OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

This title was given to our Blessed Mother in May 1868 by Saint Peter Julian Eymard to honor her in her relationship to the Holy Eucharist and to place her before us as a model in our duties and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Our Lady gives witness to being Christian. In her conduct toward the Blessed Sacrament, we learn what ours should be!

She believed in the reality of Christ’s presence in the Holy Eucharist. In other words, the virtue of faith was as necessary for her as it is for us. Great was her faith in her son, the Son of God, our Savior, and in all his teachings and deeds. This faith of hers found its particular exercise in regard to the Blessed Sacrament, the mystery of faith, the denial of which implies the destruction of the whole structure of our belief.

A second point in which Mary conformed to the general body of the faithful was her Sunday attendance at the Eucharist. And still another point in which the Blessed Virgin is our model is in her reception of Holy Communion during her life, and at the moment of her death. By her faith in and her love for our Lord in the Eucharist, Mary is an example for Christians and thereby brings us to fervent devotion to him.

Truly, we can call Mary, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, and follow her faith and love for Jesus in the Eucharist. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is the chosen and official patroness of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. Her feast day is celebrated on May 13, the date on which the new Congregation received Archdiocesan approbation in Paris in 1856.

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PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Blessed are you, Mary, exalted Daughter of Sion! You are highly favored and full of grace, for the Spirit of God descended upon you. We magnify the Lord and rejoice with you for the gift of the Word made flesh, our bread of life and cup of joy. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, our model of prayer in the Cenacle, pray for us that we may become what we receive, the body of Christ your son. Amen.

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In all of Our Lady’s true apparitions, she desires there to be built a church where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can be offered and where her Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, can be adored and worshipped. Just one example of this occurred at Fatima, Portugal on May 13, 1917. It was the Feast of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament?..

Prayers from Fatima

Pardon Prayer
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You. I implore Your pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love You. Amen.

Angel’s Prayer
Most Holy Trinity – Father, Son, Holy Spirit – I adore You profoundly and offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the earth, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He Himself is offended. And by the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and those of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners. Amen.

Eucharistic Prayer
Most Holy Trinity, I adore you! My God, my God, I love you in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

AT THE SCHOOL OF MARY,
“WOMAN OF THE EUCHARIST”

In addition to her sharing in the Eucharistic banquet [of the first generation of Christians], an indirect picture of Mary’s relationship with the Eucharist can be had, beginning with her interior disposition. Mary is a “woman of the Eucharist” in her whole life. The church, which looks to Mary as a model, is also called to imitate her in her relationship to this most holy mystery.

Pope John Paul II, On the Eucharist in Its Relationship to the Church

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Her motherhood is particularly noted and experienced by the Christian people at the Sacred Banquet, the liturgical celebration of the mystery of the Redemption-at which Christ, his true body born of the Virgin Mary,, becomes present.

The piety of the Christian people has always very rightly sensed a profound link between devotion to the Blessed Virgin and worship of the Eucharist: this is a fact that can be seen in the liturgy of both the West and the East, in the traditions of the Religious Families, in the modern movements of spirituality, including those for youth, and in the pastoral practice of the Marian Shrines. Mary guides the faithful to the Eucharist.

(Pope John Paul II : Redemptoris Mater)

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DEDICATED TO THE WOMAN I LOVE:

The Woman whom even God dreamed of

Before the world was made;

The Woman of whom I was born

At a cost of pain and labor at a Cross;

The Woman who, though no priest,

Could yet on Calvary’s Hill breathe,

“This is my Body; This is my Blood”?

For none save her gave Him human life.

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The Woman who guides my pen,

Which falters so with words

In telling of the Word.

The Woman who, in a world of Reds,

Shows forth the blue of hope.

Accept these dried grapes of thoughts

From this poor author, who has no wine;

And with Cana’s magic and thy Son’s Power

Work a miracle and save a soul?

Forgetting not my own.

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen

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Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament

a meditation from St. Peter Julian Eymard, Founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers

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THE MONTH OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT

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The Month of Mary is the month of bless?ings and of grace, for, as St Bernard, in company with all the Saints, assures us, all grace comes to us through Mary. The month of Mary is a continuous festival in honor of the Mother of God, which prepares us well for the beautiful month of the Blessed Sacrament which follows it.

