experience of God’s closeness expressed by his Mother Lourdes is first and foremost a spiritual experience for me. It’s the experience of the closeness of God, expressed through the experience of his Mother [...] Mother, the Virgin Mary. This proximity is also expressed through the presence of the most fragile, the sick and the poorest. I believe that it is a unique place of grace that allows us to meet other people
August 15 - Assumption of the Virgin Mary In the mystery of the Assumption is expressed the faith of the Church By the mystery of the Assumption into heaven there were definitively accomplished in Mary [...] at his coming those who belong to Christ" (1 Cor. 15:22-23). In the mystery of the Assumption is expressed the faith of the Church , according to which Mary is "united by a close and indissoluble bond" to
3 – Holy Mary of Petition (Italy) – Our Lady of Coromoto (Venezuela) One of the most beautiful expressions of the spirituality of the Council The place of Mary in the mystery of the Church is the consequence [...] of the Church . Ten years later, in Marialis Cultus , the same Paul VI gave one of the finest expressions of the spirituality of the Council, saying that " love for the Church will become love for Mary
made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws—the sun ‘danced’ according to the typical expression of the people.” Although the sky had suddenly turned clear and blue, the sun was not blinding and
Knock the Virgin does not say a word. But even her silence is a language; indeed, it is the most expressive language that is given to us. The message from Knock is the great value of silence for faith. It
no way impaired. Indeed, it is then that philosophy sees all its enquiries rise to their highest expression. This was a truth which the holy monks of Christian antiquity understood well when they called
Lithuania to the Immaculate Heart of Mary "is an act of faith by which we express our trust in Mary ... we renew the faith expressed by our parents and our ancestors, and we give thanks because Lithuania [...] encourage the faithful to often say the prayer of consecration to the Virgin Mary, a prayer that expresses the desire of our people to build a society based on Christian values, so that Lithuania can live
Virgin Mary her name and she replied: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” By her luminous words, Mary expressed that she was not only conceived immaculately but that she actually was the Immaculate Conception [...] third person of the Trinity is not embodied as we all know and our word “spouse” is insufficient to express the relationship between the Immaculate and the Holy Spirit. It can be said that the Immaculate
Bernadette, who was asking who she was: "I am the Immaculate Conception.” By these luminous words, she expressed not only that she was immaculately conceived but in a deeper sense, that she was the Immaculate [...] Admittedly, the third person of the Trinity is not incarnate, yet our human word of "spouse" cannot express the reality of the relationship of the Immaculate with the Holy Spirit. We could say in a sense that
Before the demolition of the pavilion in 1938, the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Verdier, had expressed the wish that the statue of Our Lady be erected on a hill near Paris. As a matter fact the small [...] the 20th century. Thus, the wish of Cardinal Verdier was fulfilled exactly 50 years after he had expressed it (1938-1988: the duration of a jubilee). The statue’s installation coincided with the Marian year [...] France to the Virgin Mary in 1638, making her Queen of that country. In order to give a concrete expression to this commitment, the pilgrimage of the Virgin Mary was launched by Notre Dame de France Association
