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Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation (1436), St Rose of Viterbo and all the Saints for 4 September

Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, (from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum): (1436) – 4 September:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/04/madonna-della-consolazione-our-lady-of-consolation-or-mary-consoler-of-the-afflicted-1436-and-memorials-of-the-saints-4-september/ More about Our Lady of Consolation…

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Gift of friendship, love and family ❤️ one of many trips with you guys! 😘 #friendsthattravels #filipino #ourladyofconsolation #filipinopilgrimage (at Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz4TwT8B-RHbjsSEreCnwuWPGPum8r-XGmOpQ00/?igshid=1eh8hqq6v1uam

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Honoring Mother Mary on the feast day of Our Lady of Consolation today, my hometown's patron saint... #mamamary #mothermary #ourladyofconsolation #basilica #church #basilicaofstpaul #daytonabeach #florida (at Basilica Of St. Paul)

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Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, (1436) and Memorials of the Saints - 4 September

Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, (1436) and Memorials of the Saints – 4 September

Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, (1436) – 4 September (from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum): It is found in the Litany of Loreto.The feast of Our Lady of Consolation is one of the solemnities not inscribed in the General Roman Calendar but which are observed in particular places, regions, churches or religious institutes.Augustinians…

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Our Morning Offering - 4 September - Feast of Our Lady of Consolation

Our Morning Offering – 4 September – Feast of Our Lady of Consolation

Our Morning Offering – 4 September – Friday of the Twenty Second week in Ordinary Time and the Feast of Our Lady of Consolation

Most Holy Virgin, My Consolation By St Germanus (c 490-576)

Most Holy Virgin! Who are the greatest consolation that I receive from God, you who art the heavenly dew which assuages all my pains, you who are the light of my soul when it is enveloped in darkness, you who are…

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Second Thought for the Day – 4 September – The Augustinians, Our Lady of Consolation and The "Augustinian Rosary"

Second Thought for the Day – 4 September – The Augustinians, Our Lady of Consolation and The “Augustinian Rosary”

Second Thought for the Day – 4 September – The Feast of Our Lady of Consolation

The Augustinians, Our Lady of Consolation and The “Augustinian Rosary” The “Corona (or Crown) of Our Mother of Consolation.”

The origin of this invocation is derived from the Augustinian Monks who propagated this particular devotion . In 1436, the Confraternity of the Holy Cincture of Our Lady of Consolation was…

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Feast of Our Lady of Consolation and Memorials of the Saints - 4 September

Feast of Our Lady of Consolation and Memorials of the Saints – 4 September

Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, (4 September) comes from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum. It is found in the Litany of Loreto. The feast of Our Lady of Consolation is one of the solemnities not inscribed in the General Roman Calendar but which are observed in particular places, regions, churches or religious institutes. Augustinians and many regions, observe today 4…

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Feast of Our Lady of Consolation and Memorials of the Saints - 4 September

Feast of Our Lady of Consolation and Memorials of the Saints – 4 September

Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, comes from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum. It is found in the Litany of Loreto.   The feast of Our Lady of Consolation is one of the solemnities not inscribed in the General Roman Calendar but which are observed in particular places, regions, churches or religious institutes. Augustinians and many regions, observe today 4 September,…

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One Minute Reflection – 5 September - The Good Samaritan of man. 

One Minute Reflection – 5 September – The Good Samaritan of man. 

One Minute Reflection – 5 September – Wednesday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Gospel: Luke 4:38-44 and the Feast of Our Lady of Consolation

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to him and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them….Luke 4:40

REFLECTION– “Having come to earth to proclaim and to…

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Memorials of the Saints - 31 July

Memorials of the Saints – 31 July

St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) (Memorial)

Biography here: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/saint-of-the-day-31-july-st-ignatius-loyola-founder-of-the-society-of-jesusthe-jesuits/ AND: More on St Ignatius: https://anastpaul.com/2018/07/31/31-july-st-ignatius-loyola/

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Thought for the Day – 4 September – The Feast of Our Lady of Consolation

The tradition of praying to the Mother of God for the gift of consolation dates back to the early centuries.   The first written evidence of prayer to the Mother of God, Mary, the Theotokos, is written in Greek on a scrap of Egyptian papyrus dating from between 300-540.   In that prayer, she is invoked as the compassionate one:

“Beneath the shelter of your tender compassion we fly for refuge, Mother of God. Do not overlook our supplications in adversity but deliver us out of danger”

This prayer makes clear, a vivid faith in Mary’s consoling role.

To our Lord and our God, Jesus Christ, we pray for a greater love of His Mother and to our Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Consolation, we lift our prayers for patience, for support and for comfort in our times of confusion, fear and anxiety.   Pray for us, Our Lady of Consolation!

“The Church calls Mary the “Queen of Mercy” because we believe she opens the abyss of God’s mercy to whomever she wills, when she wills and as she wills. No sinner — no matter how great — who has Mary as protector, is ever lost.”

St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) – Doctor of the Church

Prayer to Our Lady of Consolation

O Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Consolation, I take refuge in your most loving heart with all the confidence of which I am capable; you shall be the dearest object of my love and veneration. To you, who are the dispenser of the treasures of Heaven, I shall always have recourse, in my sorrows to have peace, in my doubts to have light, in my dangers to be defended, in all my needs to obtain your assistance. Be therefore my refuge, my strength, my consolation, O Mary the Consoler! At the hour of my death, graciously receive the last sighs of my heart and obtain for me a place in your heavenly home, where all hearts shall praise with one accord the adorable Heart of Jesus forevermore, and your most lovable heart, O Mary. Our tender Mother, Comforter of the afflicted, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Grant also peace and holiness to the Church, through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen

Mary, our Consolation and our Comforter, Pray for us!

Pope Benedict on Our Lady of Consolation here: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/thought-for-the-day-4-september-the-feast-of-our-lady-of-consolation/

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Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (1436), Madonna di Pinè, Montagnaga, Trento, Italy / Our Lady of Pinè, Montagnaga (1729),and Memorials of the Saints - 14 May

Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (1436), Madonna di Pinè, Montagnaga, Trento, Italy / Our Lady of Pinè, Montagnaga (1729),and Memorials of the Saints – 14 May

Madonna della Consolazione / Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum) (1436) – This Marian Title is celebrated on many different Feast Days, depending on your country. Today, 14 May, is her Feast Day in the…

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One Minute Reflection – 4 September – Today’s Gospel: Luke 4:31–37 – Tuesday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time and the Memorial of Our Lady of Consolation

And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”…Luke 4:36

REFLECTION – “The power of Jesus confirms the authority of His teaching.   He does not just speak with words but He takes action.    In the Gospel in fact, we see that in His earthly mission, Jesus reveals the love of God both through preaching and through countless gestures of attention and aid to the sick, the needy, children and sinners. Jesus is our Teacher, powerful in word and deed.   Jesus imparts to us all the light that illuminates the sometimes dark paths of our lives.   He also transmits to us the necessary strength to overcome difficulties, trials and temptations.   Let us consider what a great grace it is for us to have known this God who is so powerful and so good!   A teacher and a friend who shows us the path and takes care of us especially when we are in need. May the Virgin Mary, the woman of listening, help us to create silence around us and within us, in order to hear, through the din of the messages of the world, the most authoritative word that there is:  that of her Son Jesus, who proclaims the meaning of our existence and delivers us from all slavery, even that of the Evil one.”...Pope Francis – Angelus, 28 January 2018

PRAYER – True Light of the world, Lord Jesus Christ, as You enlighten all men for their salvation, give us grace, we pray, to live in Your Light and follow Your teachings.   May Your Mother and ours, help us to hear Your Voice and teach us to enclose our hearts in silence and thus hear Your Voice.   You, Who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever, amen.

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4 September – Feast of Our Lady of Consolation (Above is the original Icon of Our Lady of Consolation in Turin, Italy)

Starting in the 2nd century, Catholics venerated Mary as Our Lady of Consolation, one of her earliest titles of honour.   The title of Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, comes from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum.   It is found in the Litany of Loreto.

The origin of this invocation is derived from the Augustinian monks who propagated this particular devotion.   In 1436 the Confraternity of the Holy Cincture of Our Lady of Consolation was founded in Bologna, Italy.   It was based on an Augustinian tradition which hold that Saint Monica in the fourth century, was distraught with anxiety for her wayward son, Augustine and that Mary gave her a sash which the Virgin wore, with the assurance that whoever wore this belt would receive her special consolation and protection.   Along with Augustine and Monica, Our Lady of Consolation is one of the three patrons of the Augustinians.   The “Augustinian Rosary” is sometimes called the “Corona (or Crown) of Our Mother of Consolation”. In the 1700s members of the Augustinian Order introduced devotion to Our Lady of Consolation to the island of Malta.   On 1 December 1722 the Prior General of the Augustinian Order Fr Thomas Cervioni issued the Decree for the erection of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Consolation in the church of St Mark, run by the Augustinians at Rabat, although the devotion had been practiced for some time before. By this time the custom of asking for the final blessing before death in the name of Our Lady of Consolation was very popular and the monks were given a dispensation to leave the monastery at any time to confer it.   Processions in Our Lady’s honour were suspended during the French occupation of 1798 to discourage the gathering of crowds.

An ancient story relates St Eusebius of Vercelli brought back an icon of Our Lady of Consolation when he was returning from exile in Egypt in 363.   This icon was presented to the city of Turin.   Later St Maximus, Bishop of Turin, established a small shrine to house the icon in a church dedicated to St Andrew.   The icon became the object of great veneration and the church became the Santuario della Consolata.   Giuseppe Allamano, rector of the Santuario della Consolata founded the Consolata Missionaries in 1902;  they brought to devotion to Africa.   At the age of nineteen Joseph Marello of Turin contracted typhus.   He attributed his recovery to Our Lady of Consolation and went on to found the Oblates of St. Joseph.

There are several versions of the image of Our Lady of Consolation. The original one is in Turin at the Santuario della Consolata.   A star on her shoulder is characteristic of almost all the images.   The traditional depiction of Our Mother of Consolation in Augustinian houses shows Mary holding the child Jesus on her lap.   Jesus and Mary both hold the Augustinian cincture in their hands.

Above -  Altar with icon of the Virgin of the Consolation at the Santuario della Consolata or Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Consolation in Turin

In France the dioceses of Vannes, Valence, Montpelier, Laval, Nantes, Périgueux, Tours and many others, possessed churches or chapels dedicated to Mary under this title.   In 1652, Pope Innocent X encouraged devotion to Our Lady of Consolation by establishing a confraternity.

The cult of Our Lady of Luxembourg, Comforter of the Afflicted, was initiated by the Jesuits in 1624 and led to the election of Our Lady as the protectress of the City in 1666 and of the Duchy in 1678.   After the destruction of the old pilgrimage chapel at the time of the French Revolution, the statue of Our Lady of Luxembourg was moved to St Peter church, today’s Cathedral in Luxembourg City.   Statues depicting her can be found in niches in buildings throughout the city of Luxembourg.   From there the devotion was adopted by the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai.

Our Lady of Consolation in Luxembourg

Our Lady of Consolation in Grinstead, England

Immigrants from Luxembourg transposed the cult of Our Lady of Consolation to the United States.

In 1848, Luxembourg immigrants began to settle in the area around Dacada, Wisconsin. The oldest statue of Our Lady of Luxembourg found in the United States, was brought to Dacada by a Luxembourg immigrant, Anna Margaret Deppiesse, in 1849.   Mrs. Deppiesse donated it to St. Nicholas Church, where it can be found in an alcove shrine below the choir loft.   When the church was remodeled in 1941, a mural depicting Our Lady of Luxembourg (Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted) was added to the apse in the sanctuary.   The mural, which honours the parish’s Luxembourgian roots, was painted by liturgical artist, Bernard Grenkhe, using the “al secho” method (i.e., painting on wet plaster so as to make the image permanent.

During the Civil War, three parishioners of St. Augustine’s Parish in Leopold, Indiana fought for the North and were imprisoned at the notorious Andersonville Prison.   Henry Devillez, Isidore Naviaux and Lambert Rogier, formerly of Belgium, vowed that if they survived, one of them would make a pilgrimage to Luxembourg and obtain a copy of the statue of Our Lady of Consolation that stood in their ancestral church.   Rogier went to Luxembourg in 1867 and upon his return enshrined it in St. Augustine’s, where it now stands to the left of the main altar.   In September 2013, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis dedicated a larger outdoor garden shrine.

Another centre of veneration and pilgrimage, which also adopted Our Lady, Comforter of the Afflicted is Kevaeler in Germany, not far from the Dutch border.   In 1642 a copperplate engraving, representing Our Lady of Luxembourg, was installed in a sanctuary erected the same year.   It is one of the best visited Catholic pilgrimage locations in north-western Europe.  St Pope John Paul II visited in 1987.

The feast of Our Lady of Consolation is one of the solemnities not inscribed in the General Roman Calendar but which are observed in particular places, regions, churches or religious institutes.   Augustinians observe 4 September, the Benedictines on 5 July. The popular girls name “Consuela” is derived from this title.

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Quote/s of the Day – 4 September – The Feast of Our Lady of Consolation (image above is a close-up of Mary from the original icon of Our Lady of Consolation in Turin.)

“Has anyone ever come away from Mary, troubled or saddened or ignorant of the heavenly Mysteries? Who has not returned to everyday life gladdened and joyful because a request has been granted by the Mother of God?”

St Amadeus of Lausanne (1110-1159)

“As the Mother of Christ, Mary is the Mother of our wisdom and justice, of our holiness and redemption. She is more our Mother than the mother of our flesh.”

St Aelred (1109-1166)

“O Mary, I have not doubt that whenever we run to you, we shall obtain all that we desire. Let those then who have no hope, hope in you.”

St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Doctor of the Church

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