Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion September 15th Feast Day Liturgical Color: White The feast day of Our Lady of Compassion is every 15th of September. Rather, your sorrows were ordained by God from all eternity as part of the penalty to be paid for sin and were to mingle with the sufferings of your Son in that great sacrifice which was to redeem the world. From the moment of His entering the world, your loving Son Jesus, was the price of our salvation. 3. As you were called to cooperate with your Divine Son on Calvary in acquiring the treasure of His infinite merits, so now in Heaven you cooperate with Him in dispensing those merits to His Mystical Body. Mary, you are Our Lady of Good Counsel because you are the Seat of Wisdom. I can best thank Jesus for His dying bequest by striving daily to become like John in his love and imitation of you. You have the charge of keeping faith intact and love unimpaired in the Church founded by our Lord, and of spreading through the nations and over continents the knowledge of the Kingdom of God. Coming from the Latin words cum and patior, compassion means to suffer. I am most grateful for such devoted love and sympathy. The wisdom and power of God was constructing a living temple for the Savior of the world. This wisdom and prudence showed itself at a very early age, when you willed to devote yourself entirely to God and were presented by your saintly parents, at your own request, for the temple service. 1. Protect me from losing the Holy Spirit by sin. From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. You are a Model easy to imitate because you sanctified yourself in the ordinary, everyday life common to most of us by fulfilling those lowly household duties of a young woman a mother and by leading a hidden, retired life both in joy and in sorrow. In your triumph, as the Mother of the same Word Incarnate, having perfectly followed out the great designs of God upon you, having acquired immense merits by the practice of all the virtues, and having reached the highest holiness, you were assumed body and soul, into Heaven. You love Jesus because you are His Mother, and you love me because you are my Mother. But you needed the redeeming Savior to obtain this exemption, and deliverance from the universal debt of being subject to original sin. I regard that dominion as a shining star lighting and guiding my life. You brought forth Jesus, your First-born, without pain; but in giving birth to your second-born, what agony did you not have to endure? Mary, Mother of God, God spoke of you as the Woman who would crush the serpent's head. According to God's eternal standards, the sanctity proclaimed by Gabriel when he called you "full of grace," was but the beginning of your wonderful growth in holiness. Don Joslike the good Samaritansaw the lady, was filled with compassion . Yet Jesus was active in your womb adoring and praising God. Without God I can do nothing. 2. Mary, Mother of God, the sorrowful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the sorrows, the agony and death of the suffering Christ, the price at which the salvation of our race was accomplished. As the devil goes about seeking whom he may devour, you go about seeking whom you may save. To the Son you give His human nature which allows Him to make full reparation to the honor of His Father outraged by our sins. Your motherly love contributed so much to our salvation in the Incarnation of the Son of God, who is the Universal Source of Grace, that you will eternally contribute as much to all the works of grace, which come to us because of the Incarnation. May they consider it to be the greatest privilege bestowed upon them by God to dedicate their sons and daughters to His holy service. You formed His Body in order that it might be given us in death and in the Blessed Sacrament. In this time of crisis there is need that we hasten to you for aid, strength and direction. He ordered most perfectly His whole creation, for He is the true fountain and highest source of light and wisdom. "And thy own soul a sword shall pierce." As part of the Traditional Missal, the Feast of Consolation occurs on the Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, which falls on August 28th. You are the Mother of the Son of God. Since you are my Mother, I share in the love you have for your Divine Son. Our eyes are upraised to you in sorrow and in joy. Those words include us all. Make me your faithful child. Mary, My Mother, your divine maternity is such a sublime privilege that no creature, not even you yourself, can understand it fully. We do not find you in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, when your divine Son was received with so much honor by the people. May your glorious example be imitated by countless youths and maidens who will give themselves to the Lord to carry on His work throughout the world. Mary, My Mother, I turn to you rather for health of soul than of body. To single nations, to private families, to individual persons, you have always provided