Mary's seven cheerfulnesses on earth: guide to devotion

The Virgin herself would have shown her liking by appearing to St. Arnolfo of Cornoboult and St. Thomas of Cantorbery to rejoice in the treats they lent her in honor of her joys of the earth and inviting them to honor also those of Heaven which they enumerated. Great devotee and apostle of rejoicing was St. Bernardino (like all the Franciscan saints) who said that all the graces he had received owed to this devotion.

Chaplets can be used in the novena at every feast of the Madonna

The seven joys of Maria SS. on earth

I. Rejoice, O Mary full of graces, who, greeted by the Angel, conceived the Divine Word in your virginal womb with an infinite joy of your most holy soul. Ave

II. Rejoice, O Mary who is filled with the Holy Spirit, and carried by a keen desire to sanctify the Divine Precursor, you embarked on such a disastrous journey, overcoming the high mountains of Judea, to visit your relative Elizabeth, from whom you were filled with magnificent praise, and in whose presence, raised in spirit, you published the glory of your God with the most energetic words

III. Rejoice, O Mary always virgin, who without any pain you gave birth, announced by the blessed spirits, adored by the shepherds and respected by the kings, that divine Messiah you so desired for common health. Ave

IV. Rejoice, O Mary, that, having come from the East the Three Wise Men escorted by a miraculous star to worship your Son, you saw them, prostrate at his feet, pay him the due tributes and recognize him for true God, Creator, Monarch and Savior of the world . What joy you ever felt, blessed Mother, in seeing so soon her greatness recognized and heralded the future conversion of the Gentiles! Ave

V. Rejoice, O Mary, who after looking for your sorrowful Son for three days with extreme sorrow, you finally found him in the Temple among the doctors marveled at his prodigious wisdom and the ease with which he resolved the most subtle doubts, and explained the most difficult points of Holy Scripture. Ave

YOU. Rejoice, o Maria, that after being all Friday and Saturday immersed in a sea of ​​afflictions, you were prodigiously managed and reinvigorated with a joy equal to your highest merit on Sunday at daybreak seeing your life raised from death to life Divine Son, the soul of your thoughts, the center of your affections, and seeing him accompanied by the holy Patriarchs, triumpher of death and hell, so full of glory, as it had been two days before with the sacking of pain and ignominy. Ave

VII. Rejoice, O Mary, that you ended your Most Holy life with a sweet and glorious death, having been solely caused by the ardor of your love for God; and also rejoice that, as soon as the spirit exhaled, you were crowned by the SS. Trinity for Queen of Heaven and Earth, with your own body Assumed to the right of the Divine Son, and clothed in a power that knows no boundaries. Ave, Gloria