MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] Preparing for the Seven Joys

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

[MaryVitamin] Preparing for the Seven Joys

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Mary Vitamin for August 17th

Topic: Why is the Annunciation one of the Joys of Our Lady?

(Preparing for the Feast of the Joys of Our Lady-August 26

The Seven Joys of Our Lady are also referred to as the Franciscan Crown)

Quote:

Father Faber

"But what desire ever had such intensity as Mary's yearning for Messias unless indeed it were His own eternal longing for his created nature?"

Father Faber, Bethlehem, (Tan Books:1978 ), 68.

Meditation:

"You open wide your hand,
grant the desires of all who live."
Psalm 145

It is a great joy to have the desires of your heart granted. In reflecting upon Our Lady and her experience in the great event of the Annunciation, we can see at least four of Our Lady's desires fulfilled miraculously by God.

Annunciation with St. Emidius (1486) 207x146...

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1. Our Lady's desire for the coming of the Messiah.

Our Lady was one of the chosen People. She was waiting for the Messiah. How wondrously her desire for the Messiah was fulfilled!

2. Our Lady's desire to become a mother.

Can we say as the woman designed from all time to be the mother of the Savior that Our Lady had a desire for motherhood? If one is designed for a specific mission then the Lord gives the desire for the mission.

3. Our Lady's Vow of Virginity is preserved.

Our Lady's Virginity is completely preserved despite the nature of her mission to be Mother of God.

4. Union with God.

All souls have desire for union with God. In the Annunciation, Our Lady's desire for union with God is fulfilled to overflowing.

Resolution:

I will try to imitate Our Lady's longing for the Messiah. Today I will repeatedly desire that the Lord come to renew my heart and my family. I will ask Him to be present at our meals and to be the unseen Guest in our home.

Marian Vow:

St. Maximilian Kolbe

"The virginal womb of the Immaculata is reserved for the Holy Spirit and in it begins in time --as everything material begins in time --also the life of the God-Man."

Will to Love, (Marytown Press: 2001), 30.

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, August 18, 2009

[MaryVitamin] Preparing for the Seven Joys

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