Category: Our Lady

At the Cross with Our Lady

4/12/2019

Our Lady standing under the Cross from the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in September

Friday in Passiontide is dedicated to remembering the suffering endured by our Blessed Mother for our Redemption. Concerning her role in Redemption, Dom Gueranger writes,

I Am Thine

4/10/2019

On the First Saturday of April, Our Lady of Grace Sodality celebrated the consecration of one of the Sodalists.

Laetare-Rejoice!

3/31/2019

Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and meet together all you who love her; rejoice exceedingly, you who have been in sorrow, that you may leap for joy, and be satiated with comfort from her breasts. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: we shall go into the house of the Lord. - Introit from Laetare Sunday

Pausing in the midst of the somberness of Lent to encourage us to run the race to the finish, Holy Mother Church turns our attentions to the coming joys of our Redemption. Joy is a fruit of suffering with Christ, and our dear Mother is our best guide to imitating Him, so we turn to her today asking her to obtain for us the grace to suffer well with Christ so as to rejoice in and with Him for eternity.

Mary, my Queen, my Mother dear!
Behold me at thy feet,
Oh deign thy servant's heart to cheer
And teach me what is meet
For me to do to honor thee,
And best to serve thy Son;
Obtain, sweet Lady, that in me
At least thy will be done.
From a poem to our Blessed Mother

Angelus Domini...

3/25/2019

Strengthen in our minds, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the mysteries of the true faith; that we who confess Him who was conceived of a Virgin to be true God and man, may deserve by the power of His saving resurrection to attain to eternal happiness.

Our Lady's Day

3/18/2019

Saturday, traditionally dedicated specially to the honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Marian day in the convent as well. Together we renew our total consecration to Jesus through Mary and honor her by our devotional practices. In imitation of her hidden life, we thoroughly clean the convent each Saturday, but the day is also marked by a wide variety of apostolic activities.

"I Will Give God the Best I Have"

2/27/2019

A MEMBER of the "24 Club", St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows is a special inspiration to the young, students, clerics, and novices whose patron he is. In his short life, he rose heroically from an average, even worldly, life to one of great perfection, as is exhibited by the resolutions which guided his brief religious life.