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Investiture on the Feast of the Queenship and Visitation

5/31/2017

 
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​To waste my life on Jesus
is my whole desire.
Like incense ever burning
in the smoldering fire.
​Like sudden spilling ointment
from a flask now shattered.
Like fresh and fragrant petals
of a rose all scattered. 
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​O let the fire continue
through the night and day!
A spark is all I need
to give my life away.
A puff of smoke, so docile
to your slightest breath
my joy is to surrender
my all in life and death.


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​O may my life be broken,
useless at your feet.
A wilted costly fragrance,
smelling strong and sweet.
What good will all this do You,
all this waste, my Lord?
The house is filled with sweetness
from a life out poured.
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​​I am a host You've taken,
fragile, small and weak.
Changed into Your Body,
given for all to eat.
Into Your hands,
Beloved, I commend my soul.
O let Your love consume me!
​This is my one goal.

My life is but an instant,
here and gone so fast,
but all along the journey,
love will light my path.
What good in this brief lifetime
can I hope to do?
O Jesus, I will spend it,
​waste it all on You.
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Text from a poem by Sr. Mary Karis of the Holy Spirit, Poor Clare
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Sr. Marie de Lourdes, Sr. Mary Emmanuel, Sr. Mary Catherine, Sr. Maria Magdelena,
​Sr. Michelle Marie, Mother Teresa Christe
Please join us in praying for our new novices:
Sr. Michelle Marie of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels,
Sr. Maria Magdelena of Our Lady of Fatima,
Sr. Mary Catherine of Mary, Mother of the Church,
​and Sr. Mary Emmanuel of Mary, Cause of our Joy.

​Mary, Queen and Mother of Religious, pray for us!
​Our Lady in thy Visitation,intercede for us!
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Requiescat in Pace

5/28/2017

 
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,

and let perpetual light shine upon them.
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​May they rest in peace. Amen.

Mother of Sorrows and My Mother

5/23/2017

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Mary, Mother of Sorrows and my Mother,
you are God's greatest achievement in womanhood.
Help me to realize my religious womanhood
by bearing in my heart all the swords of the world's sorrows,
and pouring out the healing of my compassionate love
upon all whose lives touch mine.
May I find my fulfillment as you found yours - in giving.
May I be spent, as you were spent, in loving and comforting.
Gentle Mother, valiant Mother,
make me a woman according to your heart,
generous and given in the sight of your Son,
​our Lord, and my Spouse. Amen.
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Abundant Life

5/18/2017

 
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Our Lady of Fatima

5/13/2017

 

"In answer to Our Lady's request at Fatima, we are greatly devoted to the recitation of the Holy Rosary (cf. Can. 663.4). We sit at the School of Mary as she teaches us in the Rosary to contemplate the beauty of the face of Christ, to experience the depths of His love, and to draw down the specific graces of each mystery here and now upon Christ's living members, most especially our Holy Father." ~ MSSR Constitutions, XV


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​The Rosary forms the center of our  Marian living of the Christo-centric vowed life. For the Sisters in immediate formation, the communal meditation upon the Gospel through the eyes of and in the company of Our Lady falls directly in the middle of their daily labors. It provides the Sisters with an opportunity to glance back with grateful hearts to their quiet moments of mediation and union with Christ in the Mass and to ask through Mary's hands for the graces necessary for fidelity in the duties that will occupy them until gathering again in His Presence for the evening prayer of the Church. For the Sisters in the apostolate, the Rosary may form the common thread that runs throughout the day, tying the formal Hours of the Church together, enlivening the demands of the apostolate with Our Lady's gentle presence, and keeping the communication between the Sister and her Spouse open.
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On this 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, we reflect gratefully on the her message, including her request for us to share in her Son's work of salvation, "Pray much and sacrifice yourselves for sinners." In Christ's suffering and passion, human suffering is infused with the light of grace and human sorrow becomes redemptive. All of our suffering now has the capacity to be co-redemptive in and through Christ. ​All of the little sufferings and inconveniences of our daily lives become opportunities, opportunities of grace for us and opportunities to console the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Since sacrifices are the offering of something precious to God, our sacrifices are not limited to painful experiences or ordeals but may and should include all things. Everything, regardless of how small or delightful, may be offered as a loving sacrifice to God in reparation for the offenses against the most tender and loving Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In this way, in every moment of our day we can be responding to Mary's call for prayer and sacrifice for the salvation of the souls in our care.
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"Even outside times of formal prayer we unite our hearts and minds with our Spouse, Jesus Christ. ​Through this contemplative union, and illumined by the light of the Holy Spirit, we seek to be more effective channels of His activity in the Church." ~ Constitutions

Marye, Flower of Heaven

5/9/2017

 
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The Sisters renewing their total consecration to Jesus through Mary following a May crowning
​​Iam Hiems Transiit
"Now Winter is Past"

O wynter-thorn and white-thorn
Fain would I sing,
Of Marye Flower of Heaven,
Of Chryste our Kyng.

If fell about the Yule-tide,
When winds are starke and wilde,
That of a mayden stainless
Was born a littyl Childe
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When alle was dead in wynter
A new-born Baby cryed.
When every tree was quick with bud
​The Sonne of Marye died.

Of wynter-thorn, of wynter-thorn
I sing straynge lullabye,
In Chryste the dead are quickened
In Chryste for love wee dye. 

​Of white-thorn, fayre white thorn,
Of Chryste's crowne I sing,
Of Marye, Flower of Heaven
​Of Chryste our Joye and Kyng.
A medieval poem found in a book by Sr. Mary Catherine Anderson, O.P.
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Madonna Adoring the Baby Jesus by Francesco Botti

Monthly Devotion: Month of Mary

5/1/2017

 
Mary, Queen of the May, Pray for us!
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Mary, Virgin Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me!
THE LAST WORDS OF MARY that were spoken in Sacred Scripture were the words of total abandonment to the will of God. "Whatsoever He shall say to you, that do ye." As Dante said: "In His will is our peace." Love has no other destiny than to obey Christ. Our wills are ours only to give away. The human heart is torn between a sense of emptiness and a need of being filled, like the water pots of Cana. The emptiness comes from the fact that we are human. The power of filling belongs only to Him Who ordered the water pots filled. Lest any heart should fail in being filled, Mary's last valedictory is: "Whatsoever He shall say to you, that do ye." The heart has a need of emptying and a need of being filled. The power of emptying is human - emptying in the love of others - the power of filling belongs only to God. Hence all perfect love must end on the note: "Not my will but Thine be done, O Lord." ~ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation!
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