Receive Communion on Mary’s feast days, Mary: Day 070

Receive Communion on Mary’s feast days

Do I want to honor Mary on her special days? What could honor her more, asks St. Alphonsus, than to unite myself to her Son?

We should receive Holy Communion on Our Lady’s feast days, for we cannot honor Mary better than with Jesus. She herself once revealed to a holy soul that we could offer her nothing that was more pleasing to her than Holy Communion. For it’s in this holy Sacrament that Jesus gathers the fruit of his passion in our souls.

From this it appears that the Blessed Virgin desires nothing as much as Com- munion from those who are devoted to her, saying, “Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine I have mixed” (Prv 9:5). So after receiving Communion on each of her feast days, we must offer ourselves to the service of this Mother of God, and ask her for the grace to practice whatever virtue or other grace we seek.

It’s well every year to choose, among the feasts of the Blessed Virgin, one for which we have the greatest and most tender devotion. Then, for this one, we should make a very special preparation by dedicating ourselves anew, and in a more special way, to her service, choosing her for our sovereign Lady, advocate, and mother.

Finally, we must ask her pardon for all our negligence in her service during the past year, and promise greater faithfulness in the year to come. Then we can conclude by begging her to accept us as her servants, and to obtain for us a holy death. —St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
Mary’s great desire is for us to receive her Son in Holy Communion because of the matchless benefits it brings us. Might it be possible for me to attend Mass more often on weekdays and receive Communion more frequently?

CLOSING PRAYER
O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament divine! All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine!

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