Processions and Penitence In Malta, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, and the Philippines the Friday of Passion Weekthe Friday of Sorrows or Viernes de Dolores is celebrated with. It is through your prayers that God inspires me to receive It and grants me the grace to receive It worthily. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Feast Day February 27 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. Concheros dance in devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe A man and a woman had both taken part in the degradation of our race; they must both have part in its restoration. Protect me from losing the Holy Spirit by sin. Your redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. . The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. Since this is the mission of your life, to bring souls to God through Jesus, lead me to your loving Son. To you then we owe the salvation which Jesus brought to us. Though a creature, you gave birth to the Creator. The more your humility was tried, the more lowly you became in your own estimation. Our Lady of Sorrows | EWTN Mother Teresa once laid out a simple path for everyone, leading from silence to peace. But this prophecy did not disturb your peace of mind because your will was one with the will of God. God could not have created a more beautiful throne for Himself than you; His Mother! As you are powerful to obtain and provide, you are merciful to pardon. A mother, as she hears her child lisping her name, is thrilled beyond all telling, at all times; and better than she, you will understand me when I say, "Hail Mary!". I beg you to ask God that I return His love with some of the generosity and fervor with which you loved Him. 500 days. Let my consecration of myself to God be made under your patronage and assisted by your intercession and in union with your merits. Feast, September 12 (Triduum, September 9-11). Our Lady appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858, and the rest as they say is history! Collected by the web master from various calendars; if you have a Feast that I missed, please let me know, so I can include it. I have carried my cross patiently which He gave me to carry. 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. 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. Only you could love God as your Son; only you could love your Son as God. All those whose Queen you are have learnt of Jesus that they must call you Mother and ask your help. Mary, Mother of God, teach me to be truly humble. The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on September 15 and is dedicated to honoring the spiritual martyrdom of Mary. How humble you were! 2. 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. Jesus ascended to Heaven by His own power as Lord and Creator, accompanied by angels who paid Him homage. 1. Not only did the Holy Spirit pour into your soul a fullness of grace, but He entrusted to you, the Mother of the human family, the distribution of all grace. I breathe the name of one who is virgin and mother, Mother of God and Mother of men, my Mother. He works in my soul by His grace. You are the spotless tabernacle, the earthly resting-place prepared for the Son of God, hence the Church pays loving respect to your Immaculate Heart. They beheld the dwelling place prepared for the Son of God. With her you loved to sing the psalms and canticles of the inspired authors of your nation. Your Heart is truly a mirror of all the virtues, a vivid image and a faithful copy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; hence you are called the "Mirror of Justice.". Decorate your table with colorful flowers . Your womb was so pure, so immaculate that it became the Holy of Holies, in which Jesus Christ our Lord, the Eternal High Priest, alone found entrance. Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart. Mary, Mother of God, already in your childhood you dedicated yourself to the love and service of God. And so it is even now in heaven. Forming with your Divine Son one spiritual body, we experience the rage of Satan until the end of time. He already occupied Himself with the salvation of all souls, and as the hidden Ruler of the world He judged all who departed this life. You had to become the Mother of Sorrows before you were raised above the angels as Heaven's Queen. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. It is through you that I am able to eat the Bread of Heaven even every day. 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 believe that all graces, all heavenly blessings descend from Jesusas from the Headby means of youas the neckto the body of the Church. 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. Fr. Filled with motherly compassion, you appealed to Jesus in behalf of your friends. How consistent with the infinite tenderness of God that His Christ, the Immortal Child, should be conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the body of a young virgin and that a virgin should bear a Child to redeem the world. 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. You are our Mother, because you have begotten us to the life of grace. 1. Though you did not pay even the smallest part of our debt, you cooperated in His work by the entire union of your will with His. The Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. In all humility you attributed this holiness to God alone, working wondrously within you. 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. Within your humble home in the little town of Nazareth, the Holy Spirit willed to perform a miracle that was the masterpiece of infinite powerthe Incarnation of the Son of God. Mary, Mother of God, I choose you as my model of Eucharistic devotion. 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. 1. Therefore, you gave your praise to the Creator and Giver of every good and perfect gift. The moment of your exaltation, the highest to which God could raise a creature, finds you sunk in the abyss of your own nothingness. Shrine Pilgrimage. But you are Mother only of penitent sinners who have left their evil ways before death. September 15 | Recurring Event . COLUMN: Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: World Day of the Sick--2/7/2021 Through you I hope to reach the heavenly Kingdom. Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. 1. Immaculate Virgin, you are that human being. May I weigh well at what price you became the Mother of the human race, so that I may remember how much you love me and how eager you are to help me and all Christians. But I want to be loved by you even more; hence, give me an ever growing love for you. Who can understand the joy you feel to be able to give happiness to the whole world? His Heart is a loving Heart, and that love is symbolized by the flames which St. Margaret Mary saw coming forth from it. As the dawn precedes and announces the coming of the sun, makes the darkness of the night disappear, consoles the sick and rejoices all nature, so you went before and announced Jesus, "The Sun of Justice," who made the darkness of the world disappear by the light of His Gospel, consoled and cured the sick in soul and body and brought an abundance of graces and blessings to the whole world. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." You conceived Him as victim, you prepared Him for this sacrifice beneath the cross you offered Him to the Father for our salvation. 3. Mary, My Mother, I turn to you rather for health of soul than of body. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. May He who makes little ones to speak divine wisdom, direct my tongue and pour out upon my soul the grace I need ever to follow His and your example in my state of life. You became a victim and holocaust to the divine will, the Queen of Martyrs, the most perfect imitator of the Victim of Calvary. Francis Possenti was born in Assisi. Thus He clearly revealed that in His kingdom you were to be the dispenser of His riches. Let me know nothing else except this entire surrender of myself to God, this simple childlike act of the heart, as I cast myself into the Arms of Jesus and promise Him my fidelity. Mary, My Mother, as I cannot grasp the depth of your sanctity, I cannot understand the measure of your grace. 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. By consenting to give natural life to Jesus, you consented to give us supernatural life. You became the treasurer of God's graces, the channel through which He dispenses His gifts upon earth. No creature loved Jesus more than you, and consequently, no one loves the souls redeemed by His Blood more than you. You have merited by a merit of fitness all that Jesus has merited by a merit of justice. Though deprived of the joy of His actual presence, you were more intimately united with Him than ever through your sacrificial love, since your will was one with His. But though your soul was filled with grief, you bravely stood beneath the cross. No apostolic act bears fruit without grace. It is the will of God that His aid should reach me through your heart, because you are my Mother, and motherliness means willingness to help. As your true and lawful spouse, Saint Joseph was meant by God to have the privilege of exercising as his right, in virtue of his virginal marriage, the parental office in regard to your Child. 3. May my life thus become a copy of your own life especially during this time of your expectation! 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. 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. 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. But as Joseph had been united to you by the ties of marriage, he approached nearer than anyone else to your eminent dignity. Copyright 2023 Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. Irondale, Alabama. The seven sorrows are: The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:25-35) She heard the voices of Archangel Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret - they are on the banner over her left shoulder! All your privileges increased your power to love God. We recommend to you our hopes and our fears. At every moment you interest yourself in our behalf in heaven, and obtain for us by your prayers all the graces we need to reach salvation. Give strength and courage to those who work for the salvation of souls as apostles of our own time so that following the example of the divine Missionary, Jesus Christ, they may labor zealously for the spread of God's Kingdom. The God of holiness, having come upon the earth to take away the sins of the world, chose to appear among us as a sinner. Only after many years of fervent prayers did God reward them. Mary, Mother of God, in your own lifetime you showed that you are truly our Mother of Perpetual Help. Mary, My Mother, the day of your Assumption was the great day of your triumph. 3. How often am I confused in the problems of life. Your soul is the creation and the masterpiece of almighty workmanship. I fix my gaze on that star and wish never to turn from it. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.". Mary, My Mother, your intercession is all-powerful. 3. IMPRIMI POTEST Raymond Weisenberger, Provincial, Girard, Pa. NIHIL OBSTAT A. H. Wiersbinski, LL.D. "And thy own soul a sword shall pierce." At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. When you heard Jesus utter these words and saw Him bow His head and die, you died a spiritual death. Preserve their faith, assailed at every hour by the forces opposed to Christ. I want to be devoted to you by giving myself entirely to you and through you to God. Help me to imitate your virtues that I may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. I became a child of God. You are the Mother of the Son of God. 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. Feast, February 2 (Novena, Jan. 24-Feb. 1). Our Lady of Good Counsel, I beg you to teach me true heavenly wisdom which was the source of every good deed you performed. The Prophet tells us that God is "wonderful in His saints" (Ps. You expressed this to Saint Bernadette at Lourdes when you said, "I am the Immaculate Conception.". 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. ", Feast, November 21 (Novena, November 12-20). Though you were the Mother of the Most High, you wanted to become the nurse of Elizabeth and the infant John. Jesus is the most beautiful of men; you were His mould, His mirror, and He, yours. You are the channel of all good things after the Trinity, Mediatrix of the world after the Mediator. You truly deserve to be called the Mediatrix of Grace. