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Mary, Queen and Queen Mother
Her Influence With Her Son
She is the fairest
daughter of the Father, the mother of the Son, and the spouse of the Holy
Spirit. No other human holds the relationship with the Holy Trinity, as does
the Blessed Virgin. As such, no other human has the influence with the Holy
Trinity, as does she.
It was the will of
Almighty God that His Son take on flesh by way of a woman, and that the body of
His Son be sacrificed on the cross. He chose Mary to
be His mother. With her 'yes', Mary, agreed to actively co-operate with the
plan of God for the salvation of man. "And Mary said, "Behold, I am
the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." (Lk 1:38). Immediately, the Holy Spirit came upon
her, "and the Word was made flesh" (Jn 1:14).
The New Eve
From the early days of the
Church, the Blessed Virgin has been called the 'New Eve'. The Fathers of the
Church wrote about this with clarity. What follows are two brief excerpts from
writings of St. Irenaeus and St. Justin Martyr only, which assert their
conviction in Mary as the New Eve:
"...He became Man by
the Virgin so that the course which was taken by disobedience in the beginning
through the agency of the serpent, might be also the
very course by which it would be put down. For Eve, a virgin and undefiled,
conceived the word of the serpent, and bore disobedience and death. But the
Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the
glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the powers of
the Most High would overshadow her, for which reason the Holy One being born of
her is the Son of God. And she replied: 'Be it done unto me according to thy
word.'" (St.
Justin Martyr, A.D. 100-165; Dialogue with Trypho
100).
"Consequently, then,
Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying: "Behold, O Lord, your
handmaid; be it done to me according to your word." Eve, however, was
disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did not obey having become disobedient,
was made the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race; so also
Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient, was
made the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race…Thus, the knot of Eve's
disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in
unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith." (St. Irenaeus, 2nd
Century A.D.; Against Heresies, 3,22,4).
The writings of the
Fathers clearly contemplate Eve as a type, and the Blessed Virgin as the
corresponding antitype (1).
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a few of the relationships between the two in the typical sense:
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The New Ark of the Covenant
The early Fathers, Sts. Ambrose,
Augustine, Andrew of Crete, and John Damascene taught clearly on Mary being
full of grace (clearly, “sinless”) as declared by St. Gabriel at the
Annunciation; and that she was immune to original sin. In Holy Scripture, we
see great care given by both God and man with respect to the Ark of the
Covenant. It had to be built to specifications (Ex 25:10-21), and be pure and sanctified to carry
the written word of God. The Septuagint tells us that it was made of
‘incorruptible’ wood. The Fathers and
Doctors wrote how purer and more
incorruptible the 'New Ark of the Covenant' had to be, for she carried the
Incarnate Word in her womb for nine months. The Son of God could not be born in
an impure vessel. This ancient doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
was elevated to dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854.
Consider the following in
the typical sense:.
.The Ark of the Covenant
which was made of incorruptible material contained: the written word of God on
the tablets of the covenant; the rod of Aaron, High Priest of Israel (Ex 30:30); and the golden urn
containing manna, the bread that descended from Heaven (Heb 9:4).
.The New Ark of the
Covenant, which is the immaculately conceived Blessed Virgin Mary, carried
within her womb, the Incarnate Word of God (Jn 1:1-14) and the New and Everlasting
Covenant (Heb 13:20). Jesus is the High Priest
of God (Hebrews; esp. Heb 5:5); Jesus rules the world
with a rod of iron (Ps 2:9; Rv 12:5); and Jesus, in the Holy
Eucharist, is the Bread of Life that descended from Heaven (Jn
6:48-51).
Lastly,
we see the foreshadowing of Our Lady’s royalty (discussed below) in the gold
crown that was to be placed upon the Ark of the Covenant in Ex 25:11.
Mother of the Church
The Church has always
taught that it is the Mystical Body of Christ. It is comprised of the Church
Militant on Earth, the Church Suffering in Purgatory, and the Church Triumphant
in Heaven. In this respect St. Paul states:
"…he has put all
things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is
his body, the
fullness of him who fills all in all." (Eph
1:22-23)
"He is the
head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might
be pre-eminent." (Col 1:18)
The Blessed Virgin is the
mother of Jesus, true God and true man (cf. Jn 1:1-14). As she is the Mother of Jesus, and
the Church is the Mystical Body of Jesus, it rightfully follows that she is also the
Mother of the Church.
