Mary Mother of the Eucharist

Mary's body and soul are the heavenly tabernacle of God. She is the incorruptible Host, holy and immaculate. The Madonna and the Holy Eucharist are united inseparably "even to the end of the world."  Matthew 28:20 



Prayer to Mary Mother of the Eucharist

Hail Mary, sweet Mother of the Eucharist, with sorrow and much love, You have given us your son Jesus while hanging from the Cross. We, weak creatures, anchor ourselves to You to be worthy sons of this great LOVE and SORROW. Help us to be humble and simple, help us to love all men, help us to live in grace always to be ready to welcome Jesus into our heart.

O Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, we, by ourselves, will never be able to understand this great mystery of love. Gain for us the light of the Holy Spirit, because only in that moment we will be able to perceive even for just one instant, all the infinite love of your Jesus in giving Himself to us. Amen.

When we go before Jesus on the altar, we always find Him "with Mary His Mother," as the Magi did at Bethlehem. Matthew 2:11

Jesus in the sacred Host, from the altar of our hearts, can repeat to each of us what He said to Saint John the Evangelist from the altar of Calvary, "Behold thy Mother." John 19:27

Choose LIFE

I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Shrine of the Holy Innocents at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy Stockbridge, Massachusetts USA

For the Protection of all LIFE in the womb and for the lives of the Holy Innocents, let us pray five Hail Marys in gratitude for the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The Memorare to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, that in thy celestial apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, thou didst promise to show thy compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting thee, seek thy help and call upon thee in their necessities and afflictions. Thou didst promise to hearken to our supplications, to dry our tears and to give us consolation and relief. Never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, either for the common welfare, or in personal anxieties, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Mary, ever Virgin Mother of the True God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves in thy august presence, certain that thou wilt deign to fulfill thy merciful promises. We are full of hope that, standing beneath thy shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor need we fear illness, or misfortune, or any other sorrow. Thou hast decided to remain with us through thy admirable image, thou who art our Mother, our health and our life. Placing ourselves beneath thy maternal gaze and having recourse to thee in all our necessities we need do nothing more. O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer us.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, we entrust this ministry and all the intentions we receive to you.

A Mother's Prayer

You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works!  My very self you know.  My bones are not hidden from you, When I was being made in secret, fashioned in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes saw me unformed; in your book all are written down; my days were shaped, before one came to be. 
Psalm 139:13-16

A Mother’s Prayer by Rachel Aldous

My sweet baby on loan from above. No better treasure could I more love. I stand here beside your bed as I pray, I lay my hand on your head and I say:

May you grow up to serve Him all of your days. May He lead you and guide you in all of your ways. May His hand bless your future with friendships that last. May you cherish your youth and not grow up too fast.

I stare in wonder at your tiny frame. Just to think that God knows you by name. He knows every hair on your beautiful head. He knows your thoughts before they are said.

May you grow up to serve Him all of your days. May He lead you and guide you in all of your ways. May His Hand bless your future with friendships that last. May you cherish your youth and not grow up too fast.

May God grant you peace in the midst of a storm. May God give you strength even when you’re forlorn. May you answer the door when Jesus comes knocking. May wisdom guide when your mouth is talking. May discretion protect you and keep you pure. May you never stumble or fall for a lure. May your heart remain humble to the very end. May uprightness and truth be what you defend. May the world not ensnare or change who you are. May the light that's within you shine like the stars. May angels surround you body, spirit, mind. May favor and peace be yours to find. May rejection and pain never reach you. May your spirit grow bold for what you’re called to.

May you grow up to serve Him all of your days. May He lead you and guide you in all of your ways. May His Hand bless your future with friendships that last. May you cherish your youth and not grow up too fast. As you rest in God’s care I will rest, too. Knowing that Jesus is watching over you. Amen.

Blessed Mother Mary, we entrust all the intentions we receive for the babies, little ones and their families to you.  Jesus we trust in You.

The Image and Likeness of God

You show me the path of life, in Your presence there is fullness of life. Psalm 16:11

Man is set apart because he is a person. Made in the image and likeness of God, he is conscious and responsible. Even in his spiritual dimension, he experiences the succession of different phases, all equally fleeting. Saint Ephrem, the Syrian, liked to compare our life to the fingers of a hand, both to emphasize that its length is no more than a span, and to indicate that each phase of life, like the different fingers, has its particular character, and “the fingers represent the five steps by which man advances.”



