THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE - 14 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 14th of January

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THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE

The Feast of the Infant Jesus of Prague, which celebrates the mystery of the Incarnation, is observed on  January 14.

The statue of the Infant Jesus was brought to Prague by the Spanish Duchess Marie Manriquez, who married Vrastislav of Pernstein in 1556. Later she gave the statue to her daughter Polyxena of Lobkovic as a wedding gift. She greatly venerated the statue and received consolation and help from it many times. For more than three centuries, this promise has inspired a worldwide devotion to the Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague. The original statue is still preserved in the church of St Mary of Victory in Prague, Czech Republic.

Saint Therese has shown best to the world the virtues of that spiritual childhood which Our Lord has commanded all His followers to cultivate. In her simplicity she was a child at heart; her utter confidence and abandonment to God through all her life were the virtues of a child whose trust in its loving Father is complete. Her love for the Divine Infant and her meditation on Him were important in the development of her deep yet simple spirituality. In religion, she chose the name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. She combined devotion to the childhood of Christ and to the Sacred Passion to form the basis of her spiritual life.

Today, replicas and models of the small statue are honored in every part of the world. The list of blessings attributed by devotees of the Infant Jesus is endless: health restored, financial problems solved, gifts of peace of mind and soul, and innumerable healings, both physical and spiritual. God has been astonishingly generous in blessing those who have been devoted to his Infant Son.

Sources:

https://infantprague.org/the-story-of-the-infant-of-prague/

https://www.pragjesu.cz/en/the-history-and-veneration-of-the-prague-infant-jesus/#:~:text=Miracles,the%20Swedish%20siege%20in%201639.

https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cts/untitled-581.shtml

MORNING OFFERING TO THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE

I offer You dear Jesus,

Infant sweet, divine,

each action of today,

my prayers, my work, my sufferings,

accept them now, I pray.

I offer You dear Jesus

the moments as they pass;

I join my feeble heart’s desire,

with Yours in Holy Mass.

And while Your Heart, dear Jesus

for sinners ever pleads;

I offer You, through Mary,

a decade of her beads.

I offer You dear Jesus,

O, who could offer more?

Yourself, in sweet Communion,

the Heart which I adore.

And to Your own, dear Jesus,

my poor heart closely bind;

in love and reparation

for sins of all mankind.

Then take my gift, dear Jesus,

take all I have to give;

O! would that I could give my life

within Your Heart to live.

Amen.