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THE
SORROWFUL AND
IMMACULATE HEART
OF MARY
This picture, somewhat mysterious in its origin, was
discovered at the time of the 1918 armistice in the cellar of the boarding
school where Berthe Petit, a humble Franciscan Tertiary, had been educated.
After the troops had departed one of the Bernardine nuns, in putting things in
order , found a piece of cardboard on which was pasted a pornographic picture
and she tore it off to consign it to flames. To her astonishment, she found that
it covered this beautiful representation of the Blessed Virgin . It seems to
combine the art of both the Eastern and the Western Rites. The facial features
resemble those of the well known Pieta. Prayer before this picture has brought
signal favours.
Confided by Our Lord to Berthe Petit: "Teach souls to
love the Heart of My Mother pierced by the very sorrow which pierced Mine."
(Dec. 25, 1909)
"The Heart of My Mother has the right to be called
Sorrowful and I wish this title placed before that of Immaculate because she has
won it herself. The church has defined, in the case of my mother, what I myself
had ordained - Her Immaculate Conception. This right which My Mother has to a
title of justice, is now, according to My express wish, to be known and
universally accepted. She has earned it by her identification with MY sorrows;
by her suffering and by her sacrifices and her immolation in Calvary endured in
perfect correspondence with My grace for the salvation of mankind..... [ Sept.
08-1911]
"It is hearts that must be changed. This will be
accomplished only by the Devotion proclaimed, explained, preached and
recommended everywhere. Recourse to My Mother under this title [which] I wish
for her universally, is the last help I shall give before the end of time."
(July 2, 1940)
"The Secret Of The Rosary"
by Saint Louis Mary Montford.
Montford Publications
Bayshore N.Y. 11706
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THE SORROWFUL AND IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
This picture, somewhat mysterious in its origin, was
discovered at the time of the 1918 armistice in the cellar of the boarding
school where Berthe Petit, a humble Franciscan Tertiary, had been educated.
After the troops had departed one of the Bernardine nuns, in putting things in
order , found a piece of cardboard on which was pasted a pornographic picture
and she tore it off to consign it to flames. To her astonishment, she found that
it covered this beautiful representation of the Blessed Virgin . It seems to
combine the art of both the Eastern and the Western Rites. The facial features
resemble those of the well known Pieta. Prayer before this picture has brought
signal favours.
Confided by Our Lord to Berthe Petit: "Teach souls to
love the Heart of My Mother pierced by the very sorrow which pierced Mine."
(Dec. 25, 1909)
"The Heart of My Mother has the right to be called
Sorrowful and I wish this title placed before that of Immaculate because she has
won it herself. The church has defined, in the case of my mother, what I myself
had ordained - Her Immaculate Conception. This right which My Mother has to a
title of justice, is now, according to My express wish, to be known and
universally accepted. She has earned it by her identification with MY sorrows;
by her suffering and by her sacrifices and her immolation in Calvary endured in
perfect correspondence with My grace for the salvation of mankind..... [ Sept.
08-1911]
"It is hearts that must be changed. This will be
accomplished only by the Devotion proclaimed, explained, preached and
recommended everywhere. Recourse to My Mother under this title [which] I wish
for her universally, is the last help I shall give before the end of time."
(July 2, 1940)
"The Secret Of The Rosary"
by Saint Louis Mary Montford.
Montford Publications
Bayshore N.Y. 11706
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