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Immaculate Conception (Dec.

8th)

Blessed Virgin Mary

I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. The Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in the womb of Her mother St. Annes without original sin. The Birth of Mary (Sept. 8th) until the time when she who is to give birth has borne Presentation of Mary in the Temple (Nov. 21st)- Mary was three years old when She gave Herself to God.

Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary & Incarnation of Jesus (March 25th)
Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word.

Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Her cousin Elizabeth (May 31st)
Who am I that the Mother of my Lord has come to me. Blessed are you among women. My soul magnifies the Lord -- Marys Magnificat

Marriage of the Virgin Mary to St. Joseph The Birth of Jesus (Dec. 25th) Miraculous Birth- She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger. Epiphany (Jan. 6th or 2nd Sunday after Christmas ) The Wise Men visit the newborn Christ Child Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Feb. 2nd) And your heart shall be pierced Flight into Egypt -Rise and take the child and His Mother into Egypt. The Finding of Jesus in the Temple - Your father and I have been sorrowing. Mary, the Mother of God (Jan. 1st) Mary, Perpetual Virgin Wedding Feast of Cana -Woman was it to you and to me? Do whatever He tells you. Your Mother has come to see you. -Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is mother, sister or brother to me. Mary at the Foot of the Cross - Woman behold Your Son. Son behold your Mother Mary, Assumed in Heaven Body and Soul (Aug. 15th) Crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth (Aug. 22nd)
A woman clothed with the sun, with moon under Her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saturday after the Sol. of Sacred Heart) Mary pondered all these things in Her Heart ---- Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Scapular and Rosary

Watch Video: The Footprints of God Mary Mother of God, Stephen Ray or What every Catholic Needs to Know About Mary- St. Joseph Communications The Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8th) I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. (Gen. 3:15) It was by the Virgin Mary's seed, that is, Jesus Christ, that the kingdom of Satan was demolished. It was fitting that She, who was to co-operate in the defeat of Satan, should never be infected by his breath or a slave to his kingdom of sin. The enmity between the Virgin Mary and the serpent placed by God was Her triumph over sin, Her Immaculate Conception. The Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in the womb of Her mother St. Anne without original sin. Marys Parents were St. Joachim and St. Anne. They were unable to have any children, but when they were of old age. The Virgin Mary was their only child. Hail full of Grace- Greek -- kecharitomene "thou who hast been graced.

Blessed Virgin Mary

The Catholic Church does not deny that the Virgin Mary needed redemption. Yet, Her redemption was effected in another, "more sublime manner", namely, in advance. Pope Pius IX on the 8th December, 1854: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.

Blessed Virgin Mary

The Immaculate Conception Tradition


Origen calls her worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, most complete sanctity, perfect justice, neither deceived by the persuasion of the serpent, nor infected with his poisonous breathings. (185 to 254 AD)

Ambrose says she is incorrupt, a virgin immune through grace from every stain of sin. (340 to 397 AD)
Maximus of Turin calls her a dwelling fit for Christ, not because of her habit of body, but because of original grace. (380-465 AD) Theodotus of Ancyra terms her a virgin innocent, without spot, void of culpability, holy in body and in soul, a lily springing among thorns, untaught the ills of Eve nor was there any communion in her of light with darkness, and, when not yet born, she was consecrated to God. (died 446 AD) In refuting Pelagius St. Augustine declares that all the just have truly known of sin "except the Holy Virgin Mary, of whom, for the honor of the Lord, I will have no question whatever where sin is concerned (354 to 430 AD)

Blessed Virgin Mary


(Martin Luther)

Immaculate Conception
In his own words: "... she is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. ... God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. ... God is with her, meaning that all she did or left undone is divine and the action of God in her. Moreover, God guarded and protected her from all that might be hurtful to her" (Luther's Works, American edition, Vol. 43, p. 40, ed. H. Lehmann, Fortress, 1968). Mother of God ".... she is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God. ... it is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God" ("Sermon on John 14:16": Luther's Works [St. Louis], ed. Jaroslav Pelican, Concordia. Vol. 24. p. 107). "Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother of God. No one can say anything greater of her, though he had as many tongues as there are leaves on the trees" (From the Commentary on the Magnificat). Perpetual Virgin Luther: It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a virgin. ... Christ, we believe, came forth from a womb left perfectly intact. (Weimer's The Works of Luther, English translation by Pelikan, Concordia, St. Louis, v. 11, pp. 319-320; v. 6. p. 510.) "Christ our Savior was the real and natural fruit of Mary's virginal womb. ... This was without the cooperation of a man, and she remained a virgin after that" ("On the Gospel of St. John": Luther's Works, Vol. 22. p. 23, ed. Jaroslav Pelican, Concordia, 1957).

