Blessed Holy Mother
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 with 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.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
Prayer of Thanksgiving to Mary
(Madonna on Floral Wreath by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, circa 1619)
Prayer of Thanksgiving to Mary
By St. Augustine of Hippo
O Blessed Virgin Mary, who can worthily give you the just dues of praise and thanksgiving, you who by the wondrous assent of your will rescued a fallen world? What songs of praise can our weak human nature recite in your honor, since it is by your intervention alone that it has found the way to restoration?
Accept, then, such poor thanks as we have to offer here, though they be unequal to your merit; and, receiving our vows, obtain by your prayers the remission of our offenses. Carry our prayers within the sanctuary of the heavenly audience and bring forth the gift of our reconciliation.
Take our offering, grant us our requests, obtain pardon for what we fear, for you are the sole hope of sinners. Holy Mary, help the miserable, strengthen the fainthearted, comfort the sorrowful, pray for your people, plead for the clergy, intercede for all women consecrated to God.
Be ever ready to assist us when we pray and bring back to us the answers to our prayers. Make it your continual care to pray for the people of God, you who, blessed by God, merited to bear the Redeemer of the world who lives and reigns, world without end. Amen.
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!
Dawn Pisturino
Monday, October 7, 2024
Our Lady of the Rosary - October 7th
PRAY THE ROSARY!
Monday, August 26, 2024
The Fifteen Promises of Mary
Do you pray the rosary? Here are the 15 promises made by Mary for those who do:
1. signal graces
2. special protection and graces
3. an armor against Hell, vice, sin, and heresies
4. virtue and good works, mercy, and heavenly sanctification
5. the soul will never perish
6. God's favor and eternal life
7. sacraments of the Church
8. the merits of the saints
9. delivery from Purgatory
10. the highest degree of glory in Heaven
11. blessings and prayers granted
12. aid in time of need
13. heavenly intercession
14. unity in the brotherhood and sisterhood of Christ
15. predestination
from America Needs Fatima
"Give me an army saying the rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Pius IX
Dawn Pisturino
Monday, April 29, 2024
"She who Nourishes with Milk"
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Happy New Year
A Prayer for the New Year from the Carmelite Fathers
Blessed Mother, as the new year arrives, I ask for your blessing. With you, I can look ahead with courage and faith.
Grant me the strength to handle any challenges I may face and patience as you guide me through.
I ask that you bring me peace, happiness, and hope. And I ask that you embrace me with your love and grace.
Please protect me and my family, dear Mother, so that we can share our blessings with others in need.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Pray for us.
Amen
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Dawn Pisturino
December 30, 2023