to clarify a point regarding our June 17, 2022, issue of A Moment with Mary: “On June 17, your article stated: We do not know if Louis XIV had knowledge of the message. You were referring to a message dated [...] often: 'Sweet Heart of Mary, be the salvation of Russia, Spain and Portugal, of Europe and the whole world.' And at other times: 'Through your pure and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, obtain for me the conversion [...] dated June 17, 1689, brought by the nun St. Margaret Mary to King Louis XIV, asking him on behalf of Our Lord for the consecration to his Heart. Louis XIV did not carry out this consecration, and 100 years
return." So I got a job at a pizzeria and began a spiritual quest. However, I searched without discernment. One evening, I met a woman and explained to her that I was going to participate in a shamanic circle; [...] crisis. Baptiste A reader of A Moment with Mary, April 29, 2021 [...] eventually became a Catholic. On June 7, 2014, I had the great joy of making my first communion and confirmation. I felt a presence that day: my eyes were drawn to a statue of the Virgin Mary, and I entrusted
as I start a new day, as I share a beautiful moment with the Virgin Mary. For me, Mary represents tenderness, benevolence, listening and presence. I also wear her medal around my neck. Mary was chosen [...] speaks to a mother or to a close friend. I pray to her, I listen to her in the morning when I wake up through beautiful songs and hymns such as "Mary crowned with stars", "the First on the way", "Mary tenderness [...] July 22 – Saint Mary Magdalene – Our Lady of Kaloja (Russia) Mary is an important woman in my life Mary is an important woman in my life. She is of course the Virgin Mary, the mother of God, the mother
where to look, especially in dark moments. With a delicate gesture, Mary points the way to God, who is not represented by an adult Christ but by the divine child - a reminder of Jesus’s admonition in Mark’s [...] he did know the Virgin Mary best: out of 152 verses of the New Testament evoking the Mother of God, 90 are from him. He was able to evoke the personality of the Virgin Mary with great perception. Was it [...] whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will not enter it" (Mk 10:15). The age-old representation of the Virgin and Child of Hodegetria, a very popular icon in the West, originated in
gives it a place in his heart, just as "Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart" (Lk 2:19; cf. Lk 3:15). It is the moment when man abandons himself to the mystery, not with the resignation [...] THE WORD (Spain, 1514) Mary, the Faithful Virgin (II) The second dimension of faithfulness is called reception, acceptance. The "quomodo fiet?" is changed, on Mary's lips, to a "fiat." Let it be done, [...] I am ready, I accept: this is the crucial moment of faithfulness, the moment in which man perceives that he will never completely understand the "how"; that there are in God's plan more areas of mystery
here we are not dealing with the irrational or contradictory, but precisely with the positive - with God’s creative power, embracing the whole of being. In that sense these two moments - the virgin birth and [...] he has ushered in a new creation. So as the Creator he is also our Redeemer. Hence the conception and birth of Jesus from the Virgin Mary is a fundamental element of our faith and a radiant sign of hope [...] …[who] by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary”? The answer is an unequivocal yes. Karl Barth pointed out that there are two moments in the story of Jesus when God intervenes directly in the
him, we would all have done the same. Let's take a moment to put ourselves in Luke's place: Mary, no doubt, was still living with John. Luke wants to write a more complete Gospel than Mark or Matthew. What [...] witnessed the very beginning? There was only one witness: Mary. And who took Mary into his home? John. It is therefore easy to understand that Luke received a lot from John. I'm not saying that he received everything [...] waste a considerable amount of time trying to understand that manuscript. And what if the knowledge we are seeking is not in writing, but in a source that is so hidden, would we spare any means? Mary's heart
him, we would all have done the same. Let's take a moment to put ourselves in Luke's place: Mary, no doubt, was still living with John. Luke wants to write a more complete Gospel than Mark or Matthew. What [...] witnessed the very beginning? There was only one witness: Mary. And who took Mary into his home? John. It is therefore easy to understand that Luke received a lot from John. I'm not saying that he received everything [...] waste a considerable amount of time trying to understand that manuscript. And what if the knowledge we are seeking is not in writing, but in a source that is so hidden, would we spare any means? Mary's heart
“From that moment on, Mary took concern for us upon herself, and when we let ourselves be guided by her, we are in safe hands. Saint John Paul II believed this, he trusted Mary, and with Mary he transformed [...] suffering with this spirit, even during very difficult moments, like the 1981 assassination attempt. Marian devotion was a hallmark of the saint-pope, so much so that “Totus Tuus Maria” (“Mary, I am all [...] so frightening because, for so many people, faith has died. Saint John Paul II was a believer, a convinced believer, a coherent believer and faith illuminated the path of his life,” said Cardinal Angelo
(France) Mary’s Timing Jesus says to Mary that His “hour” has not yet come. On an immediate level, this means that He does not simply act and decide by His own lights, but always in harmony with the Father’s [...] solidly situated in a precise historical context tied to a liturgical date - and just so it is the beginning of the new liturgy in “spirit and truth”. When at this juncture Jesus speaks to Mary of His hour, He [...] word and sacrament. Jesus’ hour, the hour of His glory, begins at the moment of the Cross, and its historical setting is the moment when the Passover lambs are slaughtered - it is just then that Jesus,
