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Day #18: My MiseriesTHE SOUL: At your feet, O Mary, I want to consider once again the miseries of my nothingness in order to appreciate better the solemn renunciation which I made in holy Baptism. (more…) |
Day #17: The Passions and the FleshMARY: The demon penetrates into you by means of the passions and, (more…) |
Day #16: Renouncing the DemonTHE SOUL: I know that in holy Baptism I renounced the demon and I?m happy with that renunciation. (more…) |
Day #15: The Spirit of Jesus ChristMARY: Opposed to the spirit of the world, which is a mass of duplicity, resentment, struggles, presumption and degradation, is the spirit of Jesus Christ, (more…) |
Day #14: The Spirit of the WorldMARY: You live in the world and you cannot withdraw yourself from it materially, but you must be there |
Day #13: Holy BaptismMARY: The grace of God has enriched you from your birth. (more…) |
Day #12: The Channels of GraceMARY: In his mercy God did not want to make the flow of his grace to you difficult and he gave you a channel through which you can enrich yourself with it in the holy sacraments. (more…) |
Day #11: Mary’s GraceTHE SOUL: Hail, O Mary, full of grace! … From the wretched earth where I am, I raise up my glance to you to admire you (more…) |
Day #3: My TemperamentTHE SOUL: In order to reform my heart I must study it intimately as it is, my good Mother. I look at it and I seem to see there a mass of confusion which doesn?t allow me to see it clearly. How full I am of darkness! You tell me what my temperament is, that is the fundamental character of my heart. MARY: The temperament is the sum of the constant tendencies of the heart which propel it to act in the same way. You know your temperament from the defects into which you most often fall, from the spontaneous acts of your heart, from your habits … Are you very easily given to anger, … do you get disturbed over nothing, do you react, show yourself offended? … Are you closed, taciturn, leaden; do you build so many castles in the air? … Are you insensitive, hard, egotistical, obstinate in your judgments? … Are you lazy, indolent, slow, negligent, pessimistic? … Do you see everything black and think that everyone is against you? Do you give too much weight to a word that innocently escapes from another and construe it to be an insinuation, an injury, a resentment? Do you easily hold a grudge, show resentment in small ways, react violently, backbite, grumble and even lie and calumniate? … Are you proud, full of yourself, vain, desirous of being admired, praised, given special consideration? … Are you greedy, attached to earthly things? Are you always looking for entertainment, ruminating about worldly ideals, hankering after your satisfactions, seeking after your tastes, complaining about your food, drink and clothing? … Examine yourself and where you perceive major lacks there you will discover your temperament and there is the field where you must exert more effort. It isn?t difficult to amend your ways; start a little at a time; begin to conquer yourself at least a few times every day ASPIRATION: O Mary, deliver me from the wretchedness of my character … from anger, from impatience … LITTLE WORK: If it seems that a person who has offended you deserves to be reproved, don?t do it when you are still in a fit of anger, but wait until tomorrow to correct him. About the Meditations
The daily School of Mary meditations come from the book, A Month with Mary. To obtain a copy of this or other books published by the Academy of the Immaculate, visit our on-line bookstore at http://www.marymediatrix.com/bookstore/academy Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Here is the second one for today. From this point forward their will be on each day for the month of May.
Day #2: My Heart and the Heart of MaryMARY: My little daughter, your mother is calling you and showing you what distinguishes her as Mother: the Heart! Draw near to my Heart, kiss it, and experience how burning is its love for you! God has submerged his mercies in it and wants it to be the center of regeneration for those children whom he has entrusted to me. You are my daughter and so entrust yourself to the Heart of your Mother who loves you so much. THE SOUL: If you show me your Heart, Mary, I will also show you mine! How much smallness there is in my little heart! You are immaculate and pure, the delight of God and I am full of imperfections and faults! You love God immensely and I am so cold toward Him! You are so full of gifts and graces and I am your little poor one! … O my Mother, I place my heart in yours; work on it; lift it up into the holy love of God … reform it! It?s so ugly … even if I don?t really know it yet because I?m so blinded by pride … Tear the secrets from this heart; curtail its self-deceptions with your light; adorn it with virtues by the help of your grace so that I can truly call myself your child. MARY: If you want to know your heart, measure it against mine. Don?t believe that all is evil within you nor ASPIRATION: O Heart of Mary, be my model and the refuge of my poor heart. LITTLE WORK: Deprive yourself of something superfluous to which you feel attached. About the Meditations
The daily School of Mary meditations come from the book, A Month with Mary, written by a holy Italian priest Father Dolindo Ruotolo (1882-1970). Originally written as spiritual thoughts to his spiritual daughter, the work is comprised of thirty-one meditations for the month of May. Father Dolindo wrote A Month with Mary on pocket-sized pages joined into small fascicles of 8 to 12 pages. He sent them to Laura de Rosis every two to three days and later transcribed them with some modifications in volume III of his autobiography: The Story of My Life in the Plan of the Great Mercy of God, pp. 1140ff (cf. Epistolario 1:212n, 218n). This work is from 1912: one of those years which passed in the life of Father Dolindo with the cadence of a “Way of the Cross” … But he, serene as ever, loved Christ the more, loved Our Lady the more and reflected on this love in these few pages to which he wished to give the significant title: A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary. These meditations are written in the style of the Imitation of Christ. (90pp. laminated gloss, saddle stitch) To obtain a copy of A Month with Mary or other books published by the Academy of the Immaculate, visit our on-line bookstore at http://www.marymediatrix.com/bookstore/academy Ave Maria! |
One Minute Meditation
Usefulness of Devotion to Mary for Sanctification One of the most excellent means of salvation, devotion to Mary, is also the surest, the easiest, and the shortest way to perfection. That statement is generally accepted in the spiritual realm today and finds a striking confirmation in experience. Pope Pius X teaches it ex professo in his Encyclical Ad diem ilium of February 2, 1904, in which he encourages the faithful to practice devotion to Mary as the most excellent means “to restore all things in Christ,” according to the motto he had adopted. “For can anyone fail to see” he writes, that there is no surer or more direct road than Mary for uniting all mankind in Christ and obtaining through Him the perfect adoption of sons, that we may be holy and immaculate in the sight of God? .. the Son of God made man, being the ‘author and consummator of our faith’; it surely follows that His most holy Mother should be recognized as participating in the divine mysteries and, in a sense, having custody over them; and that the edifice of the Faith of all centuries rises upon her (as upon a foundation) who is the noblest after Christ…since Divine Providence has been pleased that we should have the Man-God through Mary, who conceived Him by the Holy Ghost and bore Him [at] her breast, it only remains for us to receive Christ from the hands of Mary…no one ever knew Christ so profoundly as she did, and no one can ever be more competent as a guide and teacher of the knowledge of Christ …. Hence it follows … that the Virgin is more powerful than all others as a means for uniting mankind with Christ. She provides the most sure and efficacious assistance to us for arriving at the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ. Alas! Those seduced by the wiles of the demon or deceived by false doctrines, furnish us with peremptory proof of it by their conduct, thinking they can do without the help of the Virgin. Hapless are they who neglect Mary under pretext of the honor to be paid to Jesus Christ! As if the Child could be found elsewhere than with the Mother! Fr. Emile Neubert SM (Devotion to Mary) |
MaryCast Specials #93 ( To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria! Friar Gabriel Cortes of the Franciscans of the Immaculate relates his journey in faith that led to his ministry with youth in Australia. He first talks about his early life, how he started to get serious about his faith and his calling to the Franciscans. He mentions the devotion of his parents, the rosary and Eucharistic adoration as factors in his conversion. Ave Maria! +++ |
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