy Simeon when you presented your Son in the temple, and you prudently pondered them in your heart. Jesus could give meafter the gift of Himselfnothing more precious than you. Copyright by FATHERS RUMBLE AND CARTY Radio Replies Press Society St. Paul 1, Minn., U.S.A. EWTN | 5817 Old Leeds Rd. In Bethlehem you first adored Him in His visible presence as He lay in all His helplessness before your joyful eyes. 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. You are above not only patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and all the saints but even all angels. Liturgical feast Our Lady of Compassion. our lady of sorrows feast day. Mary, Mother of God, your life, like that of your Divine Son, was a daily crucifixion and martyrdom. Only when I have understood your martyrdom, will I understand the greatness of the love of Jesus for you and the intensity of your love for your Son. But you are Mother only of penitent sinners who have left their evil ways before death. You were united with Jesus when He bestowed special favors. Obtain for me from Jesus the heavenly gifts of humility, chastity and meekness, which were the fairest adornments of your immaculate soul. You were united with Him as closely as a Mother is united with her child, and your thoughts and desires were those of your Divine Son. Advise me what to do. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. Today we celebrate our Lady of Sorrows. No wonder the angels were lost in admiration! 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. By your Motherhood you acquired a mother's power over your Divine Son, and you saw yourself raised above all the angels and saints. Furthermore, Jesus made the revelation of His divinity and the strengthening of the faith of His disciples the effect of your intercession. According to earthly standards, nothing could be added to your fullness of grace. After the Sacred Heart of Jesus, never was there a heart more pure and more holy. Mary, My Mother, your whole life was like a Mass. Mary, Mother of God, you are Our Lady of Good Counsel because of the divine wisdom and prudence which you received from the Holy Spirit. How generously you offered Jesus, your dearest treasure, as a Victim to the justice of His offended Father! continue our lady of sorrows feast day. 1. Truly, you are "light-giving" because you have given us Jesus, the Light of the World. Mary, My Mother, you were not obliged by the Law of Moses to present and ransom your firstborn Son. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. 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. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. It is to you, after God, that we are indebted for our spiritual life, the life of the children of God. In 1913, Pope Pius X, in view of his reform giving precedence to Sundays over ordinary feasts, moved this feast to September 15, the day after the Feast of the Cross. But how careless I am about my spiritual health! You know all our needsneeds of body and needs of soulinfinitely better than a mother. 67, 36). I need an advocate with God, and therefore I turn to you, the Mother of God. On the right of the Sanctuary stands the shrine of Our Lady of Compassion, under whose protection the church is placed. Continue to work wonders on our shores for our spiritual and material prosperity and keep us in peace and charity. And for our sake, you were ready to devote this Child to a life of suffering, persecution, and scorn, even to a shameful death on the cross. In that instant the Word of God became forever united to humanity; the human soul of Jesus Christ, produced from nothing, began to enjoy God and to know all things past, present, and to come. May my soul always find comfort in your holy name! May these graces become most fruitful in my soul till I become like you, another Christ. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. Those dangers are to be found in the principles and activities of Communism, the present day Anti-Christ, which tries to penetrate every walk of life, every class of society. In his soul they saw no more than they see in each little soul as it leaves the baptismal font, grace having taken the place of original sin. Mary, My Mother, your Heart is the masterpiece of the Holy Trinity. They spoke of you as His Virgin Mother and of the part you would play in the Redemption of mankind. You formed His feet, to search after and seek us as a Good Shepherd, His hands to heal us and to be pierced for us; and His shoulders to carry the cross. 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. Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). 