As mentioned in previous posts, this is an ongoing display of our Holy Card Collection. Jesus invites me to do so, for He said, "Take my yoke upon youMy yoke is easy and My burden light" (Matt. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Corruption is a consequence of sin, but you were sinless. The victim had to belong to the person who offered it. Have pity on the sinners of the world. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. Mary, Mother of God, God had a purpose in wanting you and Joseph to become man and wife. Aided by God's wondrous graces you surrendered yourself entirely to God in the smallest details of your life. He was obedient and immediately arranged with you the celebration of your chaste nuptials. Monday, September 15, 2014. Faith tells me that the fall of man was the effect of the malice and envy of the devil, who sought in this way to be revenged upon the Creator for having cast him out of paradise in punishment for his rebellion. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. All those whose Queen you are have learnt of Jesus that they must call you Mother and ask your help. I beg you to take care of me for I am a poor sinful child. You can readily obtain for us whatever you will as you can listen to our woes. His Holiness St. John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and. He did so through your hands when you presented Him in the Temple, and in union with Him you offered yourself to the Father on Calvary. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. Help me to perform all my actions with youto look upon you as a model and helper. The dignity of the divine maternity raised you above all the rest of creation. Only then can I really love you as you desirewhen Jesus is formed in me so that I can love you as Jesus does. Forgetting yourself completely, you were most intimately united with God. You were soon really to see the Face of God the created image of divine perfection, the sight of which rejoices heaven and earth, from which all beings derive life and joy; the Face whose features enraptured God from all eternity, the Face for which all ages had expectantly yearned. Holy Cards will continue to be added as our collections align with Feast Days of the Saints in our collection. Make me your faithful child. 2. On Calvary our redemption was accomplished, by His death, Jesus merited for us the grace to live His life. As the seed of the serpent includes all those descendants of the first man and woman who by their sinful lives bear within them the traits of the devil, so, too, the seed of the Woman includes all who in the course of ages will take their stand with your Son, Jesus Christ, in His ceaseless conflict with the enemy of God. 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! 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. 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. You saw the cross raised and heard the mob, not yet satisfied with their bloody work, continue to torment their dying Victim. 1. I believe that all graces, all heavenly blessings descend from Jesusas from the Headby means of youas the neckto the body of the Church. The Communion was your life of union with Jesus in the Eucharist after His Ascension. If you had part in the work of the Redemption, then you also had part in all those graces which were prepared for us in view of the merits of Jesus for our salutation. But because of my sinfulness, I also have need of an intercessor with Him. From all eternity God chose you to be His Mother that those who could not be saved according to the rigor of divine justice, might be saved with the help of your sweet mercy and powerful intercession. Mary, My Mother, what a truly marvelous privilege is mine! Mary, My Mother, give me an absolute trust in your help. It was indeed a divine life that Jesus led in Your womb, a life most active, and yet one of unbroken calm. Your name means Sea of Bitterness. Mary, Blessed Virgin, full of grace, Queen of all Saints, how consoling it is for me to venerate you under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! 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. I feel myself consumed by original sin and its dread consequences. . I fix my gaze on that star and wish never to turn from it. 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. You humbled yourself so deeply because you knew that of and by yourself you were nothing and had nothing. You alone know how to triumph over the old serpentand to crush his head under your heel. You were trained there with other girls, under the care of holy women, and with deepest reverence you assisted at the sacred functions. You possessed, according to the words of the Archangel, such a fullness of grace that you were worthy to become the Mother of God. Having once given us Jesus Christ by you, God does not change His way of helping us. Whoever abides in this Church will bring forth much salutary fruit; whereas they who willingly separate themselves from it must wither away spiritually. Mary, My Mother, I am the work of the wisdom of God together with all other creatures. Not only were you full of grace, but you also bore the Author of grace. continue our lady of sorrows feast day. 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, My Mother, glorious is your name for those who pronounce it at death, for they need not fear all the powers of hell. This doctrine was received in the early Church and handed down by the Fathers who praised you with extraordinary titles and most important writings. Mary, My Mother, when my heart is oppressed with guilt and fear, let me look to you. Indeed, I will suffer with joy if I realize that Christ is suffering with me and in me and that He sends me the cross only to trace His image in my soul by uniting me closely with Himself. You are truly the "Queen of Peace.". Jesus is the most beautiful of men; you were His mould, His mirror, and He, yours. Mary, Mother of God, your sorrows are not merely the sorrows of an earthly mother grieving over the death of an only child. Help me to make good use of the graces given me by God. Feast, Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of November (Triduum, Wednesday the 3rd Sunday of before November). 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. 