Worship

See also: Rosary, The "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria), Our Father, Eucharist, Communion.

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Consecration of Portugal and Spain to Our Lady of Fatima

In Religion Catholicism, Worship of God is present in the Mass and the reception of different Sacraments. Worship of different saints, especially that of the Virgin Mary, is also often practiced through various devotions, including that of the Rosary.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

Worship of God

• What value can worship have in the eyes of God when inside, the Heart does not love God, does not humble itself in respectful love for God, when it does not praise Him, and does not admire Him by loving the things He has made, and to begin with, man who is the masterpiece of the earthly Creation?

Marian Worship

• The founding act of marian worship is the healing of a sailor who suffered a cranial trauma thanks to a balm prepared by Mary. The storm is calmed by a hymn composed by John addressed to her. "It is said: you venerate her. Only God is adored. She is not Venus. She is Mary, Mary of Nazareth, Israelite Mary, the Mother of Jesus, Messiah of Israel."
• I believe that we are all enamored of her. A love so high, so heavenly!... Only this Woman can inspire it. And the Soul completely loves her Soul, The Spirit loves and admires her intelligence, the eye admires and delights in her pure Grace which gives affection without disturbance, just like when one looks at a flower... Mary, the Beauty of the earth and, I believe, the Beauty of Heaven...
• "If only for the love of Mary, I will never separate from Jesus," says Thomas.
• Understand it once and for all, it is through Mary that you have everything, absolutely everything! You should love and bless her with every breath.

In the Other Works of Maria Valtorta

The Notebooks of 1943

• Dictation of December 2 : Mary: I am no less loved because I am little loved. It suffices me that at least you love my Son.

In this work (the Notebooks of 1943) which gathers the dictations received alongside the visions, a whole cycle is dedicated to the meditation of the "Hail Mary":

• Catechesis of September 3: First meditation - The Ave Maria: Blessed are the lips and lands where the Ave Maria is said. - The greeting which purifies the lips and the Heart - If you knew how to say them, you would never be grieved - God is in Her. - All is possible by the mercy of God and the power of Mary - The co-redemption of Mary.
• Catechesis of September 4: Second meditation - Full of Grace: The angel’s greeting is also addressed to you - The angel’s greeting brings an increase of Grace - Mary's complete humility. - Mary's vigilant Soul. She was also tempted. - Mary filled with Grace and full of Graces. - The mystical Incarnation of Christ in us. - Turn your gaze to Mary.
• Catechesis of September 5: Third meditation, Avé Maria, The Lord is with you: The Lord is always with the Soul that is in Grace. - Mary was with God and God was with Mary. - Mary's Passion: the deprivation of union with God. - Misfortune, blindness, madness, death, such is the loss of union with your Lord. - Mary never separated from God. - One who is united to God has a powerful radiating power. - Mary possessed union with God to perfection. - The foundation of union with God lies in prayer.
• Catechesis of September 6: Fourth meditation, Avé Maria, "Blessed among all Women": The whole of Paradise blesses Mary, masterpiece of universal creation. - Through Mary, Mother of the Redeemer, God accomplished the salvation of the human race. - The sin committed by man could only be atoned for by Man. - Redemption includes Humanity from the first times to the last. - I am your true brother. - The God-Man could only be engendered from the union of Love and Purity. - Praise angels to Mary (doxology).
• Catechesis of September 7, 1943, Fifth meditation, "Blessed the fruit of your womb":

The glory of Mary had a cost - The beatitude and pain tightened Mary's Heart in a single knot at the moment of the Annunciation - The Incarnation of Jesus - Anguish blends with the joy of the Nativity - Mary's pain at the descent from (Jesus dead from the) Cross - You had me because Mary accepted to drink the chalice of bitterness - Love my Mother with a love like mine.

• Catechesis of November 8, 1943: Sixth meditation, Avé Maria "Now and at the hour of our death": This invocation corresponds to ‘Deliver us from evil’ - You should not be so concerned with evil and death in the human sense - The Death of the spirit does not come only once for the Soul - You have a powerful Mother before God - The true Death, that of the spirit, will not come for those who know how to pray to the Mother.

The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950

• Dictation of October 23, 1947: “It is in Marian worship that the secret of the final Redemption resides."

In Fundamental Christian Texts

In the Bible

• "All generations will call me blessed."

In the catechism of the Catholic Church

• The Worship of the Blessed Virgin: "All generations will call me blessed."