help, given solace and rekindled hope, especially when they turned to you with Rosary in hand. Since Jesus has given you charge of the dispensing of His graces, I know that you are most eager to use this power to help me. Have pity on the sinners of the world. These mysteries remind me also of your own glory, the Assumption of your soul and body into heaven and your crowning there as Queen of Heaven and Earth. From your own flesh and blood you formed the body of your Son. The Son will listen to you, His Mother, and the Father will listen to His Son. Through you I hope to reach the heavenly Kingdom. How wondrous you are in your humility. Unceasingly praying for sinners, you stand before your Son. Mary, My Mother, when my heart is oppressed with guilt and fear, let me look to you. Mother Mary - Our Lady of Compassion - Feast Day All Events. Mary, Mother of God, as Refuge of sinners, you will never turn away those who have recourse to your compassion. The holier a person is and the greater the intimacy of his union with God, the greater also is the power of his prayers. You are the Virgin to whom God the Father decreed to give His only Sonthe Divine Word, equal with Himself in all thingsthat entering the natural order He might become your Son as well as His. Not only were you full of grace, but you also bore the Author of grace. Neither your long absence from home, nor the inconvenience of a difficult and dangerous journey to the mountain country kept you from making this mission of love. As cooperator with your Son in that work of redemption, you also acquired the right to reign with Him. If the sinner dies in his sins you cannot desire to save him, because Jesus will not save him. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a virgin, and your happy fruitfulness only consecrated and increased your purity. They roamed about in the darkness of sin and despair. This Body, given to us at Christmas and immolated on Good Friday, was flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone. The feast was placed in the Roman Missal under the title of Our Lady of Compassion in 1482, highlighting the love of Blessed Mother in suffering with her Son, Jesus. You visited the house of Zachary to serve your cousin Elizabeth for three months. Help me to return unceasing thanks to God for His many favors, and keep me humble in possessing and using them. Feast of Our Lady of Compassion - Friday, 3 April, 2020. The angel said to you, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women" (Luke 1 28). Free from all attachment to earthly things, you were most capable of being filled with Divine love. Mary, Mother of God, may the perfect gift of yourself to God through love in your presentation in the temple be an inspiration to me. Jesus is my Savior and I have confidence in His infinite merits. Your fullness of grace brought you to a most intimate union with the Author of grace. Mary, My Mother, who crushed the head of the serpent, I pray for my country. The whole human race rejoices in you as Queen and Mother. Though declared blessed among women, yet you considered yourself the servant of two of God's beloved children. She is forever imploring you to intercede in their behalf with Him who has clothed you with His light and His glory, and has poured out upon you the fullness of His grace. On April 3rd, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X will have the joy of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion for the first time in all our houses. He bestowed marvelous privileges upon you and loved you more than all other creatures together. All the tsars were crowned and patriarchs installed in the presence of this image, up until the revolution. Mother of God, you have very great power. You formed His whole Self, to die for us as a sacrificial Lamb. You were united with Jesus when He bestowed special favors. Being the new Eve who was to be the Mother of the new Adam you were, by the eternal decree of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. With her you loved to sing the psalms and canticles of the inspired authors of your nation. All souls belong to you and your Son. This gift of Your Heart entitles you to be called the Mother of the Holy Eucharist. Show the same compassion toward me, for I am in need of grace to fight temptation, to avoid sin and to lead a holy life. As we have received through you the Universal Source of Grace Jesus your Son, so we still continue to receive, by your intercession, the various actual graces suited to our state and calling in Christ. St. Joan of Arc Feast Day May 30. - Our Lady of Compassion | Facebook Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Catholic News Agency I share in this joy. For the first time after four thousand years God in His Wisdom and power and love, created again a human being in that state in which He had created our first parents. 