Day: August 12, 2020

The cure for the pessimism and despair of the Modern World. (c)Mary TV 2020 August 14, 2020 St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr Dear Family of Mary! We are now 1 day away from the Feast of the Assumption!  I am getting excited!!  Today for our preparation I have two consecration prayers for us to pray.  They are both written by powerful Polish Saints!!! The first is written by St. John Paul II, in 1982!  The second is written by St. Maximilian Kolbe!!  Both men were devoted and powerful servants of Our Lady, and both had lived during the very trying times of the 20th Century.  These prayers will be a good preparation for tomorrow’s feast.  Thank you for joining me in this little preparation for the Feast of the Assumption, 2020 – 70 years!! Prayer of Consecration to Mary by Pope John Paul II 1982 To You, Oh Mary! Prayers of Consecration Kneeling before the image of Our Lady “Salus Populi Romani,” at the end of the Mass he celebrated in the Basilica of St. Mary Major on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Father renewed the act of consecration of the Church and the world to Mary. Part of the Holy Father’s prayer is printed below: O Mother of men and peoples, you know all their sufferings and their hopes, you feel in a motherly way all the struggles between good and evil, between the light and the darkness which shakes the world, accept our cry addressed in the Holy Spirit directly to your heart and embrace with the love of the Mother and the Handmaid of the Lord the peoples who await this embrace the most, and likewise the peoples whose consecration you too are particularly awaiting. Take under your motherly protection the whole human family which we can consecrate to you, O mother, with affectionate rapture. May the time of peace and freedom, the time of truth, justice and hope, approach for everyone. O you, who are the first handmaid of the unity of the Body of Christ, help us, help all the faithful, who feel so painful the drama of divisions of Christianity to seek with constancy the way to the perfect unity of the Body of Christ by means of unconditional faithfulness to the Spirit of Truth and Love, which was given to them by your Son at the cost of the cross and death. O you, who are so deeply and maternally bound to the Church, preceding the whole People of God along the ways of faith, hope and charity, embrace all men who are on the way, pilgrims through temporal life towards eternal destinies, with that love which the divine Redeemer himself, you Son, poured into your heart from the cross. Be the Mother of all our earthly lives, even when they become tortuous, in order that we may all find ourselves, in the end in that large community which you Son called the fold, offering his life for it as the Good Shepherd. O you, who were with the Church at the beginning of her mission, intercede for her in order that going all over the world she may continually teach all the nations and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. O you, who have known in the fullest way the power of the Holy Spirit, when it was granted to you to conceive in your virginal womb and to give birth to the Eternal Word, obtain for the Church that she may continue to give new birth through water and the Holy Spirit to the sons and daughters of the whole human family, without any distinction of language, race, or culture, giving them in this way the “power to be come with children of God.” (Jn. 1:12). O you, who have always wished to serve! You who serve as Mother the whole family of the children of God, obtain for the Church that enriched by the Holy Spirit with the fullness of hierarchical and charismatic gifts, she may continue with constancy towards the future along the way of that renewal which comes from what the Holy Spirit says and which found expression in the teaching of Vatican II, assuming in this work of renewal everything that is true and good, without letting herself be deceived either in on direction or in the other, but discerning assiduously among the signs of the times what is useful for the coming of the Kingdom of God. O you, who–through the mystery of your particular holiness, free of all stain from the moment of your conception–feel in a particularly deep way that “the whole creation has been groaning in travail” (Rom. 8:22), while, “subjected to futility,” “it hopes that it will be set free from its bondage to decay” (Rom. 8:20-21), you contribute unceasingly to the “revealing of the sons of God,” for whom “the creation awaits with eager longing” (Rom. 8:19), to enter the freedom of their joy (cf. Rom. 8:21). O Mother of Jesus, now glorified in heaven in body and in soul, as the image and beginning of the Church, which is to have its fulfillment in the future age–here on earth, until the day of the Lord comes (cf. 2 Pt. 3:10), do not cease to shine before the pilgrim