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. This was your spiritual Motherhood. Mary, Mother of God, sincere devotion to you is a sign of perseverance in doing good till death. Your heart sank each time He fell beneath its weight. He promised Our Lady that if he were cured, he would become a priest. She holds a lamp for the fires of Imbolc, is known. Your Immaculate Conception is a triumph over Satan the author of evil, who under your heel, suffered his first complete defeat. Prophets foretold the coming of the Savior and the manner in which the Redemption would take place. But Gabriel comforted you, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God." I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. Feast, February 2 (Novena, Jan. 24-Feb. 1). You formed His whole Self, to die for us as a sacrificial Lamb. When you learned from the angel that your cousin Elizabeth was with child and needed your help, you set out to care for her. You are to be our guide toward the haven of salvation. Unmindful of your dignity and greatness, you thought only of returning thanks to God, to whom you attributed all your greatness and privileges. Though you did not know the meaning of the archangel's inspired words, you serenely submitted to the will of God. Its martyrdom began with holy Simeon's prophecy in the temple and was completed on Calvary. Mary, Mother of God, you are the mother of the Judge: you are also the Mother of the sinners. As a slave of love, I willingly deliver myself to the everlasting service of so wonderful and majestic a Lady. Your birth was represented beforehand by many figures, announced by prophets, desired for many ages by the human race. One of your greatest delights is to lavish these treasures upon your faithful children. 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. At the same time you had to offer the most intense human suffering, in union with the Passion of your Son. Mary, My Mother, God raised you so high in Himself that He never has created and never will create a holier person more worthy of Himself, of His greatness, of His love, than you, O Virgin most pure. You are the throne of divine mercy in whom we find solace of mercy. You suffered with Jesus and experienced in your soul what He underwent in His body. It is Mary's selfless act of letting her son be sacrificed for our salvation that makes her the Queen of martyrs. The Annunciation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. But we do find you standing beneath the cross on Calvary, when your Son was derided and mocked. (1) You prepared in your virginal womb a fit temple for the union of the Son of Godthe Divine Wordwith our human nature. I rejoice with you in the happiness which filled your heart because of such love. Neither your long absence from home, nor the inconvenience of a difficult and dangerous journey to the mountain country kept you from making this mission of love. From your pure blood the Holy Spirit formed the pure Body of Jesus. 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. 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. Free from all attachment to earthly things, you were most capable of being filled with Divine love. He is all mineand all because you gave your consent to become His Mother. Mary, Mother of God, the instant that you gave your consent to the archangel, the Holy Spirit overshadowed you and wrought in your most chaste womb the Incarnation of the Son of God. You formed His Body in order that it might be given us in death and in the Blessed Sacrament. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. And when Jesus instituted this Holy Sacrament, He surely thought especially of you. In your six apparitions at Fatima you made repeated demands for penance and reparation. August 9: OUR LADY OF THE BURNING CLOUD (ATOM BOMB) On Thursday, August 9, 1945, a blinding flash split the sky above Nagasaki. This feast will take place this year under very special circumstances for us all. Through your prayers be always my powerful helper. When His lips were tortured with gall and vinegar, a sea of bitterness was poured into your Heart. A great ball of fire appeared and stretched to a purple column 10,000 feet high and from its top burst a gigantic mushroom. No one could ever love God with the love of a mother. Mary, My Mother, as Dispenser of all graces, you make the world share in the infinite merits of the redemption. The virtue of holy prudence guides man in his choice of purposes and in the best means to attain them. You stood close to Jesus, your head raised to drink the bitter chalice offered your arms stretched out and reaching upward, like a priest at the altar. It died that we might never die, that It might nourish us unto eternal life. 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. Bless the work of those who spend themselves to bring souls to your loving Son. 2. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. What must have been your anguish when you looked at the sacred body of Jesus as the long nails were being driven into His hands and feet! Each event of the sorrowful drama of His sufferings was a sword that pierced your motherly heart. As in Heaven the Divine Word is like the Father, so on earth the Son, according to the flesh, is like you His Mother. Mary, Mother of God, as the Mother of Divine Providence, you provide for us in our varied needs through your prayers in the presence of God. 3. 2. 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. You are "Suppliant Omnipotence" because your prayer obtains all graces from the infinite treasures of God. I realize that it is the command of God that I take ordinary care to insure bodily health. I trust that you will lovingly bow down to help my efforts. I ask this with special earnestness from you who are the Health of the Sick. Your aid at the hour of my death will be for me a guarantee of salvation if through life I have sought to imitate the beautiful example of your life. With this job opportunity, you will be able to foster compassion, character, knowledge and service for all. Humility is not belittling myself, but taking the place which rightly belongs to me, not a higher place, nor a lower, but the true and just place where God wants me. 3. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. 2. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. Jesus reigns over us not only by natural right, but also by the right of redemption. You receive all graces through Jesus Christ, because you pray and ask for them in the Name of Jesus Christ. 1. Your Heart was also a suffering Heart. 1. "And, therefore, the Holy One to be born shall be called the Son of God." You were to see this Face unveiled, in all the beauty and grace of childhood as the face of your own child. In your triumph, as the Mother of the same Word Incarnate, having perfectly followed out the great designs of God upon you, having acquired immense merits by the practice of all the virtues, and having reached the highest holiness, you were assumed body and soul, into Heaven. Mary, My Mother, I rejoice with you that you are so privileged, so exalted as to become the worthy Mother of God. Virgin of virgins, remember me in my needs, and show yourself my Mother. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.". God prepared you for this exalted dignity by an extraordinary abundance of His graces, when He chose you to be the instrument of His mercy by making you the Mother of His divine Son. Mary, Mother of God, I thank you for being my companion in suffering. It was the great vital act that completed the work of God in the world. In becoming His Mother, you became ours. During your Son's public ministry you seldom appeared, because this was the prudent thing to do on account of your close relationship to the Redeemer. Your part in distributing God's grace is a result of the part you played in obtaining it. May this remembrance fill me with love and gratitude to you, and be the reason for my trust in your powerful protection and in your prayers in Heaven, where you plead with your Divine Son for the salvation of us all. I consecrate to you my very being and my whole life: all that I have, all that I love, all that I am. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. The suffering of Jesus in His dereliction was the most difficult test of your faith. Mary, My Mother, you are Queen also because your are Co-Redemptrix. Let not my sinfulness and human weakness stand in the way of my receiving the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. This loving union will sustain me no matter how heavy my cross. Interestingly, in 1482, the feast was officially placed in the Roman Missal under the title of "Our Lady of Compassion," highlighting the great love our Blessed Mother displayed in suffering with her Son. I have been especially blessed as a Catholic, for God has given me graces which He has not given to everyone else. Your sincere love made you hasten to be of service. When the Triune God destined and elevated you, a mortal Virgin, to the dignity of Mother of the Redeemer, the Father had to endow you with a fullness of perfection suitable for such a dignity. I thank you for all you mean to me as my spiritual Mother. By Christmas of that year, an adobe structure was built atop Tepeyac Hill in honor of our Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and it was dedicated on December 26, 1531, the feast of St. Stephen the Martyr. You knew that thousands even of His faithful followers throughout the world would turn from Him and would make His coming the occasion of their eternal ruin. How courageously you united the oblation of your own suffering and grief with the offering of Jesus, thus proving yourself worthy not only to share but also to be one with Him in the redemption of souls. ." 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. Through your prayers you will obtain forgiveness for my past negligence. Excerpted from Our Lady of Sorrows by Fr. Everyday you renew your Gift generously, because to each Sacrifice of your Son, you give your consent, each Consecration is your gift to us. Be merciful to us. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. Jesus caused the wonderful effects of grace in the soul of John the Baptist, but at the sound of your voice his sanctification was effected, and both he and his mother Elizabeth were filled with the Holy Spirit. OUR LADY OF SORROWS Feast day- September 15, 2022. Elizabeth proclaimed that you were the Mother of Christ and declared you blessed among women because you were the most holy dwelling of the Eternal God. This is but a reminder that you are equally interested in providing for all your children in all their needs of soul and body. I cannot have Jesus for my Brother if I do not have you for my Mother. Your life with Jesus was one of deepest recollection, which gathered all the powers of your soul around the God-Man. 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. I unite myself with your heart so that everything I have to do or suffer may become a pure sacrifice of love in the sight of God. Protect me from the snares of the world, the flesh and the devil. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. He who gives grace, takes your prayers for commands. 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. Help me to be deeply grateful for God's generosity toward me. Foundation of the Abbey of Dunes, Flanders, in honor of the Blessed Virgin (1128) 3. Your dignity as Mother of God is so lofty that nothing created can rank above it. 