Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson, Graces of the Holy Rosary , in one of his early novels, (1906-09), gave us a beautiful explanation of the rosary

  WEDNESDAY 7TH, October

MEDITATION OF THE DAY

MAGNIFICAT com,

Father Raymond P Lawrence

Graces of the Holy Rosary

Monsignor Hugh Benson, in one of his early novels, (1906-09), gave us a beautiful explanation of the rosary. An old nun is trying to make the devotion clear to a young Protestant girl. The enquirer asks:

"How can prayers said over and over again like that be any good?"

Mistress Margaret was silent for a moment.

"I saw young Mrs Martin last week," she said, "with her little girl in her lap. She had her arms around her mother's neck, and was being rocked to and fro; and every time she rocked she said 'Oh, mother'." 

"But, then," said lsabel, after a moment's silence, "she was only a child." "Except ye become as little children-m quoted Mistress Margaret softly-"you see, my lsabel, we are nothing more than children with God and his Blessed Mother. To say, 'Hail Mary, Hail Mary,' is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And, then, this string of beads is like our Lady's girdle, and her children love to finger it, and whisper to her. And then we say our Our Fathers too; and all the while we are talking, she is showing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the great things he did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again." 

Those who have profited most from the rosary are the ones who have thus understood it. With hearts full of love they have rested close by the side of our heav­enly Mother; and, whispering words of endearment to her, they have gazed the while at those wonderful pictures which the changing mysteries recall, seeing always something new and beautiful. And when they have come to the end of the picture-book, with the insatiable interest of a child, they have gone back to the beginning and turned every page over again.

FATHER RAYMOND' P. LAWRENCE

 (+ 1968) was a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse, NY, and was the author of the book The Journey Home.

Prayer for the Evening

Come, let us praise the Lord our God

on this feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary!

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Robert Hugh Benson Robert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, became a Roman Catholic priest, a novelist, and a prominent writer of apologetics. He published Confessions of a Convert and Lourdesserially in Notre Dame's magazine, The Ave Maria, before he brought them out as books. He visited Notre Dame in April of 1914, seven months before he died at the age of forty-three. The Religion of the Plain Man (1906) Christ in the Church (1910) The Friendship of Christ (1912) Confessions of a Convert (1913) Paradoxes of Catholicism (1913) Lourdes (1914) Poems (1914) Essays (1916)

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Works[edit]

Science fiction

·                  A Mirror of Shalott, Benziger Brothers, 1907.

·                  Lord of the World, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908 [1st Pub. 1907].

·                  The Dawn of All, B. Herder, 1911.^[6]

Historical fiction

·                  By What Authority?, Isbister, 1904.

·                  Come Rack! Come Rope!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913 [1st Pub. 1912].

·                  Oddsfish!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914.

·                  The King's Achievement, Burns Oates & Washbourne, Lrd., 1905.

·                  The Queen's Tragedy, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1907.

·                  The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1912.

·                  Initiation, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914.^[7]

Contemporary Fiction

·                  The Light Invisible, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1906.

·                  The Sentimentalists, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1906.

·                  The Conventionalists, Hutchinson & Co., 1908.

·                  The Necromancers, Hutchinson & Co., 1909.

·                  The Winnowing, B. Herder, 1910.

·                  None other gods, B. Herder, 1911.

·                  The Coward, B. Herder, 1912.

·                  An Average Man, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913.

·                  Loneliness?, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1915.

Our Lady of the Rosary October 7, sermon St. Bernard

Night Office sermon by Saint Bernard, Abbot

(Sermo de Aquaeductu: Opera Omnia, Edit. Cisterc. 5 [1968], 282-283)

Our Lady of the Rosary October 7

This memory Mariana source devotional connects with the victory of Lepanto (1571), who arrested the great expansion of the Ottoman Empire. St. Pius V attributed that historic event to pray that the Christian people had addressed to the Virgin of the Rosary in the form. (Mess. Rom.) Etymology: Mary = loved by God, from the Egyptian; lady, Hebrew Martyrology: Memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary on this day with the prayer of the Rosary and Marian crown invoking the protection of the holy Mother of God to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, under the guidance of her, which was associated so everything Special incarnation, passion and resurrection of the Son of God.

iBreviaryWednesday, 7 October 2015  Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time 

Office of Readings

Morning Prayer

SECOND READING

From a sermon by Saint Bernard, Abbot
(Sermo de Aquaeductu: Opera Omnia, Edit. Cisterc. 5 [1968], 282-283)

We should meditate on the mysteries of salvation

The child to be born of you will be called holy, the Son of God, the fountain of wisdom, the Word of the Father on high. Through you, blessed Virgin, this Word will become flesh, so that even though, as he says: I am in the Father and the Father is in me, it is still true for him to say: “I came forth from God and am here”.

