Mary Vitamin for February 17th
Topic: The Immaculate Heart
Quote:
Our Lady to Sr. Lucia December 10, 1925
"Look, my daughter, at my heart encircled with thorns, with which ungrateful men wound it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Give me consolation, you, at least…"
Meditation:
Many years after the apparitions of Fatima, Sr. Lucia wrote this reflection concerning Our Lady's Immaculate Heart:
"In fact, we read in the book of Isaiah: 'For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring." (Is 44,3)
"This blessed and watered land is the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and God wants our devotion to take root there, because it was for this very purpose that God placed so much love within the heart of the Mother of all human beings, who consecrates and converts her progeny into the body and Blood of Christ, her First-born, Son of God, the Word of the Father:
'In him was life, and the life was the light of men (…) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.'" (Jn 1,4 14)
"Calls" from the Message of Fatima, (Secretariado dos Pastorinhos: 2000), 137.
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Resolution:
During Our Lady's visit to Sr. Lucia in 1925, the Heavenly Queen requested the Five First Saturdays of Reparation: Holy Mass, Holy Communion, Confession, and Rosary with 15 minutes of meditation.
Today I will spend a few minutes with spiritual reading** dedicated to Our Lady.
Marian Vow
St. Therese of Lisiueux
"Celine, pure hearts are frequently surrounded with thorns, and are very often in darkness; the lilies then believe that they have lost their whiteness, thinking that the thorns which surround them have succeeded in tearing up their corolla. Do you understand, Celine? The Lilies among thorns are Jesus' favorites, and He finds pleasure in their midst: 'Blessed is he who has been found worthy to suffer temptation.'"
Mary at the Foot of the Cross – V (Academy of the Immaculate:2005) 339.
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria
*** For spiritual reading available on the internet see this site:
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