The offspring of the Woman

Dear beloved of the Father, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, disciples of the Holy Spirit, today - for the sake of the month of May dedicated to Our Blessed Virgin Mary - we will reflect upon a theme that I am sure will be a bother to many people, it will bring discomfort to the lives of some people, it will bring others to think and, for sure, by the grace of God, this text will open the eyes of loads of peoples who are blind to the reality so we all could progress and grow in the grace of God.

I will address this text especially for Catholics, those who are part of a Church centered in Jesus Christ, that has as first pope Saint Peter, that has as mother and intercessor the blessed Virgin Mary, which faith based on two aspects: the Holy Scriptures and the Sacred Tradition. These latter two can not be separated and always give complement and foundation to one another.

So what do I mean by this very suggestive title, "The offspring of the Woman"? Who are they? Why are they called like that? What about those who do not accept being part of the offspring of this woman? What does Mary's picture have to do with this text? Today we are going to bring terror to hell together, we will rescue souls by the power of prayer and get to know more about the Truth so we could be really free. 

Let's start learning from the holy and powerful Word of God:

"To the Jews who believe in him Jesus said: If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples; you will come to know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31-32)

How can truth set us free? What will we be freed of? In other posts it is written that

the truth will deliver us; what from?

Those Jews with whom Jesus spoke asked him: They answered, 'We are descended from Abraham and we have never been the slaves of anyone; what do you mean, "You will be set free?" ' Jesus replied: In all truth I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave. Now a slave has no permanent standing in the household, but a son belongs to it forever.  So if the Son sets you free, you will
indeed be free. (John 8:33-36)
It is therefore the deliverance, the deliverance from sin. But we want you to have this awareness at the beginning of this text: THE MORE YOU KNOW JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS THE TRUTH OF GOD, THE MORE YOU THROW YOURSELF DEEP IN HIS LOVE AND GRACE; THE MORE YOU WILL BE FREE AND FREE OF ALL EVIL, FREE OF ALL SIN. IT DEPENDS ON YOUR DESIRE TO KNOW THE TRUTH!
One thing is certain and absolutely worthy of faith: the more we approach God and allow His light to shine upon us, the more we seek to know Him and open our hearts to Him, the more He gives us the grace to be freed from all evil, from all ignorance, from all hypocrisy, from all lies, from all that is false, from all sickness, from all sorrows and from all that binds us to sin, so we may be truly and effectively free.

In other words, the person who is closer to God is the happiest, the most joyful, the most holy, the most pure, the humblest, the most truthful, the one as Our Lady - full of all graces and blessings of God. This person is the most fulfilled that exists on the face of the earth. As Jesus Himself said, we need to get to know Him, we need to seek Him, because without Him we can do nothing (cf. John 15:5).

The prophet Isaiah used to shout at his time:

"Seek out Yahweh while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near. Let the wicked abandon his way and the evil one his thoughts. Let him turn back to Yahweh who will take pity on him, to our God, for he is rich in forgiveness." (Isaiah 55:6-7)

He makes it very clear that we must seek the Lord because He allows Himself be found; it is necessary to invoke Him, because He is near but He also asks for a concrete attitude: to renounce wrongdoing and all sin returning to the Lord. Saint Paul clarified this idea in the New Testament:

"For the kingdom of God consists not in spoken words but in power." (1 Corinthians 4:20)

In the book of Deuteronomy we have the golden rule to find God:

"If, however, from there you start searching once more for Yahweh your God, and if you search for him honestly and sincerely, you will find him." (Deuteronomy 4:29)

Honestly and sincerely means with all our strength, with all our energies, with all our capacities, with all our efforts, with all intelligence, gifts and talents, with all that is within our reaching level. Are you willing to do this to find God in a powerful way that can truly free you?

God always sees our effort when we want to seek Him and the right intention of our heart to meet Him. He also knows that the most we can do is very little, for we are very sinful, we do not know effective and certain means of finding him. We often get lost in the way, we lose our focus, we forget our main goal. That is why he gives us his mighty grace.

He knows that if we are moved by his holy grace we are stronger, we go further, we go boldly towards his heart, we have direction to walk, we find that holiness that drives and bothers us if we stand still, and always renews us.

It so happens that we often do not know how to canalize our wishes and desires according to his grace, and many times we are full of graces but do not know how to keep it as time passes by, or we waste a great deal of time with banal things, for we are humans, but God does not pour His grace upon us to waste time, but for us to be holy, to work for the salvation of the people around us, as good Christians.

