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Mary Vitamin August 19th 
Topic: Why is the Visitation one of the Joys of Our Lady?
Quote:
St. Francis de Sales
"[C]harity is never idle; it burns in the hearts where it dwells and reigns, and the most blessed Virgin was full of it, because she bore Love Itself in her womb."
The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Our Lady, (Tan Books: 1985), 50.
Meditation:
"She made continual acts of love, not only for God with whom she was united by the most perfect charity possible; she also loved her neighbor in a most perfect degree, which made her ardently desire the salvation of the whole world and the sanctification of souls and knowing that she could cooperate with that of St. John, still in the womb of St. Elizabeth, she went there in all haste. Her charity urged her to rejoice with this good and venerable woman whom the Lord had blessed with such a benediction that, from being childless and barren, she had conceived and now was carrying him who was to be the Precursor of the Incarnate Word."
The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Our Lady, (Tan Books: 1985), 50.
Resolution
Charity urged the Blessed Virgin Mary to rejoice. Today I will try to perform work of service or charity thinking about Our Lady of the Visitation. This mystery is a joy to Our Lady precisely because of her charity. Her joy emanates from her service: from her ability to bring the Savior to her cousin and in her ability to serve her elderly cousin.
Today, one time, instead of complaining about some work or act of charity that I am asked to perform, I will recall Our Lady's joy in the visitation, a joy which was based in charity.
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Marian Vow:
St. Francis de Sales says of Our Lady that "she also loved her neighbor in a most perfect degree, which made her ardently desire the salvation of the whole world." This is the concept promoted in the Marian charism of St. Maximilian Kolbe who continually spoke of becoming an instrument in the hands of Our Lady. "All inventions should first of all be at her service and then promote other purposes: art, literature, the theater, the cinema, publications, journalism, radio, etc, etc. But before everything else we ourselves must be hers, even to the complete annihilation of our ego, to a personal holocaust, total, unreserved, without limits ('penance, penance, penance'). So then everything is given [to her]: soul, body, all the faculties of the soul and the powers of the body, talents, energy, knowledge, artistic ability, etc., etc. everything, everything! The past, present and future, life, death, eternity. In a word everything, everything without even the slightest, tiniest reservation. O Immaculate Mother, glory to you for all ages!"
Fr. Anselm W. Romb, OFM Conv., The Kolbe Reader, (Franciscan Marytown Press: 1987), 99-100.
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
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"May the Lord grant all your prayers!" (Psalm 20)
Deacon John
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