Marian Consecration Day 30 - Kolbe: Mystery, Militia, Love

Marian Consecration Day 29 - de Montfort: Passion, Baptism, Gift

 Spend the day pondering de Montfort's Marian teaching as it is summarized by these three words: 

1. Passion
2. Baptism
3. Gift

Marian Consecration Day 28 - The Fountain of Love and Mercy

 Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Draw me in, with and through Mary, to the Fountain of Love and Mercy.

What does (Divine Mercy) have to do with Marian consecration? Everything. It has everything to do with consecration because Mary is the one who brings us to the source of merciful Love. Mary is the one who brings us to the love that is more powerful than evil. Indeed, as John Paul says in his homily (at Fatima), consecration to the Immaculate Heart means "drawing near through the Mother's intercession to the very fountain of life that sprang from Golgotha." What is this fountain of life? The Pope identifies it as "the Fountain of Mercy." It is the pierced side of Christ from which blood and water flowed as a source of grace and mercy. And it's through this wound in Christ's Heart that "reparation is made continually for the sins of the world." Moreover, through this Fountain of Mercy, we find "a ceaseless source of new life and holiness."  

Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC

33 Days to Morning Glory

Quoting from the Homily of Pope John Paul II in Fatima, Portugal (May 13, 1982)

Marian Consecration Day 27 - Entrustment

 Come Holy Spirit, living in Mary.

Prepare me to trust myself completely to Mary so she can bring me closer to Christ.

"Behold Your Mother" 

26When Jesus saw his mother* and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”n

27Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
John 19:26-27

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)