That is why He wanted to give us examples from his own life. Jesus Christ is the perfect man, whom we all must imitate and seek to resemble, in his gestures, in his attitudes, in his words and in his love. But He also wanted to leave us the model that inspired him to be holy, because even though he is God, He wanted to be human and to dwell among us (John 1:14). Jesus is 100% man and 100% God!

From his human side, everything he was as a person, as a human being, as a Son of God, born of a woman, like each one of us (except that He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit) he learned from his mother, the Virgin Mary.

Saint Joseph was his adoptive father here on Earth and Mary was not his adoptive mother, but his effective mother. Jesus can not be separated, from his human side nor his divine side, so Mary is the mother of the Son of God, not only for the human side but for him entirely. Therefore, Jesus gave us his mother so that we could learn from her, as he himself learned, on the very moment when he completed his work here on earth:

“Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son.' Then to the disciple he said, 'This is your mother.' And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” (John 19:25-27)
See how wonderful this is and how we are graced by God! He loves us so much that he gave up nations, kingdoms, empires for us (Isaiah 43:3-4) and then sent his own Son (John 3:16). From the cross Jesus handed over to us his own mother! After that he sent the Holy Spirit to start the Church (Acts of Apostles 2). HE DOES EVERYTHING FOR US AND THERE IS NOTHING HE DOES NOT DO OR THAT WAS NOT DONE FOR EACH ONE OF US (Isaiah 5:4). There is no limits to this wonderful God! There is nothing He does not do or is not able to do for loving us.

Some people may say, 'Jesus did not give his mother to us but to John the Evangelist.' See the details of the Bible: The word used when He was going to give his mother does not quote 'Jesus said to John' or 'Jesus said to him', but 'Jesus said to the disciple'.

Who teaches us is the great doctor of the Church, Saint Alphonsus Liguori (using the knowledge of the tradition of the Church): This disciple represents each one of us! John, as a disciple of Christ, prefigured all the disciples that would be generated from that sacrifice on the cross.

For all the disciples of Christ the mother of Jesus was given, so in the same way that John did, we could also do: take her into our home. And how many people today, among those who call themselves Christians that do not take Maria to their home, perhaps out of ignorance or because they do not believe that they SHOULD do so, and for that there are many reasons and excuses.

The problem is that we may not understand why many protestants do not take Mary to their homes and today, God willing, we will. But the great misfortune that happens today is that because of the influence of Protestantism, many Catholics do not take Mary home anymore, they do not want to know about her and how many are repudiating the one Jesus gave to be our teacher of holiness.

Many are those whom, in the name of a false ecumenism, are putting aside the values of their faith, of their Catholic tradition and are losing the essence of Catholicism. They are willing to look like protestants, they are far from the truth and the Catholic faith and do not realize the evil they are making to their own soul.

Our intention is not to attack people or particular groups but one mentality that is being formed and that corrodes the truths of the Catholic faith. Saint John Bosco used to taught in his day: "Let us love people, but reprove errors." And how many Catholics today are afraid to affirm their faith before the protestants. No! We have to stand to love people with all our souls, but we do not need to approve their mistakes, especially when it comes to mistakes of faith.

Saint Francis of Sales teaches us: "Denounce the wolves. Smirch them publicly." It is the same thing that Saint Paul taught to the community of Ephesus (Ephesians 5:11). And Saint Francis Paula said: "I prefer to have my feet and hands bound and to be thrown into the fire than to have to please men." The same thing that Saint Paul said to the community of Galatia (Galatians 1:10).
To start with, we need to unmask this protestant lie that many use with the Bible to say we do not need Mary:

“Jesus said, I am the Way; I am Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

We are not saying that it is wrong, it is very accurate! But while Jesus is the only mediator between us and the Father, Mary is the most excellent mediator that he has given to us, so we can reach him.

Who continues to teach us is Saint Alphonsus Liguori, this doctor who is one of the most celebrated saints who took Mary home and understood the way that Christ left for us. He said that Mary is the means that our Lord Jesus Christ used to come to us, and it is the means we should use to go to Him. "By her Jesus Christ came to us, and through her we should come to Him." Furthermore, this is so serious that he categorically stated: "Who does not have Mary as his mother, does not have God as his father." It is really a contradiction to call "father" only who Jesus has for Father and not to call "mother" whom Jesus CALLS for mother, the Mother that Jesus obeyed, the Mother who gave him strength, support and direction to carry out the arduous mission of our salvation.

