The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-05-16
The May Intention,

In writing Of the League intention for
Mayof the Messenger of the Sacred
Heart. Rev. Dr.. Henry A BTann said
Devotion is love. or rather the pro-
duct of love, and devotion to Mary is
the consequence Of the love of her di-
vine Son for her and Of her love for
Him. and of her personal graces and
virtues She is inseparable from her
Son. In the concrete one has to do
violence to himself TO think of her as
separate from Him. At Nazareth We
think of her as an immaculate soul en-
eoped in the light and in1iamed by
the love Of Cod, when Gabriel said to
her. Hail, full of grace" From that
instant she becomes physically and in
telleCtually united TO Jesus. Thence
forward we adore Jesus living in
Mary. and cannot separate them in our
prayers.
The two were inseparable in spirit
from beginning to end, though often
separated in body. They lived at Ma
zareth in the same house. dined at the
same table, Conversed together morn
ing and evening: they prayed together.
Behold Mary and the Child Jesus on
their knees at prayer. sometimes when
Joseph was in the shop working at his
trade. Il was then that Jesus told her
all things. and consoled her for the
grief She would have to suffer. How
they talked together Of holy things on
the road to Jerusalem, how she loved
TO listen 10 Him, and how He loved
10 listen to her. The greater the mind
The greater the capacity for love; His
mind was infinite and hers was the
next to the infinite: hence the intensity
q their mutual love.
Then love her, honor her. all We
% whom heaven has been opened by
aeI Son Let the little child kneel at
her shrine and say, Hail, Mary" for
she Is the mother supreme, the mother
most perfect. In her all the tenderness,
all the gentIeness of the ordinary moth
Fl are enhanced by the dignity of the
queen. She showers her gifts and gives
HeT love to all. Let the young maiden
uHng the tribute of flowers to her
shrine for she is the Virgin of Virgins, |
me only Immaculate Virgin, our
,eaIAte1 nations solitary boast" Let
uIe tnatron bow to her, for she is the |
ll01el matrOn. the model spouse. st. |
'loseph VIII testify to that. Let the ar
inject bald her temple, the painter |
y! 70 make her picture, and the sculp- |
yo' 10 carve from marble her statue, for |
.Tl marvellous perfection and her vir- |
lles inspire his mind to draw the lines |
VI VI beauty and guide his pencil or his |
,,''s5l. Where there is no devotion to |
Vary ms art viii fail; for art fails /
"''eIe divine beauty is not the source
VI INSPIRATION, The repentant sinner,
~ ~ can come TO her in confidence.
.lt"soalen knows that she finds sympa
s-s ana comfort at the feet of her,
t.oh whose flesh and blood were
-oII4ea the divine feet that Magdalen
"eShed with her tears.
-. every sinner come to her. She
WI he-p. for she knows what He
i 1lIerea for sin. Her Son wills not the
ny No IN ~ the sinner. but his repentance.
~ sinner may hang his head in
,,-'aIhe ashamed to look at her pure
Ne, ~ but she viii hear him: Holy
le y pray for US sinners, now, and at
.as noun Of our death" She will hear
..'. and therefore. 0 unbeliever, take
~ away from us our sweet Mother
,i Aol5 maiden Mother who gave US
llls- Without her we are unhappy
s. weeping and Mourning in
, valley Of tears. She is our life.
~, -. sNeetness and our hope; devoted to
I. neart We hope to find a place in
H-art Of Jesus. Devoted to her.
DeAeNe that she viii send Gabriel
oN when we leave this world to
q ts up 10 the glory and happiness
IN. C.e eternal court which she holds in
~ zen next 10 the throne of her Son.
M NJ Emperor Of the universe.
we presume TO arrogate to ourselves
Nv power Of deciding what we will toll
49,. and what we viii not. 4 can
,eD1 this. but ] can't stand that"
~ ",' says Father Dignam, s. j., can
,ss- Oesr this defect, and some cannot |
90 mat. some can't stand meanness,
-a -s can't stand untruths, some can't
{ rudeness; and so on. But
b.n we look within ourselves, we
Va N. iHd very often that the faults
y 6 LonGemn so in other are either full
'pr oT'eloped, or. at the least, latent in
stba ngaits- remember one of our
Ier,eIls, once saying that what he con-
0 sr5 IN other priests he was certain
'0 sooner or later in himself. He I