{"id":4270,"date":"2015-11-07T03:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbookblogger\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2015-10-30T05:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:37:56","slug":"run-hurry-my-lady-mary-day-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbookblogger\/2015\/11\/07\/run-hurry-my-lady-mary-day-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Run, hurry, my Lady!, Mary: Day 109"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"year_with_mary_bonaventure_1\"<\/a>Run, hurry, my Lady!<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Bonaventure expresses a sentiment often found in the Psalms and familiar to us all: We need heaven\u2019s help, and we need it right away!<\/em><\/p>\n

Run, hurry, my Lady! And in your mercy
\nhelp your sinful servant who calls upon you, and deliver him from the hands of the Enemy.
\nWho will not sigh to you? We sigh with love and grief,
\nfor we are oppressed on every side.
\nHow can we do otherwise than sigh to you, comfort of those who are miserable, refuge of outcasts, ransom of captives?
\nWe are certain that when you see our miseries, your compassion will hurry to relieve us.
\nOur sovereign Lady and our advocate, commend us to your Son.
\nGrant, blessed one,
\nby the grace that you have merited, that the One who through you
\nwas graciously pleased to become a partaker of our infirmity and misery
\nmay also through your intercession
\nmake us partakers of his happiness and glory.<\/p>\n

\u2014St. Bonaventure<\/p>\n

IN GOD\u2019S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .<\/strong>
\nAm I facing any situations right now in which I need Our Lady\u2019s help right away? Am I willing to trust that she knows God\u2019s will for the timing of my assistance?<\/p>\n

CLOSING PRAYER<\/strong>
\nFrom a prayer of St. Bernard: It\u2019s not possible, O Lady, that you would abandon someone who has placed his hopes in you.<\/p>\n

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