Inflame me with that heavenly love with which you loved your dear Son, Jesus Christ . Immaculate Mother, you are the hope of a sinful race. To become the Mother of God meant for you a knowledge of and a share in the Passion of Christ that would plunge you into the depths of a sea of lonely desolation. Here I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that the dignity, holiness and glory of Joseph rests on the fact that he was your spouse and that he was the foster father of Jesus Christ. Your soul contained all the marvels of God's grace, for which reason the Church calls you the Singular Vessel of Devotion. You saw in the cross an altar, in your Son a Priest, and in His Blood the price of our Redemption. All other apostles and workers for the salvation of souls depend upon you for blessing upon their missionary work. Enlightened by God, you knew that He would grant your request. From the moment of His entering the world, your loving Son Jesus, was the price of our salvation. Mary, Mother of God, you are our Mediatrix. Mary, My Mother, from your early years you adored the one true God in the Temple at Jerusalem. You conceived Him as victim, you prepared Him for this sacrifice beneath the cross you offered Him to the Father for our salvation. 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. The offering of your Son was continued in each Holy Mass ever to be offered, in each Holy Communion ever to be received, in each act of adoration and prayer before the Sacred Host. I already know of your great love for me for the sake of your Son who entrusted the care of my soul to you. 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. Your name means Sea of Bitterness. You have given me life without end, a life of happiness for all eternity, not a created life, but a share in uncreated life, in the very life of God. 1. The sacrifice of the cross began at Bethlehem. Mary, My Mother, I beg you for this humility which is so necessary for me that without it I cannot enter God's kingdom, as Jesus reminded His disciples, "Unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. When His side was opened with a lance, a sword of anguish also pierced your Heart. Though the designs of God were unknown to you, you, nevertheless, detached your heart from the world in order to give all your love to God. God enriched your soul with such a love above all other creatures that in you alone He found His fullest delights. This gift of Your Heart entitles you to be called the Mother of the Holy Eucharist. 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.". God could not have created a more beautiful throne for Himself than you; His Mother! This is what took place at His entrance into the world; and again when He took upon Himself the office of Savior in the mystery of the Circumcision, and received from you the Holy Name of Jesus. I give you my love by consecrating myself entirely to you, in joy and in sorrow, by complete abandonment to the divine will. About Our Lady of Sorrows This is one of many Marian feast days which occurs throughout the liturgical year. All souls belong to you and your Son. Mary, Mother of God, though marriage and motherhood were the cherished ideals of every Jewish maiden, you vowed your virginity to God, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Your loving submission to the Divine Will could not dry your tears, but it quieted the agony of your mother-heart. December 9 marks the feast day of Saint Juan Diego and December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Joachim was of the royal house of David, and Anne of the priestly family of Aaron. It was life of the utmost weakness and helplessness, and yet His is the strength of God Himself. Your Heart is also a generous Heart, full of love, abounding in mercy. 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. The holy old man Simeon took your Son in his arms. As cooperator with your Son in that work of redemption, you also acquired the right to reign with Him. Help me, above all, so that by my good example I may enrich and ennoble every human being whose life I touch. Sanctifying grace likened you to God as it did no other pure creature. Though you had already been assured by the angel that you were this happy Mother chosen by the Lord, you did not stop to rejoice in your exaltation. The more fully you are Queen in a soul, the more does Jesus reign there as King. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. 'Teach me that the test of my following of your Divine Son is practical charity. You know all our needsneeds of body and needs of soulinfinitely better than a mother. Mary, My Mother, your Heart is the masterpiece of the Holy Trinity. Mary, My Mother, pray that the love of God above all things and detachment from the world and its false pleasures, may also make my soul the temple of the living God. 3. Advise me what to do. Mary, Mother of God, I pour out to you the sorrows of my own troubled heart. The name Our Lady of Mercy is very dear to Mercy Home for Boys & Girls. 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. Overshadowed by the power of the Holy Spirit, you were to conceive and bear the Messias, and at the same time remain a Virgin in every respect. You love us as a mother loves her children. This introduction into the new home in which you were to live was your official marriage ceremony. For your generosity the Eternal Father made you, through Christ, the dispenser of the riches of God. How often I do not know where to turn. With my whole heart I thank God for all He has done for you and for all mankind through you! How shall I answer for the wasted days and years which God has given me to serve Him alone? Scarcely had you greeted your aged cousin, when mother and son felt at once the sanctifying effects of your loving presence. Jesus is in me, too, through sanctifying grace, I bear within me the supernatural image of the Divine Sonship. This Feast day is kept by various religious orders in the Church. As breathing is not only a sign but even a cause of life, so your name, which is constantly found on the lips of your servants, both proves that they are spiritually alive, and at the same time causes and preserves their life, and gives them every help in their needs. From your own flesh and blood you formed the body of your Son. More than 130 years ago, Mercy Home was first established as the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy. He was with you not only by His essence, His presence, and His power, as He is with all His creatures. I shall realize that God, in His infinite wisdom will make all things work together unto my good. You are truly my model in offering Holy Mass. