SATURDAY OF OUR LADY

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PRAYER TO THE SORROWFUL AND

 IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, dwelling pure and holy, cover my soul with your maternal protection so that being ever faithful to the voice of Jesus, it responds to His love and obeys His Divine Will.

O, my Mother, keep me close to you every moment of my life. Obtain for me true sorrow for my sins. Obtain for me also a spirit of prayer and self denial that I may recover by penance what I have lost by sin. Keep me always in the love of your Divine Son, Jesus.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!

Amen.

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS

SATURDAY OF OUR LADY

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PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS

Our mother of sorrows, with strength from above you stood by the cross, sharing in the sufferings of Jesus, and with tender care you bore him in your arms, mourning and weeping. 

We praise you for your faith, which accepted the life God planned for you.  We praise you for your hope, which trusted that God would do great things in you.  We praise you for your love in bearing with Jesus the sorrows of his passion.

Holy Mary, may we follow your example, and stand by all your children who need comfort and love.

Mother of God, stand by us in our trials and care for us in our many needs.  Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Amen!

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS  

From a sermon by Saint Bernard, abbot


His mother stood by the cross


The martyrdom of the Virgin is set forth both in the prophecy of Simeon and in the actual story of our Lord’s passion. The holy old man said of the infant Jesus: He has been established as a sign which will be contradicted. He went on to say to Mary: And your own heart will be pierced by a sword.

Truly, O blessed Mother, a sword has pierced your heart. For only by passing through your heart could the sword enter the flesh of your Son. Indeed, after your Jesus—who belongs to everyone, but is especially yours—gave up his life, the cruel spear, which was not withheld from his lifeless body, tore open his side. Clearly it did not touch his soul and could not harm him, but it did pierce your heart. For surely his soul was no longer there, but yours could not be torn away. Thus the violence of sorrow has cut through your heart, and we rightly call you more than martyr, since the effect of compassion in you has gone beyond the endurance of physical suffering.

Or were those words, Woman, behold your Son, not more than a word to you, truly piercing your heart, cutting through to the division between soul and spirit? What an exchange! John is given to you in place of Jesus, the servant in place of the Lord, the disciple in place of the master; the son of Zebedee replaces the Son of God, a mere man replaces God himself. How could these words not pierce your most loving heart, when the mere remembrance of them breaks ours, hearts of iron and stone though they are!

Do not be surprised, brothers, that Mary is said to be a martyr in spirit. Let him be surprised who does not remember the words of Paul, that one of the greatest crimes of the Gentiles was that they were without love. That was far from the heart of Mary; let it be far from her servants.

Perhaps someone will say: “Had she not known before that he would not die?” Undoubtedly. “Did she not expect him to rise again at once?” Surely. “And still she grieved over her crucified Son?” Intensely. Who are you and what is the source of your wisdom that you are more surprised at the compassion of Mary than at the passion of Mary’s Son? For if he could die in body, could she not die with him in spirit? He died in body through a love greater than anyone had known. She died in spirit through a love unlike any other since his.






Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, ocds

OUR LADY OF SORROWS

I recently returned from my pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. I remembered all of the readers of Spirit Singing in my prayers at Our Lady's Shrine.  I'll share some pictures of the shrine in the coming days.

SEVEN SORROWS OF OUR LADY

The Prophecy of Simeon over the Infant Jesus. (Gospel of Luke 2:34)

The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family. (Gospel of Matthew 2:13)

The Loss of the Child Jesus for Three Days. (Luke 2:43)

The Meeting of Jesus and Mary along the Way of the Cross. (Luke 23:26)

The Crucifixion, where Mary stands at the foot of the cross. (Gospel of John 19:25)

The Descent from the Cross, where Mary receives the dead body of Jesus in her arms. (Matthew 27:57)

The Burial of Jesus. (John 19:40)

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Peace be with you!
Rosemarie,ocds
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Holy Saturday

Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows

MOST HOLY and afflicted Virgin,

Queen of Martyrs,

You stood beneath the Cross,

Witnessing the agony of your dying Son.

Look down with a mother’s tenderness

And have pity on me,

Who kneels before you to venerate your

Sufferings and to place my request

With filial confidence in the sanctuary

Of your wounded heart.

Present them, I beseech you,

On my behalf, to Jesus Christ,

Through the merits of his own

Most sacred Passion and Death,

Together with your sufferings

At the foot of the Cross;

And through the united efficacy of both,

Obtain the grant of my present petition.

To whom shall I have recourse

In my wants and miseries

If not to you, O Mother of Mercy,

Who, having so deeply drunk

Of the chalice of your Son,

An console with the sorrows

Of those who still sigh in the land of exile?

O Holy Mary,

Whose soul was pierced by a sword of sorrow

At the sight of the Passion

Of your Divine Son,

Intercede for me and obtain for me from Jesus

(mention the request)

If it be for His Honor and Glory

And the good of my soul.

