Monday, September 28, 2015

The name “Our Lady of the Sacred Heart” justifies the great intuition of Vatican II

* September 28 – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, France, 1854) * The name “Our Lady of the Sacred Heart” justifies the great intuition of Vatican II ---

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September 28 – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, France, 1854)

The name “Our Lady of the Sacred Heart” justifies the great intuition of Vatican II

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Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is not just a name, it is above all a way to present and understand the Virgin Mary. It is a way to contemplate her and pray for her intercession.

In connection with the founding of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun (France), Father Chevalier promised to honor Mary under a new name that he revealed in 1859 as Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Thus he brought together two names that were dear to his soul: the Sacred Heart (Christ) and Our Lady (Mary). We do not say “Our Lady of Issoudun” (in reference to the place) but “Our Lady of the Sacred Heart” (in reference to a person).

The new name, full of hope, expresses the unique relationship between Jesus and Mary, whom God chose to give birth to his beloved son. This name justifies the great intuition of Vatican II: "Mary is the one who makes us enter into the mystery of Christ and the Church."

Close because she is one of us, Mary, better than anyone teaches us to make our own the feelings that are in the Heart of Christ, according to the motto of Father Chevalier: "May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere, forever."

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Let’s pray together

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death.
Amen.

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‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

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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, September 28, 2015