MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] good deeds in Mary's hands

Thursday, July 09, 2009

[MaryVitamin] good deeds in Mary's hands

Mary Vitamin for July 8^th

Topic: Placing ourselves in Our Lady's hands so that we become "little".

Quote:

"In order to belong to Jesus we must be little, but few want to remain in that littleness."

St. Therese of Lisieux

Meditation:

S. Louis de Montfort

"Consecrating ourselves in this way to Jesus through Mary implies placing our good deeds in Mary's hands. Now, although these deeds may appear good to us, in reality they are often defective. They are tainted by pride, or smug presumption, and in truth they are not worthy of God, who is himself eternally perfect, all-pure, and all powerful. He dwells in inaccessible splendor and majesty. Before him, the sun itself lacks brightness. It is folly to attempt to stand before the awesome God, or even before Christ Jesus the Lord, trusting in the value of our own faith and merit."

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St. Louis de Montfort, Secret of Mary, Chapter 2, par 37

Resolution:

Today I will work on placing all my prayers, all my good deeds, all my failures into Our Lady's hands that she may make them fitting for God. I will open my hands before my image of Our Lady and spiritually offer these things to Our Lady. I will ask her to make them acceptable to God.

Marian Vow:

St. Louis de Montfort

"It is easy to enroll in a confraternity; easy to undertake this devotion, and say every day the few vocal prayers prescribed. The chief difficulty is to enter into its spirit, which requires an interior dependence on Mary, and effectively becoming her slave and the slave of Jesus through her. I have met many people who with admirable zeal have set about practising exteriorly this holy slavery of Jesus and Mary, but I have met only a few who have caught its interior spirit, and fewer still who have persevered in it."

St. Louis de Montfort, Secret of Mary, Chapter 2, par 44

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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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.

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