Marian Consecration Day 26 - The Foot of the Cross and the Culmination of Mary's Retreat

 Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Thank you for the gift of my loving Mother, Mary.

Marian Consecration Day 25 - Mary Brings Our Needs To Christ

 Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Remind me to ask for Mary's powerful intercession in my times of need.

Mary at the Wedding Feast at Cana

(Cana) clearly outlines the new dimension, the new meaning to Mary's motherhood. . . Mary's solicitude for human beings, her coming to them in the wide variety of their wants and needs. . . (T)his coming to the aid of human needs means, at the same time, bringing those needs within the radius of Christ's messianic mission and salvific power. Thus there is mediation: Mary places herself between her Son and mankind in the reality of their wants, needs, and sufferings. She puts herself "in the middle," that is to say she acts as a mediatrix not as an outsider, but in her position as Mother. . . As a Mother she also wishes the messianic power of her Son to be manifested, that salvific power of his which is meant to help man in his misfortunes, to free him from the evil which in various forms and degrees weighs heavily upon his life. 

Pope St. John Paul the Great

Redemptoris Mater (#21-22)   

  In the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I Trust

Look to the Star, call upon Mary!

In danger, in difficulty or in doubt,

think of Mary, call upon Mary.

Keep her name on your lips,

never let it pass out of your heart

St. Bernard

from"Call Upon Mary: A Prayer"

Marian Consecration Day 24 - Mary Begins Her Own Retreat

Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Help me to be faithful to heart-pondering prayer, as was Mary.

 

The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner

 

Lord, I pray for the gift of humility.

I pray that in my humility

I will see the truth

And proclaim only that truth.

I especially pray that I will be able to see 

The truth that all good things come from You

And are accomplished by You.

All glory be to You my Lord!

Jesus, I trust in You.

from "Glorying in Yourself" 

Reflection 221

Daily Reflection on Divine Mercy: 365 Days with St. Faustina

My Catholic Life!

"A Smooth, Easy, Short, Perfect, Sure, Safe Way"

This devotion is a short way to discover Jesus, either because it is a road we do not wander from or because . . . we walk along this road with greater ease and joy, and consequently with greater speed. We advance more in a brief period of submission to Mary and dependence on her than on whole years of self-will and self-reliance. 

This devotion is a perfect way to reach our Lord and be united with Him. . . Jesus who came to us in a perfect manner chose no other road for his great and wonderful journey. The Most High, the Incomprehensible One, the Inaccessible One, He Who Is deigned to come down to us poor earthly creatures. . . How was this done? The Most High God came down to us in a perfect way through the humble Virgin Mary without losing anything of His divinity or holiness. It is likewise through Mary that we poor creatures must ascend to almighty God in a perfect manner without having anything to fear. 

St. Louis de Montfort

True Devotion to Mary

(#152 - 164)

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