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Because our vocation calls us to give special honor to the Holy Eucharist, we must not for that reason give any the less devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Far from it, he would be guilty of blasphemy who would say, “The Most Blessed Sacrament suffices for me; I have no need of Mary.” Where, then shall we find Jesus on earth if not in Mary’s arms ? Was it not she who gave us the Eucharist? It was her consent to the Incarnation of the Word in her womb that inaugurated the great mystery of repa?ration to God and union with us which Jesus accomplished during His mortal life, and that He continues in the Eucharist.

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Without Mary, we shall never find Jesus, for she possesses Him in her heart. There He takes His delight, and those who wish to know His inmost virtues, to experience the privilege of His intimate love, must seek these in Mary. They who love that good Mother find Jesus in her pure heart. We must never separate Jesus from Mary; we can go to Him only through her.

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I maintain, moreover, that the more we love the Eucharist, the more we must love Mary. We love all that our friend loves; now, was ever a creature better loved by God, a mother more tenderly cherished by her Son, than was Mary by Jesus? Oh yes, our Lord would be much pained if we, the servants of the Eucharist, did not greatly honor Mary, because she is His Mother, Our Lord owes everything to her in the order of His Incarnation, His human nature. It is by the flesh that she gave Him that He has so glorified His Father, that He has saved us, and that He continues to nourish and save the world by the Blessed Sacrament.

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Let us, then, honor the Blessed Virgin by a daily sacrifice. Let us go to our Lord through her; shelter ourselves behind her, take refuge beneath her protecting mantle; clothe ourselves in her virtues. Let us be, in short, but Mary’s shadow. Let us offer all her actions, all her merits, all her virtues to our Lord. We have only to have recourse to Mary and to say to Jesus: “I offer Thee the riches that my good Mother has acquired for me” and our Lord will be very much pleased with us.

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Sacramentum Caritatis, Part One, #28

From Pope Benedict XVI?s apostolic exhortatation Sacramentum Caritatis, Part One:

The Eucharist and the Virgin Mary

33. From the relationship between the Eucharist and the individual sacraments, and from the eschatological significance of the sacred mysteries, the overall shape of the Christian life emerges, a life called at all times to be an act of spiritual worship, a self-offering pleasing to God. Although we are all still journeying towards the complete fulfilment of our hope, this does not mean that we cannot already gratefully acknowledge that God?s gifts to us have found their perfect fulfilment in the Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother. Mary?s Assumption body and soul into heaven is for us a sign of sure hope, for it shows us, on our pilgrimage through time, the eschatological goal of which the sacrament of the Eucharist enables us even now to have a foretaste.

In Mary most holy, we also see perfectly fulfilled the ?sacramental? way that God comes down to meet his creatures and involves them in his saving work. From the Annunciation to Pentecost, Mary of Nazareth appears as someone whose freedom is completely open to God?s will. Her immaculate conception is revealed precisely in her unconditional docility to God?s word. Obedient faith in response to God?s work shapes her life at every moment. A virgin attentive to God?s word, she lives in complete harmony with his will; she treasures in her heart the words that come to her from God and, piecing them together like a mosaic, she learns to understand them more deeply (cf. Lk 2:19, 51); Mary is the great Believer who places herself confidently in God?s hands, abandoning herself to his will. (102)

This mystery deepens as she becomes completely involved in the redemptive mission of Jesus. In the words of the Second Vatican Council, ?the blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son until she stood at the Cross, in keeping with the divine plan (cf. Jn 19:25), suffering deeply with her only-begotten Son, associating herself with his sacrifice in her mother?s heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of the victim who was born of her.

Finally, she was given by the same Christ Jesus, dying on the Cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: ?Woman, behold your Son.?? (103) From the Annunciation to the Cross, Mary is the one who received the Word, made flesh within her and then silenced in death. It is she, lastly, who took into her arms the lifeless body of the one who truly loved his own ?to the end? (Jn 13:1).

Consequently, every time we approach the Body and Blood of Christ in the eucharistic liturgy, we also turn to her who, by her complete fidelity, received Christ?s sacrifice for the whole Church. The Synod Fathers rightly declared that ?Mary inaugurates the Church?s participation in the sacrifice of the Redeemer.? (104) She is the Immaculata, who receives God?s gift unconditionally and is thus associated with his work of salvation. Mary of Nazareth, icon of the nascent Church, is the model for each of us, called to receive the gift that Jesus makes of himself in the Eucharist.

