MARY, OUR MOTHER: [MaryVitamin] Pray Like Our Lady

Friday, July 09, 2010

[MaryVitamin] Pray Like Our Lady

Mary Vitamin for July 9

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Topic: Pray like Our Lady

Quote:

Blessed Charles de Foucauld

To pray is to think of God with thoughts of love.

Jean-Jacques Antier, Charles De Foucauld, (Ignatius Press)154.

Meditation:

When Our Lady lived Her earthly life, how did she think of God in her prayers?

At her Presentation in the Temple, Our Lady according to St. Francis de Sales demonstrated her "absolute surrender to the Divine Majesty." At the Annunciation Our Lady thought and said "Be it done unto me according to thy Will."

At the birth of Christ, Venerable Mary of Agreda says:

"The Divine child came into the world most beautiful and resplendent, without detriment to the holy virginity of Mary, for He passed through her virginal womb like a ray of the sun." What thoughts of love and veneration did she offer that night?

God was her child, her baby which she held in her arms. How readily tender, loving thoughts come from the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin towards the God who showers her with grace and yet doesn’t spare her suffering.

Resolution:

Today I will say my usual prayers (Morning Offering, Angelus, Rosary, breviary, Spiritual Communion), and I will try to pray these regular prayers with Our Lady’s thoughts of love for God.

Marian Vow:

For this reason the members of M.I.M. have the concrete scope of cultivating amidst daily duties the knowledge and love, the imitation and cult of the Immaculate Mediatrix, by means of prayer and meditation, of in-depth study of the mystery of Mary "centered on the Immaculate Conception and universal Mediation", so that entire being and activity of the person consecrated to the Immaculate reflect in a living way, existentially, the Immaculate in her being, 'full of grace', and the universal Mediatrix in her activity for the salvation of mankind;

Marian Seraphic Pathways, Directory #10a.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

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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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[MaryVitamin] Pray Like Our Lady

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