[MaryVitamin] St. Gerard Majella Feast Day

Mary Vitamin for October 16^th

 

Topic: St. Gerard Majella

Feast October 16

 

Quote:

"'Before and after every meal,' [St.Gerard] wrote in his resolutions, 'I will recite three Ave Marias; when taking a drink of water, one Ave Maria; every time the clock strikes, one Ave Maria.'"

Father Edward Saint-Omer, C.SS.,R., St. Gerard Majella (Tan Books:1999), 66.

 

Meditation:

"The Redemptorists are bound by rule to recite five decades of the Rosary, to make a visit to the Blessed Virgin and to say a certain number of Ave Marias every day. They fast, also, on the eves of Mary's feasts and abstain from meat every Saturday in the year [Saturday being Mary's special day of the week]. Gerard was not satisfied with these marks of filial love. … Still more, he recited a Gloria Patri every time he saw an image of the blessed Virgin, whenever he heard her name pronounced and at the beginning and end of every action. … His devotion to the Immaculate Conception was incomparable. How often he was rapt in ecstasy before her image!"

Father Edward Saint-Omer, C.SS.,R., St. Gerard Majella (Tan Books:1999), 66-7.

 

Resolution:

How much there is to imitate in the life of St. Gerard! One time today, in order to begin imitating the Marian devotion of St. Gerard, I will say one Hail Mary with a drink of water.

 

Marian Vow:

"He constantly wore a Rosary around his neck as a sign that he lived in the blessed chains of Mary."

Father Edward Saint-Omer, C.SS.,R., St. Gerard Majella (Tan Books:1999), 67.

 

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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