Tuesday, January 26, 2016

We have witnessed Mary’s fruitfulness

* January 26 – Our Lady of Life (France) – Birth of Cardinal Charles Journet (1891) * "We have witnessed Mary’s fruitfulness" ---

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January 26 – Our Lady of Life (France) – Birth of Cardinal Charles Journet (1891)

"We have witnessed Mary’s fruitfulness"

Our Lady of Life is a shrine in Venasque, France, near Avignon, where the faithful have prayed to the Virgin Mary since the 6th century. It was Our Lady of Life who one day drew a holy priest to her—Father Marie-Eugene!

When Father Marie-Eugene discovered the ancient shrine of Our Lady of Life (Notre-Dame de Vie) in 1931, he felt a living presence there, which continued to accompany him all his life. He also found a powerful source of grace there.

He later established the lay institute of Notre-Dame de Vie there. Members of Notre-Dame de Vie are deeply marked by the presence of the Virgin Mary in their life.

"Since we have been here, we keep witnessing the magnificent sight of the fruitfulness of the Virgin Mary. She chose to give birth to children here, to bring souls and fill them with her light and life… What is first and foremost is not the fact that we are here, or that we’ve witnessed this or that particular event! No, the overwhelming reality here is the life that pours out of the womb and the soul of Our Lady of Life," wrote Father Marie-Eugene in The Most Motherly Virgin Mary (“La Vierge Marie Toute Mère”).

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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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Quotes from 'The Glories of Mary':

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

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“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

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.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016