Octave
of Christmas
Solemnity
of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
and
World Day of Peace
January
1
Hail,
Holy Mother, who gave birth to the King,
who
rules heaven and earth for ever.
(Entrance
Antiphon, Today's Liturgy)
Our Lady Divine
Providence Mother
“And
is not the enraptured gaze of Mary
as
she contemplated the face of the newborn Christ
and
cradled Him in her arms that unparalleled
model
of love which should inspire
us
every
time we receive Eucharistic communion?"
Saint
John Paul II
We have received this heavenly
Sacrament with joy, O Lord:
grant, we pray, that it may lead us to eternal life,
grant, we pray, that it may lead us to eternal life,
for we rejoice to proclaim the
Blessed ever-Virgin Mary
Mother of your Son and Mother of
the Church,
Through Christ our
Lord.
(Prayer after Communion, Today's
Liturgy)
Virgin
Immaculate, you are the perfect model of adorers of the Blessed Sacrament. You
adored Jesus in the little white Host with the same faith, reverence and wonder
with which you adored Him on the first Christmas night and during all the years
you lived with Him. Teach us not to forget that the small white Host is truly
our God, infinite, eternal and omnipotent. Help us to conduct ourselves at all
times in His presence with the modesty and reverence we owe to our
God...
Virgin
Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the
Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true
adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know
Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that
is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving,
reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen.
V. Pray for us, O Virgin
Immaculate, Our Lady of the Most Blessed
Sacrament.
R. That the Eucharistic
Kingdom of Jesus Christ may come among us!
From "Treasury of Prayer: Our Lady of the Most
Blessed Sacrament"
Giovanni Battista
Salvi de Sassoferrato (1600s)
“We serve a Mother who seems to grow more
beautiful
as new generations call her blessed." - GK
Chesterton
"Never be
afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much.
You can never love her more than Jesus did." - St
Maximilian Kolbe
De Maria numquam satis ...
"Concerning Mary there is never enough"
Holy
Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
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