Happy Birthday, Dearest Gospa!
(c) Mary TV 2014
J.M.J
August 5, 2014
The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major
(Our Lady's actual birthday!!)
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear Children! ...I am asking my Son, through love, to grant you unity through Him, unity among you, unity between you and your shepherds. Through them my Son always gives Himself to you anew and renews your soul. Do not forget this. Thank you." (August 2, 2014)
Our
novena for priests in honor of Our Lady's birthday ends today! We have
this gift to give our Mother, these nine days of prayer for our priests.
Let us pray: O
Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your
priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning
love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly life.
In
their loneliness, comfort them. In their sorrows, strengthen them. In
their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that
the soul is purified, and show them that they are needed by the Church;
they are needed by souls; they are needed for the work of redemption.
Amen.
These
simple prayers have deepened my love for priests. Through them I have
been becoming more and more aware of the gift of self that each priest makes
for us. He chooses at his ordination to put his needs aside and take up
our needs as his own. The priest spends his whole life in prayer and
service for us, poor lost sheep that we are. He has to entrust his life
to Jesus, because he is no longer living for himself, but he lives for
Christ. This is no small thing. Try living even one day with the
intention of putting yourself aside. See how many times you fail! This
is the daily life of our priests. They live for Christ, and for us.
We
offer you these prayers for our priests, dear Mother. They are your
special sons. You love them dearly. You stay by their side, praying for
them and encouraging them at every turn. We want to join you in prayer
and love for our priests. We want to thank the Father for giving us our
priests. We want to thank Jesus for being our High Priest, and
ministering to us through our priests. And we want to thank the Holy
Spirit for empowering our priests with the power to administer the
Sacraments. These Sacraments are saving our lives. Finally we thank
Mother Church for providing us with the priesthood, handed down
generation to generation, as a sign of Christ in our world. No matter
how black the world gets, our priests stand with us to push back the
darkness and establish the Kingdom of Light.
And
on your birthday, dearest Mother, we offer you our hearts again. We
love you. We honor you. We thank you for being our Mother. And we thank
you for having descended among us to be with us, to protect us and to
guide us in these terrible days. We know that without you, we would have
gotten very lost. You have come to show us the way to the Father, to
His Kingdom and His love.
Let's
pray for the young people in Medjugorje as well. This is the last full
day of the Festival. They will pray all day and then climb Mt. Krizevac
during the night in order to attend Holy Mass at dawn on August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration. May they all be transfigured by the love of Jesus and Mary!
Finally,
thanks to our little team in Medjugorje. They have done the impossible.
They have streamed the entire Youth Festival so beautifully. They have
provided for us a way to receive the graces of this time of prayer and
celebration, through their selfless diligence. Amazing!!
God bless you all!
Happy Birthday, Dearest Gospa!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2014
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
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