Saint Bernard says that Jesus Christ is truly the head of the Church and we are the members of this Church, but what unites the members to the head is the neck and this is exactly what Mary is, as he himself said: "In the mystical body of Christ, the Virgin Mary is the neck ". See how serious this is for it is in every aspect of our faith.

Let's go to the central text of today to understand the true meaning of what we are expressing and give complement to it and meaning to everything:
“Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths. The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.' Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this, Accursed be you of all animals wild and tame! On your belly you will go and on dust you will feed as long as you live. I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel”. (Genesis 3:1-15)
Let us understand in depth what happened and what was prefigured early in the creation of humanity. The woman gave up to the temptation of the serpent (the devil) and disobeyed the only law that the Lord had placed in paradise that was not to eat the fruit of one only tree. Was this woman dumb? There were thousands of trees, various fruits, all sorts of foods and wonders of the Lord in the Garden of Eden. This is exactly where the sin of humanity began, for sin is disobedience, a transgression of the law of the Lord (1 John 3:4)
In the same way that happens with most of us, when we face a situation we are accused of something or have to take the consequences of our acts, we often flee from responsibility and not take charge of what we do. The man accused the woman, the woman accused the snake. If otherwise, they had prayed in paradise they would not have fallen into temptation. The same thing is true for us and in that sense Saint Augustine says: "Who sins cease to pray, but who prays cease to sin."
Since God does not judge anyone but has a lot of discernment, that means to go to the core, at the root of the problem, God (even though he knows everything) always asks us and uses a wonderful pedagogy because he wants to give us the chance to repent. Unfortunately man and woman were already blinded by sin and they did not take advantage of this opportunity.
There are times in our life with God that are unique and if we do not grab them, we could lose divine graces and we could never have them again. That is why it is so important to remain alert and attentive so that we do not lose the grace of God! The grace of God passes throughout our lives and we must learn to grasp it. And Mary was and is an expert at it.
Following the facts on Genesis, there is a curse that was directed to the serpent, for she was condemned to crawl and to eat dust. And in verse 15 we have the key to understand this text: I SHALL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS. SHE WILL BRUISE YOUR HEAD AND YOU WILL STRIKE ITS HEEL.
Let me explain better: Jesus Christ is the new Adam, for in order to repair the imperfect man (Adam) who yielded to sin, who did not assume the guilt of his disobedience, who brought to mankind the original sin which we are all born with, Jesus took on this guilt that He did not have, the guilt of Adam, even though he was innocent. He paid the price for the sins of all men, of all times, being treated as an evildoer (Isaiah 53).
Mary is the new Eve, for to repair the disobedience and sins of the first woman, the new woman who was Mary, obeyed promptly and in all the will of the Lord, receiving the grace to be conceived without original sin, remain without sin in her entire life and to die pure and immaculate (as the doctrine and tradition of the Holy Catholic Church teaches us).
The reparation that began in her immaculate conception was fulfilled in the Holy Scriptures when the archangel Gabriel greeted her:
"He went in and said to her, 'Rejoice, you who enjoy God's favor! The Lord is with you." (Luke 1:28)
In other translations more faithful to the original text it is written 'Hail full of grace'. The angel greets her in this way because 'Hail' is the opposite of 'Eve' (in Portuguese Ave and Eva - makes more sense). All evil that Eve committed by her acceptance of sin, Mary did break, living a life of holiness and service, not accepting the temptation of the serpent, but stepping on its head, to fulfill the text of the Book of Genesis.
It is written in the Catechism of the Catholic Church on paragraph 511 as follows: "The Virgin Mary cooperated for human salvation with free faith and obedience. She pronounced her fiat (Luke 1:38) in representation of all human nature. Through her obedience, she became the new Eve, Mother of the living."
The woman became destined to step on the serpent's head and the serpent to strike her heel. This has been fulfilled and continues to this day, for MARY STEPS AND CRUSHES THE HEAD OF THE INFERNAL SERPENT, WHO IS THE EVIL ONE, AND ALL HE CAN DO AGAINST HER IS TO STRIKE HER HEEL.
Mary brings terror to hell! There are some heresies that goes against this truth. They say that who crushes the devil is only Jesus Christ, and Mary is 'simply' a woman and has no power to do so. But what we have just read was the foreshadowing and condemnation of the evil one to be crushed by the woman, and not by the man.
