St. Pius V
Dear Family of Mary!
Again, the April 25, 2021 message:
“Dear children! Today I am calling you to witness your faith in the colors of spring. May this be a faith of hope and courage. May your faith, little children, not waver in any situation, not even in this time of trial. Go courageously with the risen Christ towards Heaven, which is your goal. I am accompanying you on this way of holiness and am placing all of you in my Immaculate Heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (April 25, 2021)
I am accompanying you on this way of holiness and am placing all of you in my Immaculate Heart.
Our Mother is extremely good at accompanying. She accompanied Jesus throughout His infancy and childhood. Her prayerful and loving attention to Jesus’ every need must have been such a comfort and security to Jesus as He grew up.
She accompanied Jesus during His entire public ministry, quietly attending to His needs and the needs of His followers. She was so in tune with the Father’s will, that she could anticipate Jesus’ needs and always be a help to Him as the way became more and more contentious.
But it was at the Passion of Our Lord that Mary’s accompaniment was most perfect, most powerful and most needed. For only she understood what was really happening during those terrible hours of suffering. Only she could help Jesus with her prayers of assent to the the Father’s will. Only she could deny her own desires and choose what God desired at that moment, the complete offering of Jesus’ life for the sake of the world.
And now she is accompanying us in our lives, with that same perfection of love. She is praying for us that we will accept and live the Father’s will for our lives. She is uniting her prayers to ours, so that we can choose and travel the road to Holiness.
And most importantly, she is placing each one of us in her Immaculate Heart!! It is in that Motherly Heart that we will be healed of all our wounds and scars from life, and made able to do God’s will. Thanks be to God, we have such a Mother!!
Here is another Litany by St. John Henry Newman! A Litany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary! Let’s pray to Our Mother, rejoicing that she is placing each one of us in her most wonderful and Immaculate Heart!!
Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
By St. John Henry Newman
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
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, Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us.
Heart of Mary, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, like unto the Heart of God, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, united to the Heart of Jesus, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, instrument of the Holy Ghost, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, sanctuary of the Divine Trinity, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, tabernacle of God Incarnate, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, immaculate from thy creation, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, full of grace, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, blessed among all hearts, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, throne of glory, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, most humble, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, holocaust of Divine Love, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, fastened to the Cross with Jesus Crucified, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, comfort of the afflicted, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, refuge of sinners, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, hope of the agonizing, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, seat of mercy, 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.
V. Immaculate Mary, meek and humble of heart,
R. Make our hearts like unto the Heart of Jesus.
Let Us Pray:
O most merciful God, Who, for the salvation of sinners and the refuge of the miserable, wast pleased that the Most Pure Heart of Mary should be most like in charity and pity to the Divine Heart of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, grant that we, who commemorate this sweet and loving Heart, by the merits and intercession of the same Blessed Virgin, may merit to be found like unto the Heart of Jesus, through the same Christ Our Lord. R. Amen.