We see this clearly in the words of Jesus from the Cross, when He gave her to
us as Our Mother. In the passage that follows, St. John represents the Church.
"When Jesus saw his mother, and the
disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman,
behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!…"
(Jn
19:26-27).
We find her present in the
very early days of the public ministry of the new Church, when she was present
in cenacle with the Apostles on Pentecost. Together with the Apostles, she
received the Holy Spirit:
"…and when they had
entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and
John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James
the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas
the son of James. All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer,
together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brothers." (Acts
1:13-14)
"When the day of
Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound
came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to
them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as
the Spirit gave them utterance." (Acts 2:1-4)
In paragraph 726, the
Catechism of the Catholic Church discusses Mary's presence at Pentecost:
"At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new
Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother of the "whole
Christ." As such, she was present with the Twelve, who "with one
accord devoted themselves to prayer," at the dawn of the "end
time" which the Spirit was to inaugurate on the morning of Pentecost with
the manifestation of the Church."
The Catechism discusses
Mary as the Mother of the Church:
"The Virgin Mary…is
acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and of the redeemer…She is 'clearly the mother
of the members of Christ'…since
she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of believers in the
Church, who are members of its head." " Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the
Church." (CCC 963)
Her role in relation to
the Church and to all humanity goes still further. "In a wholly singular
way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the
Savior's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a
mother to us in the order of grace." (CCC 968)
By pronouncing her
"fiat" at the Annunciation and giving her consent to the Incarnation,
Mary was already collaborating
with the whole work her Son was to accomplish. She is mother wherever he is
Savior and head of the Mystical Body. (CCC 973)
"We
believe that the Holy Mother of God [cf. Lk 1:43], the new Eve, Mother of the
Church, continues in heaven to exercise her maternal role on behalf of the
members of Christ" (CCC 975)
Queen
& Queen Mother
"What is it, Esther?
I am your brother (2).
Take courage; you shall not die, for our law applies only to the people. Come
near." Then he raised the golden scepter and touched it to her neck; and
he embraced her, and said, "Speak to me." And she said to him,
"I saw you, my lord, like an angel of God and my heart was shaken with
fear at your glory. For you are wonderful, my lord, and your countenance is
full of grace." But as she was speaking, she fell fainting. And the king
"[Xerxes] was agitated, and all his servants sought to comfort her. And
the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall
be given you, even to the half of my kingdom." (Est D9-5:3)
"And on the second
day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your
petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even
to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." Then Queen Esther answered, "If I
have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please
the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and
to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women,
I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the
loss to the king." (Est 7:2 - 4)
King Xerxes
could not refuse his queen. He granted her petition gladly without delay.
Paragraph 966 of the
Catechism speaks of Mary's Queenship: "Finally
the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the
course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into
heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully
conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death. The
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's
Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians…"
As was pointed out above,
the relationship of the Blessed Virgin is unique. She is not only the Queen of
Heaven and Earth, but the Queen Mother as well. Consider the following:
"And now I have one
request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Say
on." And he said, "Pray ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Ab'ishag
the Shu'nammite as my wife." Bathshe'ba
said, "Very well; I will speak for you to the king." So Bathshe'ba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf
of Adoni'jah. And the king rose to meet her, and
bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king's mother; and she sat on his right. Then she said, "I have one
small request to make of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her,
"Make
your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you." . . (1 Kgs 2:16-20)
With the
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, the Church became the New Israel of God. Upon the death of Christ, the veil in
the Holy of Holies was torn, and the presence 
of God was transferred from the
synagogue to the Church.(3) Dr. Mark Miravalle described
the Blessed Mother's role as Advocate for the New Israel, this way:
"In the great Davidic
kingdoms of the Old Testament, the mother of the king traditionally held the
office of the "Queen Mother" (or "Gebirah"
in Hebrew, literally meaning "the Great Lady", (cf. 1 Kgs 2:11,19).
