What bride honors the Immaculate Mother of her Divine Bridegroom with song, together with choirs of angels, while on the way to Saint Joseph's to be wed to a living Mystery? "O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces in the Eucharist; to live over again the Gospel story and to read it in the light of the Eucharistic Life of Jesus. Remember, O our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that thou art the Mother of all adorers of the Holy Eucharist." ~ Saint Peter Julian Eymard
THE IMMACULATE MOTHER OF THE DIVINE BRIDEGROOM OF EVERY SOUL IS HONORED WITH SONG WHILE ON THE WAY TO CHURCH FOR THIS MORNING'S OFFERING OF THE TRADITIONAL TRIDENTINE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS CELEBRATED IN LATIN AT SAINT JOSEPH'S
“Where on earth shall we find Jesus but in the arms of Mary! Was it not she who gave us the Eucharist? It was her consent to the Incarnation of the Word that inaugurated the great mystery of reparation to God and union with us which Jesus accomplished during His mortal life, and that he continues in the Eucharist. 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… We can only go to Him through her. The more we love the Eucharist, the more we must love Mary.” ~ Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Imagine the festive atmosphere in the vehicle while on the way to church in the holy peace and holy hiddenness, while singing along with the Choirs of Angels to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Such wonders.
THE IMMACULATE MOTHER OF THE GROOM HELPS PREPARE US PERSONALLY FOR EACH ONE'S OFFERING - WEDDING AND RECEPTION OF THE REAL PRESENCE OF JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
All we have to do is be willing.
SMALL, HIDDEN, UNKNOWN, REJECTED AND THE DIVINE SUPERNATURAL POWER IN IT
The Work of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus in modern times remains largely hidden, rejected, and/or mistreated in imitation of and in union with the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and that is precisely where its Divine power lies in imitation of and in union with the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
And so also it is also with each one's holy apostolate that includes one's holy apostolate of reparation, to the degree that each one is willing to submit to the supreme authority of Almighty God and cooperate with His most perfect will.
THE WILL OF THE IMMACULATE MOTHER OF GOD
"From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things." ~ Saint Augustine
From her "be it done to me according to thy word" (Luke 1:38), her will unified with the most perfect will of Almighty God through an act of her free will, she only has to will it and it shall be accomplished for us, not as we will but as we consent through our free will to conform to God's will in imitation of and together with her.
BLESSED MOTHER MOVES ROADBLOCKS, BY THE POWER OF GOD, WITH HER WILL
"Virgin Immaculate,
perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain
for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic
God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and
to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole
life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and
petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen." ~ Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Just imagine maternal love that helpful and that lavish.
WHY MODERN MOTHERS OF THE GROOM ARE SO OFTEN LEFT OUT WHEN IT IS SO EASY NOT TO
"There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God." ~ Father Frederick William Faber
In our time, the forces of darkness are very clearly gaining ever more ground and this can be seen by their attempt to invert God's natural law, His Divine Economy of Sanctification and Eternal Salvation, across creation.
One of those inversions taking place in our time, following attempts to first and foremost discredit God's Divinity, is to diminish the God-given role of the Immaculate Mother of God as Co-Redemptrix and humanity's Mediatrix of His necessary Divine supernatural graces.
Discredit Christ the Divine Bridegroom of every soul and His Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament and then discredit the Immaculate Mother of the Divine Bridegroom.
Then discredit man as the leader.
Undermine the role of the groom as head of his household and the one to be obeyed during marriage, for his success as leader of the family is in direct measure to his submission to and obedience to God.
"Saint Joseph is the model for every man." ~ Saint Josemaria Escriva
The idolatrous man who seeks to ruin his family ultimately ruins himself.
The plan of the forces of darkness are to discredit the man and then to discredit the woman, to undermine and destroy hierarchies established by God for the sanctification and eternal salvation of mankind. Everyone covet first place, they whisper to us, while God's people seek the last place for themselves, behind Jesus.
"Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the savior of his body." ~ Ephesians 5:22-23
The Immaculate Mother of God is the model for every woman.
The idolatrous woman who seeks to place herself before her husband and her family ultimately ruins herself.
God who seeks our sanctification and eternal salvation is order.
The forces of darkness that seek our eternal ruin encourage disorder through idolatry that stems from self interest and includes the disordered desire to accomplish one's own will independent from God's will.
THE LOOKS ON PEOPLE’S FACES DURING THE WEDDING AND WHAT REALLY MATTERS
“How good and pleasant it is to dwell in the Heart of Jesus! Who is there who does not love a heart so wounded? Who can refuse a return of love to a Heart so loving? Amen.” ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
How much more should anyone be deeply moved during the offering of the Traditional Tridentine Holy Sacrifice of the Mass where God alone is worshiped and adored, and as one weds one's life anew each day to Jesus the Divine Bridegroom of every soul and unifies one's offering of self to His in Almighty God's service guided by the Holy Ghost, than one is during any celebration of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony between one man and one woman.
So often in our time this is out of proper order.
How often these offering celebrations between God and man and then between man and wife are dictated by people with the most money, when they should be guided by the ones who live in imitation of and in union with Christ.
WHAT PEOPLE DO TO AND FOR CHRIST IS WHAT PEOPLE ULTIMATELY DO TO AND FOR HIS PEOPLE
“The religious man is the only successful man. Nothing fails with him. Every shaft reaches the mark, if the mark be God. He has wasted no energies. Every hope has been fulfilled beyond expectations. Every effort has been even disproportionately rewarded. Every means has turned out marvelously to be an end, because it had God in it, who is our single end. In piety, every battle is a victory, simply because it is a battle. The completest defeats have somewhat of triumph in them; for it is a positive triumph to have stood up and fought for God at all. In short, no life is a failure which is lived for God; and all lives are failures which are lived for any other end.” ~ Father Frederick William Faber
HOLY COMMUNION, DIVINE UNION, AND EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
“What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation." ~ Saint Francis of Assisi
During the Offering - Wedding, Holy Communion, and Divine Union with the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, a powerless, worthless, and helpless offering of self is unified through an act of one's free will with Christ's sacrificially loving offering of Himself as Almighty God wills, through the maternal intercession of the Immaculate Mother, for the greater honor and glory of our Triune God first and foremost and then for the sake of all.
"Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist." ~ Saint Peter Julian Eymard
LAVISH LOVE AND A PROPER THANKSGIVING
Imagine the impact of the proper use of one's free will, by the Divine power of God, in imitation of and in union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the chaste heart of Saint Joseph.
LIVING THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS AT ALL TIMES
“Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not, for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.” ~ Father Frederick William Faber
This is each one's generously loving and, by the power of God, limitless task.
"Quia non erit impossibile apud Deum omne verbum/Because no word shall be impossible with God" (Luke 1:37).
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