All Souls

 [Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory, Circle of Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian (Cuzco), 1611-1681]
For the Souls in Purgatory
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
give eternal rest to the poor souls.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
[From:  Favorite Prayers to Our Lady, by Anthony M. Buono]

Our Lady of the Rosary

 
 
 
Mary has asked us over and over to pray the Rosary every day.
 
Isn’t it time, now? 
 
She asks so little of us, and she gives so much.

Our Lady of Mercy (Ransom)

In my reference book, Dictionary of Mary, it states that the feast of Our Lady of Mercy (also known as Our Lady of Ransom), was linked to a devotion spread by the Order of Mercedarians.
The Mercedarians were a congregation of men founded in 1218 by St. Peter Nolasco. Along with caring for the sick in [...]

Our Lady of Sorrows

Excerpt from, “The Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life”, by Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (pg. 189):
From the moment when Simeon foretold the Passion – already so clearly prophesied by Isaias – and her compassion, she offered and did not cease to offer Him Who would be Priest and Victim, and herself in union [...]

The Holy Name of Mary

Yesterday was the feastday of The Holy Name of Mary.  I was reading St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Hail Holy Queen!, Chapter Ten of which is dedicated to the “sweetness of the name of Mary”. The chapter is filled with the thoughts of many saints and other holy people on this subject, and I share some of [...]

The Birth of Mary

The Lord gave her [St. Anne] to understand that she should treat her child exteriorly as a mother treats her daughter, but that she should preserve interiorly the respect due to her dignity. The Angels venerated her as their Queen, in the arms of her mother, and those who were appointed as her guardians rendered [...]

Memorial of the Queenship of Mary

Sing, Sing, Ye Angel Bands
Sing, sing, ye Angel Bands,
All beautiful and bright;
For higher still and higher,
Thru fields of starry light,
Mary, your Queen, Ascends, Ascends,
Like the sweet moon at night.
Oh happy angels! look,
How beautiful she is!
See! Jesus bears her up,
Her hand is locked in His;
Oh, who can tell the height, the height,
Of that fair Mother’s bliss?
And [...]

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Today was easily one of the best days of my life.  Yesterday I finished my 33-day preparation for my second annual renewal of my consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  I also took some time to myself to pray the 33 meditations (short prayers to the Immaculate Heart of Mary) all over again, though I [...]

Feastday of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

 

 Do you know:

what Our Lady has promised to those who are wearing the Brown Scapular at the moment of their death?
what Mother Mary has promised to those who are enrolled in the Confraternity of the Brown Scapular?

how to be clothed in the Blessed Virgin’s virtue?

how to be protected by Our Lady?
Father Angelo tells us in [...]

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Truly unfortunate are we poor children of Eve; for, guilty before God of her fault, and condemned to the same penalty, we have to wander about in this valley of tears as exiles from our country, and to weep over our many afflictions of body and soul.  But blessed is he who, in the midst [...]