TO LOVE JESUS IS TO LOVE MARY....

When I receive the body and blood of Our Lord Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist; I cannot help but admire his mother, for her surrender to God was total. She gave her very flesh, the flesh that became Jesus in her womb.The child that she loved and nurtured, disciplined and shed tears over.
Because her giving was without reserve, she accepted God's will as it unfolded for her; always mindful of the prophecies foretold concerning the humiliating and shameful death her son would suffer for the salvation of the world ~ "pondering these things in her heart".
Thank you mother, whose charity for God and man is so great, you reserved nothing for yourself, suffering even the human loss of your son for our sake.

PHOTO:Fresco of the lower church in the basilica di san Francisco Assisi ~ deposition from the cross by Pietro Lorenzetti.

O EXALTED QUEEN OF HEAVEN....

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary

The main principle on which the ROYAL DIGNITY of Mary rests, is in her Divine Mother hood.
For example, In (Luke 1: 31-32) Elizabeth calls her "The Mother of my Lord". This indicates, Mary as Queen, since she bore Jesus, whose sovereignty we do not doubt; because at the moment of his Conception, by the "hypostatic union" - (that is the human nature as one with the Divine) Jesus is both man and King of all things.

Mary as Mother of the Divine Christ shares in a limited way, His ROYAL DIGNITY because she enters his struggle with his enemies, and thereby his final victory over them. (We find in Revelations 12 mention of the woman clothed with the sun, and in the pangs of childbirth ~ the "dragon" awaits to eat the child as soon as it is born. She is "delivered of a boy" who is taken up to God and His throne. Hereafter a great battle ensues in heaven, and this battle continues, until all his enemies are put under his feet)
Mary aids in this fight, by way of her unique role. She is Mother of Jesus, and mother of all men and women, as Jesus gave her to us (symbolised by John the Evangelist) at the foot of the cross..."Seeing his Mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to His mother "Woman this is your Son." and to the disciple He said " This is your Mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home." (John 19:25-27)

Pope Pius the X11 published an encyclical letter, Ad Caeli Reginam on the Royal Dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her feast was instituted on October 11th 1954.

(Imprimature for this prayer; Joseph Schrembe D.D. Bishop of Cleveland Ohio.

PROPHECY IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN....

PHOTO: Father George Mary Roth speaks on Padre Pio's 50th anniversary at Pantasaph, Wales.

"In the Garden of Eden God said to Satan that a woman will crush his head...
Between her seed and thy seed she shall crush thy head and thou shalt
lie in wait for her heel."
The woman and her seed, (which is Mary and Jesus, and all who follow Him), will crush the head of Satan.
Satan being an angel, and many, many, centuries old knows how to outwit us...So we must stay close to our Mother - Our Lady; with rosaries in hand as she asked of us at Fatima. For she knew that the 2oth century would be the most evil of all the centuries."
(Paraphrased from "Conversion of hearts through the Immacculate Heart of Mary" by Father George Mary Roth, Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.)
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"In the Garden of Eden God said to Satan that a woman will crush his head...Between her seed and thy seed she shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel."
The woman and her seed, which is Mary and Jesus, (and all who follow Him), will crush the head of Satan.
Satan being an angel, and many, many, centuries old knows how to outwit us...So we must stay close to our Mother - Our Lady; with rosaries in hand as she asked at Fatma. For she knew that the 2oth century would be the most evil of all the centuries."
(Paraphrased from "Conversion of hearts through the Immacculate Heart of Mary" by Father George Mary Roth, Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.)

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Jesus told us to "Honour thy father and thy Mother" I am sure He would be pleased if we honour His most worthy mum! Each post is small spiritual flower ~ Come and have a stroll through this scented garden and gather a whole bouquet!
PHOTO: miraculous image of the mother of God, heavenly, triumphant queen of Schonstatt ~ with a frame of added flowers!
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All bible quotes are taken from the "New Jerusalem Bible, ISBN:0-232-52077-1