Mary Mother of God

Mary and the Holy Spirit O Mary, my good Mother, faithful Spouse of the Holy Spirit, deign to obtain for me from our God of Love all His Ardour and Light. Do place my poor soul in His divine flames, that He may consume it of His love, awaken its faith and fulfill its hope. Do grant me also, an inviolable faithfulness to the impulses of grace and to His divine operations. O Holy Spirit, through Mary's intercession, I confide myself to your purifying and sanctifying love ! May you dwell alone in me with the Father and the Son. Humble servant of the Lord, God has placed his faith in you. Blessed are you, admirable Virgin! Mother of the Savior Jesus, generous among all women, blessed are you, Virgin is so good! Mary, faithful and poor, The Lord finds his joy in you. Blessed are you, Virgin worthy of praise!

This novena presents a profound opportunity for us to pray that Jesus may give us the Grace to be more and more like His mother and thus come closer to Him through His Immaculate Mother.   Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary -Day 1 Join in praying the Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Immaculate Virgin, by the holy will of your Son my Lord Jesus Christ, you are my Mother in Heaven. Your Immaculate Heart is full of love, mercy and compassion for sinners like me. I ask that you intercede for me today for… (mention your prayer intentions) I trust in your intercession before the throne of God for my needs. Please pray also that if my requests are not in accordance with the will of God, that I may be, like you, conformed to His will and not my own. Hail Mary…Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pray for us! Amen. Act of Consecration– by Pope Pius XII Holy Virgin Mary, tender Mother of men, to fulfill the desires of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the request of the Vicar of Your...

The Catholic Church celebrates today the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne. The circumstances of the Virgin Mary's infancy and early life are not directly recorded in the Bible, but other documents and traditions describing the circumstances of her birth are cited by some of the earliest Christian writers from the first centuries of the Church. These accounts, although not considered authoritative in the same manner as the Bible, outline some of the Church's traditional beliefs about the birth of Mary. The “Protoevangelium of James,” which was probably put into its final written form in the early second century, describes Mary's father Joachim as a wealthy member of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Joachim was deeply grieved, along with his wife Anne, by their childlessness. “He called to mind Abraham,” the early C...

THE LITANY OF OUR LADY OF HOPE. Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy, Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Our Lady of hope, pray for us. Our Lady of the way, pray for us. Our Lady of light, pray for us. Fullness of Israel, pray for us. Prophecy of the new age, pray for us. Dawn of the new world, pray for us. Mother of God, pray for us. Mother of the liberating Messiah, pray for us. Mother of the redeemed, pray for us. Mother of all people, Pray for us. Our Lady of hope,  light up our way.  Virgin of silence, pray for us. Virgin who listens, pray for us. Virgin who sings, pray for us. Servant of the Lord, pray for us. Servant of the Word, pray for us. Servant of the redemption, pray for us. Servant of the kingdom, pray for us. Our Lady of hope,  light up our way.  Disciple of Christ, pray for us. Witness of the gospel, pray for us. Sister of humanity, pray for us. Beginning of the Church, pray for us. Mother of the Church, pray fo...

Mary is truly our Mother of tender compassion, our "Mother of Mercy." If we look at the life and writings of St. Maria Faustina, we can find at least four ways in which Mary can be truly called the merciful Mother of Christians, and of every soul searching for God. I. First of all, Mary is Mother of Mercy because, through her Immaculate Conception, God fashioned her to be the created masterpiece of his mercy in the world. After all, what is Divine Mercy? It is God's undeserved, unmerited, often even unsought for divine grace — the grace that our compassionate God pours out upon us to help us overcome our miseries and meet our true needs. Theologians call one form of that mercy God's "prevenient" grace, from the Latin  prae-venire , which means "to come before." In other words, even before we ask for it, and quite apart from the fact that we do not deserve it, and have not earned it in the least, God graciously takes the initiative and comes to our ...

FRANCIS MPEKASAMBO wrote: How can a Catholic Cathedral have art like this like we have at the Notre Dame Cathedral? An Adventist friend just asked me this afternoon...... Answer: Because most of the Medieval Europeans we're illiterate, the clergy needed visual representation of the horrors of hell to drive people to the sanctuary of the church. Placing gargoyles on the building's exterior reinforced the idea that evil dwelt outside the church, while salvation dwelt within GARGOYLES are considered “guard dogs” in pre medieval times in Europe and later on sculptures of gargoyles are placed in front or atop properties to ward off evil spirits from entering such properties like palaces or homes.Some experts believe they werepopular on churches because of the widespread belief that they protected against evil spirits. These are what people call "gargoyles":  fantastic, demonic figures that often were used on the outside of a lot of churches and cathedrals in the Middle Age...