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Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary - continued:

Some of us may have consecrated ourselves to Our Lord through Our Lady, or at least, have developed a special devotion to Our Blessed Mother. And there may be times when we feel that our spiritual life is stagnant or getting nowhere. The Venerable Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD has these encouraging words for us:

As our Mother and Queen, "Mary’s solicitude extends to all the details of our life. She follows maternally the progress of our soul. We may find our sanctification slow, but she knows that we are not strong enough to receive God’s light and love, and that God will give us time. Let us therefore surrender ourselves completely to her; let us ask her to intercede for us in everything … If we entrust to her our spiritual life, its growth will be faster and smoother." (More Mother than Queen, p. 23.) (Emphasis added.)​

O Virgin Mary, our Mother and Queen,
plead for us, and love us,
in time and in eternity. Amen.​

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OUR LADY, HEALTH OF THE SICK:

Article quoted from catholicculture.org:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-08-24

“Historically today is the feast of Our Lady Health of the Sick.”

Our Lady, Health of the Sick
Our Lady Health of the Sick shrine is in the diocese of Michoacan, to the west of Mexico City. It was erected by the first bishop, the famous Vasco de Quiroga. The Indians of Michoacan, the Tarascans, were nomadic and impatient of all restraint.

The bishop, in whose hands the entire project of civilizing the people was placed, set up the means and paraphernalia of civilization: the Church, hospital, asylums, workshops and tools, and the framework of administration. He laid out a hundred towns in a planned economy. He took every precaution to assure equity and justice, and he worked to develop their love of one another as children of God. He taught them about their Holy Redeemer and about His blessed mother. He erected the shrine of Our Lady of Health, through whose intercession they were to strive for health of soul and health of body. Every advance they made in virtue, every effort toward decent habits of hygiene and sanitation they were to offer as flowers in a garland to La Purisima.

The statue which represented Our Lady of Health came from Europe. The Indians cherished it. They dressed it in elegant robes. They decorated it. They placed it in a chapel shrine. They duplicated it in the wood they carved out of trees. She became a favorite Madonna in western Mexico and northward into the United States. In many places throughout this great extent of territory she is still a favorite Madonna. In some places her title has changed: In Chihuahua, Mexico, she is Our Lady of Chihuahua; in New Mexico, she is Our Lady of Santa Fe. The name has changed but the devotion and the statue are the same.

Excerpted from the Mary Page"
 
OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA (THE BLACK MADONNA):

Article quoted from catholicculture.org:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-08-26

"The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the Black Madonna, was traditionally believed to have been painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress wood panel from a table used by the Holy Family in Nazareth. It was said to have been brought from Jerusalem by St. Helen and was enshrined in Constantinople for 500 years. It was given to a Greek princess married to a Ruthenian nobleman and it was housed in the royal palace at Belz in the Ukraine for the next 600 years. Art historians believe it is a Byzantine icon of the Hodigitria type dating from the 6th - 9th Century.

The image was brought to Poland in 1382 by Ladislaus of Opole who rescued the painting from Belz while escaping an attack by the Tartars who had damaged the painting with an arrow. On his way to Silesia, Ladislaus stopped to rest in the town of Czestochowa near the church on Jasna Góra (Bright Hill). He believed that it was Our Lady’s desire for her image to remain in Czestochowa so he left the image at the church and invited the Pauline monks from Hungary to be its guardians.

On April 14, 1430, robbers, sometimes associated with the Hussites of Bohemia, looted the monastery and made three slashes on the face of Our Lady in an attempt to remove valuable stones, finally smashing the image into three pieces. In order to repair the icon, the original paint was removed and the icon was repainted. Although the icon was restored, the slashes in Our Lady’s face remain visible today.

