Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Sacred Heart Church, Honolulu

PRAYERS TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

by St. John Eudes

O Blessed Virgin Mary,

I humbly beseech thee, 

by thy immaculate conception and 

through thy pure Heart,

to take full possession of my heart.

Give it completely to thy Divine Son

and beg Him to banish from it all sin

and to establish in it forever the

perfect reign of His divine love.

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O Mary,

mother of Mercy,

O mother of loving grace,

hide us in thy blessed Heart,

draw us to share in thy constant sacrifice,

and immolate our hearts forever in thy sanctuary

and in thy altar, 

to the eternal glory of Thy Beloved Son.

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Queen of my heart,

suffer me to offer my own miserable heart to thee.

I beseech thee, 

by the ineffable goodness of thy admirable Heart

to employ the entire strength of the power God has given to thee,

to crush and destroy in my  heart at any and every cost, 

all that displeases thy divine Son.

Establish in me the sovereign empire of His Heart

and thy own.

May these two Hearts, which are one and the same, 

reign within me unceasingly, sovereignly and forever,

for the greater honor and glory of 

the Most Blessed Trinity.

The Admirable Heart of Mary by St. John Eudes

Immaculate Heart of Mary

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To the Blessed Virgin Mary

My Queen,
my Mother!
I give myself entirely to thee;
and to show my devotion to thee
I consecrate to thee this day
my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth,
my heart,
my whole being,
without reserve.
Wherefore, good Mother,
as I am thine own,
keep me,
guard me,
as thy property and possession.

Source:  General Catholic Devotions by Bonaventure Hammer

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Pasquale Sarullo "Maria Immaculata"

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"To be devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means to contemplate this maternal love that the Mother of God injects into the mystery of the Redemption and into the life of the Church.  It means to acknowledge therein a more comprehensible and accessible sign of the Father's love.  it means to cast ourselves on the heart of Mary, Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church, to live the mystery of the Redemption in all its vivifying depth and fullness and to place ourselves at the service of our brothers and sisters on each.

What it means to consecrate ourselves to Mary's Immaculate Heart.

"...some of the special fruits which devotion to the Heart of Mary cannot fail to produce in the souls of those who practice it.  They are...1.  a unified and profound understanding of the mystery of Mary;
2.  a serious spiritual commitment, sustained by consecration to her Immaculate heart; and
3.  a greater facility for and assurance of reaching union with Christ who lives in the Immaculate Heart of His Mother."

Dictionary of Mary, Catholic Book Publishing.