The
principal role of the Queen Mother was to serve as advocate or
intercessor on behalf of the people of Israel to her son the King.
"In the New
Testament, with the announcement of the new and eternal King and Kingdom of God
(cf Lk 1:32-33),
so too humanity receives a New Queen Mother, as principal advocate for the people
of God in presenting their needs to Jesus Christ, the King of kings. Her
advocacy is clearly manifest at Cana, interceding on behalf of those without
physical wine, but ultimately for the spiritual and Eucharistic wine of her Son
(cf.
Jn 2:1-10). At
Calvary, the Crucified King presents his Mother and Queen to the world as gift
to all in his Kingdom (cf. Jn 19:27).
And in Revelation, the new Queen Mother in the universal and everlasting
Kingdom of Christ is crowned with twelve stars (cf. Rv 12:1), as she, in battle array, continues
her life and death advocacy for humanity against the spiritual warring of the
Dragon-Adversary. (4)
"Mary’s doctrinal
role as Advocate for the People of God constitutes something substantially more
than the simple intercession participated in by all other saints. Our Lady’s
role as Advocate completes what might be considered the Marian circle of
mediation at the service of Christ and the human family."(5)
We see the effectiveness
of her influence with her Son, in the account of the wedding feast at Cana, in
which she impelled Him to begin His public ministry prematurely. When they ran
out of wine, she sought the remedy that she knew that He could provide. When He
quietly objected, she did what any mother would do with her Son,
she
pressured her Son, to acquiesce. He being the good Son, honored His mother's wishes, even though it was not His
preference to do so.
"On the third day
there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;
Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. When the wine
failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." And
Jesus said to her, "O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not
yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells
you." Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of
purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them,
"Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. He
said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the steward of the
feast." So they took it. When the steward of the feast tasted the water
now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who
had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom and
said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have
drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until
now." This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and
manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him." (Jn 2:1-11)
.Mary's intercession at the
wedding feast at Cana is a precursor of her heavenly intercession with her Son
in heaven towards the preparation of the heavenly wedding feast of Rv 19:6-9.
In paragraph 2618, the
Catechism speaks on the Intercession of Mary: "The Gospel reveals to us
how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, the mother of Jesus asks her
son for the needs of a wedding feast; this is the sign of another feast - that
of the wedding of the Lamb where he gives his body and blood at the request of
the Church, his Bride. It is at the hour of the New Covenant, at the foot of
the cross, that Mary is heard as the Woman, the new Eve, the
true "Mother of all the living." (cf. Jn 2:1-12.;
90; Jn 19:25-27).
In paragraphs 969-70 it
states: "This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues
uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and
which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal
fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this
saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts
of eternal salvation…Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the
titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."
"Mary's function as
mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ,
but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men
. . . flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his
mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it."
" No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and
Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both
by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated
in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the
Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which
is but a sharing in this one source."
Perhaps the influence that
the Blessed Virgin has with her Son is best exemplified in considering the
following in the typical sense:
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The Triumph of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, and the New Ark
We see the role of Mary
contemplated in both the beginning and the end, as she is the woman in both the
first and last books of the Bible. In the book of Genesis there is the
foretelling of her role as the New Eve and that of 'the woman clothed with the
sun'.
"I will put enmities
between thee and the woman,
and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her
heel. " (Gn 3:15,
St. Jerome's, Vulgate).
Since her first apparition
to St. James during the 1st century A.D., she has been waging war
with the ancient serpent as the Woman Clothed With the
Sun (i.e. with power granted by Almighty God). As he has continued to lead man
away from God, she has continued to lead man back to God. By the grace of God,
she continues to appear and speak throughout the world pleading for our
conversion, prayers and fasting.
We see early evidence of
her influence in the spreading of Christianity throughout the New Wold. The names of Columbus' ships in 1492 were the Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina.
The names form a sentence, which translated into English reads: 'St. Mary paints little woman.'.
A few years later in 1531,
she made good that promise by appearing to St. Juan Diego as Our Lady of
Guadalupe, and miraculously painted her image upon his tilma.