In the beginning was the Word. The spring was gushing forth, yet still within himself. Indeed, the Word was with God, truly dwelling in inaccessible light. And the Lord said from the beginning: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. Yet your thought was locked within you, and whatever you thought, we did not know; for who knew the mind of the Lord, or who was his counsellor?

And so the idea of peace came down to do the work of peace: The Word was made flesh and even now dwells among us. It is by faith that he dwells in our hearts, in our memory, our intellect and penetrates even into our imagination. What concept could man have of God if he did not first fashion an image of him in his heart? By nature incomprehensible and inaccessible, he was invisible and unthinkable, but now he wished to be understood, to be seen and thought of.

But how, you ask, was this done? He lay in a manger and rested on a virgin’s breast, preached on a mountain, and spent the night in prayer. He hung on a cross, grew pale in death, and roamed free among the dead and ruled over those in hell. He rose again on the third day, and showed the apostles the wounds of the nails, the signs of victory; and finally in their presence he ascended to the sanctuary of heaven.

How can we not contemplate this story in truth, piety and holiness? Whatever of all this I consider, it is God I am considering; in all this he is my God. I have said it is wise to meditate on these truths, and I have thought it right to recall the abundant sweetness, given by the fruits of this priestly root; and Mary, drawing abundantly from heaven, has caused this sweetness to overflow for us.

RESPONSORY

O Virgin Mary, no other daughter of Jerusalem is your equal,
for you are the mother of the King of kings,
you are the Queen of heaven and of angels.

– Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

Hail, full of grace; the Lord is with you.
– Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Let us pray.

Lord,
fill our hearts with your love,
and as you revealed to us by an angel
the coming of your Son as man,
so lead us through his suffering and death
to the glory of his resurrection,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.

Seven Sorrows of Our Lady 13 September2015

Seven Sorrows of Our Lady 13 September2015

Seven Sorrows Polyptych

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Seven Sorrows Polyptych

Artist	Albrecht Dürer
Year	c. 1500
Type	Oil on panel
Dimensions	189 cm × 138 cm (74 in × 54 in)
Location	Alte Pinakothek, Munich, andGemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

The Seven Sorrows Polyptych is an oil on panel painting byAlbrecht Dürer. The painting includes a central picture (108 x 43 cm), currently at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and seven surrounding panels (measuring some 60 x 46 cm) which are exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden.

Description[edit]

The work was commissioned by Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, not a long time after his meeting with Dürer atNuremberg in April 1496. Stylistic considerations suggest that the artist started to work on the painting only from around 1500.
Modern scholars tend to attribute to Dürer only the central panel, the others having been executed by his pupils based on his drawings. The central panel, portraying the Sorrowing Mother, arrived in the Bavarian museum from theBenediktbeuren convent of Munich in the early 19th century. It was restored in the 1930s: once the overpaintings and additions were removed, the shell-shaped niche (a motif typical of Italian art), the halo and the sword (a symbol of Mary of the Seven Sorrows) on the right were rediscovered, clarifying the subject of the work.
The other panels were at Wittenberg, seat of Frederick's castle. In 1640 they were moved to the Kunstkammer of the Prince of Saxony. In the mid-20th century they were restored: their conditions improved, but the attribution was not cleared.

#	Image	Subject	#	Image	Subject
1		Circumcision of Jesus	5		Christ Nailed at the Cross
2		Flight to Egypt	6		Crucifixion
3		Christ among the Doctors	7		Deposition
4		Via Crucis

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Seven Dolours (Sorrows) of Mary

This is a devotion instituted in the course of the thirteenth century, in honor of the sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, endured by her in compassion for the suffering and death of her Divine Son.