The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa is associated with several miraculous events. One of the most spectacular occurred in 1655 during the height of the Protestant Revolution. The Swedish Lutheran army invaded Poland winning victories over the city after city including Cracow and Warsaw. The Polish King fled the country. When the Swedish army came to Jasna Góra hoping to plunder the sacred site, the monks refused to surrender although they were greatly outnumbered. The following account is from the Polish historian Norman Davies as quoted in Warren Carroll’s series on Christianity.

“When negotiations brought no result the Swedes began a violent bombardment of the walls. Then, in order to spread fear among the defenders, they started to hurl blazing firebrands, setting the monastery’s barn alight together with a great quantity of corn. Next, all around the monastery, they set up a camp with wooden palisades and gun emplacements…But their attack had little effect. The walls were banked with earth on the inside, and only the cannon displaced a few bricks. Before long, the defenders opened fire in reply. The aim of their gunners was so accurate that after three hours the Swedes were obliged to pull back with great loss. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of houses adjacent to the monastery, where the enemy had found shelter, set their homes on fire, not counting the cost…

The Swedes renewed their attack on the 19th of November, the day of the Transfiguration of the Virgin…the official printed a description of this siege, which records that bullets and missiles fell so thick on the church and tower that they seemed to be in flames. But…the cannon balls bounced off the walls and tiles or flew over the church roof, causing no damage….Muller (the Swedish commander) was most angered by the monks, who would climb to the top of the tower and in full choir pour down pious hymns on his soldiers…

Jasna Góra was not saved by men…A thick mist screened the monastery from attack…Muller himself saw a Lady in a shining robe on the walls, priming the cannon and tossing shells back in the direction from which they came…He (General Muller) launched this last attack on Christmas Day, firing off all his guns in one salvo, and sending his entire army to storm the walls…But at that very moment, he suffered a fatal accident. He was eating breakfast in a fairly distant house, and cursing Jasna Góra with blasphemies, when suddenly an iron shot penetrated the wall, knocked down all the plates, bottles and glasses from the table, scattered the guests, and struck him in the arm…At last, in the night before St. Stephen’s Day, the Swedes started to drag the guns from their emplacements, to collect their equipment, and to direct their wagons in the direction of Klobuck…Of course, no heretic will believe that cannon balls were repulsed from the walls of Jasna Góra by supernatural means…but all that I have described is true.”

The victory of Our Lady of Czestochowa at Jasna Góra turned the tide of the war. In 1656, the Polish King Jan Casimir proclaimed the Mother of God the “Queen of the Polish Crown” and the shrine at Jasna Góra, the “Mount of Victory” and the spiritual capital of Poland. In recognition of the miraculous image, Pope Clement XI donated a crown to be placed on the image in 1717. Thieves stole the bejeweled crown in 1909. Pope St. Pius X replaced the 1717 crown with a crown of gold."
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OUR LADY OF CZESTOKOWA (THE BLACK MADONNA) - continued:

"Our Lady intervened again in 1920 when the Russian army was about to invade Warsaw. As they were about to cross the Vistula River on September 15th, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa appeared in the clouds over Warsaw and the Russian Army retreated. Shortly after this Miracle of the Vistula, in 1925, Pope Pius XI designated May 3rd as the feast day of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

After the liberation of Poland from Nazi occupation, 1.5 million people gathered at Jasna Góra in 1945 to rededicate the nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pope John Paul II visited the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa four times during his pontificate. Our Lady’s intercession is credited with the liberation of Poland from Communist rule.

The holy painting enshrined at Czestochowa has been a lighthouse of hope during centuries of hardship and defeat. Today, the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa attracts millions of who love and honor Our Lady’s intercession.

Excerpted from St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Why is She Black?

There have been reports for centuries of miraculous events such as spontaneous healings occuring to those who made a pilgrimage to the portrait. It is known as the “Black Madonna” because of the soot residue that discolors the painting. The soot is the result of centuries of votive lights and candles burning in front of the painting. With the decline of communism in Poland, pilgrimages to the Black Madonna have increased dramatically.

Excerpted from The Mary Page"
(From catholicculture.org, August 26, 2016.)
 
