1.  A Short Prayer
2.  Come, Holy Spirit, Come
3.  Through the Woman Clothed with the Sun
4.  All the Glory of the King’s Daughter is Within 
 

1. A Short Prayer

Understanding the significance of this medal becomes central to not only fulfilling the desires of our Blessed Mother but also bringing about special devotion to her and her role as Mother and Queen of the Universe. We must carry and spread this medal with complete confidence that Mary will accept our devotion, and thus, be able to actualize the reason for her coming.

As stated before, Mary asked us to “pray in a special way for the salvation of those people who are carrying this miraculous medal,” and just as the children of Fatima “invented” ways to console the heart of Mary, we have invented a short prayer. This prayer summarizes and invokes how God has come and continues to come through her:

Come, Holy Spirit, come,
Through the Woman clothed with the Sun,
All the glory of the King’s Daughter is within (Psalm 44:14).

Devotion to this medal, commitment, and loyalty to the significance of its meaning and imagery, and vocalizing this simple prayer are the steps in which, we believe, will bring greater honor and glory to God, through Mary.

“We have not yet praised, exalted, honored, loved, and served Mary as we ought. She still deserves more praise, still more respect, still more love, and still more service.”78

Through this prayer, we hope to give Mary the admiration she so deserves from her children.

2. Come, Holy Spirit, Come

To grasp the depth of this prayer, we must first understand the importance of the Holy Spirit’s presence in our lives. Throughout the various apparitions of Our Lady, she constantly reminds her children to invoke the Holy Spirit in prayer

“The important thing is to pray to the Holy Spirit, so that He may descend on you. When one has Him, one has everything...Through the Holy Spirit, you will become a spring of God's love.”79

Diving into the theology of the Trinity, the central mystery to our Christian faith, the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, existing as three persons in one God. They are of the same substance, while, at the same time, distinct “solely in the relationships which relate them to one another.”80 The triune God is pure relationship, and in this relationship, there exists complete unity in mission, but distinction in properties.

“Each divine person performs the common work according to His unique personal property...one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Spirit in whom all things are.”81

God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, but to be united to Christ, we must be united to the Spirit. The mission of Christ and the Spirit “are distinct, but inseparable. To be sure, it is Christ who is seen, the visible image of the invisible God, but it is the Spirit who reveals Him.”82

Thus, the mission of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ to the world. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit exists in order to unite God’s children to Christ and make them dwell in Him more perfectly.83

78 Montfort. True Devotion to Mary. 6.
79 "Messages: 1981-2017." Our Lady's Messages. 80 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 255.
81 Ibid. 258.
82 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 689.
83 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 690.

3. Through the Woman Clothed with the Sun

The second part in understanding this prayer is to understand the role of Mary within the work of the Holy Trinity. “Mary, the all-holy ever-virgin Mother of God, is the masterwork of the mission of the Son and the Spirit in the fullness of time. For the first time in the plan of salvation and because His Spirit had prepared her, the Father found the dwelling place where His Son and His Spirit could dwell among men.”84 God desired free cooperation from Mary, knowing full well that her answer would determine the course of salvation history. Because of her great “fiat,” Mary became the Mother of God, by the power and working of the Holy Spirit. “It was with her, in her, and of her that [the Holy Spirit] produced His Masterpiece, which is God made Man...the Holy Spirit chose to make use of our Blessed Lady, though He had no absolute need of her, to bring His fruitfulness into action, by producing in her and by her, Jesus Christ...”85

As stated above, God chose Mary to be the Mother of God without absolutely needing her. God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving, and through His perfect divinity, He chose to have Mary play a crucial role in the salvation of mankind. Mary is the “woman” from the beginning of Genesis: “I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed; she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel” (Genesis 3:15). Mary is also the “woman” in the final book of Revelation: “A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Revelation 12:1). From the beginning to the end of Sacred Scripture, God has willed that Mary’s role is the most significant, besides that of Christ, in the completion of His universal plan.

