MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] Pray to St. Joseph

Thursday, October 15, 2009

[MaryVitamin] Pray to St. Joseph

Mary Vitamin for October 14^th

St. Teresa of Avila - Oct 15

Topic: Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Quote:

St. Teresa of Avila

"[W]hen the Lord left me in the trials of soul** I prayed very much [to St. Joseph] as I did to Our Lady."

The Book of Her Life, (ICS Publications: 1987), 256.

Meditation:

St. Alphonsus di Liguori

"Among all the ejaculations and prayers, the invocation of the holy names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph should have the first place. All that we love and desire and hope to possess is summed up in these beautiful names. The holy name of Jesus fills us with consolation, for when we invoke Him who bears it we find comfort in all our troubles. … With the holy name of Jesus we must unite the beautiful name of Mary. The name of Mary, like that of Jesus, is a name from Heaven above, and it is so powerful that all Hell trembles when it is pronounced. … Finally, it has always been the laudable practice of devout Christians to unite with the names of Our Lord and his holy Mother the beautiful name of St. Joseph. If the King of Heaven and earth conferred on him the honor of being the foster father of His Beloved Son and the protector of the holy and Immaculate Mother, surely it behooves us to honor him and invoke his powerful intersession."

The 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation, (Tan Books: 1986), 175,6,7.

Resolution:

Some suggestions for pious invocations from The Enchiridion of Indulgences:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, assist me in my last agony.

Jesus, Mary Joseph, may I sleep and rest in peace with you. (Roman Ritual)

Today, whether because I experience trials of soul or just because I want to remain close to the Lord in prayer, I will use the indulgenced and simple prayer:

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph"

Marian Vow:

St. Maximilian said of the book My Ideal

"The spirit pervading this work is completely identical to ours."

One suggestion from this book

"In intimate conversation or correspondence can you not sometimes mention [the Blessed Virgin's] name?" (97)

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate, MaryVitamin Twitter & AirMaria

**St. Teresa was referring to false humility.

See paragraph 10 and following of chapter 30 of her life

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‘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.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

[MaryVitamin] Pray to St. Joseph

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