Mary Vitamin

Ave Maria!

This is the first posting of?the Mary Vitamin which we will post from time to time. Mary Vitamin is a daily email support for Marian mental prayer. Each day (Monday through Friday) members will receive a brief Marian quote with a corresponding Marian meditation and resolution. The Mary Vitamin is designed to make mental prayer a little simpler and bring Our Lady into your day in a systematic way.

Mary Vitamin for September 14th

Topic: Our Lady of Sorrows (September 15th)

Quote:
St. Alphonsus di Liguori
??Thus Mary not only offered her Son to death in the Temple, but she renewed that offering every moment of her life; for she revealed to St. Bridget “that the sorrow announced to her by the holy Simeon never left her heart until her assumption into heaven.????
St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books), 400.

Meditation:
St. John Eudes??With much reason we may call Mary’s most holy heart the center of the Cross though which salvation came to us. The profundity of Mary’s love did not prevent her from experiencing most poignant sorrows. Saint Albert the Great, Saint Bernardine and many other saints affirm that Our Lady would have died of sorrow at the foot of the Cross had not divine power imparted to her extraordinary strength as she shared the passion of her beloved son. Hence the Fathers of the Church consider her to have been in truth a martyr and more. Many doctors boldly proclaim that Mary suffered more than the combined sufferings of all martyrs. No one ever could or ever can understand the depths of the sorrow of her most loving heart.??
The Admirable Heart of Mary, (Loreto Publications: 2004), 267

Resolution:
St. John Eudes recommends
??Now if you would derive benefit from these thoughts of Our Lady’s heart considered as the center of the Cross of Christ and as Queen of martyrs, you must not doubt the great love of her heart for the countless souls who are crucified in this life. It will be most pleasing to her if you will remember to commend to her special protection all afflicted persons everywhere???? (268)

Today, in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows, I will offer an extra Hail Mary for persecuted Christians throughout the world.

Marian Vow:
St. John Eudes
??Offer to Mary all your own pains of mind and body, begging her to offer them to her Crucified son, uniting your tiny crosses to the tremendous crosses, for the Glory of God.?? (268)

I give my resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

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