2. Since this is the mission of your life, to bring souls to God through Jesus, lead me to your loving Son. Jesus is the new Adam and you are the new Eve. Our Lady of Compassion - roman-catholic-saints.com 1. Your loving Son welcomed you with joy. Since you had your place beside Jesus when there was question of ransoming us and meriting for us all the graces necessary for our salvation, you must in like manner have your place beside Him now, when there is question of securing for us by your prayers in heaven the graces prepared for us in view of the merits of Christ. Help me to imitate your zeal in assisting my neighbor in his needs. 3. Mary, My Mother, God has willed that you should distribute His graces because you far surpass all other creatures in holiness: you are the masterpiece of His creation, who more than all the others honored and loved Him during your life; because you are the one whom He has chosen to be the Mother of His Son, and because you have been, according to the Divine Plan, associated with Jesus in the work of Redemption. Paul Haffner ( Inside the Vatican, September 2004) This feast is. In all humility you attributed this holiness to God alone, working wondrously within you. Since 1958 and the merging of the two saint days into one celebration (known as the Cooperative Feast), the Giglio Feast has been celebrated in July, with all activities leading up to its culmination on July 16th, the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Protect, guard, and keep them in holy fear, in peace, and in harmony of Christian charity. I long for your complete dominion over meover my body, my soul, my senses, over all that I am and have. 1. 3. You expressed this to Saint Bernadette at Lourdes when you said, "I am the Immaculate Conception.". I can only faintly imagine with what tenderness the Eternal Father received you, His loving daughter the Divine Son, His chosen Mother; and the Holy Spirit, His immaculate Bride. "The Lord is with thee." You are only a pure creature, who receives whatever you obtain as a pure favor from God. What a beautiful example for parents to imitate! All your privileges increased your power to love God. How fervently your mother and father thanked God for having given you to them and begged Him to accept the offering which they were making! If I put my trust in you, I shall be saved. No one is saved, except through you, no one comes to life, except through you. One of your greatest delights is to lavish these treasures upon your faithful children. From you was derived the Precious Blood which was shed upon the cross for our salvation and the adorable Body which, after having been made the price of our Redemption, has become the food of our souls in the Holy Eucharist. Give me charity like yours, which recognized in every human being a brother or sister in Jesus Christ, to be treated with respect and tenderness and to be aided according to the measure of my power. I need not see you appear, as you did to so many others. During my whole life you continue to take care of me until Christ be formed in me. (2) You took part in this offering also by the consent which you gave to the whole plan of the Redemption, and by your union of will with that of your divine Son even to the point of His sacrifice on the cross. From the knowledge of the Will of God you gathered the strength that was to uphold you at the foot of the Cross on which your Son hung, dying. In fallen man there is, as Saint John reminds us, "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" (1 John 2, 16). You are also called the temple of the Holy Spirit because, in virtue of your Immaculate Conception and your fullness of grace, He dwells within you in a most singular manner. You suffered in your soul what Jesus suffered in His body, and in union with Him you offered yourself as a victim for our sins. You were beautiful when you stood as the brave Queen of Martyrs beneath the cross of your dying Son; in the supper room beneath the fiery tongues of the Divine Spirit; beautiful, above all, in the glory in which you reign with Jesus. April 16 - 23,2023. Mary, My Mother, your Heart is the masterpiece of the Holy Trinity. We can certainly call you "Suppliant Omnipotence.". And when the days of my earthly pilgrimage are over, according to God's holy will, grant that my soul may obtain the glory of heaven, through the merits of Christ and through your intercession. The victim had to belong to the person who offered it. May I be found worthy of your frequent visits with Jesus to my heart in this life and of the invitation to come and live with You both for all eternity in heaven. 1. 