Sunday, September 19, 2010

[MaryVitamin] La Salette and Friday sacrifice: Feast Day Sept. 19th


Mary Vitamin 
 
Topic: Friday Sacrifice with Our Lady of La Salette (September 19)
 
Quote:
Our Lady at La Salette
If my people do not wish to submit themselves, I am forced to let go of the hand of my Son. It is so heavy and weighs me down so much that I can no longer keep hold of it.
(Our Lady was crying.)
 
Meditation:
From The Glories of Mary we learn that St. Bonaventure (d. 1274) comments upon these words of the prophet Isaiah:
 
Behold thou art angry, and we have sinned…there is none…that riseth up and taketh hold of thee. Isaiah 64:5 & 7
 
"It is true, O Lord, that at the time there was none to raise up sinners and withhold thy wrath, for Mary was not yet born; before Mary,' to quote [St. Bonaventure’s] own words, 'there was no one who could thus dare to restrain the arm of God.' But, now, if God is angry with a sinner, and Mary takes him under her protection, she withholds the avenging arm of her Son, and saves him.'"
 
Basil of Seleucia encourages sinners, saying, "O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all thy necessities; call her to thine assistance, for thou wilt always find her ready to help thee; for such is the divine will that she should help all in every kind of necessity."
St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books: 1978), 123-4.
 
Resolution:
Today, I will Marianize the traditional Friday act of sacrifice of no meat on Fridays. I will remember Our Lady of La Salette and offer my meatless meals on Friday to her. I will remember Our Lady’s tears.
(Father John Hardon explains making a sacrifice on Friday at this link. Castle of the Immaculate has a reflection on the Friday sacrifice.)
 
Marian Vow:
Father Stefano Manelli, FI
But no less heroic than these extraordinary acts [of the saints] is a steadfast love nourished by little, unnoticed sacrifices. Every day St. Dominic Savio (as St. John Bosco reports) offered some mortification to the Blessed Virgin.
Devotion to Our Lady, (Academy of the Immaculate: 2001), 107.
 
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 
Thanks be to God for graces received.
 

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