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. You really had the right to offer Jesus to His Heavenly Father in this mystery. You are the loving daughter of the Father, because, before all creatures, you were predestined to be His daughter at the same moment that He decreed the Incarnation of His Son. Make me Eucharist-minded to the extent that my very life may be the Eucharistin union with you, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament. 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. Help me, above all, so that by my good example I may enrich and ennoble every human being whose life I touch. Here there was a sacrifice, and Jesus was the Victim. Mary, Mother of God, since you are the Mother of Jesus Christ, you are the Mother of Grace as well. He was with you, and with you alone, in an unspeakable manner by bodily presence. 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. You were united with Jesus when He bestowed special favors. 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 . 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. He was with you not only with His actual grace, touching your heart and enlightening your understanding. A Blessed Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - Fatima You resigned yourself to the care of God, in the fullest confidence that He would guard your innocence and reputation. 1. Your dying Son declared this in His words to you from the cross, "Woman, behold thy Son." You have never turned away your eyes from souls in need. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that the most sublime of your privileges is your divine maternity. 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. Whatever of sanctity, of dignity, of merit, of grace and of glory, that we can imagine, all is in you. Your apostolate is universal because you are the spiritual Mother of all men and the universal Co-Redemptrix. What merits did not your perfect immolation gain! Mary, Mother of God, humility is the virtue you especially practised from childhood. For days before the feast, people crowd around the basilica for blessings of the religious images they have brought, and . On the day of Pentecost the Apostles' worldly views about the Kingdom of God on earth were banished by the Spirit of God, and holiness replaced their imperfections, but no-taint of the slightest sin had to be removed from your virginal soul. Our Lady of Guadalupe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mother of mankind and therefore the Help of Christians, the all-powerful suppliant. You are Queen of the universe, not by force, but by the power of love. The degree of childlike humility I have attained in life will be the degree of my greatness in heaven. 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. COLUMN: Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: World Day of the Sick--2/7/2021. The repetition of the "Hail Marys" keep before my mind the importance of the Incarnation and your share in it. He is Son of man by His birth, in time, in the bosom of a woman. As Eve induced Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit which brought death upon us, so you prompt us to eat the Bread which gives us life. Like you let me realize my own nothingness. Blessed Mother, teach me humility. Eve was unbelieving and disobedient; you were believing and obedient. The victim had to belong to the person who offered it. But Jesus was constantly sanctifying you, His loving Mother, transforming you ever more and more into Himself by wondrous graces of knowledge of the mystery of the Incarnation, and by graces of love which united you to Him. Of course, you never thought of yourself as a sinner for humility is truth, and you knew that you had never offended God. With Christ you have contributed to our redemption; hence you may be called Co-Redemptrix. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me! 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. Mary, My Mother, you and good St. Joseph were married to become the models of family life. I earnestly wish to make atonement for all of them. God has willed that by your intercession we should obtain the graces Jesus has merited for us. 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. You are "Suppliant Omnipotence" because your prayer obtains all graces from the infinite treasures of God. Above all, I beg of you to secure for me in the our of death the grace of final perseverance: that triumphant grace which crowns the measure of God's rifts here below and which is followed by the possession of God in heaven. After the name of Jesus, neither heaven nor earth can utter a name by which my faith and love receive more abundant grace, and reassuring hope, and lasting sweetness. Just as the patriarchs in Limbo had beheld your birth as the breaking of that dawn which announced to them their near deliverance, so, too, your Assumption, together with the Ascension of Jesus, became for mortal man a sure pledge of resurrection and immortality. Mary, My Mother, give me an absolute trust in your help. Teach me to prove my love for Jesus by visiting Him frequently in His tabernacle home, where He lives as the best Friend I have upon earth, ready to console and strengthen me in my trials, for His Sacred Heart invites me, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you lest.". 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. Rolly Arjonillo. Mary, My Mother, may the faithful recitation of my Rosary show my gratitude to Jesus for having redeemed me on the cross and for having given you to me as my spiritual Mother. In 1727, Pope Benedict XIII placed the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion in the Roman Calendar on Friday before Palm Sunday. 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. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. The Church venerates many holy virgins, martyrs and other saints, but no one of them has merited or obtained your title of Holy Virgin, Virgin most pure. 55. . Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2. Joachim was of the royal house of David, and Anne of the priestly family of Aaron. At the mention of it, the angels rejoice and the devils tremble; through the invocation of your name, sinners obtain grace and pardon. How can I ever understand the great love that bound your hearts together! When you later returned to your home, you were under the loving care of your mother, Saint Anne. How wonderful, then, He must be in the Mother of the Saint of saints! 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. 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, Mother of God, I thank you for being my companion in suffering. You are the throne of divine mercy in whom we find solace of mercy. You want to give me help every time I need it. You received from the Adorable Trinity the crown and sceptre, which made you Queen of all the angels and saints and the all-powerful Mediatrix between God and men. The title "Our Lady of Sorrows" focuses on Mary's intense suffering during the passion and death of Christ. But you help Christians also by your prayers. What a divine impression Jesus left upon you, His Mother! Love and Peace, may be spread among men. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . They spoke of you as His Virgin Mother and of the part you would play in the Redemption of mankind. Mary, Mother of God, I firmly believe in the doctrine of Holy Mother Church concerning your Immaculate Conception, namely, that you were, in the first instant of your conception, by the singular grace and privilege of God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. Rule over us by the queenly power of your love that the Kingdom of your Sonthe Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace, Justice, Love and Peacemay come upon earth. I am happy at the thought that you, a human creature, have escaped completely from the clutches of Satan, that born of a race universally tainted, you are more pure and more brilliant than the most sublime of the angels; and that you are my Mother. Your heart sank each time He fell beneath its weight. May the Rosary also be a means of obtaining all the graces I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul. But in you they saw a soul whose sanctity surpassed that of angels and of men, a soul which would glorify God more perfectly than any other creature ever had glorified Him, or ever would glorify Him. Jesus rewarded your confidence and resignation by working His first miracle at your request. But how careless I am about my spiritual health! On Feb. 11, 2020, I was ordained a bishop and installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. You formed His eyes, to look upon us with mild and pitying glance and to weep over us. Hence the Church sings of you: "You are all fair, O Mary, and the original stain is not in you.". You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. Joseph was chosen by God the Father to take His own place, in regard to His Divine Son, during the early years of that Son's life on earth. Such love set your Heart on fire with love for your Divine Son, not only as your Son, but also as your God and Savior since you had shared in advance in the merits of His Passion and death. Mary, Mother of God, at Pentecost you were with the Apostles, preparing for the Holy Spirit the promised Gift of your Son. I look to you for the grace of final perseverance and a happy death. . Mary, My Mother, help me to imitate your holiness to some degree. He was obedient and immediately arranged with you the celebration of your chaste nuptials. You humbled yourself so deeply because you knew that of and by yourself you were nothing and had nothing. You shared more in this wisdom than did any other creature, because you approached nearer to the Source from which it cameJesus, the Eternal Wisdom. I did it not once or twice but numberless times. 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. The Woman is a striking image of you, the Immaculate Conception. As you were the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus in all the virtues, you were the first and most perfect disciple also in humility. Infirmities of the body are nature's warning voice concerning the approach of death, which I cannot finally escape. This is my sure way of reaching heaven and my God. Attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you diligently gathered up all His lessons, preserving them in your soul with zealous care. Pilgrims approach the grounds of the basilica, in distant view, on the day before the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Thus you associated yourself yet more directly and intimately with our salvation. 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. He had to crown the gift of His love with the grand gift of you, His Mother. He is for us the source of all grace, the cause of our supernatural life. Feast, September 8 (Novena, Aug. 30-Sept. 7). I ask this with special earnestness from you who are the Health of the Sick. When the Angel Gabriel came as a messenger from God, it was not only to ask your consent to become the Mother of the Son of God, but also to treat with you of the salvation of the human race, of the birth of the Savior of the world, of the regeneration of mankind and the setting up of an everlasting kingdom. 3. May I remember always your sorrows on Calvary, through which you begot us to God and became the co-redemptrix of our race. 1. You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. 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. Help me to love God with my whole mindso that my mind may be habitually occupied with God and that I may value His good pleasure above everything elseabove my convenience, above all earthly treasures, above all knowledge and friendship, above health and life. You knew nothing but God and His love you wished for nothing but Him and His holy will; you sought nothing but His greater honor. From the knowledge of the Will of God you gathered the strength that was to uphold you at the foot of the Cross on which your Son hung, dying. 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. (2) You took part in this offering also by the consent which you gave to the whole plan of the Redemption, and by your union of will with that of your divine Son even to the point of His sacrifice on the cross.