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Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified
Virgin
August 25: An Optional Memorial from the Common of Virgins or
the Common of Holy Women (Religious).
 Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified was born of the Baouardy
family, Catholics of the Greek Melchite Rite, at Abellin in Galilee in 1846. In
1867 she entered the Discalced Carmelites in France and was sent with the
founding group to the Carmel of Mangalore in India where, in 1870, she made her
profession. She returned to France in 1872. In 1875 she went to the Holy Land
where she built a monastery in Bethlehem and began planning for another in
Nazareth. Noted for her supernatural gifts, especially for humility, for her
devotion to the Holy Spirit, and her great love for the Church and the Pope, she
died at Bethlehem in 1878.
Prayer
God, Father of mercy and all consolation,
you raised Blessed Mary, the humble daughter of the Holy
Land,
to contemplation of the mysteries of your Son
and made her witness to the love and joy of the Holy Spirit.
Grant us, through her intercession,
so to share in the sufferings of Christ
that we may rejoice in the revelation of your glory.
We ask this through Christ, our Lord.
Scripture Readings
Romans 8:26-30; Gospel Matthew 11:25-30.
Texts taken from the “Carmelite
Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours,” Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome: 1993.
Image courtesy of the
Carmelnet webmaster, USA.
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