desire is only a dream and will not be fulfilled, To God I must go the way of lonely suffering, By a narrow path, all cluttered with thorns. (1) Maria Razusova Martakova was a Slovak poet and writer (1905-1964)
figure of Mary: " Who is Mary? A teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘ narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a Lady “unapproachable” and impossible to imitate
stigmatized by His Love, but remain, like Mary, the Virgin martyr, known only by Him alone. I love this narrow path made up of suffering and love, and this life “hidden in God with Jesus Christ”. I find in my
only a dream and cannot not be fulfilled, To God I must go by the path of solitary suffering, By a narrow path, all encumbered with thorns." Encyclopedia Maria volume IV Beauchesne 1956 - p. 771
Poverty The way and path is difficult and the gate through which one passes and enters into life is narrow; there are both few who walk it and enter through it. And if there are some who walk that way for
masterpiece of mercy, as the one whose sole purpose in life is to let us enter the Father's mercy by this narrow, yet royal, door. Since Mary is really the masterpiece of this mercy, she is, so to speak, the p
with you!” (Lk 1: 28) We too today, contemplating these new Blessed, are invited to lay aside all narrow-mindedness and to rejoice, because in them we see the mystery of the eternal holiness of God shine
the back, and a bonnet. A double wreath of light shone around her: the first extremely bright and narrow, and closely enveloped her; while the second extended three or four yards around her and encompassed
feel warmth: devotion to Mary (which ‘avoids every false exaggeration on the one hand, and excessive narrow-mindedness in the contemplation of the surpassing dignity of the Mother of God on the other’, as
kids. He ran over and saw that a kid had fallen into a well. He cleared the area and discovered a narrow path leading to the bottom of a cave! His anguish turned to joy when he found an icon of the Virgin