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. Joseph was a virgin for your sake, that a Virgin Son might be born of a virginal marriage. Having deigned to come down to you, He wished to raise you up to Himself in order that you might enter into glory. The feast is like an octave for the birthday of Our Lady on September 8th. I cannot have Jesus for my Brother if I do not have you for my Mother. You have merited by a merit of fitness all that Jesus has merited by a merit of justice. 3. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High." Thus was fulfilled the prophesy that Christ would be born of the family of David. I believe with the Church that from the great treasury of graces that Jesus has merited for us, nothing comes to us, by the will of God. How many are now in heaven because of the protection given them by your merciful Heart! Penance and reparation is the one sure way of winning God's love and blessing for a misguided and sinful world. Protect me from losing the Holy Spirit by sin. 1. Mary, Mother of God, I believe that it is a divinely revealed dogma that you, Immaculate Mother of God, having completed the course of your earthly life, were assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. 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). It was fitting that the God of all purity should spring from the greatest purity. The Heart of Jesus was a pure Heart, symbolized by the light that St. Margaret Mary saw streaming round it. With the Father you, too, can say: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.". Though you were the Mother of the Most High, you wanted to become the nurse of Elizabeth and the infant John. 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! 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. From eternity, before anything was, you were united to your Son in the mind of God as His most pure Mother. Provide for our needs of soul and of body. Tell me how to embrace whatever is best that I may attain the great purpose of my lifeheaven and the possession of Godand how to reject whatever is opposed to it or likely to make this attainment difficult. Mary, Mother of God, I turn to you in all my pressing needs and difficulties as to a most sure refuge. He follows up in my heart also the aim that brought Him into your wombHe wishes to be born in me, to grow, rule, and reveal Himself. We praise your virginity and admire your humility; but because we are poor sinners, your mercy attracts us more and we embrace it more lovingly. Aside from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no human heart ever loved mankind as deeply as your Heart. You come nearest to the holiness of God. The Holy Spirit, who in virtue of your Son's merits lived in you, made you a living image of Jesus. I find faith in its light, hope in its help. After the Sacred Heart of Jesus, never was there a heart more pure and more holy. How wonderful, then, He must be in the Mother of the Saint of saints! You were in the judgment-hall and heard it ring with lies. His Holiness St. John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and. Filled with grief, you saw how the disciples removed the nails from the Redeemer's hands and feet, extracted the thorns from His head, and took Him down from the cross. To the Father you present in your Son, an adorer worthy of Him, and adoration and love of infinite value. Our Lady of Compassion Our Lady of Compassion (Nuestra Senora de la Piedad) The convent of Our Lady of La Piedad dates back to the year 1595. You have given us Christ that He may make us live of His life. At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. 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. For as often as I offended God by mortal sin, so often have I crucified the Son of God and made a mockery of Him. Help me to perform all my actions in youto be entirely dependent upon you, taking your point of view, doing all things as you did them for God's honor and glory. The more holy you are, the greater is your sweetness and compassion toward sinners who have recourse to you with the desire to amend their lives. In your humility, you looked upon yourself as His lowly handmaid. After your Divine Son, you are God's most precious gift to man. In this I see God's plan that in the Kingdom of Jesus all graces should go through your hands and Heart. 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. 1. 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. At Nazareth, you knew that by saying Yes or No to Gabriel, you would be giving us life or leaving us in spiritual death. Let me never separate my sufferings from the sufferings of Your divine Son. IMPRIMI POTEST Raymond Weisenberger, Provincial, Girard, Pa. NIHIL OBSTAT A. H. Wiersbinski, LL.D. 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. All those whose Queen you are have learnt of Jesus that they must call you Mother and ask your help. As Mother of the spiritual and heavenly you are the mediatrix of the light of grace to mankind. Teach me to utter your name with deep respect because, after the name of Jesus, it is most sacred and revered above all others. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. 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. I realize that imitating you is the best way of imitating Jesus and of obtaining your all-powerful intercession. Your fullness of grace brought you to a most intimate union with the Author of grace. You were trained there with other girls, under the care of holy women, and with deepest reverence you assisted at the sacred functions. Help them to become worthy of this blessing through their own prayers and good example. Because you were to be the Mother of God, original sin, which like all Eve's daughters you should have contracted, could not touch you. Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom we acclaim our Queen and Mother, lead our country to God. September 15 | Recurring Event . 3. With your own eyes you saw Him brought first to Pilate, then to Herod and then again to Pilate. What songs of gladness by the elect as you were crowned by the Blessed Trinity and made Queen of heaven, advocate of the human race and dispenser of the graces of the Redemption! Mary, My Mother, I could go directly to God and ask Him for His grace without your help and that of the Saints, but God has not willed it so. The saints tell me that it is the foundation and guard of all virtues, since without humility a soul can possess no other virtue. R. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! The Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. Mary, Mother of God, you are called Mother of Mercy because of the fullness with which mercy is given to those who seek it at your hands. We can lose our divine adoption, but you can never lose your divine maternity. Your offering of the bloody sacrifice of Calvary is the perfect model for my offering Holy Mass. Obtain for them that deep conviction of faith, that unwavering hope, that Jesus, Infinite Love, who died for them, will b completely ready to welcome them, to take them in His arms, press them to His Heart and once again say, "Father, forgive them . How often do we see you restoring health to the sick who have recourse to you with childlike confidence? That very same Christ is mine in the Holy Eucharist when I look upon Him as a Victim on our altars, when I kneel before Him as my Friend in the Tabernacle; when I receive Him into my soul as my Guest in Holy Communion. Be pleased to intercede with Jesus, your Son, for Christian families. . You loved God with your whole heart and mind and strength. 1. I regard that dominion as a shining star lighting and guiding my life. God said to the serpent: "Because thou hast done this, I will place enmities between thee and the Woman, between thy seed and her Seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel" (Gen. 3.14). What greater wonder could the world behold, than a woman become the Mother of God, and a God clothed in human flesh? You are the throne of divine mercy in whom we find solace of mercy. 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. Through your hands I offer myself with Jesus during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I look to you for the grace of final perseverance and a happy death. December 12, 2021: "Our Lady of Guadalupe came to be the Mother of the Americas, to announce the new birth of Jesus Christ among the peoples and nations of the New World. Help me to imitate your virtues that I may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. It was indeed a divine life that Jesus led in Your womb, a life most active, and yet one of unbroken calm. No one after Christ was humbler than you were, yet no one after Christ gave God greater glory. I need virtues, especially charity and humility and purity. You are the Queen of your Son's kingdom. For that reason you were conceived by your mother, Saint Anne, without even the shadow of sin. 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.". Yet Jesus was active in your womb adoring and praising God. 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. When He changed the water to wine, He did your bidding as God, since as man He could not perform miracles. Mary, Mother of God, yours is a queenship of goodness. You fulfill the duties and enjoy the rights of a true mother. This truth was confirmed on Calvary, when at the very moment our redemption was to be completed by the death of Jesus, He said to you: "Behold thy son," then to St. John, who took our place beneath the cross: "Behold thy mother." But the true sanctuary in which you dwelt with God was not the palace of worship at Jerusalem but the immaculate temple of your heart. He is King and you are Queen of all hearts. Our Lady of Sorrows: Compassion Unlimited. Grant that we all may heed your warning, for only through penance and reparation can we blot out sin and the insult it afflicts on God. You formed His Heart, to love us, and His Precious Blood, to shed for us and to be given to us for our drink. How can I ever understand the great love that bound your hearts together! 16, 24). 3. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. Therefore, with childlike confidence I appeal to your motherly Heart for help. You are the Glory of Jerusalem; you are the Joy of Israel; you are the Honor of our people. 1, 20). I thank God for the great glory He has bestowed upon you for which all generations shall call you blessed. With her you loved to sing the psalms and canticles of the inspired authors of your nation. And the Holy Spirit, who descended upon you in the Incarnation with all His fullness, must have conferred upon you such treasures of sanctity as would prepare you to receive the Son of God in your most pure womb. I earnestly wish to make atonement for all of them. You heard the mob, led by the chief priests clamoring for His crucifixion. Because you were full of God's grace and a Virgin most pure, Gabriel could exclaim, "You have found grace with God." "The Lord is with thee." He has given me. 1. Dear St. Joseph, all the saints and angels, and especially you, my guardian angel and my chosen patron, watch over me. 11, 29). God had exalted you above all creatures. No other saint exerts such universal influence in the affair of our salvation as you do. 