September 8 - NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (Feast):

Article quoted from catholicculture.org:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-09-08

"**Birth of Mary
**
On Our Lady’s birthday the Church celebrates the first dawning of redemption with the appearance in the world of the Savior’s mother, Mary. The Blessed Virgin occupies a unique place in the history of salvation, and she has the highest mission ever commended to any creature. We rejoice that the Mother of God is our Mother, too. Let us often call upon the Blessed Virgin as “Cause of our joy”, one of the most beautiful titles in her litany.

Since September 8 marks the end of summer and beginning of fall, this day has many thanksgiving celebrations and customs attached to it. In the Old Roman Ritual there is a blessing of the summer harvest and fall planting seeds for this day.

The winegrowers in France called this feast “Our Lady of the Grape Harvest”. The best grapes are brought to the local church to be blessed and then some bunches are attached to hands of the statue of Mary. A festive meal which includes the new grapes is part of this day.

In the Alps section of Austria this day is “Drive-Down Day” during which the cattle and sheep are led from their summer pastures in the slopes and brought to their winter quarters in the valleys. This was usually a large caravan, with all the finery, decorations, and festivity. In some parts of Austria, milk from this day and all the leftover food are given to the poor in honor of Our Lady’s Nativity.

Excerpted from *The Holyday Book *by Fr. Francis Weiser, SJ"
 
September 12 - The Most Holy Name of Mary (Optional Memorial):

Collect (Opening Prayer):
“Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that, for all who celebrate the glorious Name
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
she may obtain your merciful favor.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.”

“God the Father is glorified by the exalted role of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thus, her name is a name of honor, to be venerated and called upon with trust and devotion.” (Daily Roman Missal, MTF.)

For more on the Most Holy Name of Mary, see link:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-09-12
 
Additional thoughts on THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY:

Originally posted by Amiciel in the thread “Saints and the Liturgical Year”:

Sharing with you some thoughts from Mysteries of the Virgin Mary by Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P.:

Quoting CCC 2158, Fr. Cameron makes us aware that “Everyone’s name is sacred. The name is the icon of the person. It demands respect as a sign of the dignity of the one who bears it”.

Father Cameron continues with CCC 203: “A name expresses a person’s essence and identity and the meaning of this person’s life. To disclose one’s name is to make oneself known to others; in a way it is to hand oneself over by becoming accessible, capable of being known more intimately and addressed personally… from the very beginning God insists on revealing to us the name of his mother.” (pp. 106-107.)

“God deliberately confides to us Mary’s name so as to make the Blessed Virgin more accessible to us, to enable us to address her personally and know her intimately, and to give us an entree to the very meaning of her life…” (p. 107.)

Fr. Cameron quotes St. Thomas: “Mary means ‘star of the sea’, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession” …(p. 107.)

"However, the true greatness of the Holy Name of Mary is its instrumentality in our salvation. ‘Just as the salvation of the world began with the Hail Mary,’ explains St. Louis de Montfort, ‘so the salvation of each individual is bound up with it.’ For just as the utterance of this name ‘brought to a dry and barren world the Fruit of Life,’ so, too, will reverently pronouncing the Holy Name of Mary in prayer ‘cause the Word of God to take root in the soul and bring forth Jesus, the Fruit of Life’ …(P. 108.)

Quoting St. Bonaventure, Fr. Cameron writes: “As wax melts before fire, so do the devils lose their power against those souls who remember the name of Mary and devoutly invoke it.” (p.110.)

Father continues by quoting St. Bernard: “If the winds of temptations surge, if you run aground on the shoals of troubles, call upon Mary. If you are tossed by the winds of pride or ambition or detraction or jealousy, call upon Mary. In dangers, in straits, in perplexity, call upon Mary. Let her name be always in your mouth and in your heart.” (p. 113.)

Let us then sing to Our Lady, Our Mother Mary, in reverence and trust:
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Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
 
On Thursday, September 15, we honor Our Blessed Mother by celebrating her memorial as Our Lady of Sorrows.

