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Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Immaculate Heart of Mary (Latin: Cor Immaculatum Mariae) is a Catholic devotion which refers to the view of the interior life of Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for God the Father, her maternal love for her son Jesus Christ, and her motherly and compassionate love for all mankind. [1]
Our Lady´s chapel in Altenmarkt. Fresco illustrating the Lauretan litany "Mary, you saviour of sinners". Refugium Peccatorum (Latin for Refuge of Sinners), also known as Our Lady of Refuge, is a title for the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church. [1] Its use goes back to Saint Germanus of Constantinople in the 8th century. [2]
Devotions to the Immaculate Heart of Mary date back to Bernard of Clairvaux. The 1830 reported vision of Catherine Labouré which introduced the Miraculous Medal depicting the thorn-crowned Heart of Jesus and the pierced Heart of Mary had a significant impact on the devotion. [45] (Many parishes hold a novena each Monday to Our Lady of the ...
Words of the prayer from Raccolta: . Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, turn thine eyes in pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by the many evils that surround us in this life, but especially do we feel our hearts break within us upon hearing the dreadful insults and blasphemies uttered against thee, O Virgin Immaculate.
Litany; Litany of humility; Litany of Saint Joseph; Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus; Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus; Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Litany of the Saints
Hymns to Mary began to flourish with the growing veneration of the Virgin Mary in the 11th and 12th centuries, and the Ave Maria became well established. [14] Marian hymns in the Western Church grew even faster during the 13th century as the Franciscans began to compose a number of lasting hymns.
Once the custom grew up of reciting Marian litanies privately, and of gradually shortening the text, it was not long until the idea occurred of employing them for public devotion, especially in cases of epidemic, as had been the practice of the Church with the litanies of the Saints, which were sung in penitential processions and during public calamities.
The Chaste Heart of Joseph is depicted as inflamed with love and adorned with a white lily representing purity. [4] Unlike the devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary there is no liturgical cultus of the Chaste Heart of Joseph, and it is therefore reserved to being a private devotion. [5] [6]