2. Since God was born of you, you are the Mother of God. If to live of the Eucharist and by the Eucharist was the very special spirit of the early Church"And they continued steadfastly in the communion of the breaking of the bread" (Acts 2, 42)it must have been the summary of your last years on earth. Feast of Our Lady Mother of Sorrows - 15th Sept At that moment God began to have an Adorer who was infinite, and the world a Mediator who was all-powerful. By granting them these graces you have performed a work of the apostolate. You are the immaculate Virgin whom the Holy Spirit willed to make His bride and in whom He would work the tremendous miracle of the Incarnation. The Calendar section will present a particular feast for Our Lady for each day of the year. No apostolic act bears fruit without grace. Your divine maternity is great also because this privilege is the reason for your other privilegesyour Immaculate Conception, miraculous virginity, fullness of grace, Assumption and the spiritual maternity of all mankind. Help me to perform all my actions with youto look upon you as a model and helper. You would be hailed by all generations as blessed above all other women because you are the Mother of God and at the same time a spotless Virgin. As the heart of a mother triumphs over the just anger of a father in an earthly family so your Heart will triumph by averting the force of God's justice upon this sinful world. Mary, My Mother, I am the work of the wisdom of God together with all other creatures. John took my place on Calvary and you became, in his person, my Mother. You treasured up all the words spoken by the holy angels concerning your divine Son, as well as those pronounced by the prophetess Anna and by holy Simeon when you presented your Son in the temple, and you prudently pondered them in your heart. Your own extraordinary grace and merit, your own wondrous privileges give to your prayer an irresistible force and power. The last beat of His Heart was to be one with yours just as the first had been. It has been reproduced many times in copies and in book illustrations. Through your prayers be always my powerful helper. At the marriage feast of Cana you asked your Son to perform a miracle for the distressed bride and groom. Not only the Mother of Mexico, but of all the Americas. God has willed that by your intercession we should obtain the graces Jesus has merited for us. Save me, a poor sinner who confidently invokes your intercession, through the graces merited for me on the cross by the precious Blood of your Son. All that I am or have. You are blessed because of the fullness of grace you received; blessed, because of the greatness of the mercy to be bestowed on you; blessed, because of the Majesty of the Person who was to take flesh of you; blessed, because of the glory which would become yours. But with these joys were also mingled bitter sorrows. You permit Him to draw the hearts of men toward Himself and to be the object of our love and confidence. There you stood bravely, your eyes fastened on your Divine Son. Jesus, not satisfied with having given Himself to all mankind in the Incarnation, wished to become united with each of us in a most intimate manner by means of the Holy Eucharist, for by an unceasing act of love He gives Himself to us in each Consecration and in each Communion. Through you my own goal becomes more real, more attainable, for the lessons of your life are the doors to eternal peace and happiness. I earnestly want to be filled with the dispositions in which you expected the coming of the Savior and thus prepare myself for His coming into my soul by faith and divine charity, as well as for His coming at the hour of my death and judgment. She humbly exclaimed, "How have I deserved this happiness that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" You had a Heart of love from which in the course of time was to be formed the Sacred Heart of the loving Christ. Thus you will be for me not only the Health of the Sick but also the Gate of Heaven. How often am I confused in the problems of life. Help us to heed your message of Fatima so that by penance and prayer, especially the Rosary, we may appease the just anger of God and obtain His forgiveness and blessing. Mary, Mother of God, you are the Mother of mankind and therefore the Help of Christians, the all-powerful suppliant. From the first moment of your existence the Holy Spirit made you His temple and blessed you with the fullness of His grace. When I have pain, you are ready to comfort and strengthen me. During this long period of concealment in your womb, you perfected His bodily faculties for our benefit. When you lived in this valley of tears, you were ever loving and merciful toward the afflicted. Mary, Mother of God, humility is the virtue you especially practised from childhood. This is a great time for us to reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings that Our Blessed Mother went through. After the Ascension you found the past under another form; the consecrated Bread the Apostle John placed on your lips was Jesus, who was formed from your own flesh and with whom your body was again united. He renders it possible to give greater expression to His own love and mercy through your Heart. Bless our prayers and labors for the conversion of the world and support them by your powerful intercession with your Son, Jesus, that His Kingdom of Truth and Life, Holiness and Grace Justice. The Heart of Jesus was a suffering Heart, symbolized by the thorns encircling it, the cross above it, and the gash opened in its side. 2. If you receive me under your care, I shall fear nothing because devotion