Blessed Virgin Mary

Immaculate Conception- Apparitions


St. Catherine Laboure- Rue de Bac, France, 1830 The Immaculate Conception Medal - The Miraculous Medal O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

St. Bernadette Soubirous - Lourdes, France, 1858 I am the Immaculate Conception Miraculous Water 68 Officially Approved Miracles, yet thousands not approved.

The Blessed Virgin Mary The Birth of Mary (Sept. 8th)


Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time when she who is to give birth has borne Micah 5:3

Marys Parents were St. Joachim and St. Anne. The Virgin Mary was their only child. It is believed Joachim and Anne were beyond the years of child-bearing, but prayed and fasted that God would grant their desire for a child. God listened to their prayers and granted them the child. According to tradition, the house in which Mary was born in Nazareth is the same one in which the Annunciation took place.

Blessed Virgin Mary


Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple (Nov. 21st)
It is tradition that the Blessed Virgin Mary presented Herself in the temple at the age of 3 yrs. old. There she helped the priests in the temple sewing and cleaning and assisting the priests.

Blessed Virgin Mary The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary- (March 25th)
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galiee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, and the Virgins name was Mary. And He came to Her and said, Hail full of grace, the Lord is with you! (Lk 1:26-28) When Mary gave Her consent, Be it done unto me according to thy word., Jesus takes upon human nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. The Incarnation --(Mary Yes, is the cause of our salvation)

Blessed Virgin Mary Visitation of the Virgin Mary- (May 31st)


In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? (Lk. 1:39-43) The Magnificat

My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; and holy is his name. And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him. He hath showed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy: As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Blessed Virgin Mary Wedding of Joseph and Mary


But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. (Matt. 1:20)

Blessed Virgin Mary

The Birth of Jesus (Nativity) --Dec. 25th


She gave birth to Her first born Son and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because their was no room for Him in the Inn. (Lk 2:7) First born son is in reference, to the first child, which was consecrated to the service of the Lord. And also in reference to the Jewish Passover in which the first born lamb would be slaughtered. Jesus was actually born in a cave. It is believed Our Lords birth was miraculous. Mary didnt suffer labor pains.

Blessed Virgin Mary


The Epiphany- Three Wise Men (Jan. 6th or Sunday after Mother of God)
they saw the Child with Mary His Mother, and they fell down and worshipped Him. Then, opening their treasures they offered Him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. (Matt. 2:11)

Blessed Virgin Mary Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Feb. 2nd)


And a sword will pierce through your own soul (Lk 2:35) Prophecy of Simeon, which indicates the suffering Mary will endure at the Foot of the Cross. Candle Mass Day- Jesus is the light to the nations. People bring candles to be blessed.

Blessed Virgin Mary

Flight into Egypt


Rise, take the child and His Mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain their tell I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him. (Matt. 2:13)

Blessed Virgin Mary Finding of Jesus in the Temple


Behold your father and I have been looking for you anxiously (sorrowing). (Lk. 2:48)

Blessed Virgin Mary

Mother of God (Jan. 1st) Theotokos


St. Elizabeth to Our Lady : And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me?" (St. Luke 1: 43) The term "Mother of God" was defined by the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) in response to the Christological controversy ignited by Nestorius, then Patriarch of Constantinople. Nestorius asserted that in Christ there existed not one divine Person with two natures, human and divine, but two Persons, one human and one divine, with two natures, human and divine. Further, these two persons were not hypostatically united, but separate, the human being insignificant compared to the divine. Consequently, the Virgin Mary, as She supplied only Christs human flesh and not His divinity, was only mother of Christs humanity and therefore in no sense could be called Mother of God. However, the Church, upholding that Christ was one divine Person only, and noting that Mary was the mother of this divine Person (St. John 19: 25), defined dogmatically that She could properly be called "Mother of God.

Blessed Virgin Mary Sub Tuum Praesidium We Fly to Thy Patronage


An ancient prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the oldest known version of which is found on an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century. This prayer is used in Litanies to the Blessed Mother and as a concluding prayer to Compline (night prayer in the Office of Readings).

