ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 12th of September
O glorious Virgin, Mother of God, blessed among all nations, worthy of praise and the greatest of praise, intercede for me with thy beloved Son. O honoured Lady, Mother of the King of Angels and Archangels, assist and deliver me from every difficulty and danger.
O Blossom of the Patriarchs, the Virgins and the Angels, Hope of Glory, Beauty of Virgins, Admiration of the Angels and Archangels, remember me, and forsake me not, I beseech thee, at the terrible hour of my death. O Star of the Sea, Gate of Heaven, Temple of God, Palace of Jesus Christ, Harbour of Safety, Power of all Nations, Pearl of all Sweetness, Hope of the Faithful; O Queen who shelters the guilty, who surpasses in radiance the Virgins and the Angels, thy presence gives joy to all the hosts of Heaven.
Therefore, O Mother of Mercy, I place in the protection of thy holy hands my going out, my coming in, my sleeping, my waking, the sight of my eyes, the touch of my hands, the speech from my lips, the hearing of my ears, so that in everything I may be pleasing to thine own beloved Son. Amen.
THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that, for all who celebrate the glorious Name
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
she may obtain your merciful favour.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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MARY IS NEAR AND EVER STANDING BY THOSE WHO CALL UPON HER
The unfailing love for mankind of the ever-Virgin Bride is a continual presence among all those who hear, encompassing all things and holding them in being. For she is near and ever standing by those who call upon her, through her tireless and most effective intercession to God her Son, which accomplishes all things for our good, as we ourselves know, having learnt from the benefits we have received, and having had our faith strengthened as a result.
WHATEVER HAPPENS, CALL UPON MARY TO INTERCEDE
Calling upon her with this faith, I hope to have her as my support to the end as I plunge now into the ocean of her wonders…
God graciously willed to created this ever-virgin Maid, his palace, if I may use the expression, who was shown to be capable of holding the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col 2:9) on account of her utmost purity, able not simply to contain him – Oh marvellous wonder – to bring him to birth and form for all people, before and after her time, ties of kinship with God…
OH, MARVELLOUS WONDER!
She is the sacred starting point of the spiritual Israel, by which I mean all Christian people, because she was the cause of him who is above all causality, and through him she lifted people up from the earth and rendered them heavenly, showing them to be spirit instead of flesh, and making them children of God…
THE HONOUR OF THE VIRGIN MARY
Indeed, to express the honour of the Virgin Bride as is her due, she did not just act as a mediator for certain chosen races, but, standing between God and every race of men, she made God the Son of Man, and men the sons of God. She alone was shown to be the natural Mother of God in a supernatural way, and by her indescribable child-bearing she became the Queen of the entire creation in this world and beyond, for ‘all things were made by him’ who was born of her, ‘and without him was not any thing made that was made’ (Jn 1:3).
Saint Gregory Palamas, 14th century
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