Collect (Opening Prayer):
“O God, who willed
that, when your Son was lifted high on the Cross,
his Mother should stand close by and share his suffering,
grant that your Church,
participating with the Virgin Mary in the Passion of Christ, may merit a share in his Resurrection.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.”

“An appreciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s unique role in the Passion of her Son led Pope Pius VII to extend this traditional devotion to the whole Church in 1814. Our Lady is the preeminent example of how to live with suffering; she reminds the faithful of the malice of sin and shows the way of true repentance.” (Daily Roman Missal, MTF.)

“By the 14th c., the faithful identified seven sorrows of Mary; the presentation of Jesus in the Temple, the flight into Egypt, Jesus being lost in Jerusalem, the meeting of Mary and Jesus on the way to Calvary, the crucifixion, the taking down of Jesus’ body from the cross, and his burial.” (Ordo.)

For more on Our Lady of Sorrows, see links:
www.ewtn.com/saintsHoly/saints/O/ourladyofsorrows.asp
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-09-15
 
More reflections on Our Lady of Sorrows:

Originally posted by amiciel in our thread: The Blessed Virgin Mary: Why Do We Need Her?

"Sharing with you these excerpts from Mysteries of the Virgin Mary, by Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. May these help us to better understand the important role of Our Blessed Mother as we face our trials in life:

Fr. Cameron writes: “What torture can compare to that of a Mother witnessing the murder of her own child? The Blessed Virgin Mary subjected herself to just that at the crucifixion of Jesus.” (p. 71.)

"What enabled Mary to stay close to Jesus on Calvary? …

Bishop Bossuet gives us some insights: “Mary is appointed to share in this great sacrifice, and to offer up her own Son… It was the eternal Father’s will that Mary should be not only offered in sacrifice with that innocent victim… but that she should share in the accomplishment of the whole mystery wrought by His death.” (p.73.)

“So committed was the Mother of God to fulfilling the will of the Father regarding Christ that she not only permitted the death of her Son but fully consented to it…” (p. 74.)

Further, Benedictine abbot Arnold of Bonneval (+1156) observes: “At that moment, Christ and Mary had but one single will, and both were equally offering a single holocaust to God; she with the blood of her heart; he with the blood of his body.” (p.74.)
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Originally posted by amiciel in our thread: The Blessed Virgin Mary:Why Do We Need Her?

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Reflection on Our Lady of Sorrows - continued:

"The offering of Mary made on Calvary was not a first for the Mother of God; Bossuet says that throughout her life Mary had been offering her Son unceasingly from the moment of his presentation in the temple. And there was a certain unique and terrible quality to that suffering: She 'had always had to endure the double torment of knowing that He must suffer, and of being in uncertainty as to how: so that she herself, as Jesus grew up under her eyes, suffered His passion over and over again, in anticipation that was all the more terrible from being vague.’" (p. 73.)

"Our Lady of Sorrows surrenders herself to such excruciating suffering in order to be in solidarity with us. We need suffering in our life. The writer Leon Bloy (+1917) famously stated that there are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." (p. 75.)
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Originally posted by amiciel in our thread: The Blessed Virgin Mary:Why Do We Need Her?

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Reflection on Our Lady of Sorrows - continued:

"In Salvifici Doloris, n. 2, Blessed Pope John Paul II teaches that ‘it is through suffering that we go beyond ourselves and come in contact with our transcendence.’ And Pope-Emeritus Benedict XVI writes in Spe Salvi, n. 38: ‘the true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to suffering and to the sufferer.’ (p. 75.)

Why? Because, as the 20th Catholic philosopher Louis Lavelle explains: “Suffering cuts through all the appearances behind which we hide, until it reaches the depths where the living self dwells… It is suffering that deepens our consciousness, making it understanding and loving… The real problem is not to find a way to anesthetize suffering, since that could only be done at the expense of consciousness itself. The problem is how to transfigure it.” (p. 75.)