As Our Lady of Guadalupe, she appeared clothed with the sun with the moon at
her feet. The Spanish took the Aztec word of 'coatlaxopeuh',
which is pronounced 'quatlasupe' to be the Spanish
word 'guadalupe'. The Aztec word means 'The one who crushes the
serpent'.
"Then God's temple in heaven was
opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were
flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
And a great portent appeared in heaven(6) , a woman clothed with the
sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she
was with child and
she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery. And another
portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and
ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. His tail swept down a third of the
stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the
woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she
brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the
nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
and the
woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one
thousand two hundred and sixty days." (Rv
11:19-12:6)
"And when the dragon
saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth
the man child. And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for
a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the
serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that
he might cause her to be carried away by the river. And the earth helped the
woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the
dragon cast out of his mouth." (Rv 12:13-16)
The authors of the books
of the Bible did not break their writings into chapters. This is a convention
added by the Church centuries ago to aid in reference. Hence, we can gain
greater insight as to the meaning of the word 'woman' by taking this into
consideration in reading the last verse of Revelation 11 together with
Revelation 12. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the 'New Ark of the Covenant' as we
discussed above. The Old Testament ark of the covenant can not possibly be in
Heaven, as it remains on earth hidden (cf.2 Mc 2:5). On the other hand, the New Ark of
the Covenant was assumed body and soul into Heaven (cf. Ps 132:8). Therefore, the Ark of the
Covenant that St. John saw in Heaven had to be the Blessed Virgin Mary, the
Mother of God (cf. Lk 1:43).
In
furtherance of this prophecy the Mother of God has appeared with a crown of
stars, and clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet in a number of
her apparitions (e.g. Our Lady of Guadalupe). We have additional assurance that the
above passage refers to the Blessed Virgin in that it states "she brought
forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but
her child was caught up to God and to his throne". Ps 2:9 confirms that
the phrase, "rules with a rod of iron", refers to Jesus. Additional
confirmation is provided in the verbiage, "but her child was caught up to
God and to his throne". This can be no other than Jesus, the Son of God.
Lastly, note
that the woman wears a crown.
Queens
and Queen Mothers wear crowns.
For many years Our Lady
has been speaking of the need for our consecration to
her Immaculate Heart. In making the consecration, we surrender everything
that we are in mind, body and spirit to the care of Our Heavenly Mother. In
turn she has promised to see to our needs provided that they conform to the
Will of God, and to protect us from evil. Lately, we have heard her resounding
plea to make such consecration to enable her to protect us from the forthcoming
Great Tribulation. The citations of her pleas are many, and come from worldwide
messengers from all walks of life. She has made a number of noteworthy requests
through Father Stefano Gobbi. Consider the following:
#560 The Great Sign of Divine Mercy
"…For this, I invite all to
consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart, and I am extending this, my request,
to the most extreme limits of the earth through my Marian Movement of Priests.
In this way, I am offering you a safe refuge, which the Most Holy Trinity has
prepared for you, for these stormy times of the great tribulation and of the
painful trial which has come for the Church and for all humanity…".
Whereas
Noah's ark was the safe refuge for he and his family
during God's chastisement of the flood, the consecration to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary is our safe refuge during the Tribulation. The Tribulation is to last 'a week of
years' (Dn
9:26-27). The last
half, or roughly 3 1/2 years, represents the duration of the Great Tribulation.
'Time, times and a half', and the above mentioned 1,260 days (Rv
12:6) relate to such 3
1/2 years.
In the writing entitled: To the Refuges on Wings
of Eagles,
we discussed at length that the Blessed Virgin is the New Ark in the typical
sense. We also spoke at length about how the refuges to be overseen by her
currently exist in the countryside away from the cities (Mt 24:16). That is to say, that indeed
"the woman has places in the wilderness prepared by God" (Rv12:6).
This is how
she wages battle with the satanic Red Dragon, and how she crushes the head of
the satanic serpent. This is how the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart will be
realized.
