June 1 - Mary, Mother of the Church, you warm our hearts with the Spirit of your Son Jesus Christ

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Divine Providence has given us this First Day of June, the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to be also the first day on which Mary is universally to be honored on the first Monday after Pentecost from now on. St. Paul VI announced this title to the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council and Pope Francis has recently made it a Memorial to be celebrated by the Universal Church.

The Mass Readings for Today are found at: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/060120.cfm and if anyone wishes to pray the Liturgy of the Hours for today, you can read those beautiful Prayers at: Universalis: Morning Prayer (Lauds)

The title for this thread is taken from today’s Mass Readings “Alleluia Verse”:
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
O happy Virgin, you gave birth to the Lord;
O blessed mother of the Church,
you warm our hearts with the Spirit of your Son Jesus Christ.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
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Due to the word limit on CAF, I will post only a portion of today’s Gospel:
Standing by the cross of Jesus were His Mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple there whom He loved,
He said to His Mother, “Woman, behold, your Son.”
Then He said to the disciple,
“Behold, your Mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
After this, aware that everything was now finished,
in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
Jesus said, “I thirst.”
There was a vessel filled with common wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop
and put it up to his mouth.
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,
“It is finished.”
And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit…(from Jn 18 : 25-34)
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Pope St. JPII reminded the Church that the Greek words in which John’s Gospel was written did not include the word “home” beut only the words “into his own” and the translator supplied the words “home”. Pope St. JPII interpreted this to mean the Apostle John took Mary into his own being, his own life, as we are called to do.

In today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Morning Prayer - Short Responsory:
The Lord chose her. He chose her before she was born.
– The Lord chose her. He chose her before she was born.
He made her live in his own dwelling-place.
– The Lord chose her. He chose her before she was born.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
– The Lord chose her. He chose her before she was born.
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Come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of Your faithful. Kindle in us the fire of Your Love. In choosing Mary she was given the Love she needed to warm our hearts. Hearts are growing colder in this world, Come Holy Spirit to renew the Church and through Mary, Mother of the Church renew the Face of the Earth.
 
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Dear Inbonum,

Thanks for your “heart” on this first day of June, the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Only by the power of God working through the Immaculate Heart of Mary can the human hurts in the USA right now – and the human hurting everywhere in the world – be healed! The coldness of persons hurting others in hatred needs God’s Mother Mary to warm their hearts with the Spirit of her Son Jesus Christ.

We members of the Body of Christ, have not been as faithful or as holy as we were called to be, but we have been selfish in both little and big ways and we need to change from the inside out. It is in God’s Providence that we are on this First Day of June looking to the Hearts of both Jesus and Mary.

Let us pray as Mary taught us to pray with the children at Fatima: “O my Jesus forgive us our sins and save us from the fires of Hell. Draw all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of Your Mercy.” Without Him we can do nothing. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us that we may do whatever He tells us.
 
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Dear QuietTrad,

It is sad, to read your post, but I can understand your need to leave. Trust in our dear Mother to be with you as she was with Jesus on Calvary. She will probably repeat her words to all of us many times in our lives the words she spoke to the servants at Cana: “Do whatever He tells you!”

Her words to St. Juan Diego are also words that give us comfort – when he was anxious about the health of his Uncle, Mary said: “Am I not your Mother? Are you not in the Crossing of my Arms?” Let us remain always in the “crossing of her arms” close to Jesus.

Totus tuus.
 

This same Body that we receive at the altar…​

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I beseech you, my beloved brethren, to ponder how much we are indebted to the Blessed Mother of God, and what thanksgiving we owe her, after God, for such a great benefit. For this Body of Christ, which she begot and carried in her womb, which she wrapped in swaddling clothes, which she nourished with her milk with such maternal solicitude, it is this same Body that we receive from the altar; it is his Blood that we drink in the sacrament of our redemption.

