Legion of Mary

“The Hail Mary said well is the force that puts the devil to flight. It is the sanctification of the soul, the joy of Angels, the melody of the Elect, the canticle of the New Testament, the delight of Mary, and the glory of the Holy Trinity.” -St. Louis de Montfort @eutopiatoday

totus.tuus.apostolate The Catholic Church celebrates the optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16th July. It was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier. According to legend, a religious community was established even before the time of Christ on Mount Carmel. This is the mountain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on which the prophet Elijah successfully challenged the Priests of Baal and won the people to the true God. The optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel entered the Calendar of the Universal Church in the early 18th century. Mount Carmel was taken by the Muslims in 1291, and the Friars were killed and the convent burned. The spread of the Carmelites in Europe is largely attributable to the work of Saint Simon Stock (1247–1265). According to tradition, Our Lady of Mount Carmel appeared to the Prior General, Saint Simon Stock, at Aylesford, England, on 16th July 1251. The Blessed Virgin promised him, oppressed with worries, that whoever would wear the Carmelite habit devoutly would receive the gift of final perseverance. The habit was taken to mean the Scapular in particular. The Church’s official position regarding the Brown Scapular is that it is a garment that we wear as both a sign of our belonging to Mary and a pledge of her maternal protection in this life and the next. Sources: EWTN, Catholic News Agency, Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel! 🌷 O most blessed and immaculate Virgin, ornament and splendor of Carmel, thou who regardest with an eye of special kindness those who wear thy blessed habit, look down also benignly upon me and cover me with the mantle of thy special protection. Strengthen my weakness with thy power; enlighten the darkness of my mind with thy wisdom; increase in me faith, hope and charity. Adorn my soul with such graces and virtues as will ever be pleasing to thy divine Son and to thee. Assist me in life, and console me in death, with thy most amiable presence, and present me to the most august Trinity as thy devoted servant and child; that I may eternally bless and praise thee in paradise. Amen. Three Hail Marys, and Glory be to the Father. (Indulgence 200 Days, Pope Leo XIII)

•Happy Feast of our Lady of Mount Carmel🌹 Queen and Lady of Mount Carmel! Seen by Prophet's mystic gaze; Shown above the holy mountain As Elias kneels and prays. Cloud-like rising from the ocean, Pure and free from every stain, She doth claim his heart's devotion Thro' the ages to remain•

"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families . . . that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." ~ Sr. Lucia dos Santos

Pray the rosary everyday! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-025-02265-y

It is truly meet to bless you, O Theotokos, ever-blessed and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim, without defilement you gave birth to God the Word. True Theotokos we magnify you!

When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. She is the inseparable companion of the Holy Ghost in all His works of grace. Unless the Holy Ghost finds Mary in a soul, He works none of His marvels there. We cannot have a perfect fidelity to the Holy Ghost without union with Mary. (St. Louis-Marie de Montfort)

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ASPIRATION O Mary, be thou with me, now and always, as my adviser, my hope, my Lady, and my Queen ! ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

2 of 2 Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 31st If then thou sayest that thou canst not help me, at least tell me to whom I must have recourse for succor in my deep distress. With St. Anselm, I will say to thee, and to thy Son: Have pity on me, oh thou, my Redeemer, and pardon me, thou my mother, and recommend me to pardon; or teach me to whom I may have recourse, who is more compassionate than you, and in whom I may have more confidence. No, neither in heaven nor on earth can I find one who has more compassion for the miserable, or who can aid me more than you. Thou, oh Jesus, art my father, and thou, oh Mary, art my mother. You love those who are the most wretched, and you seek to save them. I am worthy of hell, and of all beings the most miserable; you need not to seek me, neither do I ask you to seek me; I present myself to you with a sure hope that I shall not be abandoned by you. Behold me at your feet; my Jesus, pardon me; my Mary, help me. ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary (1852) First American Edition.