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🌹August is the month dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the spiritual representations of the joys, sorrows, virtues, compassion, and love of Mary, Mother of God and all Creation 🌹

Catholics and other Christians often celebrate with prayers of thanksgiving and honor, as well as spiritual consecration. The Immaculate Heart is often depicted with a sword wound, representing the prophecy of Simeon and the seven sorrows of Mary, a crown of roses, showing her virtues and Queenship, and a burning flame, representing her fervent love for God and humanity

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Y'all this is very special! UPLift Herbs is offering our first group service! . This year on December 12th, the Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe we will be holding service, giving thanks and petitioning La Reina Morena for her blessing. . She can grant any request but will only do so if the petition serves your highest good. If you put faith in her, she will never forsake you. . We have more information on our Instagram page @upliftherbs. If you'd like to learn more or sign up you can DM us on Instagram, Dm @brujeria-n-bongs on Tumblr, or email us at [email protected]. 

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(Our Lady of Sorrows, 1883 by Pedro Americo)

September is the month dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary to honor and remember her life of suffering, inspired by the prophecy of Simeon in Luke 2:24-25:

“This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your own soul too.”

Our Lady of Sorrows, who is usually depicted in mourning colors with a sword (or swords) piercing her heart, often at the foot of the Cross, serves as a reminder of the pain found in Mary's life, and also as a way to better connect to the suffering of Christ. Mary loved Jesus more than anyone on Earth, and held her Son's corpse as it was taken from the Cross, suffering more at that moment than any other living human. By placing ourselves in her shoes, we can both love Jesus more and feel closer to His sacrifice. Through her example, we can better emulate Christ and, through His power and blessing, work to eliminate the suffering of the widow and orphan from the world.

Mother most sorrowful, pained and grieving, you held God inside you, faced a birth in extreme poverty, and were forced to flee state violence to a land new and frightening to you. You were promised a life of suffering beside your Son, and found it when you took His stiffening, mangled corpse from the Cross. I look to you, on this month consecrated to your tears and the tears of your Most Holy Son, in hopes that, in emulating your childlike trust in God even as your baby boy lay beaten and bloody in your arms, I may better love my Lord Jesus, understand His Word, and stand beside Him as a lover of the orphan and widow, oppressed and forgotten, unwanted and abandoned.   Dear Mother, as your Son turns His ear kindly to you, I ask this month that you pray I find humility in meekness, strength in understanding, and a love of the world and its most loathed. Pray that, through seeing your tears, I may find the strength to wipe away the tears of the suffering as best I can, and approach my Lord with true adoration. May your prayers embolden me to offer my hand to the stranger and my heart to my Lord. In the name of the bleeding Heart of Jesus, I pray, Amen. 

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