people of God as a sign of sure hope and consolation (cf. Lumen Gentium, 68). O you, who more than any other human being have been consecrated to the Holy Spirit, help your Son’s Church to persevere in the same consecration. Holy Spirit of God, Who are worshipped and glorified with the Father and Son! Accept these words of humble consecration addressed to You in the heart of Mary of Nazareth, Your bride and mother of the Redeemer, whom the Church too calls her Mother, because right from the Upper Room at Pentecost she has learned from Her, her own motherly vocation! Accept these words of the pilgrim Church, uttered amid toils and joys, fears and hopes. (written by His Holiness, Pope Saint John Paul II) Act of Consecration to Mary written by St. Maximilian Kolbe O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to you.  I, (name), a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to yourself as your possession and property.  Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases you. If it pleases you, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of you: “She will crush your head,” and, “You alone have destroyed all heresies in the world.”  Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing your glory to the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.  For wherever you enter, you obtain the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through your hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. V. Allow me to praise you, O sacred Virgin. R. Give me strength against your enemies. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020  

The cure for the pessimism and despair of the Modern World. (c)Mary TV 2020 August 13, 2020 Sts. Pontian and Hippolytus Dear Family of Mary! This is our second day of preparation for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary!  Let us prepare our hearts to rejoice with Our Lady at her Assumption, by meditating on her whole life, through this beautiful Litany of the Life of Mary. Litany of the Life of Mary! Lord, have mercy Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.  Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us. God the Holy Ghost, dwelling in the souls of the just, Have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us. Holy Mary, pray for us. Holy Virgin, sprung from the race of David, pray for us. Holy Virgin, of the root of Jesse, pray for us. Holy Virgin, conceived without Original Sin, pray for us. Holy Virgin, presented in childhood in the temple, pray for us. Holy Virgin, espoused to the just Joseph, pray for us. Holy Virgin, bound by an inviolable vow of chastity, pray for us. Holy Virgin, gloriously saluted by the Angel, pray for us. Holy Virgin, full of grace, pray for us. Holy Virgin, blessed among all women, pray for us. Holy Virgin, consenting to the plea of Heaven, pray for us. Holy Virgin, conceiving by the operation of the Holy Spirit, pray for us. Holy Virgin, bearing in thy womb the Man-God, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Mother of the true Solomon, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Mother of God, pray for us. Holy Virgin, visiting thy cousin Elizabeth, pray for us. Holy Virgin, blest land, whence sprung the Savior, pray for us. Holy Virgin, holy gate, through which the King of Heaven alone may pass, pray for us. Holy Virgin, journeying to Bethlehem with thy spouse Joseph, pray for us. Holy Virgin, bringing into the world thy Divine Son, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Mother of thine own Creator, pray for us. Holy Virgin, laying God the Son in a manger, pray for us. Holy Virgin, visited by the shepherds, pray for us. Holy Virgin, saluted by the Magi, pray for us. Holy Virgin, presenting thy Son to be circumcized, pray for us. Holy Virgin, submitting to the law of purification, pray for us. Holy Virgin, offering thy dear Son in the temple, pray for us. Holy Virgin, fleeing into Egypt to save thy Child, pray for us. Holy Virgin, returning into the land of Israel, pray for us. Holy Virgin, leading an obscure life at Nazareth, pray for us. Holy Virgin, keeping the feasts prescribed by the law, pray for us. Holy Virgin, afflicted at the loss of thy Child, when He was twelve years old, pray for us. Holy Virgin, sorrowfully seeking thy Child for three days, pray for us. Holy Virgin, honoring with thy presence the marriage feast of Cana, pray for us. Holy Virgin, graciously representing to thy Son the want of wine, pray for us. Holy Virgin, obtaining Christ’s first public miracle by thy intercession, pray for us. Holy Virgin, following thy Son in His ministrations, pray for us. Holy Virgin, sharing the sorrows of thy Son, pray for us. Holy Virgin, standing at the foot of the Cross, pray for us. Holy Virgin, confided by thy Son to John the Beloved Disciple, pray for us. Holy Virgin, pierced with a sword of