MARY, OUR MOTHER

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Mary Vitamin for May 13^th

Topic: Fatima and Our Lady's School

Quote:

St. Louis de Montfort

"We advance more in a brief period of submission to Mary and dependence on her than in whole years of self-will and self reliance."

Lucia Santos (age 10, pictured in the middle) ...

Jacinta Marto (age 7) Lucia Santos (age 10) and Francisco Marto (age 9) Image via Wikipedia

True Devotion to Mary, #155

Meditation:

Father de Marchi reflects on the power of Our Lady's presence upon the visionary children at Fatima.

"However, the true Spiritual Director of the [Fatima] children was doubtless the Blessed Virgin in person. She herself supervised the master work which she had taken in hand and carried it to a successful conclusion. From her powerful hands came three angels clothed in flesh angels and authentic heroes. The raw material was of an admirable plasticity and of the artist, what can we say? In her school the three little village children were in a short time to take giant steps on the road to perfection."

Father de Marchi, Fatima From the Beginning, 170.

Resolution:

The two great lessons of Our Lady from the apparitions at Fatima are the daily Rosary and the habit of offering of sacrifices to God by saying:

For the love of God, for the conversion of sinners and for the sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Today I will accept a sacrifice that comes my way with the words of Our Lady so that I may participate in her school of holiness.

Marian Vow:

With the Marian vow, Our Lady Herself takes me by the hand and leads me in the ways of Her school.

"Let us keep well in mind: unlimited consecration to the Immaculate sanctifies in a manner more rapid and perfect if lived with a commitment to serious, constant, daily examination, a help to understand ever more and to live in a continual ascent to marianization." #49 Marian Seraphic Pathways

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.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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