NOVENA TO MARY, THE VIRGIN OF REVELATION

SEVENTH DAY - APRIL 9

Meditation

The Virgin of Revelation calls us all to conversion. She promises great prodigies for hardened sinners or those who are unable to accept the truths of the Catholic faith. However, conversion goes right to the heart of the Christian. It is a lifetimes journey and so Our Lady’s call for conversion applies to all Christians. We must all continually renounce the “hardness of our hearts” to become more Christ like. The Virgin is the model of the Christian and so by looking at her we can learn how to love her Son ever more perfectly. In our prayer today let us place all those we know who are in need of conversion under the maternal care of the Virgin of Revelation.

Teaching of the Church

In Mary’s company … this demanding ideal of being conformed to him is pursued through an association which could be described in terms of friendship. We are thereby enabled to enter naturally into Christ’s life and as it were to share his deepest feelings. In this regard Blessed Bartolo Longo has written: “Just as two friends, frequently in each other’s company, tend to develop similar habits, so too, by holding familiar converse with Jesus and the Blessed Virgin, by meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the same life in Holy Communion, we can become, to the extent of our lowliness, similar to them and can learn from these supreme models a life of humility, poverty, hiddenness, patience and perfection.

Concluding Prayer (to be said daily)

Supplication to the Virgin of Revelation To obtain any grace

Most Holy Virgin of the Revelation, you who are in the Divine Trinity, deign we beg you; turn your merciful and kind glance towards us. Oh Mary! You are our powerful advocate before God, who by this soil of Sin will obtain graces and miracles for the conversion of sinners, grant that we obtain from Your Son Jesus, salvation of the soul, perfect health of body and the graces which we need. Grant to the Church and its head, the Roman Pontiff, the joy of seeing the conversion of His enemies, the propagation of the Kingdom of God over all the earth, the unity of all believers in Christ, peace among nations in order that we can love and serve You better in this life and one day deserve to see and thank you eternally in Heaven. Amen

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...