We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.
In the prayer it calls Mary, Mother of God (200sAD)

Blessed Virgin Mary

Perpetual Virgin
"Where did this man get this wisdom and these deeds of power? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this? And they took offence at him". (St. Matt. 13: 54-57) According to Fundamentalists, it appears clear from this passage that Jesus Christ had brothers and sisters, and that the Virgin Mary did not remain a virgin all Her life. Yet, the Catholic Church asserts that the Virgin Mary was a virgin before, during, and perpetually after the birth of Christ. The Catholic answer to this apparent contradiction. There existed no special word in Hebrew or Aramaic for "cousin." The word "brother" is used in these languages generically, and does not necessarily imply children of the same parent. There are many examples in the Old Testament when the word brother was applied to any kind of relations: nephew (Gen. 12: 5), uncle (Gen. 29: 15). A further Protestant objection is founded on St. Matthew 1: 25 which states that St. Joseph "had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son; and he named him Jesus." It is argued that this passage implies that the Virgin Mary had other children by St. Joseph after giving birth to Jesus. The Catholic answer to this is: St. Jerome shows, that this expression of the Evangelist was a manner of speaking usual among the Hebrews, to denote by the word until, only what is done, without any regard to the future. St. Matthew said this in order to indicate that Our Lords conception was miraculous and not conceived through St. Joseph.

Blessed Virgin Mary Perpetual Virgin- Tradition


Origen Now those who say so wish to preserve the honor of Mary in virginity to the end, so that body of hers which was appointed to minister to the Word . . . might not know intercourse with a man after the Holy Spirit came into her and the power from on high overshadowed her. And I think it in harmony with reason that Jesus was the first fruit among men of the purity which consists in [perpetual] chastity, and Mary was among women. For it were not pious to ascribe to any other than to her the first fruit of virginity" (Commentary on Matthew 2:17 [A.D. 248]). Athanasius "Let those, therefore, who deny that the Son is by nature from the Father and proper to his essence deny also that he took true human flesh from the ever-virgin Mary" (Discourses Against the Arians 2:70 [A.D. 360]). Epiphanius of Salamis "We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of all things, both visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God . . . who for us men and for our salvation came down and took flesh, that is, was born perfectly of the holy ever-virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit" (The Man Well-Anchored 120 [A.D. 374]). "And to holy Mary, *the title+ Virgin is invariably added, for that holy woman remains undefiled" ( Medicine Chest Against All Heresies 78:6 [A.D. 375]). Jerome "[Helvidius] produces Tertullian as a witness [to his view] and quotes Victorinus, bishop of Petavium. Of Tertullian, I say no more than that he did not belong to the Church. But as regards Victorinus, I assert what has already been proven from the gospelthat he [Victorinus] spoke of the brethren of the Lord not as being sons of Mary but brethren in the sense I have explained, that is to say, brethren in point of kinship, not by nature. Didymus the Blind "It helps us to understand the terms first-born and only-begotten when the Evangelist tells that Mary remained a virgin until she brought forth her first-born son *Matt. 1:25+; for neither did Mary, who is to be honored and praised above all others, marry anyone else, nor did she ever become the Mother of anyone else, but even after childbirth she remained always and forever an immaculate virgin" (The Trinity 3:4 [A.D. 386]).

Wedding Feast of Cana

Blessed Virgin Mary

Jesus works His first public miracle, through the intercession of Mary, His Mother. (John 2) Jesus does not rebuke Her when He said, Woman what have you to do with Me? My hour has not yet come. He called Her woman as a reference to (Gen. 3:15) and later He would call Her woman at the Foot of the Cross, as reminder that She is the woman foretold in Genesis. In the book of Revelation, it speaks of the woman and a dragon. And the woman will give birth to a Son, who will rule the nations. The hour (Jn. 2:4) is used throughout Johns Gospel as a reference to Jesus passion. Therefore Jesus understands that His acquiescence to His Mothers request is an event that will ultimately lead to His passion and death. And He wanted Her to realize that after His first miracle is worked, things will change and all will culminate with His death on the Cross, where She will stand. Mary understood Jesus would resolve the crisis of the wine shortage. She said to the servants: Do whatever he tells you (Jn 2:5). If Mary is concerned about the couples embarrassment of not having enough wine for the celebration, is She not also concerned about us, Her Spiritual children, whose temporal and spiritual needs She can intercede on our behalf by Her requests to Her Son, who is in heaven.

