To Jesus Through Mary
Mission Statement
O Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, we dedicate and consecrate ourselves to you under the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. ... Mother of our Savior, keep us close to you every moment of our lives ... that, in union with you, we may enjoy the bliss of heaven forever. Amen.
Act of Consecration to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
may the almighty and merciful god, by whose grace you have placed your faith in the first coming of his only begotten son and yearn for his coming again, sanctify you by the radiance of Christ's advent and enrich you with his blessing.
First Sunday of Advent Blessing
Sodality Way of Life
LIVING A "MORE" MARIAN LIFE
Ways to Celebrate Marian Feast Days as a Parish Sodality,
With Your Family and Fellow Parishioners
- Visit with the Most Blessed Sacrament in personal prayer, in hours of adoration--"Come adore this wondrous presence"
- Pray the Rosary and Marian Novenas (see below—Feast Days of Mary)
- Plan and prepare for Marian Consecration using 33 Days to Morning Glory by Father Michael Gaitley, MIC (see below—Marian Consecration)and/or Consecration to Divine Mercy using 33 Days to Merciful Love
- Plan a Marian Tour pilgrimage to the Franciscan Monastery (see Sodality Events page)
- Give the gift of a Spiritual Bouquet and support Sodality Union’s Christmas Bouquet to the Holy Father
- Commit as a parish Sodality to annually visit the National Shrine for taping of TV Masses for the homebound and supporting Sodality Union’s sponsorship of these Masses
Feast Days of Mary (*Holy Day of Obligation)
January 1
SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD*
February 2
PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
Novena begins January 25
FEbruary 11
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
Novena begins February 2
March 25
ANNUNCIATION
Novena begins March 16
April 26
Our Lady of Good Counsel
Novena begins April 18
May - Month of Mary
may 13
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
Novena begins May 5
may 31
VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Novena begins May 22
St. Louis Marie de Montfort’s Consecration to Jesus through Mary transforming period of preparation is summarized below:
- It begins with preliminary preparation requiring turning from/renouncing the Spirit of the World.
- It continues with knowledge of self.
- It culminates with knowledge of Jesus through Mary.
The "essence of the consecration" is to give our YES, similar to Mary's fiat! She knows the power of this YES that we give when we consecrate ourselves to Jesus. Mary nourishes us in our spiritual growth, similar to how she nourished her Son. Her role in our lives is same: to form us into saints with the help of the Holy Spirit. “Mary resonates the workings of the Holy Spirit.” God gave Mary the important role in the work of Salvation, forming us into other Christ—not just to imitate the virtues. De Montfort’s Consecration is contract of the renewal of our baptism.
St. Louis Marie de Montfort was educated by the Jesuits. He was a Sodalist! He journeyed to Paris on foot for 250 miles to become a seminarian. Some opposed his zeal, his spirituality; buy after a period, reputation of his holiness brought about a benefactor and he entered a seminary. He put into daily practice dying to oneself. Among his responsibilities as a seminarian, he cared for the chapel of the Blessed Mother in the church of St. Sulpice. He studied sacred writings, including a treatise on the Slavery of the Blessed Virgin. During this period is when his love for the Blessed Mother flourished. In a treatise, he explained how OUR UNION WITH OUR LORD REQUIRES UNION WITH MARY BECAUSE “HE CHOSE TO COME TO US THROUGH HER AND THERE SHE IS THE MOST PERFECT WAY TO GO TO HIM.”
He teaches to willfully speak for oneself through Mary; to make a commitment, as in our baptism to renounce evil; to take on the mission of evangelization, that is, God gives us the dignity to participate in the work of salvation—to spread the fire of his love. We “die with Christ on the cross, we rise with him to newness of life.” The crosses in our lives are transforming moments. With eyes of Mary, we see the heart of Jesus; with the heart of Mary, we enter communion with Christ; and with the hands of Mary, we give Christ to the other. The GOAL OF Marian Consecration is to give all to Jesus through Mary, with Him and in Him and in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God the Father. THE GOAL IS GOD THE FATHER.
June 27
OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP
Novena begins June 18
July 16
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
Novena begins July 7
August 15
ASSUMPTION
Novena begins August 6
august 22
THE QUEENSHIP OF MARY
September 8
BIRTH OF MARY
Novena begins August 30
september 12
THE HOLY NAME OF MARY
september 15
OUR LADY OF SORROWS
Novena begins September 7
October - Month of the Rosary
October 12
OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY
Novena begins September 29
PRAY THE ROSARY!
November 24
PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Novena begins November 12
November 27
OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
Novena begins November 19
December 8
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION *
Novena begins November 29
December 9
St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoazin, pray for us.
"Do not let your ... heart be disturbed. ... Are you not in the hollow
of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms?"
December 12
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
Novena begins December 4
St. John Paul II called the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe the
"Marian heart of America."
- The Feast of the Immaculate Heart is the Saturday following the Second Sunday after Pentecost.
- The First Saturday of each Month is dedicated to Marian Devotions.
Faces of Mary Around the Archdiocese
Washinton Retreat house
Washinton Retreat house
Washinton Retreat house
Washington, DC
Mount Calvary
Washinton Retreat house
Washinton Retreat house
District Heights, MD
Mother Seton
Washinton Retreat house
Mother Seton
Germantown, MD
Nativity Catholic Church
Nativity Catholic Church
Nativity Catholic Church
Washington, DC
Our Lady Queen of Peace
Nativity Catholic Church
Nativity Catholic Church
Washington, DC
St. Benedict the Moor
Nativity Catholic Church
St. Benedict the Moor
Washington, DC
St. Bernardine of Siena
St. Bernardine of Siena
St. Bernardine of Siena
Suitland, MD
St. Hugh of Grenoble
St. Bernardine of Siena
St. Bernardine of Siena
Greenbelt, MD
St. Joseph
St. Bernardine of Siena
St. Joseph
Morganza, MD
Sacred Heart
La Plata, MD
Our Lady of Fatima Shrine
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Barnesville, MD
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Washington, DC
St. Luke
St. Michael the Archangel
St. Mary
Washington, DC
St. Mary
St. Michael the Archangel
St. Mary
Piscataway, MD
St. Michael the Archangel
St. Michael the Archangel
St. Michael the Archangel
Silver Spring, MD