[MaryVitamin] Seventh Joy

 

Mary Vitamin for August 24th

 

Topic: The Seventh Joy of Our Lady The Assumption and Coronation

(finishing the Franciscan Crown of the Seven Joys of Our Lady feast day August 26

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Quote:

Pope Pius XII

Let all Christians, therefore, glory in being subjects of the Virgin Mother of God, who, while wielding royal power, is on fire with a mother's love.

Encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, October 11, 1954,  #43

 

Meditation:

Our Lady's joy includes reaping the rewards from God for her life of virtue, sacrifice and service. Her time of sacrifice, the last twenty years on earth building up the Church's devotion to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is finished. But, maybe there is another joy that she experiences in her Assumption and Coronation, now she enjoys tremendous  power with God  to help her beloved children in life.

 

Pope Pius XII

"With a heart that is truly a mother's," to quote again Our Predecessor of immortal memory, Pius IX, "does she approach the problem of our salvation, and is solicitous for the whole human race; made Queen of heaven and earth by the Lord, exalted above all choirs of angels and saints, and standing at the right hand of her only a Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, she intercedes powerfully for us with a mother's prayers, obtains what she seeks, and cannot be refused." On this point another of Our Predecessors of happy memory, Leo XIII, has said that an "almost immeasurable" power has been given Mary in the distribution of graces; St. Pius X adds that she fills this office "as by the right of a mother."

Encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, October 11, 1954,  #42

 

Resolution:

Today I will turn to my heavenly Mother, the Queen of Heaven and place my petitions in her hands. I will have confidence in the words of the Popes who have encouraged the faithful to put their trust in the intercessory power of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  [S]he intercedes powerfully for us with a mother's prayers, obtains what she seeks, and cannot be refused. I will remember that she is both motherly and powerful.

 

Marian Vow:

Pius XII

All, according to their state, should strive to bring alive the wondrous virtues of our heavenly Queen and most loving Mother through constant effort of mind and manner.

Encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, October 11, 1954,  #49

 

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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