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. The divine maternity itself, more than any particular privilege, is a mark of God's unequalled love for you. I will not be discouraged, but rather go with confidence to you, the throne of grace. 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 cooperator with your Son in that work of redemption, you also acquired the right to reign with Him. How I long to repeat It unceasingly so as to spread its fame, to carry that fame to every shore, to imprint it on every mind. To the Holy Spirit you offer the possibility of giving a new existence to the Son and of making this Son live in the hearts of the faithful through the power of His grace. You have not lost grace, as Adam lost it, but you have found it because you have desired and sought it. 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. I want to be devoted to you by giving myself entirely to you and through you to God. May each pain and disappointment of my life become a perfect act of love of God because I offer all to God through your immaculate hands. You must have willed your Son's death, because, hard as it was to make this sacrifice, it would have been quite impossible for your will to be the least separated from His. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son. Through your all powerful prayers, obtain for me not only God's forgiveness, but also the grace to amend my life and to save my soul. 3. How much I worry about my physical health! First of all, because of your humility you merited to be exalted above all creatures. You desire more to do good to me than I can desire to receive favors from you, for your Heart is all love and mercy. You will be inspired by the overflow of love for Our Lady. You saw clearly the agony you would feel at the crucifixion. Wherefore the Church applies to you the words Jesus spoke of that other Mary who sat at His sacred feet, drinking in the words of divine wisdom flowing from His blessed lips: "Mary has chosen the best part, and it will not be taken away from her" (Luke 10, 42). Your extreme hatred of sin was the measure of your supreme love of virtue. Through your prayers and the prayers of your holy parents may I learn to know and love you more and ever remain your faithful child. No one has found or received such grace as you. Help those of our faith to throw themselves at the feet of a priest and confess their sins and ask pardon for them. You are truly the Seat of Wisdom because you were the living Tabernacle of the God of Infinite Wisdom. (1) The seven founders of the Servite Order, in 1239, five years after they established themselves on Monte Senario, took up the sorrows of Mary, standing under the Cross, as the principal devotion of their order. You heard the mob, led by the chief priests clamoring for His crucifixion. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Feast day: June 27 Patroness of the Republic of Haiti and Almoradi, Spain Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and Our Mother of Perpetual Help is the title given to a 15th-century icon that originated in the Keras Kardiotissas Monastery and has been in Rome since 1499. May the love and peace and happiness of your Holy Family reign in the Christian families of all times. Your slightest wish carries with it a powerful appeal. "And thy own soul a sword shall pierce." You obtain graces for us even without our asking you for them. Feast, October 7 (Novena, Sept. 28-Oct. 6). Since you had your place beside Jesus when there was question of ransoming us and meriting for us all the graces necessary for our salvation, you must in like manner have your place beside Him now, when there is question of securing for us by your prayers in heaven the graces prepared for us in view of the merits of Christ. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 12th is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 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. May I be found worthy of your frequent visits with Jesus to my heart in this life and of the invitation to come and live with You both for all eternity in heaven. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. 3. You rule in heaven and on earth. The closer a soul is to God, the farther it is from sin. We ask you to procure for us, by your prayers the great grace of final perseverance so that those who are joined to honor you in the kingdom of your Son on earth may be together always in heaven. His triumph over death His Ascension into Heaven, the sending of the Holy Spirit. 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. Thus you became in some way the source of that grace which Jesus would pour forth over all mankind. 1. 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. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. Surely the Son cannot refuse her who gave Him birth, the one who never denied Him anything. The effects of the presence of Jesus and you are still the same. How often has mortal sin, destroying in me the beautiful image of the Blessed Trinity, brought death to my soul, delivered me to God's wrath and condemned me to everlasting hell-fire! May your glorious example be imitated by countless youths and maidens who will give themselves to the Lord to carry on His work throughout the world. April 16 - 23,2023. How earnestly you wish God's grace for us! I beg you to take care of me for I am a poor sinful child. Your name is the name of the one I love. 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.