   1. Prophecy of Simeon - reflect on and sympathize in the sorrow of our Blessed Lady, when she presented her Divine Child in the Temple, and heard from the aged Simeon that a sword of grief should pierce her soul on His account.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's

   
2. Flight into Egypt - reflect on her sorrow when, to escape the cruelty of King Herod, she was forced to fly into Egypt with St. Joseph and her beloved Child.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's


  

 3. Three-day Separation from Jesus in Jerusalem - reflect on her grief, when, in returning from Jerusalem she perceived that she had lost her dear Jesus, whom she sought sorrowing during three days.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's


 

   4. Meeting Christ on the Road to Calvary - reflect on her meeting her Divine Son, all bruised and mangled, carrying His cross to Calvary, and seeing Him fall under His heavy weight.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's

   5. Crucifixion and Death of Jesus Christ - reflect on her standing by when her Divine Son was lifted up on the cross, and the blood flowed in streams from His sacred wounds.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's

 6. Our Lord is Taken Down from the Cross (Pieta) - reflect on her sorrow, when her Divine Son was taken down from the cross, and she received Him into her arms.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's

    7. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is Buried in the Tomb - contemplate her following His sacred body, as it was borne by Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, to the sepulchre, enclosed there, and hidden from her sight.
Our Father, Seven Hail Mary's


3 Hail Mary's in honor of the Sorrowful tears of Our Lady
V. Pray for us, O most Sorrowful Virgin
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ
Let us pray:

Lord Jesus, we now implore, both for the present and for the hour of our death, the intercession of the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, whose holy soul was pierced at the time of Thy Passion by a sword of grief. Grant us this favor, O Saviour of the world, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost for ever and ever. Amen.

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References of the New Testament:

The First Sorrow of Mary: The Prophecy of Simeon at the Presentation in the Temple (Lk 2:22-35)

 The Second Sorrow of Mary: The Flight into Egypt (Mt 2:13-21)

The Third Sorrow of Mary: The Loss of Jesus in the Temple (Lk 2:41-50)

The Fourth Sorrow of Mary: Mary Encounters Jesus on the Way of the Cross (John 19:1; Luke 23:26-32)

The Fifth Sorrow of Mary: Jesus Dies on the Cross (Mark 15:22; John 19:18, 25-27; Mark 15:34; Luke 23:46)

The Sixth Sorrow of Mary: Jesus Is Taken Down From the Cross (John 19:31-34, 38; Lam 1:12)

The Seventh Sorrow of Mary: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb (Matthew 27:59; John 19:38-42; Mark 15:46; Luke 27:55-56)

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A smile is a happy Amen. Birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary

Joachim, father of Holy Mary,
little three year old.

Gabrielle Bossis, HE AND i

Birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary

A smile is a happy Amen.

1949

September - 8 –

At the hospital after an operation.

 "I could have come for you, couldn't I? And you would have let yourself be taken joyously. But you still want to do a little work for My glory, don't you? Gaily too? Isn't it true that nothing is worth living for except service for Me? And do you believe that I wait upon you so that you may wait upon Me? I'll keep on giving you all you need in your mind and heart. Have I ever failed you? Don't fail Me.

Together we'll weave the last threads of your life - pattern. Together... always. Isn't that power? When you feel weak as you do today, take your Brother's power to love, to praise, to thank our Father. Don't deprive Him of any smile. A smile is a happy amen. And give the same to the people around you.

They need joy and kindness so much. Don't ever have to accuse yourself of having given begrudgingly, but go eagerly, go with power. Go as though you were going to God."

Story of Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Virgin Mary

COMMENT: After Feast of Birthday of  BVM.

