Pray this novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help + RHP RESOURCES POST (Videos + Links re: "Mary the Mother of God")
Footnotes on Explaining the Faith. Link to REDEMPTORIS MATER by: JP2. Use free link to access Bishop Barron's "Catholicism" Episode #4 on Our Lady.
ETERNAL WISDOM
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying.
O Purest Mary, O Sweetest Mary, let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips.
Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on you, for, in all my needs, in all my temptations I shall never cease to call on you, ever repeating thy sacred name, Mary, Mary.
O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fill my soul when I pronounce your sacred name, or even only think of you.
I thank God for having given you, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name.
But I will not be content with merely pronouncing your name: let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you,
Mother of Perpetual Help.Amen.1Mention your request and recite three Hail Marys or Pray the Holy Rosary.
Ó Mãe do Perpétuo Socorro, concedei-me a graça de sempre invocar o vosso nome onipotente; porque o vosso nome é o nosso socorro durante a vida e a nossa salvação no momento da morte.
Ó Maria puríssima, ó Maria dulcíssima, fazei que o vosso nome seja de agora em diante a respiração da minha vida. Soberana minha, não tardeis a me socorrer cada vê que Vos invocar; porque em todas as tentações que vierem me assaltar, em todas as necessidades que experimentar, não cessarei jamais de Vos invocar, repetindo sempre: Maria! Maria!
Que força, que doçura, que confiança, que ternura faz nascer na minha alma o vosso nome só, só o vosso pensamento!
Dou graças ao senhor que, para o meu bem, Vos deu um nome tão doce, amável e poderoso.
Mas não me contentarei com pronunciar o vosso nome, quero pronunciá-lo com amor, quero que o amor me recorde sem cessar que devo Vos invocar, ó Mãe do Perpétuo Socorro!
Ámen.2
Mencione seu pedido para a graça, 3 Ave Marias / Terço
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP: THE IMAGE
The image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is known worldwide for many miracles and graces bestowed on those who partake in this devotion.
SEE PHOTOS from “Procession in Rome Honors Our Lady of Perpetual Help”
CREATIVE WRITING CORNER: LINK TO A NEW “COLLABORATIVE SUBSTACK POEM” [SEE FOOTNOTE “3” at the end of this post]
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us.
RHP RESOURCE POST ON MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD:
A) VIDEO PICKS from
WORD on FIRE&MARIAN FATHERS of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONB) LINK TO ST. JOHN PAUL II, “REDEMPTORIS MATER” [25 March 1987]
C) CATECHISM of the CATHOLIC CHURCH — RELEVANT CITATIONS —
495; 967-972in ENGLISH and PORTUGUESE.https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc/index.htm for other languages.
A) VIDEO PICKS:
CATHOLICISM SERIES [WORD ON FIRE]: LINK TO EPISODE #4
Episode #4 - Our Tainted Nature's Solitary Boast: Mary, the Mother of God
LINK HERE: https://catholicismseries.com/marythemotherofgodepisode4
Bishop Barron journeys to the humble remains of Mary’s house in Nazareth, to the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus and to the great Marian shrines of Lourdes and Guadalupe to explain the Church’s teachings about Mary as the Mother of God, the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the Assumption.
St. Irenaeus
“The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God” (Against Heresies, 5:19:1 [A.D. 189]).
VIDEO RESOURCE: CLICK FOOTNOTE 4 FOR ANNOTATIONS4
“Mary: Mother of God, Co-Redemptrix, Co-Mediatrix?” Explaining the Faith
by: Fr. Chris Alar
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Mary is an integral part of God's plan of Salvation. How so? Can we actually call her the "Mother of God" and why is this January 1 Solemnity of the Mother of God a Holy Day of Obligation? What about Co-Mediatrix and Co-Remptrix? What do those titles mean? Join Fr. Chris Alar as he explains the critical role in knowing who Jesus is and growing closer to him. VISIT: https://www.thedivinemercy.org
B) RE-READ “REDEMPTORIS MATER” by: St. John Paul II
“REDEMPTORIS MATER”
SOBRE A BEM-AVENTURADA VIRGEM MARIA NA VIDA DA IGREJA QUE ESTÁ A CAMINHO — PORTUGUESE: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/pt/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031987_redemptoris-mater.html5
On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of the Pilgrim Church) — ENGLISH: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031987_redemptoris-mater.html
C) CCC: “MOTHER IN THE ORDER OF GRACE”
Another resource: excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, specifically articles 967, 978, 969 etc. We invite you to reread the added citations below:
SEE: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2C.HTM
. . . she is our Mother in the order of grace
967 By her complete adherence to the Father's will, to his Son's redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church's model of faith and charity. Thus she is a "preeminent and . . . wholly unique member of the Church"; indeed, she is the "exemplary realization" (typus)508 of the Church.