sorrow, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Rejoicing at the resurrection of thy Son on the third day, Pray for us. Holy Virgin, Taught by the risen Lord for 40 days after the Resurrection, Pray for us. Holy Virgin, Given as an example to the Apostles by the risen Lord in the upper room, Pray for us. Holy Virgin, Gazing with awe and longing as thy Son ascended into heaven, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Ministering to the Apostles in the upper room as they waited for the promise from above, Pray for us. Holy Virgin, filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, pray for us. Holy Virgin, assumed by thy Son into Heaven, pray for us. Holy Virgin, reigning in Heaven, our Queen, pray for us. Holy Virgin, Interceding for us at the right hand of the Father and the Son, Pray for us. Holy Virgin, called Blessed by all generations, pray for us. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let Us Pray Protect, O Lord, Thy servants by Thy gracious and abundant help, and grant that our confidence in the protection of Blessed Mary ever Virgin, and our humble imitation of her holy life, may obtain for us security against all enemies and all dangers, through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. This litany may be found on this website: http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/litanies/p03509.htm Let us pray; Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Given by Our Lady to Jelena Vasilj, 11/28/1983) O Immaculate Heart of Mary, overflowing with goodness, Show us your love for us. May the flame of your heart, Oh Mary, Descend upon all peoples. We love you immensely. Impress in our hearts a true love. May our hearts yearn for you. Oh Mary, sweet and humble of heart, Remember us when we sin. You know that all mankind are sinners. Through your most sacred and maternal heart, Cure us from every spiritual illness. Make us capable of looking at the beauty of your maternal heart, And that, thus, we may be converted to the flame of your heart. Amen Amen! In Jesus Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020  

The cure for the pessimism and despair of the Modern World. (c)Mary TV 2020 August 12, 2020 St. Jane Frances de Chantel Dear Family of Mary! The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is just 3 days away!!  This great Feast is so very important!!  It was proclaimed in 1950 by Pope Pius XII.  This is the 70th year that we as a church have honored Mary, Assumed into Heaven.  Seventy is a holy number, a complete number.  Maybe something wonderful in God’s plan for Our Lady’s triumph will happen on this special day!! I want to share something with you that I wrote in 2017 about Our Lady and her Assumption.  It may help you to grasp the importance of this reality, that Our Lady was assumed into heaven, body and soul! I wanted to share something with you about the Assumption as we prepare for the feast.  For some reason, in prayer I felt drawn to a book I read quite a while ago, “The World’s First Love, Mary, Mother of God” by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen.  I looked through the contents and found the chapter on the Assumption.  And when I began to read it, I saw that I had underlined almost every word of that chapter!  It is a blockbuster! But the last few paragraphs are really pertinent for us because Sheen points to something in a prophetic way that we are experiencing.  “The World’s First Love” was written in 1952, only two years after the Dogma of the Assumption was declared by Pope Pius XII.  And yet, Sheen seems to see the plan of God in that declaration. Let’s listen to him: “Within three decades the definition of the Assumption will cure the pessimism and despair of the modern world.  Freud, who did so much to develop this pessimism, took as his motto; “If I cannot move the Gods on high, I shall set all hell in an uproar.”  That uproar which he created will now be stilled by a Lady as powerful as an “army drawn up in battle array.”  The age of the “body beautiful” will now become the age of the Assumption. “In Mary there is a triple transition.  In the annunciation we pass from the holiness of the Old Testament to the holiness of Christ.  At Pentecost we pass from the holiness of the historical Christ to the holiness of the Mystical Christ or His Body, which is the Church.  Mary here received the Spirit for a second time.  The first overshadowing was to give birth to the Head of the Church: this second overshadowing is to give birth to His Body as she is in the midst of the Apostles abiding in prayer.  The third transition is the Assumption, as she becomes the first human person to realize the historical destiny of the faithful as members of Christ’s Mystical Body, beyond time, beyond death, and beyond judgment. “Mary is always in the vanguard of humanity.  She is compared to Wisdom, presiding at creation; she is announced as the woman who will conquer Satan, as the Virgin who will conceive.  