The picture  came to our stirring interest. The painting of Mary, 3 years old, in her grotto learning from Joachim we wonder and wonder. Who was the artist? It is a recovery difficult to find! What was the story? The Golden Legend leads to some clues, but nothing clear to "the running of the plank". St Joachim, father of Holy Mary PRAYER IN HONOR OF SAINT JOACHIM O great and glorious Patriarch, Saint Joachim, what joy is mine when I consider that thou wast chosen among all God's holy ones to assist in the fulfilment of the mysteries of God, and to enrich our earth with the great Mother of God, Mary most holy! By this singular privilege, thou hast become most powerful with both the Mother and her Son, so as to be able to obtain for us the graces that are needful to us; with great confidence I have recourse to thy mighty protection and I commend to thee all my needs and those of my family, both spiritual and temporal; and especially do I entrust to thy keeping the particular favour that I desire and look for from thy fatherly intercession. And since thou wast a perfect pattern of the interior life, obtain for me the grace of interior recollection and a spirit of detachment from the transitory goods of this life, together with a lively and enduring love for Jesus and Mary. Obtain for me in like manner a sincere devotion and obedience to Holy Church and the sovereign pontiff who rules over her: to the end that I may live and die in faith and hope and perfect charity, ever invoking the holy names of Jesus and Mary, and may I thus be saved. Amen.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary September 8

This celebration, which follows Christ on the prerogatives of the Mother, was introduced by Pope Sergius I (Sec VII) in the tradition of Eastern Europe. The Nativity of the Virgin is closely linked to the coming of the Messiah, as promised, and preparing fruit of salvation. Aurora before the Sun of Justice, Mary foretells to the world the joy of the Savior. (Mess. Rom.) Martyrology: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, born of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Judah, the house of King David, of whom was born the Son of God made ​​man by the Holy Spirit to free men from the ancient the slavery of sin.  Listen to Vatican Radio: Listen to Radio Rai: Listen to RadioMaria:

Today in the churches of the East and West they celebrate the birth of Mary, the mother of the Lord. The source said that before the event is the so-called Gospel of James, according to which Mary was born in Jerusalem in the house of Joachim and Anna. Here in the fourth century it was built the basilica of Saint Anne and the day of his dedication was celebrated the Nativity of the Mother of God. The party then spread to Constantinople and was introduced to the West by Sergio I, a Syrian-born pope. "Those whom God foreknew, He also predestined": Dante seems to paraphrase the verse of St. Paul when he calls Mary "fixed term of the eternal counsel." Eternity, the Father works for the preparation of the All-Holy, of her who was to become the mother of his Son, the temple of the Holy Spirit. The genealogy of Jesus given by Matthew culminates in the expression "Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ." Mary, therefore, the time has come the definitive David, the full establishment of the kingdom of God. With his birth also takes shape the womb offered by humanity to God so as to fulfil the Incarnation of the Word in human history. Maria finally child is also an image of the new humanity, the one from which her Son will take away the stony heart out to give her a heart of flesh that welcomes in docility to the precepts of God. Honouring the Nativity of the Mother of God is the true meaning and purpose of this event is the incarnation of the Word. In fact, Mary is born, nursed and raised to be the Mother of the King of ages, of God. "And 'this indeed why Mary's only (as well as St. John the Baptist and of course to Christ) is not celebrated only the "birth in heaven", as with the other saints, but also the coming into this world. In fact, the wonderful birth of this is what we tell in great detail and with ingenuity the apocrypha, but rather in significant God does step forward in the implementation of his eternal design of love. This is why today's feast was celebrated with wondrous praise by many Fathers, who have pooled their knowledge of the Bible and their sensitivity and poetic ardor. We read some expression of the second Sermon on the Nativity of Mary of St. Peter Damian: "Almighty God, before man fell, foresaw his fall and decided, before all ages, the human redemption. He decided to become incarnate in Mary". "Today is the day when God begins to put into practice his eternal plan, as it was necessary to be built the house, before the King came down to live there. Beautiful house, because, if Wisdom built a house with seven pillars work, this palace of Mary rests on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Solomon held so solemn inauguration of a temple of stone. As we celebrate the birth of Mary, temple of the Incarnate Word? In that day the glory of God descended on the temple Jerusalem in the form of cloud which darkened. The Lord who makes the sun shine in the heavens, for his dwelling among us has chosen darkness (1 Kings 8.10 to 12), Solomon said in his prayer to God. This new temple will be seen filled by the same God, who is to be the light of the nations. "To the darkness of paganism and the lack of faith of the Jews, represented by the Temple of Solomon, it happens bright day in the temple of Mary. And 'right, then, sing that day and she who was born in it."