968 Her role in relation to the Church and to all humanity goes still further. "In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Saviour's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace."509
969 "This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."510
[PORTUGUESE] ... ELA É NOSSA MÃE NA ORDEM DA GRAÇA
967. Pela sua plena adesão à vontade do Pai, à obra redentora do Filho e a todas as moções do Espírito Santo, a Virgem Maria é para a Igreja o modelo da fé e da caridade. Por isso, ela é «membro eminente e inteiramente singular da Igreja» (533) e constitui mesmo «a realização exemplar»,o typus, da Igreja (534).
968. Mas o seu papel em relação à Igreja e a toda a humanidade vai ainda mais longe. Ela «cooperou de modo inteiramente singular, com a sua fé, a sua esperança e a sua ardente caridade, na obra do Salvador, para restaurar nas almas a vida sobrenatural. É, por essa razão, nossa Mãe, na ordem da graça» (535).
969. «Esta maternidade de Maria na economia da graça perdura sem interrupção, desde o consentimento, que fielmente deu na anunciação e que manteve inabalável junto da Cruz, até à consumação perpétua de todos os eleitos. De facto, depois de elevada ao céu, não abandonou esta missão salvadora, mas, com a sua multiforme intercessão, continua a alcançar-nos os dons da salvação eterna [...]. Por isso, a Virgem é invocada na Igreja com os títulos de advogada, auxiliadora, socorro e medianeira» (536).
970. «Mas a função maternal de Maria para com os homens, de modo algum ofusca ou diminui a mediação única de Cristo, mas antes manifesta a sua eficácia. Com efeito, todo o influxo salutar da Virgem santíssima [...] deriva da abundância dos méritos de Cristo, funda-se na sua mediação e dela depende inteiramente, haurindo aí toda a sua eficácia» (537). «Efectivamente, nenhuma criatura pode ser equiparada ao Verbo Encarnado e Redentor; mas, assim como o sacerdócio de Cristo é participado de diversos modos pelos ministros e pelo povo fiel, e assim como a bondade de Deus, sendo uma só, se difunde variamente pelos seres criados, assim também a mediação única do Redentor não exclui, antes suscita nas criaturas, uma cooperação variada, que participa dessa fonte única» (538).
FOOTNOTES
SOURCE: https://www.nationalshrine.org/blog/the-tradition-of-our-mother-of-perpetual-help/
The National Shrine states:
June 27 is the feast day of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, who is known for miracles and answers to prayer. It is associated with a 15th-century Byzantine icon of the Madonna and Child, which is copied in mosaic in the Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel in the Basilica.
History of the Devotion
The tradition of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is traced back to 1495. Stolen from a Cretan monastery by a wine merchant a few years after its creation, it was brought to the church of St. Matthew in Rome. For 300 years, it resided at the church, and even survived the church’s destruction by Napoleon’s army in 1798.
88 years later, Pope Pius IX gave the icon to the Redemptorist congregation at the Church of Saint Alphonsus, where it remains today.
SOURCE: https://www.adf.org.br/home/oracao-de-santo-afonso-a-nossa-senhora-do-perpetuo-socorro/
“Lift Up Your Eyes”
BY: THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST TEAM & Dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. In Memory of Vladimir who died of aggressive brain cancer one year ago today.
COPYRIGHT © 2023-present Travessa da Senra House Press (Porto, Portugal). Inspired by Karen Rocha
Losing hope?
lift up your eyesstand watch
at the cross
Mystery of salvation.
Filled with doubt?
lift up your eyesinvite Trust
near the splendour
of the cross
Childlike witness of salvation.
In exile? Dysfunction? Disorder? Pain?
lift up your eyesgate of Heaven
manifest the King
of our salvation.
Tower of Light, Heart of Hope, Triumph in souls:
To you we
lift up our eyesgravity pulls
beneath the cross
Door of gold
Mother of Grace
of help, of love
of peace, of joy
and reparation.
RHP: QUICK ANNOTATIONS for ABOVE VIDEO PRESENTATION:
This video was created by Fr. Chris Alar, previous guest to The Rosary Hour Podcast & narrator for The Rosary: A Mini Series. He recorded this Live Talk for “Explaining the Face” 5 months ago for 1 January, 2023.