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 will obtain for me grace to be faithful to God during the rest of my life. Mary, Mother of God, how wonderful was your own interior life as you carried the Son of God in your womb and awaited His coming! 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. You brought me forth spiritually to a new life of grace. Having heard the prophecy of your Son's suffering, you almost rejoiced to hear that you would share His suffering. It is the ideal and providential moment to entrust . Teach me to imitate your prudence and listen to your counsel in all walks of life. You nourished Him, clothed Him, educated Him. 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. 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, you are the Mother of Perpetual Help because of the graces you have at your disposal. For thirty-three years you enjoyed the company of the only-begotten Son of God in the intimate relation of Mother and Son, and under your care, according to the Evangelist, He "advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace, before God and man" (Luke 2, 52). You were dressed in your finest clothes and surrounded by your friends as you joined the procession by the light of lamps and the sound of music. Mary, Mother of God, help me to understand as clearly as God wishes to let me do so, the value of suffering and sickness. Mary, My Mother, teach me ever to seek the glory of God and to render to Him what is His divine rights. Finally, they remind me of the everlasting glory of all the saints in Heaven united with your own glory and that of your Son. 3. God has made you Queen and Protectress of the Church. How fervently your mother and father thanked God for having given you to them and begged Him to accept the offering which they were making! Sanctifying grace made you God's adopted child and the lawful heir to His eternal kingdom, putting you in possession of God's goods and of God Himself forever. Then for His sake, be our Help! 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. From your pure blood the Holy Spirit formed the pure Body of Jesus. Due to her feast day on September 15, the month of September has traditionally been set aside to honor Our Lady of Sorrows. With you all is pure, virginal, immaculate In you there is no inclination to evilno impure thoughts or desires. Mary, Mother of God, you are Mother of Grace, because you are begotten of you to the life of grace, and are indebted to you after Jesus, for our supernatural life. You had a share in that work; it was part of your life-work. One of your greatest delights is to lavish these treasures upon your faithful children. When Jesus was conceived in your womb by the infinite power of the Holy Spirit, you possessed the Author of grace, and He so adorned your soul with the richness of His heavenly gifts that you won the admiration of men and angels. I admire the holiness of their lives and the nobility of their family. Mary, Mother of God, since the United States was dedicated to your Immaculate Conception, be pleased to take our country under your special protection and grant that, guided by justice and nurtured by charity, it may serve God faithfully and be blessed with peace and prosperity. This universal distribution of grace enables you to exercise your spiritual motherhood, to make your children live the divine life by obtaining for them sanctifying grace and all their actual graces. Mary, My Mother, since it is the will of God that we should obtain all through you, teach me to turn to you in all my needs. What marvels of grace possessed your soul! 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. It is through your prayers that God inspires me to receive It and grants me the grace to receive It worthily. Even when I forget you and begin to complain in my sufferings and crosses, you try to console me. You are ever active in procuring for each and every one of us, by fervent and ceaseless intercession all the heavenly gifts we need. Thus was fulfilled the prophesy that Christ would be born of the family of David. You are God's purest and holiest creature, the one chosen to conceive and bear the Son of God. He works in my soul by His grace. The Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dec. 18The Espousals of the Virgin Mary, Jan. 23Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feb. 2Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate (Our Lady of Lourdes), Feb. 11The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Good Counsel, April 26Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, Saturday after AscensionOur Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, May 13Mary, Help of Christians, May 24Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, May 31The Queenship of Mary, May 31Mary, Virgin Mother of Grace, June 9Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 2Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 17Our Lady of the Snows, Aug. 5Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Aug. 13The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Aug. 22Our Lady, Health of the Sick, Saturday before the last Sunday in Aug.Our Lady of Consolation, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28)Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8The Most Holy Name of Mary, Sept. 12Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Ransom), Sept. 24Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 11Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 16Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nov. 21Mary, Mother of Divine Providence, Saturday before 3rd Sunday of Nov. Feast, December 8 (Novena, Nov. 29-Dec. 7). It was your duty to represent the whole of mankind and to offer those acts of adoration faith, hatred of sin, love and prayer, which were due from those who shared in this sacrifice. If you had no husband, the unbelieving Jews would have stoned you as a sinner. Only you could love God as your Son; only you could love your Son as God. 