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October 20, today, is the feast of Mater Admirabilis, Mother Most Admirable.
I brought up this devotion in this thread at the beginning of the year.
At the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome is a Church and convent, Trinità dei Monti in Rome of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Here is housed the image of Mater Admirabilis.
My mother attended Grand Coteau in Louisiana run by the Madames of the Sacred Heart, and this image, "the pink Madonna" was their special devotion. You can get some images here. My mother had a small statue of the image.
Dh and I visited when in Rome in 2002, and she is more beautiful and vivid in real life.
More links: Story of Mater Admirabilis
Mater in Her Old Age
A Goodness that has no limits: Mater Admirabilis
Miraculous fresco Mater Admirabilis, Mother Most Admirable
And if you do a Google image search for Mater Admirabilis, many different versions show up. In real life the colors are more vibrant and pink. Many of the images I find online are more yellow in tint.
Prayer to Mater Admirabilis (prayer for strength and love)
O divine Mother of Jesus, we come to you as to the spring of living, thirst-quenching waters, the flame that warms us, the dawn that dispels all shadows, the Mother ever attentive to the confusion of her children.
O Wonderful Mother, the road of our life is hard at times. It is not easy always to walk steadily in the path of duty. It is not easy to love our neighbor, our brother, as Jesus wants us to love him. It is not easy to keep our soul always even among the inequalities of life. It is not easy to love creatures a yet keep oneself for God alone. It is not easy to be little and humble when pride is staking its claim. It is not easy to go to the God of Light along roads that are dark with shadows. There are days everything is a burden. But You, O Admirable Mother. You make everything easy. And yet you do not take the sacrifice away from our path, any more than God took it away from yours; but you make the effort easier by making love grow. It was love, ever victorious in you, that make you say on the very threshold of your destiny: "Be it done to Me according to thy word." And you never took back that word of consent to the love that was leading you. You never resisted suffering, but offered to its action a soul humble and gentle, utterly given to God.
O Mary, may your example be my strength. Make everything easy in my life, not by taking trouble away, but by giving me love, a love always greater than the trouble.
O Mother most gentle, make my heart very strong; and if you see that my love is getting exhausted too soon. I implore you to give your child some of your love and teach her again the lesson of true love.
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Prayer to Mater Admirabilis (prayer for peace and humility)
Mater Admirabilis, to your friends you open the way of Interior Progress. In contemplating you, O Admirable Mother, the soul thrills with a holy desire to penetrate into that world of love and grace in which your would as made its dwelling. Who better than you can reveal to us this interior life? Who better than you can open us to the life of Jesus and trace in us His divine characteristics? O Mother, let us look at you; in the end a child resembles its mother when its gaze never leaves her face.
You are the silent Virgin!
You are the utterly humble Virgin!
You are the faithful Virgin!
O silent Virgin, you teach us that silence creates in us the gravity that befits our waiting on God; and are we not always waiting thus? Silence, too, must protect God's dwelling-place; such silence is both an expression of love and a protection for love. O Mother, keep calm and secluded the dwelling of our soul into which Jesus descends every day.
O utterly humble Virgin, you teach us, too, that there can be no progress without a loyal and generous tendency to humility. God's gifts are only safe in souls who attribute nothing to themselves and are conscious of their poverty. Teach us that unpretentious littleness that knows how to be docile, loves to serve and then slips willingly away. The humility of your heart rose up to God like a melody; it delighted His heart; may ours bring Him down to us.
O faithful Virgin, you are the one who always responded to God's expectations, who never set the shadow of a hesitation between the call of grace and its realization. Give us that promptitude in love, that soaring eagerness of faith. May sacrifice never halt us; but in the joy which increases our gift a hundredfold, may we answer every grace that solicits us: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord!"
Mother Most Admirable, pray for us!
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