“Fr. Julian Carron continues in this vein: 'Even for people who live anesthetized lives, anesthetics have a limit because suffering and the wound are unavoidable. Grace enters through this suffering and this wound’.” (p. 75.)

"When we find the courage to come to terms with the wounds in our lives, we see the face of one who first sympathized with our suffering - Our Lady of Sorrows." (p. 76.) (Emphasis added)
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Originally posted by amiciel in our thread: The Blessed Virgin Mary:Why Do We Need Her?

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Reflection on Our Lady of Sorrows - continued:

"Mary waits at the cross as Mother…

The universal dimension of the Blessed Virgin’s motherhood was revealed only on Calvary, in Jesus’ gift of a mother who thereby became our mother as well… 'The words of the dying Jesus,' Blessed Pope John Paul II wrote, 'actually show that his first intention was not to entrust his Mother to John, but to entrust the disciple to Mary and to give her a new maternal role.' (Theotokos, p. 188; MVM, p. 76.) (Emphasis added.)

In Salvifici Doloris, n. 26, Blessed Pope John Paul II assures us that suffering conceals 'a particular power that draws a person interiorly close to Christ.’ (p. 77.)

[And,] “As we draw close to Christ in our suffering, we receive Mary. Our crucified Savior has confided to us his Sorrowful Mother, with all her maternal closeness, in order to sustain us when we are overcome by the terrifying trials of life. Through Mary’s compassionate presence at the cross, the passion that continues to play itself out in our life becomes more deeply human. St. Albert the Great (+1280) says that 'as all the world is under obligation to Jesus for his Passion, so also are we under obligation to Our Lady for her compassion.' For Our Lady of Compassion fills us with the courage to face life’s sufferings…” (p. 78.) (Emphasis added.)

Recall the first marvellous sign that Jesus wrought at the Wedding Feast in Cana. "Dionysius the Carthusian (+1471) asks: 'If the Virgin felt with the bride and bridegroom of Cana the sorrow of their physical poverty and came to their aid, even without being asked, how much more will she have compassion on our spiritual neediness and offer assistance if she be called upon with faith? Yes, she offers assistance generously, even before she is asked.’" (p. 78, Emphasis added.)

What a wonderful, glorious Mother we all have!
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Originally posted by amiciel in our thread: The Blessed Virgin Mary:Why Do We Need Her?

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Reflection on Our Lady of Sorrows - continued:

"I end this sharing with these beautiful excerpts from Mother Angelica’s Closing Prayer to the Stations of the Cross:

"*My Jesus, …

Help me to see the Father’s Will in every incident of my daily life.
This is what You did …

You saw a beauty in the Cross
and embraced it as a desired treasure.
My worldly mind is dulled by injustice and suffering
and I lose sight of the glory that is to come.
Help me to trust the Father
and to realize that there is something great
behind the most insignificant suffering.
There is Someone lifting my cross to fit my shoulders -
there is Divine Wisdom
in all the petty annoyances that irk my soul every day.
Teach me the lessons contained in my Cross,
the wisdom of its necessity,
the beauty of its variety
and the fortitude
that accompanies even the smallest cross."*
From Living Way of the Cross by Mother Angelica (EWTN)

Who, better than Our Lady, is the perfect follower of Our Lord,
who truly appreciated the beauty of the cross?

O Virgin Mary, dear Mother of Sorrows;
We entrust ourselves completely to you,
in all of our struggles in life,
for the glory of your Son, Jesus,
our Lord and Savior. Amen.
 
