Marian Consecration Day 23 - Maternal Mediation

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Fill my heart with praise to God for giving me Mary as my spiritual mother.

 

Marian Consecration Day 22 - The Most Marian Pope

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Have mercy on us and on the whole world!

The 10 Principal Virtues of the Blessed Virgin 

1. Deep humility
2. Lively faith
3. Blind obedience
4. Unceasing prayer
5. Constant self-denial
6. Surpassing purity
7. Ardent love
8. Heroic patience
9. Angelic kindness
10. Heavenly wisdom

St. Louis de Montfort

True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary

#108

Marian Consecration Day 21 - To Console Jesus

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

    Help me to "be the one" to console Jesus with Mary.

Marian Consecration Day 20 - A Covenant with Mary

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Help me to ardently make a Covenant of Consecration with Mary.

Icon of Mary with Child Jesus

As seen at St. Mary Cause of Our Joy Catholic Church (Westland, MI) 

The Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady prompts us to acknowledge the basis for this joyful hope. Yes, we are still pilgrims, but our mother has gone on ahead, where she points to the reward of our efforts. She tells us that we can make it. And, if we are faithful, we will reach home. The blessed Virgin is not only our model, she is the help of Christians. And as we besiege her with our petitions — "Show that you are our Mother" — she cannot help but watch over her children with motherly care.

St. Josemaria Escriva

"The Blessed Virgin, Cause of Our Joy:

A Homily on the Solemnity of the Assumption"

Christ Is Passing By (#177)

Mary’s Duties	My Duties
1. To give of her spirit and her heart	1. Total gift of all I have and am
2. To possess, protect, and transform me	2. Total dependence on her
3. To inspire, guide, and enlighten me	3. Responsiveness to her spirt
4. To share her experience of prayer + praise	4. Faithfulness to prayer
5. Responsibility for my sanctification	5. Trust in her intercession
6. Responsibility for all that befalls me	6. Accept all as coming from her
7. To share with me her virtues	7. Imitate her spirit
8. To provide for my spiritual + material needs	8. Constant recourse to her
9. Union with her heart	9. Remembrance of her presence
10. To purify me and my actions	10. Purity of intention; self-denial
11. Right to dispose of me, my prayers, my intercessions, and graces	11. Right to avail myself of her and her energies for the sake of the kingdom
12. Total freedom in and around me, as she pleases, in all things	12. Right to enter into her heart and share her interior life

 

 

Marian Consecration Day 19 - Ponder God's Goodness

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Help me to recognize and ponder in my heart all the good you do for me.

Jesus told them to go out, knowing all the fish they would bring back in, and so He gave them the means to bring those fish in. He wasn’t going to send out His disciples to go get a ton a fish, only to let the tools they brought with them falter and ruin the outcome. 

And the same goes for you and me. Jesus knows where you are, where you want to go, and where He wants to send you. He has all the details. And He is not going to send you without the graces and means to be successful. He is not going to send you out and let you come back empty-handed, nor is He going to send you out unprepared to return. 

Because of this appearance, we can be assured that the Lord will never send us out to do something without the proper means to do it. He doesn’t set His children up for failure. You are placed here and now for a reason, with a purpose, and He will provide all the graces to get through. Trust in the Lord. If their net didn’t tear, even though it had every opportunity to, yours won’t either. 

Sarah White

"If Their Net Didn't Tear, Yours Won't Either"

CatholicMatch Institute

Marian Consecration Day 18 - To Live in Mary's Immaculate Heart

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Keep me in her most pure and Immaculate Heart.

Byzantine Icon of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

from "The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Icon of Virtue" 

(Biltrix: Art and Culture)

This part of Mother Teresa's consecration to Mary is the most profound. She's not just asking for Mary's heart to be in her but for her to (live) in Mary's heart! So this is a prayer to love Jesus through Mary, in Mary, and with Mary. This is something more than having Mary "lend us her heart." To understand and live it requires a loving dependence and profound union with Mary. 

Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC

33 Days to Morning Glory

Faith is not just believing in something we hope is true. It's knowing and believing all that is true. 

from The Diary of St. Faustina (#1101)

"Overcoming Doubt" (Divine Mercy Reflection #212) 

My Catholic Life!

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. . . but let My promise strengthen and comfort thee under every circumstance. I am well able to reward thee, above all measure and degree. Thou shalt not long toil here, nor always be oppressed with griefs. Wait a little while, and thou shalt see a speedy end of thine evils.

Thomas a Kempis

"That All Grievous Things Are to Be Endured for the Sake of Eternal Life"

Imitation of Christ (Book 3, Chapter 47)

Marian Consecration Day 17 - She Who Brings Me Face-to-Face

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Bring me face-to-face with the love in the Heart of Jesus crucified.