She becomes the first person since the Fall to have a unique and unrepeatable kind of union with God; she mothers the infant Christ in Bethlehem; she mothers the Mystical Christ at Jerusalem; and now, by her Assumption, she goes ahead like her Son to prepare a place for us.  She participates in the glory of her son, reigns with Him, presides at His Side over the destinies of the Church in time, and intercedes for us, to Him, as He, in His turn, intercedes to the Heavenly Father. “Adam came before Eve chronologically.  The new Adam, Christ, comes after the new Eve, Mary, chronologically, although existentially He preceded her as the Creator a creature.  By stressing for the moment only the time element, Mary always seems to be the advent of what is in store for man.  She anticipates Christ for nine months, as she bears Heaven within her; she anticipates His Passion at Cana and His Church at Pentecost.  Now, in the last great doctrine of the Assumption, she anticipates Heavenly glory, and the definition comes at a time when men think of it least. “One wonders if this could not be the last of the great truths of Mary to be defined by the Church.  Anything else might seem to be an anticlimax after she is declared to be in Heaven, body and soul.  But actually there is one other truth left to be defined, and that is that she is the Mediatrix, under her Son, of all graces.  As St. Paul speaks of the Ascension of Our Lord as the prelude to His intercession for us, so we fittingly, should speak of the Assumption of Our Lady as a prelude to her intercession for us.  First, the place, Heaven; then the function, intercession.  The nature of her role is not to call her Son’s attention to some need, in an emergency unnoticed by Him, nor is it to “win” a difficult consent.  Rather it is to unite herself to His compassionate Mercy and give a human voice to His Infinite Love.  The main ministry of Mary is to incline men’s’ hearts to obedience to the will of her Divine Son.  Her last recorded words at Cana are still her words in the Assumption; ‘Whatsoever He shall say to you, that do ye.’” (Fulton J Sheen. The World’s First Love. Th Assumption and the Modern World. P. 120-121) Archbishop Sheen clearly sees that Mary, in her Assumption, is the key to our age of despair.  In Mary, humanity has hope.  In her Assumption, life again has meaning.  We are not creatures without souls, and without an eternal future.  We are called to live forever with our God, who loves us, and Mary shows us the way. I also find it interesting that in 1952 Archbishop Sheen would project that in three decades after the Dogma was declared “the definition of the Assumption will cure the pessimism and despair of the modern world.”  This is a huge claim.  Sheen died in 1979, just shy of the three decades.  What came next he could not have foreseen.  Our Lady came to Medjugorje in 1981 and since then has been curing pessimism and despair in millions of her children.  Through her presence, her messages and her intercession, Mary is reversing the terrible curse of atheism and despair in the world, one person at a time. I believe that Our Lady in Medjugorje has set up camp, declaring that she is with us in our fight against the devil and all evil.  She is with us to help us draw close to her Son and to learn to live in Him.  She is with us in these days to be Jesus’ compassionate Mercy for us.  She intercedes in our midst, in Medjugorje, to bring about the Kingdom of Heaven in us.  The Dogma of the Assumption is bearing great fruit in our day, as Sheen said.  It is curing pessimism and despair and bringing us heaven through Our Lady’s presence in Medjugorje!!  If Sheen is right and Mary is the advent of all of God’s great works, the Incarnation, the Passion, the Birth of the Church, and now Heavenly Glory, then her coming to Medjugorje must be the advent of the coming of her Son.  She is here to prepare the way for His coming! I truly believe that Our Lady is about to turn the tables on the devil.  Our Mother is with us to win!  Let’s pray with all our hearts for her intentions and for the salvation of souls. Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Given by Our Lady to Jelena Vasilj, 11/28/1983) O Immaculate Heart of Mary, overflowing with goodness, Show us your love for us. May the flame of your heart, Oh Mary, Descend upon all peoples. We love you immensely. Impress in our hearts a true love. May our hearts yearn for you. Oh Mary, sweet and humble of heart, Remember us when we sin. You know that all mankind are sinners. Through your most sacred and maternal heart, Cure us from every spiritual illness. Make us capable of looking at the beauty of your maternal heart, And that, thus, we may be converted to the flame of your heart. Amen Amen! In Jesus Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020