Tuesday, March 22, 2011

[MaryVitamin] First Dolor

 

Mary Vitamin for March 22nd


Topic: First Dolor of Our Lady, the Presentation

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 Quote:

"As often as I looked at my Son, as often as I wrapped Him in His swaddling-clothes, as often as I saw His hands and feet, so often was my soul absorbed, so to say, in fresh grief; for I thought how He would be crucified."

St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books: 1978), 423.


Meditation:    "We must expect also that it will be in some measure with us as it was with Mary; our sorrows will be fed even by our joys. God sends us joys before sorrows, to prepare our hearts; but the joys themselves contain prophecies of the coming sorrows."

Father Faber,  The Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books ), 103.


Resolution:  I will pray my Rosary with more attention today. I will try to keep Our Lady company in her sorrow.

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Marian Vow: "After examining at the end of the day and finding one had never or hardly ever, thought and worked in terms of unlimited consecration to the Immaculate, means having spent a day 'without meaning' this surely cannot be called a day of grace."

Marian Seraphic Pathways, Directory #41


I will renew my vow as a docile instrument of Our Lady when I pray the Rosary.


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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