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DEDICATED TO THE WOMAN I LOVE:

The Woman whom even God dreamed of

Before the world was made;

The Woman of whom I was born

At a cost of pain and labor at a Cross;

The Woman who, though no priest,

Could yet on Calvary’s Hill breathe,

“This is my Body; This is my Blood”

For none save her gave Him human life.

The Woman who guides my pen,

Which falters so with words

In telling of the Word.

The Woman who, in a world of Reds,

Shows forth the blue of hope.

Accept these dried grapes of thoughts

From this poor author, who has no wine;

And with Cana’s magic and thy Son’s Power

Work a miracle and save a soul

Forgetting not my own.

The Servant of God: Archbishop Fulton Sheen

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Short Series #48 – Fulton Sheen’s love for Our Lady ( 10 min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

This is a presentation by Martin and Daniel Tobin of the Fulton J. Sheen Society, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, highlighting the Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s love for Our Lady.

Audio (MP3)

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“If he is what he claimed to be, a savior, a redeemer, then we have a virile Christ and a leader worth following in these terrible times; One who will step into the breach of death, crushing sin, gloom and despair; a leader to whom we can make totalitarian sacrifice without losing, but gaining freedom, and whom we can love even unto death.

“We need a Christ today who make cords and drive the buyers and the sellers from the temples; who will blast the unfruitful fig tree; who will talk of crosses and sacrifices and whose voice will be like the voice of the raging sea.

“But he will not allow us to pick and choose among his words, discarding the hard ones and accepting the ones that will please our fancy. We need a Christ who will restore moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water.”

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In the homily for Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Apr 09), Fr. Alan gives the homily on how we must take Jesus at word: “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life” (Jn 3:14-15).  “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM,” (Jn 8:28) but “if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins”(Jn 8:24).

We must look to Christ on the cross, lifted up that we might have eternal life, but we must believe and give witness, that others too might be saved.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday 5th Week of Lent – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: Nm  21:4-9
Resp: Ps 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21
Gsp: Jn 8:21-30

More on the Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040919.cfm

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Fr Josemaria gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Mar 11, 2020, when the Pilgrim Statue of Fatima came to our chapel on how we need to be Marian to be Christian.

International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima: https://www.bluearmy.com/pilgrim-virgin-statue-tours/

Ave Maria!

Mass: Wednesday 2nd Week of Lent – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: jer 18:18-20
Resp: psa 31:5-6, 14, 15-16 0
Gsp: mat 20:17-28

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1748

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and YouTube: https://youtu.be/xfCRa5iUXK4

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Fr Josemaria gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Aug 31, 2020, on how we need to reunite Christianity to the Cross and thus avoid the situation we have today where we have either the Cross without Christ, or Christ without the Cross and thus avoid our current polarization into left and right as foretold by Fulton Sheen.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Monday in the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/083120.cfm
1st: 1co 2:1-5
Resp: psa 119:97-102
Gsp: luk 4:16-30

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=930

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Ave Maria!

Are you experiencing trials and sufferings, perhaps like never before? How do we endure our most difficult passions? Join Dr. Mark Miravalle for his insights. into how to endure your own personal passion united to the Passion of Jesus.

Dr Mark talks about the tough times people are facing globally and personally, explaining how Christian belief sees strength in our weakest moments. He explains that during hard times, turning to prayer, especially Eucharistic adoration and the rosary, helps us get the graces needed to cope and find solutions. He also talks about how Mary, Jesus’s mother, is there to support us, just like she was there for Jesus. He recommends praying and asking for Mary’s help through the rosary and reflecting on her Seven Sorrows to grow closer to God and to better handle our own struggles. The talk ends with a prayer for everyone’s hardships and a call to recognize the powerful role that suffering has in God’s plan of salvation when it’s connected with Jesus and Mary’s sacrifices.

00:00 – Introduction and Overview
00:23 – Addressing Ubiquitous Suffering
01:17 – The Paradox of Strength in Weakness
02:00 – The Importance of Eucharistic Adoration
03:36 – Adoration’s Role in Suffering and Problem Solving
04:53 – The Power of the Eucharist in Enduring Passion
07:43 – The Role of Mary in Suffering
10:02 – Daily Rosary and Its Significance
11:40 – The Importance of the Seven Sorrows Chaplet
14:05 – Recommendations for Spiritual Practices
17:19 – The Concept of Co-Redemptrix and Mediator
19:23 – Prayer of the Lady of All Nations and Closing Remarks

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and on Air Maria where audio and transcript are available: http://dev.airmaria.com/?p=102056

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