FROM GOLDEN LEGEND

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Story of Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Virgin Mary (top register south wall)

East					West
Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple	Joachim's Return to the Sheepfold	Annunciation to Anna	Joachim's Sacrifice	Vision of Joachim	Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate

Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple

Golden Legend: Sept 8: Nativity of the Virgin Mary: [Saint Jerome] relates therefore that Joachim, who was of Galilee and of the town of Nazareth, took to wife Saint Anna of Bethlehem. Both were just, and walked without reproach in all the commandments of the Lord. They divided all their substance in three parts, allotting one part to the Temple and its ministers, and another to the poor and the pilgrims, reserving the third part to themselves and the uses of their household. Thus they lived for twenty years, and had no issue of their wedlock; and they made a vow to the lord that if He granted them offspring, they would dedicate it to the service of God. For this they went to Jerusalem to celebrate the three principal feasts of each year. And once, when Joachim and his kinsmen went up to Jerusalem at the feast of the Dedication, he approached the altar with them, in order to offer his sacrifice. A priest saw him, and angrily drove him away, upbraiding him for daring to draw near the altar of God, and calling it unseemly that one who lay under the curse of the Law should offer sacrifice to the Lord of the Law, or that a childless man, who gave no increase to the people of God, should stand among men who bore sons. At this Joachim was covered with confusion, and was ashamed to return to his home., lest he have to bear the contempt of his kindred, who had heard all....

Joachim's Return to the Sheepfold

The Golden Legend: (Sept 8: Nativity of the Virgin Mary): He went off therefore and dwelt for some time among his shepherds. Protoevangelion, I,5-6: ...he was exceedingly distressed, and would not be seen by his wife: But retired into the wilderness, and fixed his tent there and fasted forty days and forty nights.

Annunciation to Anna

The Golden Legend: (Sept 8: Nativity of the Virgin Mary): Meanwhile Anna wept bitterly, not knowing where her husband had gone. Then the same angel appeared to her, and revealed to her the same things which he had announced to Joachim, adding that as a sign she was to go to the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, to meet her husband at his return.

Sacrifice of Joachim

Vision of Joachim

The Golden Legend : (Sept 8: Nativity of the Virgin Mary: But one day when he was alone, an angel appeared to him, surrounded by dazzling light. He was affrighted at the vision, but the angel bade him be without fear, saying: "I, the Lord's angel, am sent to thee, to announce to thee that they prayers are granted, and thine almsworks have ascended in the sight of the Lord. I have seen thy shame, and heard the reproach of barrenness wrongfully cast upon thee. For God indeed punishes not nature, but sin; and therefore, when He closes a womb, it is only that He may later open it more wondrously, and that all may know that what is born thereof is the fruit of lust but of the divine munificence. Did not Sara, the first mother of your race, bear the shame of barrenness until her ninetieth year, and yet bear Isaac, to whom was promised the blessing of all nations? Did not Rachel also long remain barren, and yet beget Joseph, who was the ruler of all of Egypt? Who was stronger than Samson or holier than Samuel? Yet both of these were the sons of barren mothers! Therefore believe my words and these examples: those conceived after long delay, and begotten of sterile mothers, are wont to be admirable! Thus Anna thy wife will bear thee a daughter, and thou shalt call her name Mary. In accordance with your vow, she shall be consecrated to the Lord from her infancy, and shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from her mother's womb; nor shall she abide without, among the common folk, but within the Temple of the Lord, lest aught of evil be thought of her. And as she wilkl be born of a barren mother, so will she herself, in wondrous wise, beget the Son of the Most High. Whose name will be called Jesus, and through Whom salvation will come to all nations! And this will be a sign to thee: when thou shalt come to the Gold Gate of Jerusalem, Anna thy wife will meet thee there, who now grieves at thy tarrying, and then will rejoice to see thee!" And with these words the angel left him.

Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate

The Golden Legend (Sept 8, Nativity of the Virgin Mary): Thus it was, following the angel's command, they came face to face [ at the Golden Gate], and shared their joy over the vision which they had both seen, and over the certainty that they were to have offspring. Then they adored God and set out for their home, awaiting the Lord's promise in gladness of heart.

 

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Giotto_-_Scrovegni_-_-06-_-_Meeting_at_the_Golden_Gate Giotto di Bondone, Legend of St Joachim Meeting at the Golden Gate 1305 is an early depiction of the scene.

Durer,_vita_della_vergine Albrecht Dürer Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate  1504

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