Newsletter #89 – Our Lady of Mount Carmel USA

Dear Friends and Benefactors,

We continue to see the series of the divine perfections of God the Son mirrored in the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

Goodness and Providence of God mirrored in the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Sacred theology distinguishes in God three kinds of goodness, which are fundamentally one and the same: natural goodness, moral goodness and goodness of benignity.

In the order of nature God communicates His being to all existing things, His life to all living things.

In the order of grace Almighty God communicates Himself to rational and intellectual creatures, through the adorable mystery of the Incarnation and all the other mysteries of His Divine Son, Jesus Christ, Our Redeemer.

Through the Sacraments He has instituted in His Church, especially the Holy Eucharist, and all the other spiritual channels, He pours graces into our souls, provided there be no obstacle on our part.

In the order of glory God communicates Himself most fully and perfectly to all the souls in heavenly bliss, clothing them in His radiant glory, surrounding them with His felicity, enrapturing them with His holy joys and making them partakers of all the goodness He Himself possesses.

God communicates Hiss adorable perfections to the Immaculate Heart of Mary with much greater abundance and plenitude than to all other creatures put together. Next to the Heart of God, there never was and never shall be a heart so good, liberal, benevolent, magnificent and so replete with kindness as the most admirable Heart of Mary.

Her Immaculate Heart is so good and merciful that she extends her kindness not only to the good but also to the wicked, not only to the faithful but to sinners as well. “In this life, thou art a help to the just and unjust,” says Raymond Jourdain, “Thou dost aid the just man and the sinner; the former by keeping him in the state of grace, wherefore the Church calls thee the Mother of Grace; the latter by bringing them back to divine Mercy, for which thou art named the Mother of Mercy.” (Contempl. B.M. Part 5. cont. 2)

Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart is so kind and gentle that she helps not only those who implore her aid, but even the careless souls who neglect to invoke her. Listen again to St. Bernard: “Why should we marvel to see her stretch a helping hand to such as beseteth her, if she assists even them who do not pray to her?” (Serm. 4 de Assumpt)

Her maternal Heart protects and cherishes her devotees in a unique manner, having her eyes ever intently fixed upon them. She preserves and guards them as the apple of her eye and assumes the guidance and conduct of their entire life and actions. She leads them by the hand in all their ways, removing from their path the obstacles and hindrances which might make them stumble, or retard their progress. She obtains the assistance and the means whereby they will receive strength and advance more rapidly. She assists them most lovingly in the dark passage from this life into the next world, protecting them valiantly from the efforts and snares of the enemies of salvation. She receives their souls in her sweet and gentle hands at the moment of death, and lovingly folds them in her most charitable Heart. She finally bears them upward to Heaven with unutterable joy and presents them with all-surpassing kindness to her beloved Son.

If such is the miraculous goodness of the Immaculate Heart Mary to those who love and venerate her, how can there possibly be any Christian who hold back from devotion to the center and principle of her benignity, her Immaculate Heart?

Praise, honor and glory be forever to the Most High, who has thus caused the Heart of this incomparable Mother to reflect to mankind the perfect image of His goodness and all-merciful providence!

Fr. Pancras Raja
Spiritual Director
November 9, 2022

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Consecration of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to Immaculate Heart of Mary
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