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Moment of Reflection
Mother of God and Mother of Mercy
Lord Jesus, that thou art the Son of Mary, we want this day
and now talk a little bit with you about Thy dear Mother.
Surely that, pleasing to the Heart of Your Son.
Let's start by listening to what they tell us some saints, great devotees of Mary:
S. Bernard says:
"Mary is our mediatrix, received by it,
O my God, Thy mercy, for it received the Lord Jesus. "
S. Curé of Ars said:
- 'Where we have to ask a favor of God, let us turn to the Blessed ***,
and we will certainly be heard. ».
S. Alphonsus Liguori said:
- "Mary is the treasurer and the treasury of God of all mercies that we want to dispense."
Pope Leo XIII said:
- "Woman, thou art so great and valleys so that anyone who wants a free and no recourse to you, you want to fly without wings."
Also, S. Bernardo
- "That our thirsty soul run to this source,
misery that our use of this treasure of compassion (...)
Blessed ***, that Thy goodness do meet before the whole world the grace that You have achieved with God,
Your prayers reached with the forgiveness of the guilty, the health of the sick,
the consolation of the afflicted, relief and freedom to those who are in danger. "
Blessed John Paul II in his encyclical, "Rich in Mercy," and speaks of Our Lady says:
"Mary is the one who knows more deeply the mystery of Divine Mercy.
Know your prices and know how much is raised.
In this sense, we call her the Mother of Mercy, Our Lady of Mercy, Mother of Divine Mercy ...
These titles we give to the Mother of God speak of it primarily as Mother of the Crucified and Risen ...
In her and through her love never ceases to reveal himself in the history of the Church and humanity.
This revelation is especially fruitful, because it is based, in the case of the Mother of God,
in its natural tact of her maternal heart, in their particular sensitivity,
in his ability to reach all those who accept
easier part of the merciful love of a mother.
This motherhood of Mary will last without interruption until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. " "
Father Dehon, founder of Dehonians, Priests of the Sacred Heart,
also tells us the Heart of Mary and tries to show us the tenderness and love of this heart, and says:
"Your heart is not sufficiently known.
She undoubtedly has a heart of flesh ... It is the mother of Mercy.
It's like saying you have a compassionate heart for the poor.
Imagine all that queirais more tender, more delicate:
Mary's heart beyond anything effectively.
See a sister, a wife, a mother.
The palpitations of the heart of a sister, a dear brother,
his whole life is directed according to the circumstances in which he is the brother.
A mother is willing to do anything for your child. The son lives in the heart of the mother.
Well, Mary's love is far greater than that of a natural mother.
She gave us birth in pain to the foot of the cross and his love is proportional to the sufferings which custámos. "
This mother's love and mother of Mercy is manifested above all,
to sinners, that we all are.
The mother of mercy, despite our sin, wants to take us to attain true holiness.
One author tells us the following:
"Sin leaves, sometimes the soul so corrupt, so sick,
even if it works yet to be saved, as it does no appetite and without any hope,
or very little, to sanctify really
getting up to look as innocent souls in a region far beyond his misery,
and inaccessible to her, mistakenly, sadly convinced that
so when will heal their wounds, will only be saved as a being decreased,
and that the poor shipwrecked, rescued by the mercy of the Mother of God,
will forever be bound to put a lower world, much less the world of the innocent!
But "blessed Lady, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mother of Mercy and of all comfort '
because it is so powerfully merciful that
can not only restore the sinner their primitive possibilities,
but you can still accumulate new and most precious treasures!
In the merciful hands of Mary, the sinner is not a flower that has withered hopelessly
and fell to the ground bare for ever! Quanta mimosa flower
where it will not be harvested only remaining traces of death! ...
The sinner is a lousy?
For Mary is the one that raises the floor (SI 112.6-7).
If the holy innocents honor the holiness of God, "Saints sinners" glorify His mercy.
If those are the children of the innocence of Mary, these are sons of His Mercy, His tears!
Neither Augustine nor St. Andrew Corsino, taken from the abyss of misery, let therefore
to be of the greatest saints of Paradise
or so many Saints who never lost his baptismal innocence.
The Good Thief was the first that came up in Heaven with the Lord:
"Today will be with me in Paradise." "
(Jorge Duarte Barros, Praise of Mercy, p. 88 and 89).
We end with a prayer by Father Dehon, to Our Lady,
the 'Year with the Heart of Jesus' Day January 25:
- 'O Mary, O my Mother and my sovereign protector, as I have been cold so far about you!
I have been a loving and devoted son.
I drove Thee prayers and praises with much indifference, distraction and coldness!
I would not dare approach me anymore You are so patient does not know Thee,
so compassionate, so merciful! O Mary And take my heart and it return again. "
From January 19 - "O Mary, it is you who constantly want to go to the Heart of Jesus. Allow it to me.
I asked him to forgive me, convert me, bless me, I answer. "
"Thank you, Jesus, Mother Mary for the dares."
I will give you the Blessing:
The Blessing of God the Merciful Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary
Mother of Divine Mercy, descend upon you and remain forever.
- Amen.