MARY, OUR MOTHER: Bl. Jacinta and Francisco

Monday, February 20, 2012

Bl. Jacinta and Francisco

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Topic: Bl. Jacinta & Francisco Marto

Fatima Visionaries

Feast February 20

Quote:

Our Lady on July 13, 1917

"Make sacrifices for sinners and say often, especially when you make some sacrifice, 'O my Jesus, this is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.'"

Father De Marchi, I.M.C., Fatima from the Beginning, (Edições: Missões Consolata: 1986), 78.

Meditation:

Blessed Jacinta took these words of Our Lady to her heart. Nothing was exempted from the little girl's asceticism as illustrated in these words:

"I was thirsty and I didn't drink and I offered it to Jesus for sinners. In the night I had pains and I offered Our Lord the sacrifice of not turning over in bed and so I didn't sleep at all." (190)

Bl. Jacinta said this from her hospital bed suffering acutely from tuberculosis and other complications. This brave girl was nearing her tenth birthday at the time of her death.

Following Our Lady's words heroically seemed to result in Bl. Jacinta's ardent love for the Blessed Sacrament.

"Lucia, have you been to holy Communion to-day? Then come close to me because you have hidden Jesus in your heart. I don't know how it is, but I feel Our Lord inside me and I understand what He says though I can't see Him or hear Him, but I love to be with Him."(191)

"It's hidden Jesus, how I love Him. If only I could receive Him in the church. Can you go to Holy Communion in Heaven? If so, I shall go every day. If the angel could go to the hospital and take me Holy Communion how happy I should be" (191)

Resolution:

Today, I will be mindful of Bl. Jacinta's example of following Our Lady's words. I will look for one sacrifice to make and say "For the Love of God, the conversion of sinners and sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." And then, I will make a Spiritual Communion.

Marian Vow:

"The FTI, therefore, must 'give a first class example' writes St. Maximilian 'of how to love the Immaculate, to sacrifice ourselves without limit to Her'

Marian Seraphic Pathways #34

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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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.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Bl. Jacinta and Francisco

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