With the Sign of the Cross, we send a visible sign to the world and follow the advice of Saint Ephrem of Syria (died A.D. 373):

"Mark all your actions with the sign of the life giving Cross. Do not go out from the door of your house till you have signed yourself with the Cross. Do not neglect that sign whether in eating or drinking or going to sleep, or in the home or going on a journey. There is no habit to be compared with it. Let it be a protecting wall round all your conduct, and teach it to your children that they may earnestly learn the custom."

In one of Saint Ephrem's hymns, he speaks of the pearl as a symbol of the riches and beauty of faith: "I placed the pearl, my brothers, on the palm of my hand, to be able to examine it. I began to look at it from one side and from the other: it looked the same from all sides. Thus is the search for the Son inscrutable, because it is all light. In its clarity, I saw the Clear One who does not grow opaque; and in His purity, the great symbol of the Body of Our Lord, which is pure. In His indivisibility, I saw the truth which is indivisible."

Lord, grant that we may lovingly accept Your Will, and place ourselves each day in Your merciful hands. Mary, Our Mother, pray for us, “now and at the hour of our death.” Keep us ever close to Jesus, your Beloved Son, the Lord of life and Giver of life. Amen.

Saint Michael the Archangel

Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host by the Divine Power of God, cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.  Amen.



On Sunday April 24th 1994, Pope John Paul II recommended this prayer be used by all Catholics as a prayer for the Church when he said:

'"May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: 'Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power.' Ephesians 6:10 The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel. Revelation 12:7 Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid recollection of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to St. Michael throughout the Church. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world."'

Saint Michael has four main roles. His first role is the leader of the Army of God and the leader of heaven's forces in their triumph over the powers of hell. He is viewed as the angelic model for the virtues of the spiritual warrior, with the conflict against evil at times viewed as the battle within.

The second and third roles of Michael in Catholic teachings deal with death. In his second role, Michael is the angel of death, carrying the souls of all the deceased to heaven. In this role, at the hour of death, Michael descends and gives each soul the chance to redeem itself before passing, thus consternating the devil and his minions. Catholic prayers often refer to this role of Michael. In his third role, he weighs souls in his perfectly balanced scales (hence Michael is often depicted holding scales).

In his fourth role, St Michael, the special patron of the Chosen People in the Old Testament, is also the guardian of the Church; it was thus not unusual for the angel to be revered by the military orders of knights during the Middle Ages. This role also extends to his being the patron saint of a number of cities and countries.

Saint Michael the Archangel, we entrust to your protection all the names we receive through this prayer ministry.

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Mary conceived the Word, the promise of God's love for us. The Word that was revealed through the prophets, from generation to generation, was the Word that Mary attentively listened to and she carefully kept in her heart.

There is so much to contemplate in Mary’s Immaculate Heart. She “carefully kept all these things,” reveals to us the Virgin Mother’s contemplative nature. To keep and to guard is to take care of something treasured; it is to preserve, to gather what is valued, and to set it in a secure place: the heart.  In order to “keep” the Word one must first hear it; to hear it one must be recollected; and to be recollected one must first have a prayerful heart.  In prayer, Mary learned how to be in total communion with God and how to belong totally to Him.

Our Lady prayed and kept all things in her heart. In prayer, she kept her heart in a constant and loving dialogue with God’s Heart. In prayer, she kept “all things.” This includes even more so what she did not comprehend, what she could not see, what seemed beyond her capacity or strength, what was beyond her understanding. All of these things, she kept in her heart to immerse them in God’s love and light. Her prayer was the prayer of a pure heart with her human love in perfect harmony with Divine Love.  

We are called to pray like the Blessed Mother. We are to be receivers of the Word; we are to be men and women of prayer.  Like our Blessed Mother, we must learn to keep all things with care and to protect our hearts through internal recollection and mature discernment. There is too much noise inside and outside of us. Too many words and too many voices speak to our hearts and suffocate the fruitfulness of the Word of God in us.  The only true treasure is the Word of God, revealed to us and united with the Marian heart of Mary.

"And Mary kept all these things, pondering upon them in her heart." Luke 2:19

O Mother Mary, we ask you to keep all the intentions we receive through this ministry in your most loving, Immaculate heart.