Jesus defeated the devil and by the power of his blood, hell trembles and is shaken; but if we think about it the blood of Christ is the same blood of Mary, so the devil is afraid and tremble before this woman, for all that is in Jesus Christ when you talk about humanity, he has gained 100% from his mother, since Jesus does received the genes of a man for the Holy Spirit has no genetic code.
Mary is Co-Redeemer because she contributes to the redemption that only Jesus Christ could offer us, and she brings us to Jesus. How many people are lost today because they do not know Jesus Christ, did not taste salvation, or even worse, do know Jesus Christ, do know all the important things about faith, but do not live like believers, they are lukewarm people living against the values of faith.
What is the role of Mary in this context? She brings us to Jesus, teaches us to stand still at the foot of the cross, to bear sufferings and pains, she teaches us to remain faithful to him until the end. She helps us not give up and not lose faith in the middle of the way. She leads us to the upper room to live a powerful experience with the Holy Spirit (Pentecost) and teaches us to persevere in the Church of Christ with God's people to wait the fulfillment of the promises of the Lord. She is the woman who teaches us to persevere in the Lord! SHE IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR SHE HELPS US TO CONTINUE FOLLOWING THE PATH OF SALVATION!
But perhaps you can say with the protestants, 'She has no power and can not do it, she is not God!' Very well, indeed she is not God, but if you are Catholic you are lacking information and knowledge, for the Church, as mother and teacher, which has the Virgin Mary as mother (since it is the only Church that accepts her as mother, as a disciple of Christ) teaches us through those who gave up their lives for Jesus (the saints), that Mary was and is holy.
Let's see what Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort says about it: "Everything which behooves God by nature, behooves Mary by grace." Therefore, by the grace of God, Mary does indeed crush the head of the evil one, and anyone could talk about it but only the truth frees.
The book of the Revelation written by Saint John will confirm what we have just stated:
"As soon as the dragon found himself hurled down to the earth, he sprang in pursuit of the woman, the mother of the male child, but she was given a pair of the great eagle's wings to fly away from the serpent into the desert, to the place where she was to be looked after for a time, two times and half a time. So the serpent vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman, to sweep her away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue, she opened her mouth and swallowed the river spewed from the dragon's mouth. Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, who obey God's commandments and have in themselves the witness of Jesus." (Revelation 12:13-17)
The last detail on the verse 15 is the enmity that was placed by God between the woman and the serpent, between the offspring of the woman and that of the serpent. This text from the book of Revelation is perfect for answering our first question. You must have realized that if Mary is the woman in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, her offspring are those who have her as her mother. And here I rephrase the question: who are the descendants of this woman?
IT'S CLEAR THAT THE CATHOLICS ARE! IT IS CLEAR THAT THOSE, AS JOHN EVANGELIST, WHO TAKE MARY TO THEIR HOMES AND MAKE A PLACE FOR HER, THOSE WHO ARE REBORN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS FOR THE DISCIPLESHIP OF THE VIRGIN MARY, THAT LEARN FROM HER HOW TO FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST.
Saint Augustine tells us that Mary is the form and trainer of saints. Saint Maximilian Kolbe tells us with rigor: "All the saints are the work of the Blessed Virgin and the Marian devotion is the characteristic common to all of them." And to complete this thought and do not allow any space for doubts, Father Leo, SCJ (from Brazil) said: "Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the first disciple of Jesus, she is the first follower, that is why we can follow the path of Mary. Who follows Mary's trail has no other way to go: they will meet directly and immediately with Jesus!"
Do you want to meet Jesus Christ in a more perfect way? Do you want a way to get to know more and deepen your love for Jesus Christ? Do you want to give freedom to God's Holy Spirit? Do you want to learn how to be opened to the grace of God and allow it to guide your whole life? Do you want to be filled with every blessing and grace of God? Then be a Marian person, because with Mary we learn how to: belong entirely to God, be consecrated to Jesus Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit.