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. Through thirty-three years of Jesus' life on earth you suffered in silence. read more. If I put my trust in you, I shall be saved. If you showed such compassion for the sufferings of others while on earth, and were so ready to relieve them, how much greater must your compassion be now that you are in heaven and understand so much better the difficulties your children meet with and the sufferings that afflict them? Not all the affection you pour out upon countless other souls lessens your love for me. You saw Barabbas preferred to Jesus when the Roman governor showed the Man of Sorrows to the angry mob. You heard Simeon's words as if they had been spoken to you by God Himself, "Behold, this child is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, and for a sign that shall be contradicted. Mary, My Mother, you always lived under the divine influence of the Holy Spirit and in the closest possible union with Him. I thank God for the great glory He has bestowed upon you for which all generations shall call you blessed. Obtain for me the grace of true conversion. Such a stain would have reflected upon your Son, who is Holiness itself. She told Juan to have a church built in her honor. As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. The Eternal Father takes pleasure in looking upon your Heart as the masterpiece of His Divine power. Feast, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28) (Triduum, Wednesday nearest the feast of St. Only give me the grace to abandon myself completely to your motherly guidance. You formed His Body in order that it might be given us in death and in the Blessed Sacrament. You would be hailed by all generations as blessed above all other women because you are the Mother of God and at the same time a spotless Virgin. We will list that feast and give as much information as is available about that feastday. except through you. Because of your dignity, you reach to the borders of the divine. To the working of this great mystery you also were chosen to cooperate by your free consent. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. Jesus did this in union with you. In order to free yourself from legal uncleanness and to give us an example of obedience to God's law, you submitted to the ceremony of the purification and made the offering demanded of the poortwo pigeons or turtledoves. We join you, Queen of the Holy Rosary, in praying for peace in the world. I am most grateful for such devoted love and sympathy. 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. It takes me back to the days of the prophet Elias when you were prefigured on Mount Carmel under the form of the little cloud from which, as it grew larger, there fell a kindly rain, a symbol of the sanctifying graces that come to us from you. With your own eyes you saw Him brought first to Pilate, then to Herod and then again to Pilate. You resigned yourself to the care of God, in the fullest confidence that He would guard your innocence and reputation. Even if I have committed all possible sins, let me never lose confidence in you, for I know I shall always find your Heart filled with mercy The Son of God has His justice, but you, the Mother, have only your mercy. Your Heart is a refuge for sinners, for you are the Mother of Mercy, who has never been known to turn away any one who came to seek your aid. 18, 3). I look to you for the grace of final perseverance and a happy death. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. I cannot advance in the path of sanctity without humility, which is the heart and soul of virtue. I want to take devotion to you seriously. 11, 29). The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. Mary, My Mother, yours is a queenship of conquest. You are the Glory of Jerusalem; you are the Joy of Israel; you are the Honor of our people. 3. The word compassion derives from the Latin roots cum and patior which means "to suffer with." How many afflicted hearts are consoled in you! Our founder, so moved by her image, vowed to live by her exampleand that's a promise our Mercy Home family still upholds today. 3. Teach me the real kind of ambition, that is, greatness in God's eyes. 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. God inflamed no other heart, after that of the Heart of His Son, with His love so much as yours. Let my consecration of myself to God be made under your patronage and assisted by your intercession and in union with your merits. I feel this threefold inclination to evil. The child in the womb of Elizabeth was sanctified and exulted for joy at the presence of Jesus. Give them zeal that by prayer and sacrifice they may cooperate in the great work of the Redemption. The divine maternity permits you to love God with a very singular kind of love and to be loved by Him with an equally singular love. He also found joy in His Divine Sonship and glorious human nature, joy in His intellect, with its immeasurable knowledge and the contemplation of God; joy in His will, with its freedom, sinlessness, holiness and unbounded power joy in His destiny as our Redeemer; joy in the future kingdom of His Church, which was to arise from His life and death. From the first instant of your existence your mind was filled by the supernatural light of faith and your soul with love of God. This gift of Your Heart entitles you to be called the Mother of the Holy Eucharist. I can easily picture Saint John, the Apostle of love, saying Mass each day in his own home and daily giving you the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist. He is King and you are Queen of all hearts. Isaias called you a Virgin; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and His name shall be Emmanuel." You spoke in behalf of our human nature and by your consent you sealed forever the union between our human nature and the Son of God. 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. You are truly the pledge of Divine mercy. Pilgrims approach the grounds of the basilica, in distant view, on the day before the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I thank you for all you mean to me as my spiritual Mother. Your birth was a miracle of the power of God because both of your parents were far advanced in years. Today I am filled with joy at the thought that we are united with those first clients of yours, and in union with them we greet you, saying: O beauty of Carmel, glory of Libanus, purest of lilies, mystical rose in the flowering garden of the Church. Obtain for me from Jesus the heavenly gifts of humility, chastity and meekness, which were the fairest adornments of your immaculate soul. People became the poor banished children of Eve. When His head was crowned with thorns, another crown of thorns encircled your Heart. No creature in the world has been more exalted than you, because no creature in the world has ever humbled himself more. 