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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: When my life shall leave me

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 31

Savior, when my life shall leave me,

Through your mother’s prayers receive me

With the fruits of victory.

For Reflection:

Mary has assured us of her maternal intercession and God assures us forgiveness of our sins when we truly repent. However, the evil one seeks to steal all assurance from us. He does this in three ways: discouragement, distrust, doubt. Discouragement because we are afraid we now can never acquire a deep union with God; distrust that God will treat us less favorably now and that He will be niggardly in the grace He gives us; doubt that God has forgiven us at all because our sin is so great.

To what extent is any one of these true of you? Read Rev. 21:5-6. Journal your insights, inspirations, and consolations.

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I will lay down my life for you

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Isabelle Liberatore

Simon Peter said to him, “Master, where are you going?”
Jesus answered him,
“Where I am going, you cannot follow me now,
though you will follow later.”
Peter said to him,
“Master, why can I not follow you now?
I will lay down my life for you.”
Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me?
Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow
before you deny me three times.”
– Jn 13:36-38

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: O Virgin Nigh

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 30

Be to me, O Virgin, nigh,

Lest in flames I burn and die,

In His awe-full judgment day.

For Reflection:

How are you assured that Our Lady will be “nigh” to you on your judgment day? Journal your interior response.

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Wounded with His every wound

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 29

Wounded with His every wound,

Steep my soul till it has swooned

In His very Blood away.

For Reflection:

Read Mark’s account of the Passion. Underline or circle all of the wounds of Christ – physical, emotional, psychological. Which of these wounds have you experienced? How? Unite each of these sufferings to the wounds of Jesus and ask that the Precious Blood shed for you on Calvary’s hill will fill you with the healing balm of the Holy Spirit.

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 28

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Let me, to my latest breath,

In my body bear the death

Of your dying Son divine.

For Reflection:

To die with Christ and be risen in Him is the quest of every holy soul. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is one of the greatest aids in making this holy desire our final reality. It helps us advance in virtue, grow in self-knowledge, attain true humility, uproot bad habits, prevent spiritual negligence, combat apathy, purify our conscience, strengthen our will, receive spiritual direction, and acquire the grace of the Sacrament itself (Mystici Corporis).

Of the benefits of the Sacrament listed above, which do I most need? Which would others tell me I most need? Journal your insights.

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Let me share your grief divine

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 27

Virgin of all virgins blest!

Listen to my fond request:

Let me share your grief divine.

For Reflection:

To enter more deeply into the hearts of Jesus and Mary and to experience the treasury of grace that is found there we must stay united to Christ. Father Faber outlines three ways we can fall away from Jesus and put ourselves in spiritual peril: 1) by breaking away from Him through sin; 2) by letting the attractions of the world become greater than attraction to Him; 3) by slowly distancing ourselves from Him by imperceptible degrees.

Make a serious examination of conscience according to these three perils. Make a good Act of Contrition and then avail yourself of the Sacrament of Reconciliation as soon as you can.

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Through your mother’s prayers

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 26

Savior, when my life shall leave me,

Through your mother’s prayers receive me

With the fruits of victory.

For Reflection:

Consider the above stanza in light of these words written by Reverend Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange: … At the hour of death, that supreme moment when the soul’s destiny is decided, the Blessed Virgin Mary bears in mind the love that has been shown to her, recalling how her servants have said to her time and time again: ‘Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of death’. She holds them up in the struggle of their last agony and defends them against the devil… inspires them with true contrition … and when they have died she watches over them in purgatory that she may lead them at last into heaven.”

To what extent do I offer no resistance to Mary’s good inspirations? To what extent have I recommended myself to her? What hope does this give me?

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 25

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

Virgin, in your love befriend me,

At the Judgment Day defend me.

Help me by your constant prayer.

For Reflection:

It is Mary’s desire as Spiritual Mother that all of her children attain eternal salvation. She never ceases praying for us. As the eminent theologian, Reverend Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. tells us, “…[Mary] knows all the graces that we need because she is our Mother and has received from God a universal mission to help us all on the way of salvation. Her prayer is fervent and extends to the last sinner without losing any of its intensity. “[Mary] is sovereignly good and prays for all men, yet she prays especially for those who offer no resistance to her good inspirations and faithfully recommend themselves to her, looking upon them with particular tenderness, interceding for them more pressingly, more absolutely, until she finally obtains what she asks and bring them safe home to the harbor of salvation.”

According to this quote, how then do we reap the full benefit of Mary’s intercession? What is your interior response?

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Be ready for the grace of your fiat

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Isabelle Liberatore

This Thursday, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, a day very near and dear to the heart of Women of Grace.

You know the scene well. In the sixth month of her cousin Elizabeth’s miraculous pregnancy, the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” He told her that she would conceive in her womb and bear a son, the Son of the Most High, and His name would be Jesus.

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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Queen of hope

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

March 24

Fairest maid of all creation,

Queen of hope and consolation,

Let me feel your grief sublime.

For Reflection:

Though we pray these words with faith and love, it is not possible for us to feel the full measure of Mary’s grief simply because she is the “fairest maid of all creation.” Conceived without sin and never having sinned, she experienced the agony of Christ as deeply as He – especially His love for the souls for whom He was dying. Reverend Garrigou- Lagrange says, “Mary’s heart, like Christ’s whole bruised and crushed being, was transformed with anguish by the sins of mankind, being altered more than the bodies and hearts of the sick, the dying, the martyred.”

You are one of those souls for Whom Jesus and Mary suffered a grief sublime. In light of this, pray again the last line above. May our grief be the grief of true repentance. Journal your thoughts.

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