[MaryVitamin] St. Catherine Laboure

 

Mary Vitamin for November 26th

 Topic: The Heavenly Mother  and St. Catherine Laboure

( Feast day - November 28)

 Quote:

St. Alphonsus di Liguori "Children have always on their lips their mother's name, and in every fear, in every danger, they immediately cry out, 'Mother Mother!'"

St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books: 1978), 28.

 Meditation:

After the death of her earthly mother, St. Catherine Laboure shows us her  devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Catherine was only nine years old.

 "[St. Catherine] pulled a chair over beneath the shelf, for it was too high for her to reach, even if she stood on tiptoe. Climbing up on the chair, she stretched overhead and took down Our Lady's image. Throwing her arms about the statue, she hugged it close to her little body, as a child might fondle her favorite doll or teddy bear. But this was no doll. In a sense, it was no longer just a statue of Our Lady. It was Mary herself. 'Now, dear Blessed Mother' she said aloud with childlike fervor, 'now you will be my Mother!'"

Father Joseph Dirvin, Saint Catherine Laboure,(Tan Books: 1984), 15-6.

 

Resolution:

Today, when I pass my statue of the Blessed Virgin, I will ask Our Lady to be truly my Mother in imitation of the Marian devotion of St. Catherine Laboure.

 Marian Vow:

St. Maximilian Kolbe

"The Immaculata is the mother of our entire supernatural life because she is the Mediatrix of the grace of God, hence our mother in the sphere of grace, in the supernatural sphere. She is a most loving mother, because you do not have any mother so affectionate, so loving, so godlike, so Immaculate, so wholly divine."

 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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