Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady

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St. Paul Mother. Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady

PRAYERS

Immaculate!

Mary's Birthday

Mary's Presentation in the Temple

Mary's Marriage

Hail Mary!

Mary's First Word

Mary's Second Word

Mary's Third Word

Mary's Fourth Word

Mary's Silence

Mary's Expectation

The Stable

The Circumcision of Mary's Son

Her Purification

Wise Men and Babes

Egypt

Mary's Fifth Word

Nazareth

Mary's Sixth Word

Her Seventh Word

Who is my Mother?

The Fourth and Fifth Dolours

The Sixth and Seventh Dolours

The First Glorious Mystery

The Second and Third Glorious Mysteries

Mary's Exile

Mary's Death

Mary's Tomb

"Who is She?"

Mary's Coronation

Salve Regina

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O Holy Ghost, give me a great devotion and a great attraction towards Mary, Thy spouse; a great support in her maternal bosom, and an abiding refuge in her mercy; so that in her and by her Thou mayest form in me Jesus Christ.

My Queen and my Mother, to thee I offer myself without reserve; and to give thee a mark of my devotion, I consecrate to thee during this day, my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, and my whole person. Since then I belong to thee, O my good Mother, preserve and defend me, as thy property and possession. Amen.

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And so we leave her, doing the work of the little cottage at Nazareth, while her carpenter-husband labours to support her. Mary has changed her abode; her outward circumstances have altered; but her union with God suffers no change; it remains unbroken, undisturbed; nothing has the power to disturb her thoughts of Him. And Mary is my model. What I have to aim at, too, is a union with God so real and so close that the changes and chances of this mortal life have no power to interrupt it. This blessed lot will be mine when I have faith enough to see God's Hand in every circumstance of my life. If I know that He is there, why need I trouble so much about the ups and downs? The sea of life is bound to have waves. What I have to do is to see to it that my little barque rides on the top of them in the most perfect security and peace. The Master is at the helm, and I am with Him in the boat. My thoughts, surely, will be fixed on Him rather than on the changes in the weather!

2. Because of her correspondence to grace. She was always faithful to grace. She never let one single opportunity pass by her unused. The more faithful I am to the inspirations of grace, the fuller shall I be of grace. It is a question of my fidelity, not of God's generosity. He never fails – the grace is always there waiting for me.

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