MARY, OUR MOTHER

Friday, May 02, 2008

Mary Vitamin for St. Joseph the Worker

(Usually May 1st)

Topic: Our Lady and Saint Joseph

Quote:

“Our Lady, with only one word, could have clarified the doubt of St. Joseph. But in her humility, she decided not to reveal the great things God was working in her.”

Father Gabriel M. Pelletieri, FI, Who is Mary, (Academy of the Immaculate), 34.

Meditation:

“St. Joseph understood immediately that he was facing a great mystery. The evident state of pregnancy of our Blessed Lady would have pushed him to doubt the honesty of his Spouse. But, the holiness, the enchanting purity and simplicity of Our Lady, made him exclude any possible unfaithfulness or suspicion in her….

Withholding any judgment, he decided to cover with silence what his own mind was not able to understand.”

Father Gabriel M. Pelletieri, FI, Who is Mary?, (Academy of the Immaculate), 35.

Resolution:

Our Lady and St. Joseph both responded with silence to allow God’s plans to be manifested. Today, I will try to respond with silence to imitate Our Lady and St. Joseph.

St. Maximilian left the following notes on silence:

“Avoid all those words which can draw down on you glory, esteem or the appreciation of others. […]

Rejoice when you hear others praised.

Don’t offer excuses when you make a mistake.

Don’t cast the blame on others.

Do not offend by sarcasm those who correct you.

Do not renounce in advance your errors which someone is trying to point out to you.”

Father Anselm W. Romb, OFM Conv., The Kolbe Reader, (Marytown Press), 3.

Marian Vow:

Our Lady called Herself “the handmaiden of the Lord.” She understands what it means to be the slave and property of God. In the Marian vow we turn ourselves over to Our Lady to be transformed into Her.

“Before God, she considered herself a ‘slave’, a ‘servant.’ Consequently she was not able nor did she desire to anticipate the will of her Heavenly Father, rather she preferred to let God Himself choose the time and the manner most suitable for revealing the secrets that she was hiding in her Heart to St. Joseph.

Father Gabriel M. Pelletieri, FI, Who is Mary?, (Academy of the Immaculate), 35.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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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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