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A Month with Mary – Fifth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Hiddenness MARY: Do you know what is the real cause of the life and the beauty of a flower? … You see its brilliant shades, smell its delicate fragrance and yet you don’t recognize that all of this buds forth from those humble roots which…
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A Month with Mary – Fourth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Imagination MARY: Why do so many hearts that desire perfection rarely attain their objective? How many persons close themselves in silence, abandon the world, seek to free themselves from all that binds the impulses of their heart … and yet they’re always the same! Look…
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A Month with Mary – Third Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary My Temperament THE SOUL: In order to reform my heart I must study it intimately as it is, my good Mother. I look at it and I seem to see there a mass of confusion which doesn’t allow me to see it clearly. How full…
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A Month with Mary – Second Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary My Heart and the Heart of Mary MARY: My little daughter, your mother is calling you and showing you what distinguishes her as Mother: the Heart! Draw near to my Heart, kiss it, and experience how burning is its love for you! God has submerged…
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A Month with Mary – First Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Introduction My Heart, a Flower which Mary must Cultivate The month of Mary is the month of a profound reform of heart: we must leave ourselves and adorn ourselves with every virtue and every spiritual good. In the springtime plants are reborn to a new…
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A Month with Mary
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary BY DON DOLINDO RUOTOLO TRANSLATED BY – MSGR. ARTHUR BURTON CALKINS ACADEMY OF THE IMMACULATE: NEW BEDFORD, MA First Day: My Heart, a Flower which Mary must Cultivate Second Day: My Heart and the Heart of Mary Third Day: My Temperament Fourth Day: Imagination Fifth…
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True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin – Supplement on Communion
SUPPLEMENT THIS DEVOTION AT HOLY COMMUNION Before Holy Communion 266. 1) Place yourself humbly in the presence of God. 2) Renounce your corrupt nature and dispositions, no matter how good self-love makes them appear to you. 3) Renew your consecration saying, “I belong entirely to you, dear Mother, and all that I have is yours.”…
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Day of Consecration – Day 34
Day of Consecration On the day of consecration, either fast, give alms, or offer a votive candle for the good of another (or all of the above); do some spiritual penance and approach consecration in the spirit of mortification. Now go to Confession (or, if that is not possible, go during the 8 days prior)…
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Third Week – Day 33 of 33
Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis: Book 4, Chapter 11 That the Blood of Christ and the Holy Scriptures Are Most Necessary unto a Faithful Soul O most sweet Lord Jesus, how great is the pleasure of the devout soul that feasteth with Thee in Thy banquet; where there is set for her no…
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Third Week – Day 32 of 33
Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis: Book 2, Chapter 7 Of the Love of Jesus above All Things Blessed is he that understandeth (Psalm 119:1,2) what it is to love Jesus, and to despise himself for Jesus’ sake. Thou oughtest to leave thy beloved, for thy beloved (Deut. 6:5; Matt. 22:37; Cant. 2:16); for…
Knights Prayer
Our Lady, Queen of the Knights, bless all the activities of our Order. Keep us true to our pledge, to extend the kingship of thy Divine Son on earth. Through Thine intercession, win for us the grace, ever to exemplify in our public and private lives, the virtues that should characterize those especially dedicated to the service of the heavenly court. Make us always aware that as your Knights, we are constantly observed, our faith judged, and our Order appreciated. Accept, O Mary, this renewed pledge of fealty and devotion, of Thy Servants, the Knights of the Precious Blood.