The one who hates Mary and wants to devour her is the devil. He does all he can and expends all his power (uselessly) against the one who gave birth to the Child (Jesus). He vomits a river of water to make the woman submerge. The hatred of hell against the Virgin Mary is complete!
Whoever feels hatred and rejects the mother of Jesus, as the devil and hell do, shares the same feeling of evil and corroborates with his anger against this holy woman. It is very much distrusted when protestants affirm that Mary is a regular woman, for they want to diminish her, they want to despise, forget her, to leave her behind in history, to suppress her presence, that is alive and active in the Church today! She is with Christ in heaven, doing exactly what the grace of God that governs her commands.
She is all mastered and possessed, submissive to the power of God and how many of us today do not want to obey the Lord? Those who go against Mary, like the devil, are reprehensible, they are wretched, they are part of his offspring. There is no other way to understand!
WHAT IS THE SEA THAT DEMON VOMITED AGAINST THE WOMAN TRYING TO DROWN HER? IT IS EVERY DOCTRINE AGAINST THE HOLY MARY, IT IS EVERY WORK THAT THE OFFSPRING OF THE DEMON GENERATE AGAINST HER. IT IS ALL THAT IS WRITTEN, ALL THAT IS PREACHED, EVERY SONG THAT COMES  FROM THIS CONTEXT OF HATRED, LIES AND ENVY.
If it was because of the evil one's envy that death entered the world (Wisdom 2:24) and Mary brought and brings the true life, which is our Lord Jesus Christ in her womb and in her heart, willing to bring all the nations of the earth to an experience with Christ, through the knowledge of the truth and the freed from sin that brings salvation, one of the ways that the devil uses, so that this life is not diffused, is to take Mary off from the history of Christianity, and lastly, even from the very Catholicism.
This is happening, do you know why? Because many Catholics, in name only (access the formation about it clicking here), have been listening only to protestant songs, have been spreading and giving lip service to many of those who are admittedly preachers of lies and feed a mortal hatred for the mother of God!
A person who stands to preach against Our Blessed Lady, can only be looking to go against the will of God, for it was he who chose and appointed her to cooperate perfectly in salvation, which teaches each one of us to cooperate also (Wisdom 1:14), and after all we come to the conclusion: assuming it or not, those belong to the serpent's offspring.
These attacks against Our Blessed Lady, all this protestant doctrine, which is infiltrated in the Catholic Church, because of these lukewarm Catholics who do not know and do not seek to deepen their faith, if it has not succeeded in taking Catholics out of the Church, has been able to prevent Catholics to progress in grace, to make steps in faith and to be stagnant in emotionalism!
Faith can not be based on what we feel because it is exactly a certainty of something we do not see (Hebrews 11:1). It is really crazy stuff! What is happening is that our faith is trying to be tamed and weaker so that it does not lead to changes in our lives. It is being said that it does not require conversion and change of mentality, behavior, attitudes and the need for testify anymore. And this brings out the worst we have in us and to assume it very naturally. And all this is due to these serpentine and infernal doctrines of Protestantism.
Let it be clear here that we are not talking against evangelicals or protestants as people (for there is a great difference between an evangelical, who sincerely seeks Christ and live the Holy Gospel, and a protestant who lives to protest against the Catholic Church and all its teachings), but against all this doctrine that has been instilled in the minds of so many people, driven by spectacles and financed by the dirty easy money that often comes from covenants with the devil. Open your eyes!
My dear brethren, the decision is in our hands: if we want to continue to feed ourselves with this garbage that keeps us from progressing in our faith, that makes us think of our faith as dull and only others' one are worth, we are very wrong, and pity on us! Let's stop being silly and giving audience to those who attack us! Let's be Catholics of attitude, courage and assume our faith.
If you are protestant, open your eyes to the truth and have an attitude not to protest against Mary, but against all division that comes from the devil, because Mary wants to unite her children and those of her offspring in one tribe and in one only flock, Mary wants to enlighten us with the light that comes from God and bring us to Jesus, she takes away all the evil of our way that impedes us to reach to Jesus. That is the way the Church should be waiting for the second coming of Christ!
In the same way that protestants make a plea to accept Jesus as their Lord, which we also do, in a different way, we want to make an appeal and extend an invitation to all who read this formation: DO YOU WANT TO ACCEPT THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AS YOUR MOTHER? DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE OFFSPRING OF THAT WOMAN AND BRING HER TO YOUR HOME? THEN ASSUME THIS PURPOSE BEFORE GOD:

"Holy Mary, holy mother of God, mother of the Church and my mother, I want to accept you in my life, I want to ask for your help, your presence, your sweetness and your humility in my life. I want to be begotten in your womb Virgin Mary, because at the foot of the cross you accepted the disciple Saint John who foreshadowed each of the disciples of Christ and therefore you accept as your children each one of the Christians. I need now to be born again to a life of grace and of blessing with you.
Teach me to be a better Christian, my dear mother, for there is not, there was not and there will never be anyone like you on the face of the Earth, for no one has ever been considered so worthy to bring the Son of God to earth and to conceive the Lord of lords, the King of kings and the God of the gods in their womb. Bring, o most holy Virgin, your Son to all areas of my life. I want to grab this moment and recognize that I have not been an authentic Catholic / Christian yet. I have been a lukewarm person in my faith, a weak person with attitude and words. I have not had the firmness of love for God. Bring to me the presence of the Holy Spirit into my heart, I do not want a small portion, but the fullness of the Holy Spirit, I need the transforming power of the Spirit of God in my heart. You mother, who was full, completed, filled with the Holy Spirit and as the Archangel Gabriel himself said, full of grace, teach me to open myself to God in this way and help me to remain opened to it, attentive to the details the Lord send to me: every gift, every fruit and his power. I want to accept and take possession of all the graces of God!
I ask you, most holy Mother, for you to teach me to be part of your offspring. I want to be your son, I want to continue with you on this journey towards heaven. I want to give God all the glory and praise that is due to the him and which I have often held in my heart and have not given free course.
Come Holy Spirit of God upon my life, come with your might power, through the intercession of the immaculate heart of the Virgin Mary. Come and bring the presence of Christ in my heart. Come and give me your holiness, fill me with your power and with your sanctifying force. Fill me with your glory and your ardor. I want to be a fervent Catholic who love and give his life for Jesus Christ, but this courage comes from You. As Saint Paul said, you are a spirit of strength and courage. Come to give me the courage to hold on to my faith and take Mary as my mother right now, because I want to bring her to my home.
Holy Mary, visit my home, visit my interior. Cleanse and purify my heart the same way you did at the house of your holy cousin Elizabeth. Visit my family, visit the people who live with me, visit and take care of my friends, my community, my neighbors, my friends, each one of those with whom I live.
I want to belong entirely to God, therefore I consecrate myself to you, so that you help me to serve and surrender my freedom to the Lord, in praise to the one who created us and gives us life, and life to the full. With you I want to praise and worship my God, with all the joy of my soul; so cast away from my life every spirit of prostration, every spirit of sadness, every spirit of murmuring, every spirit of lies and hypocrisy.
Thank you very much, my dear Mother, for accepting me and giving me the grace to receive you as my mother. Thank you for your yes to God which is an example and reason for me to have strength to follow Christ with all authority and power. I thank you with all my heart for the beauty and goodness of your heart as a mother who accepts me and makes me your child, generating me in the love and grace of the Lord. Glory to you, dear Father, for giving me such a strong example of the new Eve. I praise and exalt You for your mother Jesus, whom you gave me as my mother at the foot of the cross. I bless and glorify you, wonderful Holy Spirit, who fills me with the joy of receiving Mary as my mother at this moment.
All glory and all honor to the Lord forever. All grace and love to you, my dear mother. Amen."
Saint Padre Pio said: "Mary is the shortcut to heaven." Saint Bonaventure said: "No one enters heaven unless he passes through Mary, who is the door." May we assume this for our life too, living heaven on earth with the one who is the door. From today on, to live Heaven on Earth, we will need to pass through our beloved door.
Let us rejoice with Matt Maher for the Lord has made Great things.
Also with our dear sister Mary Cruz let us listen and receive Our Blessed Mother and bring her to our home, the one Jesus gave us Near the Cross.

Let us finish today with the text that is in the number 29 of the book of True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (which you can seek to know and to deepen in this grace, for it is wonderful):

"In heaven, Mary gives orders to the angels and the blessed." To reward her deep humility, God gave her the power and mission to populate the hollow thrones that the apostate angels abandoned and lost by pride. And the will of the Most High, who exalts the humble is (Luke 1:52), that heaven, earth and hell bow to the orders of humble Mary, for good or bad, for he has made her ruler of heaven and earth, general of his armies, treasurer of his riches, dispenser of his graces, artificer of his great wonders, repairer of the human race, mediatrix for men, exterminator of the enemies of God and faithful companion of his greatness and triumphs."

May we have the prophetic awareness of the need we have to be and remain in this path and being part of the offspring of the woman, as a Marian generation to be more perfectly Christian Catholics and with perseverance not to be discouraged by any little thing or great difficulties, for with Mary we go to the end with Christ.

May God bless us and give us the grace to be and honor the offspring of the woman.

(Adapted from Brazilian Portuguese from my other blog: www.vounessadirecao.blogspot.com)