Our Queen's Birthday! What Shall We Give Her?

Greetings in Jesus and Mary.....

Tomorrow is the birthday of our Queen and Mother. I am repeating some of the things I have written in the past on Her Birthday....and that is to give Her what She would want most! Our holiness! God has given Her all graces and this is not only for Her benefit but ours. She is the Dispenser of all of His graces. 

What can we sinners give to such a  beautiful and holy Mother? We can strive to please God - this will please Our Queen.  She wants us ALL TO BE HOLY! 

We know that we are all called  to strive to be holy. Our lives here are very short and therefore each day is a gift of God to grow closer to Him and to lead others to Him. Our part is to rid ourselves of all sin and to practice virtue. Our Mother was sinless and full of virtue, therefore, we can live in imitation of Her and ask Her for guidance on this road. God, Who by His grace, aids man in his efforts through actual and sacramental grace through the hands of Our Queen and Mother. Through prayer and frequenting the Sacraments, we can attain the helps that God wishes to give us in His love and mercy. He wants our perfection and union with Him more than we do.

St. Teresa of Avila stressed that many die in spiritual infancy because they do not desire to grow daily in holiness. It is not a common ambition to be a saint. We live in a world of indifference and tolerance. If we have even a tiny desire, it is easily destroyed by the slightest presence of our enemies: the devil, the world and the flesh. So should we desire such a thing? Should we think it is possible? Should we think it is wrong to be different than the average indifferent soul? Aren’t we created to love God above all things? The answer is – Holiness is for everyone and therefore attainable! 

Grace is made available by God to those who ask for it. It is very very sad to see the state of the Church today, all the way to the top! THE ENTIRE WORLD COULD BE SAINTS IF THEY JUST ASKED GOD THROUGH OUR LADY! What does it matter what others think or say. We are to live for God alone! We may even encounter a priest who says that our goals are set too high! The reality is that we are caught up in a world of indifference and coldness of heart. The world lacks heroes! Why did God choose St. Joan of Arc to lead the armies when she was only 14 years of age? Why did God make St. Therese of the Child Jesus a Doctor of the Church when she left school at age 15 and died at age 24? God’s ways are not our ways and He chooses the humble souls WHO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN HIS GOODNESS!! 

St. Teresa of Avila says that we should have “Determined Determination” to be a saint. God wants it! It is for His glory! We must first seek the humility of Our Lady though – we must know that we are empty vessels without the grace of God to fill it. Everything is grace! Without it – we can do nothing – therefore – all glory belongs to God and we should always give it to Him in imitation of Our Mother who gives Him all glory!

Mary never committed a single sin, either mortal or venial, nor any voluntary imperfection, such as resisting an inspiration of grace, nor even any involuntary imperfection, such as acting without reflection. Mary had the constant thought of God before Her. When we sin, we lose sight of God. Mary found pleasure only in God. She never found any pleasure in anything whatsoever outside of Him.  Every sin is the result of an error, the thought of finding good or happiness where it is not. The graces of light made Mary see that true good and true happiness can be found only in God. Even when we know that the error is an error, we act upon it, because of the fickle character of our will. The graces of strength gave Mary’s will an absolute and unshakable direction toward the good.

Grace is the most important factor that raises the purity of Mary’s soul incomparably above that of man in the state of innocence or that of the most sublime angel. Therefore, because of Her purity, let us turn to Mary and ask the Dispenser of all of these graces to give each of us what it is that we need. May we turn to Her in our daily struggle for sanctity and ask Her to first give us humility and then the determined determination needed to keep battling against the enemy and to beg God for the graces through Her to be the saints that He needs in a world grown very very cold, indifferent and tolerant of evil. 

Let us ask Our Mother for graces on Her Birthday - as this will please Her the most!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY, WE LOVE YOU AS QUEEN AND MOTHER!!
THANK YOU ETERNAL FATHER FOR GIVING US SUCH A QUEEN AND MOTHER!

Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces, pray for us.

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