MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] The Espousal

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

[MaryVitamin] The Espousal

Mary Vitamin for January 23^nd

Topic: The Espousal of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Joseph

(January 23)

Quote:

The Lord speaks to Our Lady in prayer

"I will aid thee by My grace, and will choose a man perfect and according to My heart. My power is infinite, and it shall be exercised for thy protection."

Ven. Mary of Agreda, The Divine Life of the Most Blessed Virgin, (Tan Books) 40.

Meditation:

Edward Healy Thompson

"[The] marriage of Mary and Joseph tended to hide and veil from men the virginity of Mary, since this was the one chief object and desire of these two holy spouses; that is, while jealously guarding and cultivating virginity, to withdraw it from the observation of men and from their esteem, hiding it through humility under the veil of matrimony, that they might not be regarded as singular."

The Life and Glories of Saint Joseph, (Tan Books: 1980), 149.

Resolution:

Our Lady and St. Joseph kept many things shielded from the world as a mark of humility. What can I do today to imitate their humility? One time, I will not draw attention to something that I have done or accomplished. (At least, I will not interrupt or finish sentences for others as a small act of humility.)

Marian Vow:

"The Marian vow of unlimited consecration to the Immaculate entails a vigorous, radical and complete asceticism, which in terms of immediate implications means substantially two things:

-eliminate every defect, even minimal, displeasing to the Mother of God, to Her immaculate purity: one must be, not only the 'property' of the Immaculate, but a pure and noble property, truly 'without stain';

-reclothe oneself, within and without, with the virtues of the Immaculate: the theological and cardinal virtues, the moral and religious, so as to become as it were 'another Mary living, speaking and working."

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, The Marian Vow of Unlimited Consecration to the Immaculate, 17.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

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Quotes from 'The Glories of Mary':

‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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