MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] Our Lady of Knock

Thursday, August 21, 2008

[MaryVitamin] Our Lady of Knock

Mary Vitamin for August 20th

Topic: Our Lady of Knock

Feast Day August 21

Quote:

"The apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Knock, Ireland, was one not of words, but of silence. Here, the Mother of Christ appeared in prayerful contemplation with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist."

Kevin J. Wright, Catholic Shrines of Western Europe, (Ligouri: 1997), 120.

Meditation:

St. Joseph Marello's bishop, Bishop Savio, gave the Saint this advice:

"Silence is neither muteness nor interior emptiness nor the incapacity for communication. It is a spiritual experience, which is realized through success in holding worldly hubbub at a distance and making room for God's Word. Silence can be made anywhere. It consists in listening, more than in being quiet. It is through this eager attentiveness to hear that the soul perceives voices and messages from the Infinite, and pastures and drinks from them so as to climb mystically on high to the first fount, as well as to come down to earthly realities and stimulate action…"

Giovanni Sisto, I the Undersigned Poor Sinner,… The Life of [Saint] Joseph Marello, (Guardian of the Redeemer Books: 1985), 64.

Resolution:

In honor of Our Lady of Knock I will try to practice silence today. With every petition I make in prayer to God, I will also pause to listen to God. In conversations today, I will concentrate on becoming the person who listens.

I will practice having "silence anywhere" by making room for God's Word in my heart by reading today's Gospel and keeping the key words of Christ in my heart during the noisy day.

Marian Vow:

"[T]he penances of fasting and abstinence, of silence and obscurity, of prayer vigils and the renunciation of vanities and entertainments, trips, worldly spectacles, superfluous vacations - after the example of the Immaculate - cannot be missing in him or her who with the Marian Vow ought to realize in oneself 'the being' of the Immaculate that is all grace and the 'work' of the Mediatrix that is all salvation for others."

Marian Seraphic Pathways, Directory #25

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

__._,_.___

Visit This Group

__,_._,___

No comments:

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

Journeys of Faith

Special of the week: Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory Heaven is real beyond your wildest dreams. It is eternity with Our Lord Jesus in the Beatific Vision, our Mother Mary, the Heavenly family of Angels and Saints. Bob and Penny Lord have gone to Europe and researched the lives of many Saints and Blesseds, the teachings of the Catholic Catechism and the Catholic Encyclopedia. They have amassed volumes of first-hand information from the visions of Saints Regular Retail $14.95 320 pages Your price today $7.95

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.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

[MaryVitamin] Our Lady of Knock

No comments:

Post a Comment

Welcome to my Marian Blog

ALL MY SOCIAL SITES & BLOGS