News Item: : Consolations in the Month of Mary
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Wednesday 03 May 2017 - 12:18:44

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It is true that orthodox Catholics everywhere feel pretty well battered in these times. As we are now in the month of May, dedicated as it is to Our Lady, it seems a good time to post up some consoling words by Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman. We hope that you will find some encouragement in them.

Consolations from Mary

What shall bring you forward in the narrow way, if you live in the world, but the thought and patronage of Mary? What shall seal your senses, what shall tranquilize your heart, when sights and sounds of danger are around you, but Mary? What shall give you patience and endurance when you are wearied out with the length of the conflict with evil, with the unceasing necessity of precaution, with the irksomeness of observing them, with the tediousness of their repetition, with the strain upon your mind, with your forlorn and cheerless condition, but a loving communion with Her!

She will comfort you in your fatigues, raise you after your falls, reward you for your successes. She will show you Her Son, Your God and Your All.

When your spirit within you is excited, or relaxed, or depressed, when it loses its balance, when it is restless and wayward, when it is sick of what it has not, when your eye is solicited with evil and your mortal frame trembles under the shadow of the tempter, what will bring you to yourselves, to peace and to health, but the cool breath of the Immaculate, and the fragrance of the Rose of Sharon?

Bl. Cardinal J.H. Newman

Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, and Queen of the May - Pray for all of us, your children.



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