Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Composed by Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J. The Sixth Day Mary knows her own. Mary watches over her own. She has a Mother’s love for those who profess openly before the world their love for her. So she watches with eagerness and guards with care those sons and daughters who wear her uniform and profess by her scapular their consecration to her. A wedding ring is a sign of love pledged and fidelity preserved. A locket is eternal reminder of the one whose picture the locket frames. A scapular is public manifestation in the sight of God, of men, and of angels that we belong to Mary, that we love her virtues, and that we are trying to live her life before all observers … a beautiful “spectacle for God and men.” How wise is the person who in this age of temptations marks himself clearly as Mary’s property. Mary guards her own. She will guard him. How full of divine common sense is the person who makes it clear that he wants Mary near him in danger and that he hopes her eyes will find him easily when he is in peril. Mary watches over her own. She has no doubt that this one who is marked clearly with her uniform is her own. Confident in the protection that Mary grants to those who are her own we say: The Prayer of Our Lady of Mount Carmel O GOD, Who has honoured the Order of Carmel with the special title of Your Blessed Mother Mary, ever Virgin, grant in Your mercy that we who keep her memory this day may be shielded by her protection and be found worthy to attain unto joy eternal. Who lives and reigns with GOD the Father in the unity of the HOLY GHOST, GOD, world without end. Amen.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:00:01 +0000
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