SATURDAY OF OUR LADY

The Sixth Decade Rosary
The Carmelite Rosary (Brigittine Rosary)

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Shrine: Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted
Youngstown, Ohio

The crowned Virgin at Lourdes, France wears a six-decade Rosary. There is a tradition in this region of France to pray this six-decade Rosary. The extra decade is to be recited on behalf of the Souls in Purgatory or in honour of the Immaculate Conception

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Crowned Virgin  Lourdes, France

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Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites 2012 Pilgrimage to Spain

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CARMELITE NUNS

Carmelite Monastery of the Holy Spirit

Ormiston Australia

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TABERNACLES

St. Teresa of Avila Church

Sheffield Lake, Ohio

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Saturday of Our Lady

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Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Grafton, Ohio

At the dawn of creation the eyes of God rested with satisfaction on the universe he had created. At a second moment he looked with pleasure on the soul of Mary as he was about to recreate a fallen world. So fresh, unsullied, so unsurpassingly beautiful she was. He smiled on the loveliest creature that his creative love had fashioned; he saw that she was good.

Her soul was a meeting-place. Here was goodness, for she was full of grace; here was beauty, for she was all-beautiful; here was truth, for here was the Word in her womb, the source of all truth. No wonder he found delight in her.
An excerpt from Pilgrims with Mary by John Moloney PP






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Stained Glass Flowers-Little Accounts of the Miraculous



Photo: R. Massaro St. Teresa of Avila Church Sheffield Lake, Ohio

 From the life of St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila):

While at the Incarnation in the second year that I was prioress, on the octave of the feast of St. Martin, when I was receiving Communion, Father John of the Cross who was giving me the Blessed Sacrament broke the host to provide for another Sister. I thought there was no lack of hosts but that he wanted to mortify me...His Majesty said to me: "Don't fear, daughter, for no one will be a party to separating you from Me." making me thereby understand that what just happened didn't matter. Then He appeared to me in an imaginative vision, as at other times, very interiorly, and He gave me His right hand and said: "Behold this nail; it is a sign you will be My bride from today on. Until now you have not merited this; from now on not only will you look after My honor as being the honor of your Creator, King, and God, but you will look after it as My true bride. My honor is yours, and yours Mine." This favor produced such an effect in me I couldn't contain myself, and I remained as though entranced...Throughout the whole day I remained thus very absorbed. Afterward I felt great pain, and greater confusion and affliction at seeing I don't render any service in exchange for such amazing favors.
Spiritual Testimonies, No. 31

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Carmelite Quote

ST. TERESA MARGARET REDI OF THE SACRED HEART:

To possess ourselves of Holy Love, we must call to mind the presence of God and place ourselves in that presence; just as one in the world loving some one of the world often has him in his thoughts, so we must frequently remind ourselves that God is always present, and that He always has us in His thoughts for our good and happiness. In loving, one must render love for love; therefore, if God has loved us always and so much, regardless of our merit what must we, who have been loved, do to requite Him for His love? We must make ourselves like unto Jesus in humility, kindness, sweetness...




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