Mar. 12 - Wk 2 Day 2 - "to acquire a greater understanding of Mary"

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

During this 2nd Wk , we continue to Listen to Jesus’ words from His Cross:

“Behold your Mother”

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Especially in prayer to the Holy Spirit, and in praying the Rosary, we are asking for a greater knowledge of Mary, who is Mother and Model for the Church. St. Louis de Montfort wrote in “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”:

1. God the Holy Spirit wishes to fashion his chosen ones in and through Mary. He tells her, “My well-beloved, my spouse, let all your virtues take root in my chosen ones that they may grow from strength to strength and from grace to grace. When you were living on earth, practising the most sublime virtues, I was so pleased with you that I still desire to find you on earth without your ceasing to be in heaven. Reproduce yourself then in my chosen ones, so that I may have the joy of seeing in them the roots of your invincible faith, profound humility, total mortification, sublime prayer, ardent charity, your firm hope and all your virtues. You are always my spouse, as faithful, pure, and fruitful as ever. May your faith give me believers; your purity, virgins; your fruitfulness, elect and living temples.”

Let us, by God’s Grace, continue to pray with attention and devotion:

Litany of the Holy Spirit: see HERE

Ave Maris Stella: see HERE

5 decades of the Rosary for greater understanding of Mary

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear KBS,

Thanks again, for your “faith - full” heart which lets us know you are continuing the journey with us. As I prayed the Litany of the Holy Spirit this morning, I was aware once more of how beautiful and deep that prayer is. It would be difficult to choose any one of the invocations as a “favorite”. Each one of us needs to ponder by God’s Grace, the words we pray with attention and devotion.

Please let us pray for one another, for the Church and for all those in most need of God’s Mercy.

 

[hazcompat]

1. It gives great joy and comfort to this holy and general Synod that even among the separated brethren there are some who give due honor to the Mother of our Lord and Saviour, especially among the Orientals, who with devout mind and fervent impulse give honor to the Mother of God, ever virgin.(24*) The entire body of the faithful pours forth instant supplications to the Mother of God and Mother of men that she, who aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers, may now, exalted as she is above all the angels and saints, intercede before her Son in the fellowship of all the saints, until all families of people, whether they are honored with the title of Christian or whether they still do not know the Saviour, may be happily gathered together in peace and harmony into one people of God, for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

Each and all these items which are set forth in this dogmatic Constitution have met with the approval of the Council Fathers. And We by the apostolic power given Us by Christ together with the Venerable Fathers in the Holy Spirit, approve, decree and establish it and command that what has thus been decided in the Council be promulgated for the glory of God.

Given in Rome at St. Peter’s on November 21, 1964.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear hazcompat,

Thanks for your posting of quotes. I did not comment on at least 2 of the excerpts from the document “Lumen Gentium” because in both cases there was for me a reminder that while the Holy Spirit was surely guiding the Church through the Counsel, God never “forces” His Grace, but invites all to “Be Holy” as He is Holy.

There is an intangible “something” about this paragraph as well as the other paragraph to which I did not leave a comment recently that causes me to wonder about the wording or the translation. I think the subsequent writing of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” gave clearer understanding of the role of Mary in the Church, as did PopeSt. John Paul II’s subsequent writing of Mary in his Encyclical “Mother of the Redeemer” and his Exhortation “On the Holy Rosary”.