In this presentation, Fr. Chris talks about the nature of Jesus within the context of his “Divine Essence” or “Godness”
We consider this teaching in a special way today as we recall the great defender of the nature of Jesus Christ, St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor.
When Jesus became a man, Fr. Chris explains, He was “then was born of a woman, and assumed a human nature” (the “whatness”, termed by Fr. Chris).
When Mary gave birth, she gave birth to a person who was Divine, which he explains “is why we can call Mary the
Mother of God”:i.e. He is “One person”, “two natures”: “human” and “divine”
Fr. Chris ends his first segment: “Thus, we have the ‘Godman’…”
He identifies objections used to deny Our Lady’s Motherhood to Jesus; he asks the question, “what happens if we deny that Mary is the Mother of God”. Fr. Alar then explores this point in the context of the Trinity.
Fr. Chris then makes reference to Article 495 in the Catechism, cited here below:
ENGLISH: THEOTOKOS495 Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the mother of my Lord".144 In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).
PORTUGUESE: A MATERNIDADE DIVINA DE MARIA
495. Chamada nos evangelhos «a Mãe de Jesus» (Jo 2, 1; 19, 25)(150), Maria é aclamada, sob o impulso do Espírito Santo e desde antes do nascimento do seu Filho, como «a Mãe do meu Senhor» (Lc 1, 43). Com efeito, Aquele que Ela concebeu como homem por obra do Espírito Santo, e que Se tornou verdadeiramente seu Filho segundo a carne, não é outro senão o Filho eterno do Pai, a segunda pessoa da Santíssima Trindade. A Igreja confessa que Maria é, verdadeiramente, Mãe de Deus («Theotokos») (151).
Fr. Chris references a video by: John MacArthur: MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD? Of note, just a few points:
Fr. Alar cites the internet which isolates this speaker as a foremost scholar on the Bible in North America.
Fr. Chris responds to claims made in this video by isolating the arguments of MacArthur and analyzing them within the context of Church teaching on the Motherhood of Mary.
The video notes how various fallacies in certain arguments with regards to Our Lady can result from certain general conclusions that limit the fullness of one’s understanding about Our Lady (whether consciously or unconsciously) and which evade the full resonance & guidance of authentic Church teaching.
Fr. Chris proceeds to give examples whereby the speaker makes certain premises with a number of claims, i.e. sentences, one of which concludes: “Catholics teach you do not need to go to Jesus”. Fr. Chris explores ways of assessing the Truth of such arguments, and comments on how one might better approach the limits of those arguments, while also pointing out ways to rediscover why Our Lady, [The Blessed Virgin Mary], “helps us to get to Jesus”. This point may be helpful for those who might struggle to understand the efficacious nature of the prayer of the Holy Rosary, for example, and its Biblical foundation.
II. O culto à Santíssima Virgem
971. «Todas as gerações me hão-de proclamar ditosa» (Lc 1, 48): «a piedade da Igreja para com a santíssima Virgem pertence à própria natureza do culto cristão» (539). A santíssima Virgem «é com razão venerada pela Igreja com um culto especial. E, na verdade, a santíssima Virgem é, desde os tempos mais antigos, honrada com o título de "Mãe de Deus", e sob a sua protecção se acolhem os fiéis implorando-a em todos os perigos e necessidades [...]. Este culto [...], embora inteiramente singular, difere essencialmente do culto de adoração que se presta por igual ao Verbo Encarnado, ao Pai e ao Espírito Santo, e favorece-o poderosamente» (540). Encontra a sua expressão nas festas litúrgicas dedicadas à Mãe de Deus (541) e na oração mariana, como o santo rosário, «resumo de todo o Evangelho» (542).
III. Maria - ícone escatológico da Igreja
972. Depois de termos falado da Igreja, da sua origem, missão e destino, não poderíamos terminar melhor do que voltando a olhar para Maria, a fim de contemplar nela o que a Igreja é no seu mistério, na sua «peregrinação da fé», e o que será na pátria ao terminar a sua caminhada, onde a espera, na «glória da santíssima e indivisa Trindade» e «na comunhão de todos os santos» (543), Aquela que a mesma Igreja venera como Mãe do seu Senhor e como sua própria Mãe:
«Assim como, glorificada já em corpo e alma, a Mãe de Jesus é imagem e início da igreja que se há-de consumar no século futuro, assim também, brilha na terra como sinal de esperança segura e de consolação, para o povo de Deus ainda peregrino» (544).