A Child's Prayer to Jesus

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

It is good to come before God in prayer as a weary and heavily burdened human being. It is good to come before God as a needy child and ask for guidance and rest. The important thing is that we go before God in prayer on a regular basis.  Becoming like a child has importance for us as we go before God in prayer. Jesus wants us to be like little children when we pray, to be without pretense.



Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.   For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  Matthew 7:7-8

Jesus says, come as you are, come before God with all of your problems and worries. Come messy, come with stumbling words. It doesn’t matter if you get prayer right, what matters is that you come before God without any pretense and ask for guidance and help. Trust less in yourself and trust more in God.  On many occasions, Jesus tells his disciples that they need to become like little children. Imagine what these grown men must have thought when Jesus told them that they needed to become like little children. The disciples seemed to have struggled with this teaching of Jesus as we see many instances of Jesus telling them this over and over again throughout the Gospels.  Jesus then took a little child and had the child stand among them. Jesus took the child in His arms and told the disciples that unless they become like children they will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Heavenly Father, we ask You to bless all the babies and little ones and the families for whom we pray. We thank You for the gifts of Your Son Jesus, for the Holy Spirit and for Our Blessed Mother Mary.

Mary Mother of God

Today we celebrate the Feast Day of Mary Mother of God.  Let us pray this novena to Mary beginning on this first day of January through January ninth, asking Mary for her protection over all these babies, little ones and families.

Mother of God Novena Prayer
Lord Jesus, we come before you this day mindful of the presence of your Mother Mary. As we pray this novena we are aware of how Mary proclaimed her yes, her Fiat with joy. We reflect on how Mary lived each and every event in her life with deep trust in God, with the assurance that God was with her every step of the way and with the love of God constantly dwelling within her being. During this novena, may we grow in our trust in God, deepen our longing to know God and proclaim everyday our belief in the almighty and everlasting God who is constantly calling us to live a grace filled life. Like Mary, may we be able to say Yes, to proclaim our Fiat, with the sure and constant faith that allowed Mary to walk the path of life God called her to live. We ask this in your name. Amen

The Church Fathers gave witness in the following passages to their recognition of the sacred truth and great gift as Mother of God, that was bestowed upon Mary, the humble handmaid of the Lord.



Irenaeus "The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God." Against Heresies, 5:19:1 A.D. 189

Hippolytus "To all generations they [the prophets] have pictured forth the grandest subjects for contemplation and for action. Thus, too, they preached of the advent of God in the flesh to the world, his advent by the spotless and God-bearing (theotokos) Mary in the way of birth and growth, and the manner of his life and conversation with men, and his manifestation by baptism, and the new birth that was to be to all men, and the regeneration by the laver of baptism." Discourse on the End of the World 1 A.D. 217

Gregory the Wonderworker "For Luke, in the inspired Gospel narratives, delivers a testimony not to Joseph only, but also to Mary, the Mother of God, and gives this account with reference to the very family and house of David." Four Homilies 1 A.D. 262  "It is our duty to present to God, like sacrifices, all the festivals and hymnal celebrations; and first of all, the feast of the Annunciation to the holy Mother of God, to wit, the salutation made to her by the angel, ‘Hail, full of grace!’"

Peter of Alexandria "They came to the church of the most blessed Mother of God, and ever-virgin Mary, which, as we began to say, he had constructed in the western quarter, in a suburb, for a cemetery of the martyrs." The Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandria A.D. 305

Methodius "While the old man [Simeon] was thus exultant, and rejoicing with exceeding great and holy joy, that which had before been spoken of in a figure by the prophet Isaiah, the holy Mother of God now manifestly fulfilled." Oration on Simeon and Anna 7 A.D. 305

Cyril of Jerusalem "The Father bears witness from heaven to his Son. The Holy Spirit bears witness, coming down bodily in the form of a dove. The archangel Gabriel bears witness, bringing the good tidings to Mary. The Virgin Mother of God bears witness. Catechetical Lectures 10:19 A.D. 350

Ephraim the Syrian "Though still a virgin she carried a child in her womb, and the handmaid and work of his wisdom became the Mother of God." Songs of Praise 1:20 A.D. 351

Athanasius "The Word begotten of the Father from on high, inexpressibly, inexplicably, incomprehensibly, and eternally, is he that is born in time here below of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God." The Incarnation of the Word of God 8 A.D. 365

O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother,  you are our most powerful intercessor.   We thank you and we entrust our lives, our families and all those for whom we pray through this ministry to you and your Beloved Son Jesus.