Pope Benedict XVI elaborates on the significance of Mary’s role and Revelation during his December 8, 2011 address: “What is the meaning of this [Revelation 12:1] image? It represents at the same time Our Lady and the Church. First of all the ‘woman’ of the Book of Revelation is Mary herself. She appears ‘clothed with the sun’...clothed with God: the Virgin Mary, in fact, is wholly surrounded by God’s light and lives in God...This woman has, under her feet, the moon, a symbol of death and of mortality. Indeed Mary is fully associated with the victory of Jesus Christ, her Son, over sin and death...For this reason, Mary is, herself, a hymn to life.” Over and over again, great popes and saints speak of the profound role of Mary, a role that should not be taken lightly, but rather uplifted and proclaimed, for it is through her that the mysteries of Christ are revealed.

4. All the Glory of the King’s Daughter is Within

To continue Pope Benedict’s address, he stated that the Revelation 12:1 image not only represents Mary, but also the Church. “As well as representing Our Lady, this sign personifies the Church, the Christian community of all time. She is with child in the sense that she is carrying Christ in her womb and must give birth to Him in the world. This is the travail of the pilgrim Church on earth which, amidst the consolations of God and the persecution of the world, must bring Jesus to men and women...It is for this reason...that the Church comes up against the opposition of a ferocious adversary, represented in the apocalyptic vision by ‘a great red dragon’...The one threat, in which the Church can and must be afraid, is the sin of her members...the Church is holy, but, at the same time, she is blemished by our sins.” Sin comes as a part of our fallen nature, however, in countless apparitions, Jesus and Mary are calling us to a life that resists sin, a life that reflects love in its purest form.

Before Sister Mary Ephram was visited by Our Lady of America, Jesus Christ revealed an important message to her: “My Father’s house is a house of prayer, and you have made it a den of thieves. My children, every home and every soul is My Father’s house, for He made them and they are His...If, My children, you cleanse your temples, My Father will return and We will come and make Our abode with you.”86 Christ is calling us to purify our souls, to cleanse them of worldly corruption, but in order to do this, we must imitate the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. “I am Our Lady of the Divine Indwelling, handmaid of Him Who dwells within.”87 It is through her that Christ came into the world, and it is through her that He will come again in all His glory. For “all the glory of the King’s daughter” lies within the fact that she is the immaculate tabernacle, holding within herself the most Holy and Blessed Trinity. Furthermore, “we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: ‘If a man loves me,’ says the Lord, ‘he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.”88

Just as Mary’s body and soul were made to become an indwelling for God, so too, we are called to make of our souls a spiritual indwelling for God. It is through the loving example and guidance of Mary that we can truly understand what it means to possess the Spirit of God in our hearts. This is Mary’s purpose: that we become purified vessels, awake and ready for the coming of Jesus Christ. “When the Holy Spirit, her spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fullness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which it makes room for His spouse.”89 For it is ultimately through Mary that, “the Holy Spirit fulfills the plan of the Father’s loving goodness...through Mary, the Holy Spirit begins to bring men, the objects of God’s merciful love, into communion with Christ.”90

Thus, the Purity Medal is a sacramental: a visible sign of what lies within our hearts. It is in carrying the Purity Medal that we commit our lives to becoming a pure reflection of Christ in the world. It represents our devotion to cleanse and purify the temple of our souls of all sinful tendencies and corruption. It becomes a tangible way in which we reflect the world what this medal represents in its entirety: the historical significance, the imagery, and the devotion.
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78 Montfort. True Devotion to Mary. 6.
79 "Messages: 1981-2017." Our Lady's Messages. 80 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 255.
81 Ibid. 258. 
82 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 689.
83 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 690. 
84 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 721.
85 Montfort. True Devotion to Mary. 13-14.86 Our Lady of America. 7.
87 Our Lady of America. 22-23.
88 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 260.
89 Montfort. True Devotion to Mary. 21.
90 Catechism of the Catholic Church. 723, 725.