*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. *
Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
St. Francis of Assisi and St. Vincent de Paul are action oriented/service oriented, so may fit best with the SF temperament.
St. Dominic and St. Thomas Aquinas were theologians, so may fit best with NT temperament where one is interested in understanding/gaining mastery over a large body of knowledge.
I am INFP and I have benefited most from thus far are to Jesus through Mary spiritualities, Carmelite spiritualities, Sacred Heart of Jesus spiritualities, and Divine Mercy spiritualities. I may have an overly high opinion of the INFP, but I find that I am most intrigued by the accounts of people who have (1) extremely deep and supernatural unions with Christ (2) wisdom that intuitively explains deep questions of suffering and Christ that are hard to obtain by logical thought (3) relationship with suffering that is genuine and restorative/salutory (4) PASSION
A premise of St. Louis Mary de Montfort’s
To Jesus through Mary is that Mary is the surest, most perfect, swiftest, best way to Jesus. This seems to be true as he has interesting insights in his books and in his life on the nature of Jesus and on suffering that I have never seen anywhere else, but strike me as true. For example, crosses are gifts of heaven, the Cross contains shards of the Tree of Life, and his parallelism between the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden of Eden. Mary is also an exceptionally fascinating creature.
Second, I notice that some people have exceptionally close relationships with Christ. Some see him as a Lover and Master physically, spiritually, emotionally in addition to intellectually - the more typical relationship. The only three that I have noticed with these attributes are St. Teresa of Avila, St. Faustina, and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. St. John of the Cross writes about it as well. And these who had the most intimate and passionate relationship with Christ also contributed greatly to the Church’s understanding of Christ. St. Faustina with the Divine Mercy image and Divine Mercy chaplet. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque with the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. St Teresa of Avila by refounding the Carmelite order, from whom all the spirituality that I know of on reading union with Christ comes from: Interior Castle, Dark Night of the Soul, The Way of Perfection, etc. I even suspect that the movie The Dark Knight is loosely inspired by Dark Night of the Soul. Interestingly enough, in all three cases, Mary is still the way to Jesus.
Excerpt from
Vie par elle-meme by St. Margaret Mary Aloque, to whom was revealed the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, "The blessed virgin has always taken great care of me. I had recourse to her in all my necessities and she has preserved me from great dangers. I did not dare address myself to her divine son, but only to her and I often presented her with the little crown of the rosary, which I said on my bare knees, or genuflecting and kissing the ground at every Ave Maria.
episcopalacademy.org/drum/trea/TREA5-06/Wrighttrea06a.pdf
Or St. Faustina reveals that Jesus told her in Notebook 1, #31,
“During this adoration try to unite yourself in prayer with My Mother. Pray with all your heart in union with Mary and try also during this time to make the Way of the Cross.”
So St. Faustina of the Divine Mercy and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque of the Sacred Heart probably did NOT read
True Devotion to Mary but followed it anyways, in one case because it came from the mouth of Jesus himself
St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross have a special Marian connection as a Carmelite, under the protection of Elijah and Mary - Our Lady of Mount Carmel, with no known human founders
In fact, if you look at famous INFPs and you can take this site seriously, you see that Mary, Mother of God, is listed as an INFP, probably because she is quiet yet wise and ponders everything in her heart.
theintrovertzcoach.com/famous_infps.html
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
*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. *
My grandmother was from Jakobstad and also lived in Närpes and Kristinestad, which I think isn’t too far from Pori. I didn’t think there were any Finnish Catholics in Finland (my grandmother was Methodist). I’ve always wondered – are there any Catholic devotions or prayers unique to Finland? (St. Urho doesn’t count since he’s a myth.)