A marvel which surpasses understanding...

"'How can this come about?' Mary asked.

'The Holy Spirit will come upon you,'

the angel answered,

'and the power of the Most High

will cover you with its shadow.'

And now you are the one who puts the question:

'How can bread become Christ

and wine His Blood?'

I answer: 'The power of the Holy Spirit

will be at work to give us

a marvel which surpasses understanding.'"

St John Damascene (+749)

  

Today is First Saturday

Consecrated and devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 
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Queen of love, help us...

"Jesus, here is my heart; let it be a little cozy

resting place for yourself." - St Faustina

 

"From your pure heart, Mary, peerless Virgin,

I have come to draw the most perfect love,

To delight the Eucharistic Heart, oh! lend me your ardors

Ever more."

 

"In your blessed soul, O mystical oven,

I have come to draw the love that adores,

To pay homage to the Eucharistic Heart, Virgin of love,

Oh! Lend me your heart."

 

"Our Lady, O seraphic canyon,

I have come to draw the love that restores.

To console the Eucharistic Heart, O mother of love,

Oh! Lend me your heart."

 

"Alongside you, angelic Sovereign,

I have come to draw the love that mirrors,

To imitate the Eucharistic Heart, O Queen of love,

Oh! Lend me your heart!"

 

Bl. Dina Belanger

 

Today is First Saturday

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An ever-bearing branch...

"Christ is my life, and the way

to reach Him is Mary." - Bl James Alberione, SSP

"Like a branch that always bears fruit

and offers it to humanity,

Mary gives Jesus - suffering, glorious, Eucharistic,

the Way, the Truth and the Life of all people.

She is the Apostle of Jesus, not only in word

but in mind, will and heart."

Bl James Alberione, SSP

Mary, cause of our joy, pray for us!

For our lives to be truly Eucharistic, they need to be lived

"through Mary, with Mary and in Mary."

St Maximilian Kolbe

 

"Mary, mother of Jesus, give us your heart,

so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate,

so full of love and humility, that we may

be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life,

love Him as you love Him, and serve Him

in the distressing disguise of the poor. "

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The choicest portion!

 

"As Mary is the treasurer and dispenser of the gifts and graces of the Most High God, she reserves a choice portion, indeed the choicest portion, to nourish and sustain her children and servants. They grow strong on the Bread of Life; they are made joyful with the Wine that brings forth virgins. They are carried at her breast. They bear with ease the yoke of Christ scarcely feeling its weight because of the oil of devotion with which she has softened its wood."

Excerpt from St. Louis de Montfort's True Devotion to Mary