May Your Hears Open Toward God

Our Lady Queen of Peace gave her monthly message to Marija on April 25, 2012.

Her beautiful words invite and encourage us like only a loving mother could do;  she shows her faith in us by using the words, “Thank you for having responded to my call”.

“Dear children! Also today, I am calling you to prayer, and may your heart, littler children, open toward God as a flower opens toward the sun. I am with you and I intercede for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” 

 "Everything in Mary leads us toward her Son, our only Savior, by whose foreseen merits she was preserved immaculate and full of grace; everything in Mary lifts up our hearts to the praise of the Holy Trinity." Pope Paul VI

 

St. Louis de Montfort himself said, when he spoke of the necessity of devotion to Our Lady, “….God has decided to begin and accomplish his greatest works through the Blessed Virgin ever since he created her, we can safely believe that he will not change his plan in the time to come, for he is God and therefore does not change in his thoughts or his way of acting.” 1 

Mary has been made a full sharer in the Resurrection of her Son. She is clothed with the beauty of his risen glory. Through he intercession as mediatrix of all of all graces…2

 

Today, Magnificat, A Ministry to Catholic Women, invites you to join them in the Annual Consecration  to Jesus through the hands of Mary beginning this Saturday, April 28 and ending May 31, the Feast of the Visitation.

 

I made my consecration to Jesus through Mary on December 8, 2009, the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception. And every year, as I prepare for renewal of my consecration, I feel that Our Lady shows me new areas of my life that she still would like to see transformed, so that I, too, could be come a bearer of the Good News.

Scripture tells us that Mary set out in haste to see Elizabeth and that when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting that the child leapt within her womb. Lk 1: 39-41

Mary, the “God Bearer” brings the joy of her Son to all of us. We, too, can bring the joy of Jesus to our families, our neighbors and our world. All we have to do is be open.

And as Our Lady assured Lucy, at Fatima on June 13, 1917: "I will never abandon you, my child. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."

 1 St. Louis De Montfort

2.Magnificate April 2012-Vol.14, No. 2 pg 292

 For your spiritual reading they also recommend "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin" by St. Louis De Montfort and also the encyclical letter, Mother of the Redeemer.   John Paul II.