This is what the Catholic faith holds, and this is what the Holy Church teaches. No, there is no human word that can adequately praise the one from whom the Mediator between God and men took his flesh. Whatever honor we may give her, it is beneath her merits, since it is she who has prepared for us from her chaste womb the immaculate flesh that nourishes souls.

Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)

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Saint Pierre Damien

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Dear Buks, CajunJoy, Stephie, QuietTrad and Katie,

Thank you all for your “hearts”! Hopefully each of you received special graces today from the Lord through our Mother Mary. Please let us continue to pray for one another, for the Church and for all those in most need of God’s Mercy.
 
Dear hazcompat,

Thanks so much for the beautiful picture and the quote from St. Peter Damien. How truly this saint praises the Mother of God, given to us by Jesus from His Cross, saying: “Behold your Mother”. Like John let us take Mary into our lives NOW - especially in this time when Mary and her Son are so mistreated, blasphemed, by some and ignored by many.

Mary carried in her womb with Jesus all the Members of His Body who would share His Life. Let us thank God for our Baptism and the Love we have been given in Jesus through Mary.

"O Jesus, living in Mary, come and live in Your servants, in the spirit of holiness, in the fullness of Your power, in the perfection of Your ways, in the truth of Your virtues, in the communion of Your mysteries. Rule over every adverse power, in Your Spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen. " — Prayer of Fr. Olier
 
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Dear Katie,

Thank you for replying with the Litany to Our Blessed Mother - May God hear our prayers always through her Who is His Loving Mother and ours.
 
Dear QuietTrad,

God knows your heart and I believe He is continuing to work His Will through Mary in all those who are especially hers by their total Consecration to Jesus through Mary. In Chapter 6 of “True Devotion” St. Louis de Montfort wrote:
7. The greater glory of Christ
  1. If you live this devotion sincerely, you will give more glory to Jesus in a month than in many years of a more demanding devotion. Here are my reasons for saying this:
(1) Since you do everything through the Blessed Virgin as required by this devotion, you naturally lay aside your own intentions no matter how good they appear to you. You abandon yourself to our Lady’s intentions even though you do not know what they are. Thus you share in the high quality of her intentions, which are so pure that she gave more glory to God by the smallest of her actions, say, twirling her distaff, or making a stitch, than did St. Laurence suffering his cruel martyrdom on the grid-iron, and even more than all the saints together in all their most heroic deeds! Mary amassed such a multitude of merits and graces during her sojourn on earth that it would be easier to count the stars in heaven, the drops of water in the ocean or the sands of the sea-shore than count her merits and graces. She thus gave more glory to God than all the angels and saints have given or will ever give him. Mary, wonder of God, when souls abandon themselves to you, you cannot but work wonders in them!
  1. (2) In this devotion we set no store on our own thoughts and actions but are content to rely on Mary’s dispositions when approaching and even speaking to Jesus. We then act with far greater humility than others who imperceptibly rely on their own dispositions and are self- satisfied about them; and consequently we give greater glory to God, for perfect glory is given to him only by the lowly and humble of heart.
  2. (3) Our Blessed Lady, in her immense love for us, is eager to receive into her virginal hands the gift of our actions, imparting to them a marvelous beauty and splendour, and presenting them herself to Jesus most willingly. More glory is given to our Lord in this way than when we make our offering with our own guilty hands.
  3. (4) Lastly, you never think of Mary without Mary thinking of God for you. You never praise or honour Mary without Mary joining you in praising and honouring God. Mary is entirely relative to God. Indeed I would say that she was relative only to God, because she exists uniquely in reference to him.
She is an echo of God, speaking and repeating only God. If you say “Mary” she says “God”. When St. Elizabeth praised Mary calling her blessed because she had believed, Mary, the faithful echo of God, responded with her canticle, “My soul glorifies the Lord.” What Mary did on that day, she does every day. When we praise her, when we love and honour her, when we present anything to her, then God is praised, honoured and loved and receives our gift through Mary and in Mary.
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Totus tuus!
 
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