Satan's plan is to draw
the whole world into wholesale rejection of God's Holy Will. Indeed, Jesus
defeated evil through His Passion and Death on the cross, but He reserved the
final crushing blow for His Mother. It was God who
created Lucifer, and He could have destroyed him with just a thought, but He
had a different plan. To deliver the final humiliating blow, our Heavenly
Father chose a meek and humble obedient virgin to crush the head of the
powerful, proud and disobedient Satan. Repeatedly, Our Lady has stated that
when Satan springs his plan to seize the whole world in his grasp via his
Antichrist and False Prophet of Revelation, she will rescue those consecrated
to her Immaculate Heart by having their guardian angels guide them to safe
refuges. We will remain there protected from the Antichrist and his minions and
from the wrath and chastisements of God, for the duration of the worst of the
Great Tribulation.
To Fr. Gobbi she said:
#29 The Triumph of My Immaculate Heart
"…In fact at the very
moment when Satan will be enthroned as lord of the world and will think himself
now the sure victor, I myself will snatch the prey from his hands. In a trice
he will find himself empty-handed, and in the end the victory will be
exclusively my Son's and mine. This will be the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the
world…."
And she will have crushed his head…
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Prepared
with the grace of God
By Ben J. Verdina, January 2004 (edited September, 2016)
abbacub2000@aol.com
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An Act of Consecration to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
I, (your name), a faithless
sinner-- renew and ratify today in thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of
my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and
works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to
carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to
Him than I have ever been before.
In the presence
of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day, for my Mother and Mistress. I
deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both
interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present
and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and
all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for
the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.
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An Act of Consecration to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Most Sacred
Heart of Jesus, Abyss of Mercy and Source of every grace and blessing, I
consecrate and unite myself to You without exception or reserve - all that I am
and all that I have, both temporal and spiritual, past present and future,
through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your Mother.
I leave myself entirely at Your disposal with complete
confidence in Your Mercy and Love and I beg You to look upon this offering of
my nothingness before You and to use me for Your own glory, for the honor of
Your Mother and for the salvation of souls. Help me to seek You
alone in all things. Hide me in the shelter of Your Most Sacred Heart and be my
only Consolation and Refuge.
Grant me the graces I need to joyfully accept Your Cross daily, to lead a holy
life and to die a holy death in Your service. Help me
to trust completely in Your Mercy and Love and never to fear to humbly throw
myself before the infinite Ocean of mercy which is Your Most Sacred Heart,
especially at those times when I may fail in my faithfulness in Your service. Through this weak and miserable instrument,
may Your Mercy, Love, glory and power shine forth.
Above all, set my poor heart on fire with the Flame of Love which burns in Your
Most Sacred Heart, and teach me how to return love for Love. Most Sacred Heart
of Jesus, have mercy on me - for I place all my trust in You.
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How To
Save Your Children
During one of
the cenacles which Fr. Gobbi held in the United States, he was urged by many
concerned people to ask Our Lady specifically what could be done to save the
youth from the seductions of the world which were leading many of them astray
and causing them to leave the Church. Our Lady gave Fr. Gobbi this definite and
final solution to console the parents who are so concerned about the salvation
of their children:
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Pray the Rosary! |
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Every time you pray the Rosary say: "With this Rosary I bind all my children to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.". |
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In doing so, Our Lady promised "to see to their souls." |
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Hail Holy Queen
Hail Holy
Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we
cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send
up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us. And after
this, our exile, show unto us the blessed Fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O clement,
O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
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Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. |
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That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. |
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The Memorare
.Remember, O most gracious
Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection,
implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by
this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you I come;
before you I stand sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate!