An article on Our Lady of La Salette from:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-09-19

Our Lady of La Salette
“On September 19, 1846, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat on the mountain of La Salette, France. After thorough investigation the Catholic Church gave approval to the message and secret of La Salette as written by Melanie. The account was published in Lecce on November 15, 1879 with the imprimatur of Bishop Zola of Lecce. Mary’s message was much the same as at Fatima, “If my people do not wish to submit themselves, I am forced to let go of the hand of my Son. It is so heavy and weighs me down so much I can no longer keep hold of it.” She lamented with tears those who do not keep Sunday holy and who take the name of the Lord in vain. She indicated that if men did not stop offending Our Lord the potato crop would fail. She gave Maximin his secret which he never revealed. She then turned to Melanie and gave her a secret which Melanie revealed 30 years later only to the Holy Father, who gave orders that it was never to be revealed.”
 
Hello all,
For a while now, I have been away from CAF… and will still be away for a little while longer. Grateful_child has offered to continue posting helpful articles on Our Lady to keep our thread active.

Please feel free to post other Marian articles which you feel may be helpful for CAF readers. Thank you for visiting our forum thread! May Our Lady keep all of us under the protection of her motherly mantle … May she help us become the person Our Lord foresaw us to be from all eternity. God bless us all!🙂
 
**An article on Our Lady of Ransom from:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2016-09-24

Our Lady of Ransom
"Would you risk your life to free someone from a concentration camp? Would you take the place of a prisoner? Would you sacrifice comforts and even necessities to save a slave? Would you pray and do penance for the freedom of Christian captives?

These things were done by the followers of Christ from the earliest days, but especially during the Middle ages. At that time the enemies of Christ’s Church had conquered a great part of Christian territory and had carried off into slavery many thousands of Christians. Hit and miss, though heroic, efforts to free these unfortunates had been made here and there.

The Church decided to organize the work of ransoming slaves. In 1198 St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois founded the Trinitarians. From then until 1787 they redeemed 900,000 captives. The Order of Our Lady of Ransom, called the Mercedarians, and founded by St. Peter Nolasco, ransomed 490,736 slaves between the years 1218 and 1632. St. Vincent de Paul, a slave himself, led his priests to save 1200 Christian captives in the short period between 1642 and 1660 at the staggering cost of 1,200,000 pounds of silver. An even greater achievement was the conversion of thousands in captivity, and steeling them against the sufferings of a cruel martyrdom for the faith.

All this has been admitted by a modern, competent Protestant historian, Bonet-Maury. He records that no expedition sent into the Barbary States by the powers of Europe or America equalled “the moral effect produced by the ministry of consolation, peace and abnegation, going even to the sacrifice of liberty and life, which was exercised by the humble sons of St. John of Matha, St. Peter Nolasco, and St. Vincent de Paul.”

Our Blessed Mother herself appeared in a vision to St. Peter Nolasco, and requested him to found a religious order devoted to the rescue of captives. This was in 1218. Previous to that, since 1192, certain noblemen of Barcelona, Spain, had organized to care for the sick in hospitals and to rescue Christians from the Moors. St. Peter Nolasco, St. Raymond of Pennafort, and King James formed the new Order of Our Lady of Mercy. The group included religious priests who prayed and gathered the means, while the lay monks or knights went into the very camps of the Moors to buy back Christians, and, if necessary, take their very places. We have mentioned the magnitude of their success, a success that was won through the heavenly assistance of the Mother of Mercy, Our Lady of Ransom.

Excerpted from the Feasts of Our Lady by Fr. Arthur Tonne"**
 
Amiciel said:
THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD - continued:

St. Jerome and other Fathers of the Church endeavored to show that all the graces of vocation and of perseverance come to us through Mary.
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Can you give some excerpts from St. Jerome and other Fathers supporting this statement? Thank you.
 
Expatreprocedit said:
Can you give some excerpts from St. Jerome and other Fathers supporting this statement? Thank you.
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Amiciel said:
Hello all,
For a while now, I have been away from CAF… and will still be away for a little while longer…
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Hi, Expatreprocedit. Just letting you know that Amiciel will be away for a while from CAF. The quote you asked about is a direct quote by Amiciel from the book 'More Mother Than Queen" by Venerable Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, o.c.d., p.20. Maybe the book can give you some quotes you will find helpful.
 
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