to you is an unfailing sign of salvation. And I did this, not under the sudden influence of passion, but deliberately with full knowledge of the act, of its horrible malice in the sight of God and of the terrible consequences in which it involved me. Intense love for the Infinite God withdrew your soul from this earthly life, and caused you death. The Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dec. 18The Espousals of the Virgin Mary, Jan. 23Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feb. 2Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate (Our Lady of Lourdes), Feb. 11The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Good Counsel, April 26Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, Saturday after AscensionOur Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, May 13Mary, Help of Christians, May 24Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, May 31The Queenship of Mary, May 31Mary, Virgin Mother of Grace, June 9Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 2Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 17Our Lady of the Snows, Aug. 5Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Aug. 13The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Aug. 22Our Lady, Health of the Sick, Saturday before the last Sunday in Aug.Our Lady of Consolation, Saturday after the Feast of St. Augustine (Aug. 28)Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8The Most Holy Name of Mary, Sept. 12Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 15Our Lady of Mercy (Our Lady of Ransom), Sept. 24Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 11Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Oct. 16Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nov. 21Mary, Mother of Divine Providence, Saturday before 3rd Sunday of Nov. Feast, December 8 (Novena, Nov. 29-Dec. 7). Look with pity on me for in You is my hope. except through you. Plead for us in the presence of God and provide for us those graces and blessings especially which will enable us to serve God better and save our souls. God bless. How truly can the words of Holy Scripture be applied to you: "In me is all grace of the way and of the truth: in me is all hope of life and of virtue" (Ecclus 24, 25). On Feb. 11, 2020, I was ordained a bishop and installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. JANUARY (click on the month to view in full detail) Decorate your table with colorful flowers . You were chosen as Mother predestined before all creatures, filled with all grace, all virtue, all holiness so that the Son, infinitely pure, who in Heaven has an immortal and eternal Father, on earth has a Mother exempt from all sin. Mary, Mother of God, I turn to you in all my pressing needs and difficulties as to a most sure refuge. 1. Don Luis de VelascoII, when he was Viceroy of New Spain, had as his confessor a Dominican, Fray Cristobal de Ortega, who also acted as his financial adviser. The Expectation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast, December 18 (Triduum, December 15-17 or until Christmas). By consenting to His birth, you made Him King. Jesus gave me your own dear self, His dearest possession, whom He loved so much that He, in a sense, exhausted His power to exalt you above all other creatures. Give them zeal that by prayer and sacrifice they may cooperate in the great work of the Redemption. It is the will of God that His aid should reach me through your heart, because you are my Mother, and motherliness means willingness to help. The word compassion derives from the Latin roots cum and patior which means "to suffer with." It is impossible for any one to perish who sincerely and humbly cultivates devotion to you. Crowds reach the entry gate to the basilica grounds for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Mary, My Mother, I wish to offer myself as a sacrifice to God in union with Jesus and through your hands. Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2021 - Archbishop Gomez How much more compassionate are you now since you reign happily in Heaven? I believe that all graces, all heavenly blessings descend from Jesusas from the Headby means of youas the neckto the body of the Church. The Feast of Our Lady of Palestine was established in 1927 by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, . When the Angel Gabriel came as a messenger from God, it was not only to ask your consent to become the Mother of the Son of God, but also to treat with you of the salvation of the human race, of the birth of the Savior of the world, of the regeneration of mankind and the setting up of an everlasting kingdom. Mary, My Mother, to conceal the miraculous conception and birth of His Divine Son, the Eternal Father inspired Joseph to marry you before the annunciation by the archangel Gabriel. Mary, My Mother, I thank you for having suffered and wept for love of me that you might become my consolation in affliction. God, having once given us Jesus Christ by you, Holy Virgin, does not change His way of blessing us with His gifts.