Amen.

Litany of Our Lady of Sorrows

By Pope Pius VII

 

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

God, the Father of heaven, Have mercy on us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us.

God the Holy Spirit, Have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us.

Holy Virgin of virgins, Pray for us.

Mother of the Crucified, Pray for us.

Sorrowful Mother Pray for us.

Mournful Mother Pray for us.

Sighing Mother Pray for us.

Afflicted Mother Pray for us.

Foresaken Mother Pray for us.

Desolate Mother Pray for us.

Mother most sad Pray for us.

Mother set around with anguish Pray for us.

Mother overwhelmed by grief Pray for us.

Mother transfixed by a sword Pray for us.

Mother crucified in thy heart Pray for us.

Mother bereaved of thy Son Pray for us.

Sighing Dove Pray for us.

Mother of Dolors Pray for us.

Fount of tears Pray for us.

Sea of bitterness Pray for us.

Field of tribulation Pray for us.

Mass of suffering Pray for us.

Mirror of patience Pray for us.

Rock of constancy Pray for us.

Remedy in perplexity Pray for us.

Joy of the afflicted Pray for us.

Ark of the desolate Pray for us.

Refuge of the abandoned Pray for us.

Shield of the oppressed Pray for us.

Conqueror of the incredulous Pray for us.

Solace of the wretched Pray for us.

Medicine of the sick Pray for us.

Help of the faint Pray for us.

Strength of the weak Pray for us.

Protectress of those who fight Pray for us.

Haven of the shipwrecked Pray for us.

Calmer of tempests Pray for us.

Companion of the sorrowful Pray for us.

Retreat of those who groan Pray for us.

Terror of the treacherous Pray for us.

Standard-bearer of the Martyrs Pray for us.

Treasure of the Faithful Pray for us.

Light of Confessors Pray for us.

Pearl of Virgins Pray for us.

Comfort of Widows Pray for us.

Joy of all Saints Pray for us.

Queen of thy Servants Pray for us.

Holy Mary, who alone art unexampled Pray for us.

 

Pray for us, most Sorrowful Virgin, That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.

 

O God, in whose Passion,

According to the prophecy of Simeon,

A sword of grief pierced through

The most sweet soul

Of Thy glorious Blessed Virgin Mother Mary:

Grant that we, who celebrate

The memory of her Seven Sorrows,

May obtain the happy effect of Thy Passion,

Who lives and reigns world without end.

Amen.

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie

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Saturday of Our Lady

Chaplet of Our Mother of Sorrows

Our Lady of Fatima asked the children of Fatima to pray, make sacrifices and do penance to console the Hearts of Jesus and Mary who are greatly offended. Praying the Chaplet of Our Lady of Sorrows is one way in which we can console the Heart of Our Lady.

Peace be with you~
Rosemarie, ocds
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Tabernacle of the week

Our Lady of Consolation Shrine

Carey, Ohio

Side Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Prayer for a Happy Death

O Mary, my good Mother, after Jesus you are my hope and consolation. By your protection make me persevere in my firm determination to offend God no more and to prefer a thousand deaths to the deliberate commission of one mortal sin! Obtain for me the grace of final perseverance, and grant that I may remember to ask for it during the time of temptation at the hour of death. You are the refuge of sinners and our perennial help. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for me.

O Mother of Jesus, I offer you the last day, last hour and last moment of my life, and everything that shall take place in me at that last moment--in honor of the last moment, hour and day of your life, and of all that occurred in you on that day. If it pleases you, unite me with all the holy and divine dispositions of your maternal heart and your pure soul. Grant that, by your merits and prayers, my last thoughts, words, acts and breaths may be consecrated to the honor of the last thoughts, words, acts and breaths both of your Son and of yourself. Grant that I may die loving him with his holy love; that I may be utterly consumed and sacrificed to his glory; that my life may end with a last act of most pure love of him.

Prayer of St. John Eudes

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

Saturday of Our Lady

Our Lady of Sorrows

The Blessed Virgin Mary grants seven graces to the souls who honor her daily by meditating on her tears and dolors (sorrows). The Hail Mary is prayed seven times , once after each meditation. This devotion was passed on by St. Bridget.

The Seven Graces:

1. I will grant peace to their families.

2. They will be enlightened by the divine mysteries.

3. I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.

4. I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.

5. I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.

6. I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.

7. I have obtained (This Grace) from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all of their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

The Seven Sorrows:

1. The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:34,35)

2. The flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13-14)

3. The loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple. (Luke 2:43-45)

4. The meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross

5. The Crucifixion

6. The taking down of the body of Jesus from the Cross

7. The burial of Jesus

The Hail Mary: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of they womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Sorrowful Mother Shrine-Bellevue, Ohio

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Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, ocds