Blessed Virgin Mary

Mary, Always Did Gods Will Perfectly (Mk. 3:31-35)


And His mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to Him and called Him. And a crowd was sitting about Him; and they said to Him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking around on those who sat about Him, He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother." By these words, Jesus praises His Mother, who always did the will of His Father in heaven perfectly. Mary can help us to know and do Gods will in our life. We should turn to Her and ask Her to help us. He wants us to know those who do Gods will, will be like His Mother, who did it perfectly in Her whole life.

Blessed Virgin Mary Jesus Meets Mary on the Way to Calvary


If one were to travel to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, he or she would discover the Way of the Cross, which tradition has it, was the way in which Jesus went to Calvary from the moment He was judged by Pilate. The fourth station Jesus met His Mother as He carried He Cross to Calvary. The image below in the center is the actual station which pictures Jesus meeting His Mother.

Blessed Virgin Mary


Mary Stands at the Foot of the Cross- Mary is our Spiritual Mother
Blessed Pope John Paul II said, After recalling the presence of Mary and the other women at the Lord's cross, St John relates: "When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold, your son!'. Then he said to the disciple, 'Behold, your mother!" (Jn 19:26-27). These particularly moving words are a "revelation scene": they reveal the deep sentiments of the dying Christ and contain a great wealth of meaning for Christian faith and spirituality. At the end of His earthly life, as he addressed his Mother and the disciple he loved, the crucified Messiah establishes a new relationship of love between Mary and Christians. The universal motherhood of Mary, the "Woman" of the wedding at Cana and of Calvary, recalls Eve, "mother of all living" (Gn 3:20). However, while the latter helped to bring sin into the world, the new Eve, Mary, co-operates in the saving event of Redemption. Thus in the Blessed Virgin the figure of "woman" is rehabilitated and her motherhood takes up the task of spreading the new life in Christ among men. Jesus' words, "Behold, your son", effect what they express, making Mary the mother of John and of all the disciples destined to receive the gift of divine grace. On the Cross Jesus did not proclaim Mary's universal motherhood formally, but established a concrete maternal relationship between her and the beloved disciple. In the Lord's choice we can see his concern that this motherhood should not be interpreted in a vague way, but should point to Mary's intense, personal relationship with individual Christians. The Pope said, May each one of us, precisely through the concrete reality of Mary's universal motherhood, fully acknowledge Her as our own Mother, and trustingly commend ourselves to her maternal love.

Blessed Virgin Mary Assumption of Mary into Heaven


Arise, O Lord, into your resting place: you and the ark, which you have sanctified" Psalm 131:8
Mary did not ascend into heaven, by her own power. No! Only God, can do that. Rather, Jesus came down from heaven and assumed Her body and soul into heaven. The Church has never formally defined whether she died or not, and the integrity of the doctrine of the Assumption would not be impaired if she did not in fact die, but the almost universal consensus is that she did die. Pope Pius XII, in Munificentissimus Deus (1950), defined that Mary, "after the completion of her earthly life" (note the silence regarding her death), "was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven."

Blessed Virgin Mary Assumption of Mary- Tradition


Pseudo-Melito "If therefore it might come to pass by the power of your grace, it has appeared right to us your servants that, as you, having overcome death, do reign in glory, so you should raise up the body of your Mother and take her with you, rejoicing, into heaven. Then said the Savior *Jesus+: Be it done according to your will" (The Passing of the Virgin 16:217 [A.D. 300]). Timothy of Jerusalem "Therefore the Virgin is immortal to this day, seeing that he who had dwelt in her transported her to the regions of her assumption" (Homily on Simeon and Anna [A.D. 400]). John the Theologian "*T+he Lord said to his Mother, Let your heart rejoice and be glad, for every favor and every gift has been given to you from my Father in heaven and from me and from the Holy Spirit. Every soul that calls upon your name shall not be ashamed, but shall find mercy and comfort and support and confidence, both in the world that now is and in that which is to come, in the presence of my Father in the heavens" (The Falling Asleep of Mary [A.D. 400]). "And from that time forth all knew that the spotless and precious body had been transferred to paradise" (ibid.). St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, At the Council of Chalcedon (451), St. Juvenal made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.

Blessed Virgin Mary Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth


And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under Her feet, and on Her head a crown of twelve stars. (Rev. 12:1)
St. Augustine "This venerable day has dawned, the day that surpasses all the festivals of the saints, this most exalted and most solemn day on which the Blessed Virgin was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. On this day the queenly Virgin was exalted to the very throne of God the Father, and elevated to such a height that the angelic spirits are in admiration. (354 -430 AD)"

Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Heart of Mary


But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. (Lk. 2:19) Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparation to Marys Immaculate Heart as revealed through Fatima Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 33 Days in Preparation St. Louis De Montfort (To Jesus through Mary) Totus Tuus- Blessed JPII In 1984, Pope John II consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary causing the fall of communism.