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. 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. When He had finished the work of our Redemption by His labors, suffering and death, the Eternal Word, clothed in our nature, entered into His glory and was seated on the right hand of the Eternal Father. No one ever belonged to Jesus as completely as you, for you are His Mother. 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. 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. 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. 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. You found the cross very heavy during the three years of His public life, for then He had to leave your side that He might be "about His Father's business,"the sanctification and salvation of souls. 1. Your heart beat in unison with His Heart. 2. Mary, Mother of God, you are more truly our Mother than any other mother by the way in which you have given us life. 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. God might have created a more beautiful world, perfect men. 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. Forming with your Divine Son one spiritual body, we experience the rage of Satan until the end of time. For from the moment when Jesus told you to see Him, in John, you saw Jesus in all Christians. 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. Fill their hearts with the virtues of joyous zeal for God and for souls and a warm love for divine learning. 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, Mother of God, your name means Lady and Queen. Give me the same virtues in my state of lifea will inflamed with the desire that God's Will be done and a mind steeped in the knowledge of what that Will is. Francis Possenti was born in Assisi. What a difference between the woeful prediction of Simeon and the joyous tidings of the archangel Gabriel announcing the greatness of the Redeemer of mankind! . Mary, My Mother, How perfectly you have followed the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and acted on divine wisdom! The cross is the measure of God's love for us and the sum total of our love for God. Through your prayers, may Jesus make me live of His life through sanctifying and actual grace. Be pleased to lead mankind securely to certain victory over Communism through the triumph of your Immaculate Heart as you promised at Fatima: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and an era of peace will be conceded to humanity.". I am deeply conscious that I am unable to do good. For He was everything to you, and all else was nothing without Him. This was the earliest promise of a Redeemer to come, and you were to be His immaculate Mother. In the same way you, who freely delivered your son to a cruel death, parted with your Son. The moment of your exaltation, the highest to which God could raise a creature, finds you sunk in the abyss of your own nothingness. The divine maternity explains everything in you; without this maternity nothing in you can be explained. 2. Liturgical feast Our Lady of Compassion. Mary, My Mother, you were not obliged by the Law of Moses to present and ransom your firstborn Son. Mary, My Mother, I have every reason to honor you under the title of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, because you have given me the Eucharistic Christ. Our Lady of Lourdes, We pray to you especially for our own conversion and that of all sinners. Your directions to the waiters: "Do whatever He tells you" (John 2, 5), show that you regarded your Son's answer as a striking sign of His special love for you. Since the angel saluted you "full of grace" and "blessed among women" (Luke 1,28), you were the abode of all Divine graces, adorned with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, so that you were never subjected to the evil spirit. 3. You brought forth Jesus, your First-born, without pain; but in giving birth to your second-born, what agony did you not have to endure? Evening Prayer to Our Blessed Mother 1. Since you are my Mother, I share in the love you have for your Divine Son. To love Jesus, to do His will, to accept all from His handslet this be my humility, as it was yours! As Mother of God, you became a cooperator in the Redemption of mankind. Through your prayers and dignity the power and the fruits of the Passion of Jesus are applied to men No intercession, neither yours nor that of any saint, is of value except through Him, through His blessed wounds. What a beautiful example for parents to imitate! In your humility you wished to serve others rather than to be served. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. 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. Mary, Mother of God, God spoke of you as the Woman who would crush the serpent's head. December 9 marks the feast day of Saint Juan Diego and December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. God has made you so kind even to sinners that your goodness restores us to hope. 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. As you led an interior life and centered all your thoughts and life upon the Word Incarnate in your womb, so help me to lead an interior, supernatural life, always guided and directed by supernatural principles, having always supernatural intentions and performing supernatural actions. Mary, Mother of God, you are called Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament because you are associated in a special way with the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. He can and does suspend the laws of nature for those who have faith in His goodness and entreat Him in fervent prayer. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Virgin most pure because you are the holiest of God's creatures. The Son takes pleasure in it as the Heart of His Mother, the source from which He drew the blood that ransomed us. 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.
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