The Saints Explain The Importance Of The Immaculate Heart Of Mary
The Saints Explain The Importance Of The Immaculate Heart Of Mary
The Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
This year the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be celebrated on June 20, the third Saturday following Pentecost. On this day Catholics are encouraged to reflect on the deep love that Mary held for Jesus in her heart. As we contemplate the depths of her love, we are reminded that we are called to follow her example of love. The words of the saints help us to better understand the importance of this in our spiritual lives.
“He wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace it and these souls will be loved by God, like flowers placed by me to adorn His throne....My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”
– Words of Our Lady of Fatima to Sr. Lucia
“A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a man who is consumed with love and who sets on fire everything in his path. He is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him; he places his joy in privations; he undertakes all works for the glory of God; he embraces willingly every sacrifice; he is happy in the midst of calumnies; he exults in torments. He can think of but one thing — working, suffering and seeking at all times the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls, to imitate Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
– St. Anthony Mary Claret
“In entrusting to you, oh Mother, the world, all individuals and peoples, we also entrust to you this very consecration of the world, placing it in your motherly Heart. Immaculate Heart! Help us to conquer the menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world and seem to block the paths towards the future!”
– St. John Paul II
“Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.”
– St. Teresa of Calcutta
“The Immaculate is a Spouse of the Holy Spirit in an unspeakable way…. She has the same Son as the heavenly Father has. What an ineffable family! We belong to her, to the Immaculate. We are hers without limits, most perfectly hers; we are, as it were, her. Through our mediation she loves the good God. With our poor heart, she loves her divine Son. We become the mediators through whom the Immaculate loves Jesus. And Jesus, considering us her property and, as it were, a part of his beloved Mother, loves her in us and through us. What a lovely mystery!”
– St. Maximilian Kolbe
“In the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I trust. Look to the Star, call upon Mary! In danger, in difficulty or in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Keep her name on your lips, never let it pass out of your heart.”
– St. Bernard
“Tell everybody that God grants graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
– Saint Jacinta
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