First Saturday Devotion

Blessed Virgin Mary

The "First Saturdays of Reparation" was not a new devotion, but it was even more popularized after Our Lady appeared at Fatima. It consists of, on the first Saturday of each month for five consecutive months: 1. Go to Confession (may be 8 days before the Saturday as long as one stays in a state of grace) 2. Receive the Eucharist (Holy Communion) 3. Pray 5 decades of the Rosary, including the Fatima Prayer 3. Keeping her company" for 15 minutes while meditating on all of the Mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to her. This can be done by reading Scripture or other writings relevant to the Mysteries, meditating on pictures of the Mysteries, or simple meditation.
The promise given by Mary to those who make the First Saturday devotion is her assistance at the hour of their death. Mary told the children of Fatima: "Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially when you make some sacrifice: O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

FATIMA PRAYER O my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.

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Brown Scapular
Whosoever dies clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire. --Mary to St. Simon Stock Enrollment in the Scapular- often times when First Communion is made. Sabbatine PrivilegeThe Sabbatine privilege thus consists essentially in the early liberation from purgatory, through the special intercession and petition of Mary, which she graciously exercises in favor of her devoted servants preferentially as we may assume on the day consecrated to her, Saturday. Furthermore, the conditions for the gaining of the privilege are of such a kind as justify a special trust in the assistance of Mary. It is especially required of all who wish to share in the privilege that they faithfully preserve their chastity, and recite devoutly each day the Little Hours of the Blessed Virgin. However, all those who are bound to read their Breviary, fulfill the obligation of reciting the Little Hours by reading their Office. Persons who cannot read must (instead of reciting the Little Hours) observe all the fasts prescribed by the Church as they are kept in their home diocese or place of residence, and must in addition abstain from flesh meat on all Wednesdays and Saturdays of the year, except when Christmas falls on one of these days. The obligation to read the Little Hours and to abstain from flesh meat on Wednesday and Saturday may on important grounds be changed for other pious works; the faculty to sanction this change was granted to all confessors by Leo XIII in the Decree of the Congregation of Indulgences of 11 (14) June, 1901.

The Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Feast Day Oct. 7th Victory of Battle of Lepanto) The Rosary is a double prayer: Vocal & Meditation. Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, Begin and end with the sign of the Cross and then the Apostles Creed hail, our life, our sweetness and our As one prays Hail Marys and Our Fathers one meditates on the mystery. hope. To thee do Glory Be & Fatima Prayer Glory be to the Father and to the Son we cry, poor and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the banished children End with Hail Holy Queen. beginning is now and will be forever. of Eve: to thee do Mysteries: Joyful, Light, Sorrowful, Glorious Amen we send up our
O my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.

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sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O merciful, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Amen.

Hail Mary Full of Grace the Lord is with thee, Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Jesus, Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen (Most of it comes from Scripture)

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One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. -Saint Dominic The greatest method of praying is the Rosary St. Francis de Sales The Rosary is the scourge of the devil Pope Adrian VI The Rosary is a treasure of graces Pope Paul V The Rosary is THE Weapon Saint Padre Pio Continue to pray the Rosary every day. Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood. Saint Louis de Montfort You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche The Rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our redeemer, Who loves His Mother. St. Louis De Montfort If you persevere in reciting the Rosary, this will be a most probable sign of your eternal salvation. Blessed Alan de la Roche The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary. Saint Francis de Sales When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer. Saint Louis de Montfort To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ. Blessed Pope JP II At Fatima Mary said, I am the Lady of the Rosary. Pray the Rosary everyday to obtain peace for the world. Sister Lucia, one of the seers at Fatima said, There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.

Rosary

Blessed Virgin Mary

Mary, therefore, is necessary for our salvation. Not to love, honor, and serve Mary because of a malicious will, is a sign of one's perdition. On the other hand, devotion to Mary is practically a sign of salvation. To those called to a special perfection, devotion to Mary is indispensable and of greater necessity. Without this devotion, it is impossible to be intimately united to Jesus. Only Mary alone, was able to obtain the grace of God, without the help of anyone. How difficult it will be for others to find it without her! "All those who possess grace have it because of Mary...Mary has the power to let us enter into the sublime and secret ways of perfection." (St. Louis de Montfort).

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