One Minute Reflection – 26 August – The Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa
… “Most blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”…Luke 1:42 (Image Annunciation detail by Carlo Crivelli)
REFLECTION – “… in Mary there is accomplished the stupendous and complete victory of good over evil, of love over hatred, of grace over sin.”…St John Paul
PRAYER – As it was Your will heavenly Father, that, at the angel’s message, Your Word should be conceived by the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant that as we believe her to be truly the Mother of God, so may we be helped always, by her intercession. Through our Lord, Jesus Christ, in union with the Holy Spirit, ‘totus tuus’ Maria – please pray for us, amen. (The image below is by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo – The Virgin of the Annunciation – detail)
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