Despise not my petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
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Footnotes
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This concept is
discussed by Fr. William G. Most, theologian, as follows in referring to the Typical
sense: "In this the writer
uses an event, a person, or an action to foreshadow something that is to come
later. The original person or thing or event is called the 'type', and the
later person or thing to which it refers is called the 'antitype'. The
existence of this typical sense in a given passage can be determined only
through revelation, which is interpreted for us by the Church. Thus, for
example, Isaac being offered in sacrifice is a type of Christ." Also refer to: Types, Antitypes and Shadows |
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The Hebrew does not
translate well into English. King Xerxes was neither the biological brother
nor the stepbrother of Esther. He was a Persian, and she a Jew. The Hebrew
term used represents a term of endearment. The closest word in English, but
still inaccurate, is 'brother'. |
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Gal 4:28; 6:14-16; 1Pt 2:9-10; Mt 21:43; CCC 877. For a detailed discussion of the Roman Catholic Church as the New Israel, read: Must the Reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem Preceed the Second Coming of Christ? |
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Our Mother Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate as contained in To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons and the Papal Magisterium , by Dr. Mark Miravalle, S.T.D.; published by the Marian Movement of Priests, USA. Dr. Miravalle is professor of Theology and Mariology at the Franciscan University at Stuebenville and President of Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici. |
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MARY Coredemptrix Mediatrix Advocate, Theological Foundations Towards a Papal Definition? © 1995 Mark I. Miravalle; NIHIL OBSTAT Father James Dunfee Censor Librorum; IMPRIMATUR Most Reverend Gilbert Sheldon Bishop of Steubenville March 7, 1995 |
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The greek
word used is ouranos,
meaning ‘air, heaven, sky’. |
References
For additional information
on this and related topics, we recommend you read the following writings:
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Prayers of Consecration
and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary |
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We respectfully recognize and accept the final authority regarding
apparitions, locutions and prophecies presently being reported around the world
rests with the Holy See and the Magisterium of Holy Mother Church to whose
judgment we humbly and obediently submit.
For Additional Information On This
and Related Topics Go To:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/era-of-peace/info
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This writing is available on the
Internet at
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Also, read the following writings posted at the above mentioned web site:
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Iniquity
With Divine Retribution at the Dawn of the Era of Peace – A Summary Guide to
the Tribulation |
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After The
Warning |
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Tribulation
Update |
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Thank You
For Having Responded To My Call |
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Sky Signs |
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Ben's
Calling |
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The
Statues of Our Lady Are Crying For Our Help |
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Prayers of
Consecration & Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary |
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Heaven and
Earth Are Uniting – Fr. Gobbi |
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Ave Maria:
Coredemptrix, Mediatrix
and Advocate |
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Supreme
Authority of the Pope Until Death |
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The Myth
of the Pre-Tribulational Rapture |
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To Protect
the Faith |
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Both Faith
and Good Works Required |
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The
Catechism and the "Term" Coredemptrix |
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Ecclesiastical
Masonry: The Beast Like a Lamb |
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Tribulation
Protection: The Blood of the Lamb |
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Scripture
Alone? Is Half of the Story Sufficient? |
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Has
Matthew 24:14 Been Realized? 'Definitely Yes' |
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To the
Refuges on Wings of Eagles |
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Must the
Reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem Precede the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ? |
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The
Abomination of Desolation |
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The Era of
Peace |
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The
Original Prayer to St. Michael |
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Mary,
Queen and Queen Mother |
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How to
Identify the Antichrist |
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The Whore
of Babylon |
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The Mark
of the Beast |
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Upon This
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"Since we are
convinced, after long and serious reflection, that great good will accrue to
the Church if this solidly established truth shines forth more clearly to all,
like a luminous lamp raised aloft, by Our Apostolic authority We decree and
establish the feast of Mary's Queenship, which is to
be celebrated every year in the whole world on the 31st of May. We likewise
ordain that on the same day the consecration of the human race to the
Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary be renewed, cherishing the hope
that through such consecration a new era may begin, joyous in Christian peace and in the triumph of
religion. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Let all,
therefore, try to approach with greater trust the throne of grace and mercy of
our Queen and Mother, and beg for strength in adversity, light in darkness,
consolation in sorrow; above all let them strive to free themselves from the
slavery of sin and offer an unceasing homage, filled with filial loyalty, to
their Queenly Mother. Let her churches be thronged by the faithful, her
feast-days honored; may the beads of the Rosary be in the hands of all; may
Christians gather, in small numbers and large, to sing her praises in churches,
in homes, in hospitals, in prisons. May Mary's name be held in highest
reverence, a name sweeter than honey and more precious than jewels; may none
utter blasphemous words, the sign of a defiled soul, against that name graced
with such dignity and revered for its motherly goodness; let no one be so bold
as to speak a syllable which lacks the respect due to her name." .(Entrustment
of the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary October 8, 2000)
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Pope Pius XII, Ad Caeli
Reginum
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