Fourth means of being devout to the Sacred Heart - Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Mary is all powerful with the heart of her son.
She is the mother
of beautiful love, and it is of her we should ask it. The sacred hearts of
Jesus and Mary are too closely joined, and too much alike, that one should not
infallibly lead to the other, with this difference, that the heart of Jesus
favors more particularly the souls of those who are just; while the heart of
Mary purifies sinners by the graces it obtains for them, and puts them in a condition
thereby to be received into the heart of Jesus. The most abandoned should not
despair of obtaining pardon through Mary's' intercession: she is the asylum of
all the miserable, the resource of the entire world. Without a tender love for
this mother of mercy, we need never expect admission to the sacred heart of her
son. One day St Gertrude recited the Salve Regina: at the words, ‘ turn then
thine eyes of mercy towards us,’ the holy virgin appeared with the divine
infant in her arms, and pointing to his eyes, said, “ Behold the merciful eyes,
that I can turn at pleasure on all who invoke me." Let us then have a tender
love for Mary, and we shall be soon inflamed with love for Jesus. This is the
great recompense which she obtains for all who are devout to her. “All good
comes to us, say the fathers, “by Mary. He who finds her, finds life and salvation."
Nor is it difficult to approach this tender mother for she anticipates those
who seek her, and is the first to show herself to them. Yes; it is she herself
who procures us the desire to love and serve her, in order to be able to enrich
us with the treasures of which she is the depositary. Let us address ourselves
then to Mary; above all, let us speak to her heart, the perfect image of the
heart of Jesus; let us pray her to hear us by her immaculate conception, the
dearest of all her privileges, and we may be assured she will not refuse us.
Let us never separate, in our devotions, the heart of Jesus from the heart of
Mary; let us honor and love and consecrate ourselves wholly to them. Let us
present our petitions to God the Father, through the heart of Jesus, by the
heart of Mary. Such was the practice of the venerable mother of the
incarnation, foundress of the Ursulines in America. The blessed Herman Joseph
honored the heart of Mary every day of his life, and received thereby most signal
favors.
Say thrice: Sacred
Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
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