[MaryVitamin] First Sorrow of Our Lady

Mary Vitamin for March 19^th

 

Topic: First Dolor of Our Lady, the Presentation

 

Quote:

"As often as I looked at my Son, as often as I wrapped Him in His swaddling-clothes, as often as I saw His hands and feet, so often was my soul absorbed, so to say, in fresh grief; for I thought how He would be crucified."

St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books: 1978), 423.

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Meditation:

"We must expect also that it will be in some measure with us as it was with Mary; our sorrows will be fed even by our joys. God sends us joys before sorrows, to prepare our hearts; but the joys themselves contain prophecies of the coming sorrows."

Father Faber,  The Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books ), 103.

 

Resolution:

I will pray my Rosary with more attention today. I will try to keep Our Lady company in her sorrow.

 

Marian Vow:

"After examining at the end of the day and finding one had never or hardly ever, thought and worked in terms of unlimited consecration to the Immaculate, means having spent a day 'without meaning' this surely cannot be called a day of grace."

Marian Seraphic Pathways, Directory #41

 

I will renew my vow as a docile instrument of Our Lady when I pray the Rosary.

 

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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Deacon John

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