6. The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Mary is God’s Sign

God said to the serpent, Because you have done this… I will put enmity between your seed and her seed..” -Genesis 3:14,15

“The Lord himself will give you the sign – the virgin shall be with child and bear a son.” -Isaiah 7:14

“And this will be a sign for you – you will find an infant… so they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph and the infant…” -Luke 2:12, 16

“A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars… and the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth… but her child was caught up to God and to his throne…” -Revelation 12:1, 4, 5

Fighting the Dragon

“I have come from heaven to reveal to you my plan in this struggle which involves everyone, marshalled together at the orders of two opposing leaders: the Woman clothed with the sun and the Red Dragon.”—Mary, through Fr. Stefano Gobbi, Milan (Italy), May 13, 1979.

“At the end, I am seen as the Woman clothed with the sun, who has the task of fighting against the Red Dragon and his powerful army, to conquer him, to bind him and to drive him away into his kingdom of death . . Behold me, then, presented by Sacred Scripture in the splendor of my maternal royalty.”—Mary, through Fr. Stefano Gobbi, Milan (Italy), December 8, 1989.

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Messages from Our Lady at Fatima:

1917. “You saw Hell where the souls of poor sinners go. In order to save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I ask, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”

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1917. “Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”

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1917. “Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her.”

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The Christ Child to the visionary Sister Lucia of Fatima, 1925. “Have compassion on the heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them.”

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Our Lady to the visionary Sister Lucia of Fatima, 1925. “Look my daughter, at my Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the five mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me.”

Confidence in Mary

Message of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Blessed Juan Diego, Mexico, 1531: “I am your merciful mother, to you, and to all the inhabitants on this land and all the rest who love me, invoke and confide in me.”

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“Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who am your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.”

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Message from Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal, 1917. “Do not be disheartened. My Immaculate Heart will never abandon you, but will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”

Message of the Virgin Mary at La Salette, France, 1846. “No matter how well you pray in the future, no matter how well you act, you will never be able to make up to me what I have endured for your sake.”

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“Consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means drawing near, through the Mother’s intercession, to the very Fountain of Life that sprang fourth from Golgotha. This Fountain pours fourth unceasingly redemption and grace.”

– Address of St. Pope John Paul II, Fatima, May 13, 1982

Asking Graces through Mary

Vision of Sister Lucia of Fatima, 1929. “Under the right arm of the cross was Our Lady with her Immaculate Heart in her hand … (She appeared as Our Lady of Fatima, with her Immaculate Heart in her left hand, without sword or roses, but with a crown of thorns and flames) under the left arm [of the cross], in large letters, like crystalline water which flowed over the altar, forming these words: “Grace and Mercy.”

Messages of the Virgin Mary at Rue du Bac, France, 1830.

“But come to the foot of this altar. There, graces will be poured out on all those, small, or great, who ask for them with confidence and fervor. Graces will be poured out especially on those who ask for them.”

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“My eyes will ever be upon you. I shall grant you graces. Special graces will be given to all who ask them, but people must pray.”

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“These rays symbolize the graces I shed upon those who ask for them. The gems from which rays do not fall are the graces for which souls forget to ask.”

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“Have a medal struck after this model. All who wear it will receive great graces; they should wear it around the neck. Graces will abound for persons who wear it with confidence.”

Messages from the Lady of All Nations, Amsterdam.

1951. “Now I see in the palms of (Mary’s) hands what appear to be wounds already healed and from these, rays of light stream out, three from each hand, and diffuse themselves among the sheep.”

1951. Smiling, the Lady adds, “These three rays are Grace, Redemption, and Peace. Through the Grace of my Lord and Master, and for the love of mankind, the Father sent His only-begotten Son as Redeemer for the world. Now They both wish to send the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, Who alone can bring Peace. Hence, ‘ Grace, Redemption, and Peace.’”

1951. “Now look at my hands. From them emanate Grace, Redemption, and Peace. The rays shine upon all peoples. Among these peoples are many of good will.”

St. Louis de Montfort: The Holy Spirit dispenses grace to us through Mary.

“God the Holy Spirit . . . has chosen her to be the dispenser of all He possesses. . . . [He] gives no heavenly gift which does not pass through her virginal hands” (True Devotion 25).

She is “the sole treasurer of his treasures, the sole dispenser of His graces” (True Devotion 44).

Mary Purifies our Gifts to Jesus

St. Louis de Montfort

To Mary, His faithful spouse, God the Holy Spirit has communicated His unspeakable gifts and he has all He possesses, in such sort that she distributes to whom she wills and when she wills all His gifts and graces. She will communicate herself to us with her merits and virtues, she will place our presents on the golden plate of her charity, she will clothe us, as Rebecca clothed Jacob, with the beautiful garments of her disposal.

As by this practice we give to our Lord, by his Mother’s hands, all our good works that good mother purifies them, embellishes and makes them accept able to he Son.

She purifies them all the stain of self-love, and of that imperceptible attachment to created things which slips unnoticed into our best action. As soon as they are in her most pure and fruitful hands, those same hands which have never been sullied or idle, and which purify whatever they touch, she takes away from the present which we make her all that was spoiled or imperfect about it.

She embellishes our works, adorning them with her own merits and virtues. It is as if a peasant, wishing to gain friendship and benevolence of the king, went to the queen and presented her with a fruit which was his whole revenue, in order that she might present it to the king. The queen, having accepted the poor little offering from the peasant, would place the fruit on a large and beautiful dish of gold, and so on the peasant’s behalf, would present it to the king. Then the fruit, however unworthy in itself to be a king’s present, would become worthy of his majesty, because of the dish of gold on which it rested the person who presented it.

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