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. 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. He renders it possible to give greater expression to His own love and mercy through your Heart. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins" (Matt. You were entirely under the influence of Christ's divinity. 1. This is your role of universal Dispenser of all graces. 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. Your heart watches over them tenderly. Mary, Mother of God, since you are the Mother of Jesus Christ, you are the Mother of Grace as well. This feast day was approved by the Holy See in 1933 and is celebrated every October 25. Without God I can do nothing. As Mother of God you surpass, in an immeasurable degree, all other creatures, angels and men. Grant that all these, men and women alike, may be freed from sin, to repose on His Heart of merciful love. 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. Jesus is the new Adam and you are the new Eve. The power of your intercession has no such limits, for the saints teach me that our Savior can refuse nothing to His Mother. Mary, Mother of God, you are our true Mother because you have given us supernatural life. They beheld the dwelling place prepared for the Son of God. Forming with your Divine Son one spiritual body, we experience the rage of Satan until the end of time. You are not only the Mother of the guilty but also Mother of Jesus, their Judge. I beg you to make me strong enough to bear my trials for the love of God so that I may become like you in suffering. We will list that feast and give as much information as is available about that feastday. A blessed feast of OUR LADY of the MIRACULOUS MEDAL to you. As your prayer brought about His birth as the Sun of Justice, so also your request decided His rise and shining in His public life. Implore the grace of conversion for many pagans that they may come to the knowledge of the true faith and one day be united with the saints in heaven, there to love you and praise your mercy for all eternity. While you bore the Author of all things in your womb, and your heart was beating quickly with love, adoration and longing, still your face told nothing of this, and no one knew that such marvellous things were taking place in you. 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. Therefore, you gave your praise to the Creator and Giver of every good and perfect gift. Mary, Mother of God, the offering of Jesus was presented by your virginal hands. I am filled with miseries both spiritual and temporal. It was in your arms that he found the Savior, to remind me that he who desires to find Jesus, will not find Him otherwise than through you. These chains are chains of salvation for me, and they will make me enjoy in death that blessed peace which will be-the beginning of my eternal peace and rest. You were longing to see the Face of God and to be happy in the vision. Mary, Mother of God, your dear parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne, rejoiced at your birth. Not only were you full of grace, but you also bore the Author of grace. But you are not the adoptive Mother of the Son of God; you are His real Mother. 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. He alone has paid the full price of our ransom, and to this price no one else has contributed. This is truly your spirit, as you expressed it at the Visitation: "Behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed: because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name" (Luke 1, 48). Your willingness to suffer and to bear your cross in imitation of His own resignation to the will of God, made you especially dear to Him. Mary, Mother of God, Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is your Gift to us. Mary, My Mother, during all eternity it will be one of our greatest joys to admire the infinite love of God for you whose Son He willed to be, just as He is in all truth the Son of the Father. Jesus is the most beautiful of men; you were His mould, His mirror, and He, yours. Whereas pride and ingratitude repel grace from our souls, gratitude and humility, like golden keys, unlock the treasury of heaven. As Mother of God, you became a cooperator in the Redemption of mankind. If I have been blessed with suffering, let me remember that this is the only way I can follow Jesus and you, for He said, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me" (Matt. In presenting your only Son you present your all. When I say "Hail, Mary!" Because of sanctifying grace infused into your soul, you were from the first moment of your existence most intimately united with God and endowed with the most precious gifts of heaven. Your part in distributing God's grace is a result of the part you played in obtaining it. But you merited the title Co-Redemptrix above all by your union with Christ in His redemptive sacrifice. During my whole life you continue to take care of me until Christ be formed in me. The holy couple offered you to God by the ministry of the priest in charge, who invoked the blessing of God upon you and your parents. 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 title "Our Lady of Sorrows" focuses on Mary's intense suffering during the passion and death of Christ. Mercy proceeds from you as from an abundant, never-failing source. You are truly the pledge of Divine mercy. The Church regards you as the rising dawn. Mary, My Mother, glorious is your name for those who pronounce it at death, for they need not fear all the powers of hell.