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Prayer is the answer

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Women of Grace Staff

January 23

“[She] kept all these things in her heart.”

-Luke 2:51

Today’s Reflection:

Prayer is the answer. Prayer is what the Blessed Virgin Mary did when she faced the contradictions of her life as Mother of the Messiah. It was in her heart that Our Lady found the grace and consolation she needed. In our barren times, how do we need to pray more, not less?

Dearest Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!

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Guided to heaven

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

November 22

“As sailors are guided by a star to the port, so are Christians

guided to Heaven by Mary.”

-Saint Thomas Aquinas

Today’s Reflection:

How comforting it is to know that we have a heavenly mother whose every desire is that we be drawn toward eternity with her son, Our Lord, Jesus.

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The Saints Stand Around My Son

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

November 4

“The saints stand around my Son like countless stars, whose glory is not to be compared with any temporal light.”

-The Blessed Mother to St. Bridget

Today’s Reflection:

Does this image of being near Jesus in heaven console you?

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Rest for those who work

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

April 15

“Our Lady is rest for those who work, consolation for those who weep, medicine for the sick, a harbor for those assailed by tempests, pardon for sinners, sweet relief for the sad, succor for those who implore.”

-St. John Damascene, Homily on Our Lady’s Dormition

Today’s Reflection

Who is the Blessed Mother to me today? How am I experiencing

her maternal love?

Excerpt from Graceful Living

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God So Loved the World

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Women of Grace Staff

January 1

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”

– John 3:16

For Reflection

Why would God do such a thing even as man often stubbornly opposes His divine will? As we enter this New Year, how can you more freely accept God’s amazing gift to us, Jesus Christ? Ask Mary, Mother of God, to intercede for you to have greater receptivity to every grace and blessing that He desires to give you in this New Year and new decade.

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Eve of the Feast of Mary Mother of God

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Women of Grace Staff

December 31

Eve of the Feast of Mary, Mother of God

Mother benign of our redeeming Lord,

Star of the sea and portal of the skies,

Unto thy fallen people help afford –

Fallen, but striving still anew to rise.

Thou who dids’t once, while wond’ring

worlds adored,

Bear thy Creator, Virgin then as now,

O by thy holy joy at Gabriel’s word,

Pity the sinners who before thee bow.

-Roman Breviary, Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin

For Reflection

Spend some quiet moments with Mary by reflecting on this antiphon. Journal your reflections.

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Highest Dignity

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Women of Grace Staff

December 30

“God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.”

-St. Bonaventure

For Reflection

Pray the prayer of Consecration to Jesus Through Mary by St. Louis Grignion de Montfort. Jot down any insights, reflections, inspirations that come to you through this prayer. Adopt this prayer as your own for the next year or write your own prayer of consecration to Jesus through Mary. Add this to your list of resolutions for the coming new year.

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The First Thing

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Women of Grace Staff

December 29

“The first thing which kindles ardor in learning is the greatness of the teacher. What is greater than the Mother of God? What more glorious than she whom Glory Itself chose?”

-St. Ambrose of Milan

For Reflection

What has Mary taught me in the “course” of this past year? What lesson is she “kindling” in me now? What lesson would I like her to teach me in this coming year? I will formulate a request to her and add it to my list of resolutions.

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True love of God

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Women of Grace Staff

December 28

“True love of God consists in adhering perfectly to His holy will, not desiring to do or to be other than what God indicates for each of us, to the point of becoming, as it were, “a living will of God.”

-Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD

For Reflection

How does the Blessed Virgin Mary demonstrate true love of God according to the definition given to us in this quote? How and why is she the icon of “a living will of God?” To what extent am I the same? What one strategy in the coming new year can I employ to help me be more so? Add it to my list of resolutions.

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Blessed in Her Discipleship

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Women of Grace Staff

December 27

“The Blessed Mary certainly did the Father’s will and so it was for her a greater thing to have been Christ’s disciple than to have been His mother, and she was more blessed in her discipleship than in her motherhood.”

-St. Augustine

For Reflection

Consider this quote in light of Luke 11: 27-28. Write your thoughts and reflections. How did Mary’s discipleship begin at the moment of the Annunciation and continue throughout her life? To what extent does your discipleship mirror hers? Formulate a new year’s resolution to help you grow in this way in the coming year.

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