FIRST DAY
Heart of Mary, Paradise of God
MONTH OF AUGUST
Consecrated
TO THE MOST PURE AND IMMACULATE
HEART OF MARY
TO START EVERY DAY.
For the signal... etc.
Act of contrition. - My Lord Jesus Christ...
PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY
Sweet and immaculate Heart of Mary! Full of filial tenderness and trust I appear before your sovereign presence to pay you Jos sincere tributes of my poor heart and to ask you remedy for my needs and grace to achieve my eternal salvation. Where will I find safer shelter, a more determined will to help me than in the most beloved Mother of sinners; who loved them until she gave her Most Holy Son and Savior to death for them? Who ever went to this pious Heart that was not favorably welcomed? Oíd, my Mother, the pleas that during this month I managed to direct you. Give light to my understanding to know your excellences and prerogatives; move my will to follow your examples and imitate your virtues, light in my heart a spark even of the loving fire with which yours of charity with God and with men was consumed, and grant me that devotion to You that is a sure pledge of salvation. Amen.
You read and meditate on each day of the month.
FIRST DAY
Meditation
Heart of Mary, Paradise of God
In the great work of creation, God designated the sea as a dwelling for fish, the air for birds, the earth for animals, paradise for man and heaven for angels, but for himself God reserved the most pure Heart of Mary. This immaculate Heart is the temple and sanctuary of divinity, delights of the Father, rest of the Son, tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. Consider, according to this, the accumulation of graces, gifts, virtues and excellences with which the three divine persons adorned and enriched it so that it was a worthy abode of divinity. Rejoice in seeing this Heart so gracefully embellished, where the treasures of God's goodness, wisdom and omnipotence are piled up, and rejoice that its greatness is so great that neither men nor angels can understand it. Now, entering within you, consider if your heart can be called, although in a lowered sense, God's paradise, or not rather you must confess that it has often been the devil's abode and a sent of iniquity ... And now what is it? Perhaps a hive of bastard passions and a forge of disordered affections ... If men saw the breasts and folds of my heart, as God sees them, how confused and embarrassed I would be! How many bleached tombs there are, which on the outside look beautiful and inside are full of filth!
Oh most pure Heart of Mary! Purify my heart. Make it that, in imitation of yours, it is also my henceforth paradise of God, where the serpent of sin never enters or nests. Help me to remove the weeds that sprout in it, and sow in it the seeds of all virtues.
TO FINISH EVERY DAY.
ASPIRATIONS
Mary's most lucid heart! Illuminated me.
Pure heart of Mary! Clean me.
Mary's beautiful heart! Attract me.
Most loving heart of Mary! Ignite me.
Sweetest heart of Mary! Peace me.
Mary's most afflicted heart! Compungid me.
Most strong heart of Mary! Encorage me.
Mary's most powerful heart! Protect me.
Most Holy Heart of Mary! In the tremendous hour of my death and judgment, defend me and command me to go to You.
Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation.
ACT OF REPARATION TEACHING FOR THE ANGEL OF PEACE TO THE SHEPHERDS OF FATIMA
Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
I adore you deeply and offer you
The Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul
And Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
Present in all the tabernacles of the earth,
In reparation for outrages, sacrileges and indifferences
With which He himself is offended
And for the infinite merits of his Most Sacred Heart
And the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I ask you for the conversion of the poor sinners. Amen.
FINAL PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY
Under your protection we welcome ourselves,
Holy Mother of God; do not discard our supplications or forget our needs, but always deliver us from all danger, glorious Virgin and our Mother. Amen.
“Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Pray for us.”
100 days of indulgence each time, Pius IX
Hail Mary Most Pure, conceived without sin.