[MaryVitamin] priesthood

Mary Vitamin for June 23^rd

 

Topic: the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Priesthood

 

Quote:

St. Peter Julian Eymard

"Pray, therefore, for the priesthood; beg that vocations to it may be multiplied; labor to obtain holy, zealous priests for the people. This was Mary's prayer, her apostolate of predilection."

 

Meditation:

St. Peter Julian Eymard

"And now, she not only begs her Son for holy vocations, but she guards and protects them. The priest is Mary's privileged child. It is she who trains him to piety in youth and shields his virtue; she it is who nourishes his fervor, who leads him by the hand to the foot of the altar and presents him to the Bishop, as once she offered Jesus in the Temple. She encourages him in the thousand sacrifices of study, in his combats against fear of the priestly responsibility. The priest formed by Mary!_O good and holy priest, how well Jesus will receive thee!"

Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, (Eymard Library): 138-9.

 

Resolution:

Today, my prayer will be for vocations, a prayer close to the Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

 

By priests, Jesus receives that sacramental life which He consecrates to the glory of His father; by them, He is more glorified than by even the most devout of the Faithful. He has given them all His rights and all His power.

Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, (Eymard Library), 138.

 

Marian Vow:

The sixth of the Seven Biblical Guideposts: Acts 1:14

"It is the mission of the Mother of the Church, of the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, of the Queen of the Apostles in prayer at the Cenacle. The Eucharist, the Holy Spirit, our Lady, the Church: the Immaculate is at the center with her mission of gathering all her children into the Church animated by the Holy Spirit at the foot of the Tabernacle."

Marian Seraphic Pathways

 

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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