Apr. 19 St. Faustina's Prayer to Mary

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Excerpt from St. Faustina’s “Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul”:

161 O Mary, Immaculate Virgin,
Pure crystal for my heart,
You are my strength, O secure anchor,
You are a shield and protection for a weak heart.
O Mary, you are pure and unparalleled,
Virgin and Mother at one and the same time;
You’re beautiful as the sun, by nothing defiled.
Nothing is worthy of comparison to the image of Your soul.
Your beauty enthralled the Thrice-Holy One’s eye,
That He came down from heaven, forsaking th’eternal See’s throne,
And assumed from Your Heart body and Blood,
Hiding for nine months in the Virgin’s Heart.
O Mother, Virgin, this will no one omprehend,
That the infinite God is becoming a man;
It’s only love’s and His inscrutable mercy’s purpose.
Through You, Mother - it’s given us to live with Him for ever.
O Mary, Virgin Mother and Heaven’s Gate,
Through You salvation came to us;
Every grace to us streams forth through Your hands,
And faithful imitation of You only will sanctify me.
O Mother, Virgin - most beautiful Lily.
Your Heart was for Jesus the first tabernacle on earth,
And that, because Your humility was the deepest,
Wherefore You were raised above Angel choirs and Saints.
O Mary, my sweet Mother,
To You I turn over my soul, my body and my poor heart.
Be the safeguard of my life,
Especially at death’s hour, in the final fight.

Reading St. Faustina’s Diary, more than once I was blessed by her relationship not only with Jesus in His Revelation to her of His Great Mercy, but also in her relationship with Mary, the Mother of Mercy, given to her and to all of us by Jesus from His Cross.

Jesus, I trust in You!
Mary, Mother Immaculate, Mother of Mercy, pray for us.
St. Faustina, pray for us all, especially on this Divine Mercy Sunday.

 

[Inbonum]

Her diary is also one of my number ones.
I love that passage in which God speaks to desperate soul…, God talks to saint soul… etc.
I find strenght, encouragement and hope in words of diary. It shows how God can do great things from basically nothing. Her diary is great insight in life of saint, it shows that saints are humans like everyone else, it shows worry, sorrows, joy, imperfections and virtues, struggles and victories.
How Mercyful and Great God is!
St. Faustina Kowalska pray for us!

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Cath,

Thanks for your “heart”, letting us know you read St. Faustina’s prayer to Mary and have also read her Diary. Truly, God delights in humble souls like St. Faustina. Our Mother Mary reminds us of this in her words to her Cousin Elizabeth in Luke’s Gospel:

…He has looked upon His handmaid’s lowliness…(Lk 1:48)

How important for all of us to pay attention to the lives of the saints who followed Jesus, especially His Mother - given to be our Mother and Model. No other human person knew Jesus as well as Mary did. No wonder all the saints had recourse to her!

St. Faustina’s prayer shows us that simplicity of childhood, that humility of heart, we all need and heard from Jesus: “Learn of Me for I am meek and humble of heart…”

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Victoria and QuillWriter,

Thank you both for your “hearts” which lets us know you read St. Faustina’s Prayer to Mary and liked it. Hopefully it gave to you, and to others who read the post, a desire to pray to our Mother even more!

What a unique privilege Mary was given by God: to be for Jesus “the first tabernacle on earth”! And when we think of it, our Baptism gives us a similar privilege as we are enabled in time to receive Jesus into our hearts in Holy Communion and for that little while after receiving Him, He can rest in us as in a tabernacle also.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the “tabernacles” of our hearts with Love . Jesus, we trust in You! Mary, MOther of Mercy, pray for us.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Stephie, QuietTrad and Jerzy,

Thank you all for your “hearts”, letting us know you read this prayer and appreciated the words of St. Faustina. It is becoming more and more obvious to me that every saint has been given grace through Mary whether each saint is as aware of it or writes of it. If they do write as St. Faustina did and other saints like St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. Louis de Montfort and countless others, there was a movement in them of Grace flowing through Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit to inspire them.

I’m reminded of these words from St. Louis de Montfort:

1. When the Holy Spirit, her spouse, finds Mary in a soul, He hastens there and enters fully into it. He gives himself generously to that soul according to the place it has given to His spouse. One of the main reasons why the Holy Spirit does not work striking wonders in souls is that He fails to find in them a sufficiently close union with His faithful and inseparable spouse. I say “inseparable spouse”, for from the moment the substantial love of the Father and the Son espoused Mary to form Jesus, the head of the elect, and Jesus in the elect, He has never disowned her, for she has always been faithful and fruitful. (True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin)