Holy Week 2008 Activities

March 13th, 2008 by mediatrix1948

Proposed Mary Mediatrix of All Grace Parish

(Site location) Antipolo del Norte Lipa City Batangas,
Phils.

Priest in Charge – Rev. Fr. Joseph Rodem C. Ramos

 

Palm Sunday - March 16 : 6:30AM-Assembly

7AM –
Blessing of Palms

7:30AM – Holy Mass

 

Holy Monday – March 17: 8AM-3PM- Visita Iglesia

4PM
– Penitential Service

 

Holy Tuesday – March 18: 9AM- Chrism Mass @ Cathedral

4PM
– Pabasa ng Pasyon(Parish Site)

 

Holy Wednesday – March 19: 8AM-12NN – Parish Recollection

7PM – Film Viewing

 

Holy Thursday – March 20: 3:30AM – Dawn Stations of the
Cross

5PM – Mass of the Last Supper

 

Good Friday – March 21: 12NN – Seven Last Words

3PM –
Veneration of the Cross

5PM –
Procession

 

Black Saturday – March 22: 7AM – Morning Praise

8PM
– (Easter Vigil) Blessing of Fire

9PM – (Exultet/Easter) Proclamation Mass

- Blessing of Water

- Renewal of Baptismal Promises

- Celebration of the Eucharist

- Salubong

The Litany of The Blessed Virgin Mary

June 17th, 2007 by mediatrix1948

The Litany of The Blessed Virgin Mary
Mediatrix of All Grace

Lord, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity, One God,

Holy Mary,
Mother of God, and our Mother,
True Mother of the living,
Mother regenerating men in Christ unto God,
Mother of piety and of grace,
Mother of pardon and remission,
Partner in human redemption,
Recoverer of a lost world,
Recoverer of the ages,
Petitioner of all graces,
Suppliant all-powerful,
Advocate with thy Son for thy sons,
Obtainer of the divine mercy,
Dispenser of heavenly treasures,
Handmaid of divine blessings,
Fullness of grace to overflow upon all,
Succor of the Church Militant,
Ready helper of those in peril,
Devoted consoler of the sorrowful,
Conqueress of all error,
Protectress of the world,
Impregnable protection,
Propitiation of the divine wrath,
Refuge of all the unhappy,
Shelter of orphans,
Assured safety of the faithful,
Hope of all who despair,
Stay of the falling,
Uplifter of the fallen,
Cheer and comfort of the dying,
Peace and joy of mankind,
Our life, our sweetness and our hope,
Gate of Paradise,
Mystical stair of Jacob,
Key of the heavenly kingdom,
Channel of divine graces,
Throne of divine clemency,
Fountain of living waters,
Fountain sealed by the Holy Spirit,
Unfailing stream of mercy,
Asylum of the erring,
Haven of the shipwrecked,
Shining star of the sea,
Light of those who sit in darkness,
Chamber of spiritual nuptials,
Mediatrix of men with God,
Mediatrix after the Mediator,
Mediatrix reconciling us to the Son,
Mediatrix of sinners, staunch and true,
Mediatrix of all beneath the sky,
Mediatrix ever pleading for us,
Mediatrix set between Christ and His Church,
Mediatrix who hast found favor with God,
Mediatrix to win salvation for the world,
Mediatrix of the mysteries of God,
Mediatrix of All Grace,

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,

Christ, have mercy on us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
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Spare us, O Lord.
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Have mercy on us.

V. Pray for us, our powerful Mediatrix,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ!

Let us Pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ, our Mediator with the Father, Who hast deigned to appoint the Blessed Virgin, Thy Mother, to be our Mother also and our Mediatrix with Thee, graciously grant that whosoever goes to Thee in quest of blessings may be gladdened by obtaining them all through her, Thou Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. R. Amen.

Prayer of Petition

O Ever-Virgin Mother of God and Mediatrix of Grace who art the House of Gold within which dwells thy Son, our Mediator, Jesus Christ, we humbly beseech thee to grant our requests for our salvation and the salvation of the entire world. (Here pause and make your requests) Keep us close to the Vicar of thy Son in the unity of the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church. Hear our prayer and grant the requests we make to thee.
St. Joseph, Intercede for us.

Novena to Our Lady, Mary Mediatrix of All Grace

December 21st, 2006 by mediatrix1948

Recite the Holy Rosary mediatating on the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful or Glorious Mysteries.

MEMORARE: Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help and sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, we fly unto you, O Virgin of Virgins, our mother, to you we come before you we stand sinful and sorrowful. O mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us, Amen.434041725l_1

We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. (Recite 3x the Hail Mary and Glory Be)

Remember us, O Virgin Mother of God, in the presence of the Lord and do speak in our favor so that His wrath may be averted from us.

V. Our most powerful Mediatrix, pray for us

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ

PRAYER: O Lord Jesus Christ, our Mediator with the Father, who has appointed the most Blessed Virgin, Your Mother to be our Mother also and our Mediatrix before You; grant that whosoever draws near to You to beseech any benefit, may receive all things through Her and rejoice. You Who live and reign with God the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER OF PETITION: O Ever-Virgin Mother of God and Mediatrix of Grace who are the House of Gold within which dwells your Son, our Mediator, Jesus Christ, we humbly beseech you to grant our requests for our salvation and the salvation of the entire world. (make our requests)

O Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace, Obtain for us many holy priests and many holy religious vocations! Obtain for us many holy missionaries and the evangelization of all peoples especially Asia ! Obtain peace for our country and the whole world!

Keep us close and faithful to the Vicar of your Son in the unity of the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church. Hear our prayers and grant the requests we make to you. Amen.

Imprimatur: Archbishop of Lipa, Ramon C. Arguelles, D.D. July 16, 2006

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December 20th, 2006 by mediatrix1948

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A Short History of the Apparition at Lipa of Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace

December 14th, 2006 by mediatrix1948

Dr. Francisco Villanueva, Jr. in his book “The Wonders of Lipa” (written in 1949, just about the time of the height of the Lipa apparition) made the following observation: “The first time that the Blessed Virgin had ever appeared in the Far East was in that place of the Philippines called Lipa City . This is a very special and great privilege granted by God and His H oly Mother to the Filipino people”.
It was in 1948, in a small Carmelite convent at Lipa, Batangas that the Blessed Virgin came to manifest her presence to her Filipino children through a young postulant Sister Teresita Castillo and she had some very important things to tell them. These heavenly appearances were authenticated with overwhelming and amazing miracles of conversion and physical cures, of visions and humanly unexplainable showers of rose petals inside and outside the Carmelite convent which according to Dr. Villanueva lasted seven months.
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Early on, both Bishop Alfredo Verzosa and his auxiliary bishop Alfredo Ma. Obviar were favorable to the apparitions. However, in 1951, the Philippine Hierarchy issued a negative judgment officially declaring the absence of supernatural intervention in the reported extraordinary happenings including the showers of petals at Carmel , Lipa.
The apparitions, which were once at the center of attention of the nation, were all but forgotten. The image of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Grace, which earlier had received the prayers of the faithful at Lipa was ordered withdrawn from public veneration.
Soon the messages of Our Lady of Lipa eclipsed into oblivion. An entire generation of Filipinos has grown up unaware of the events of 1948 at Lipa, ignorant of the role of Mary as Mediatrix of All Grace, therefore failing to benefit from the tremendous graces to be secured by recourse to the Blessed Mother under the title by which She identified Herself.
One of the few souls who kept the memory of Lipa alive in her heart during the long years of silence imposed by the Hierarchy was Mother Mary Cecilia of Jesus, the prioress of Carmel during the time of the apparition. In December of 1982, she knelt before her superior and asked permission to die in order to hasten the cause of Our Lady in Lipa. The prioress, Mother Mary Aimee consented. Within a few days heaven accepted her proposition that in exchange for her life the cause of Mary would go forward.
Monsignor Mariano Gaviola who had been installed as Archbishop of Lipa in 1981 studied the case of the apparitions and in July 16, 1992 granted permission tLipa20statue2069_4o expose once again the image of the Mediatrix of All Grace for public veneration. Then in February 1993, he publicly declared his personal conviction that the events at Lipa are worthy of belief thus paving the road wide open to a complete rehabilitation of Our Lady’s apparitions at Lipa.
To derive grace from the apparitions of the Mediatrix it now becomes incumbent upon us to pay close attention to what the Blessed Mother had imparted to us at Lipa.
During those extraordinary days, Our Lady singled out a new saint-St. Louis Grigni273630578_7fb6df03db_m_3on de Montfort, who was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1947, just a year before the apparition. She made reference to the Marian spirituality that this saint taught in his writings and asked that the nuns to consecrate themselves to Her in this manner.
 
From the brief account of the apparition written by Mother Mary Cecilia of Jesus, OCD the Mother Superior of Carmel, Lipa in the late 1940s we quote:
“One day the Apparition asked from the Community an individual consecration of its members to herself according to the spirit of St. Grignion de Montfort”.
Indeed it can be said that mother knows best. As it is with a mother of a family, so is it with the Blessed Mother and all Her children in the world. In 274302000_f8d7700e06_m_2this case it is our very own Mother in heaven pointing out to us a blueprint for Christian living truly effective in serving the cause of Jesus and Mary and leading us safely to our last end. Her singling out of St. Louis de Montfort so shortly after his canonization shows Her desire for us to have this saint as our model and spiritual guide during these critical times for the Church and for the world.

For more information visit the Official Website of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace http://www.marymediatrixofallgrace.net/index.htm