Saturday, August 22, 2020

August 22 - The Immaculate Heart of Mary

 "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge, 

and the path that will lead you to God!"

~ Our Lady's words to Lucia 

 

 
 

A  beautiful devotion for anyone who might want to offer extra reparation, especially on Our Lady's feasts:

 

Chaplet of Praise to Mary as An Act of Reparation      

(prayed on ordinary Rosary beads)

 

Introductory Prayer

Mary, my Immaculate Mother, I desire to offer thee reparation for the offenses which thine Immaculate Heart receives from the horrible blasphemies which are uttered against thee. I offer thee these praises to console thee for so many ungrateful children who do not love thee, and to console the Heart of thy Divine Son Who is so deeply offended by the insults offered to thee.
Receive, my purest Mother, this little act of homage. Make me love thee more each day and look with pity on those blasphemers that they may not delay to cast themselves into thy maternal arms. Amen.

 On each single bead, say the following aspiration

 Grant that I may praise thee, O Holy Virgin!                                                                                                                     Give me strength against thine enemies. 

On each of the 10 beads say:

  1. Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy!
  2. Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception!
  3. Blessed be her Glorious Assumption!
  4. Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother!
  5. Blessed be her Immaculate Heart!
  6. Blessed be her Virginal Purity!
  7. Blessed be her Divine Maternity!
  8. Blessed be her Universal Mediation!
  9. Blessed be her Sorrows and her tears!
10. Blessed be the graces with which the Lord crowned her Queen of Heaven and Earth!

After each decade:

 Glory be to Mary, Daughter of the Father! 
     Glory be to Mary, Mother of the Son! 
         Glory be to Mary, Spouse of the Holy Ghost!

My Mother, I love thee for those who do not love thee;
     I praise thee for those who blaspheme thee;
          I surrender myself to thee for those who will not recognize thee as their Mother 

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 The above praises were published in Peru with the Imprimatur of the 

Archbishop of Lima on October 26, 1953.


Tuesday, May 19, 2020

More Shrines!




The Heaton's decided to change their shrine, making it look more like a grotto!  Beautiful!

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Home Shrines for Our Lady

Shrine #7 - this is the shrine in Sr. Vianney's room at the convent.  You may not be able to tell, but the hands of Our Lady are missing!  The statue is from my 1st Holy Communion, and the hands broke many years ago.  It reminds me that I am supposed to be  Mary's hands in the world today.  And those other two statues ...they are my guardian angel and St. John Vianney.  :-)


Shrine #6 - The Convent shrine just outside our chapel



Shrine #5 - The Drahman family outdoor shrine...such pretty flowers!



Shrine #4 - from Rachel and Lola - Our Lady, Star of the Sea!"


 Shrine #3 - from Amy


 
Shrine #2 - from Kaila, Mari and Christiana


Here is the first picture of a home May shrine ... thanks to Natalie for sending it in.  Hope to see a few others soon!  God bless you.

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Saturday, May 2, 2020

May all who see me, see Thee, O Mary!

During the month of May, we have decided to...

     1) Make a shrine in our home/room
     2) Make a small bulletin board at the Mount 
         that people can add flowers and messages to.
     3) Work on growing in Mary's virtues.  
            ** Together we will work on the virtue of continual prayer, praying the Little Crown daily for the intention of an end to the "stay at home" soon in Spokane.
            ** Individually, we will each choose another of Our Lady's virtues to work on. For ideas, click on the links below the list of virtues.

The Ten Principal Virtues of Mary

1. Her profound humility
2. Her lively faith
3. Her blind obedience
4. Her continual prayer
5. Her universal mortification
6. Her divine purity
7. Her ardent charity
8. Her heroic patience
9. Her angelic sweetness
10. Her divine wisdom