the redeemed As Ahasuerus said to Esther, "this law made for all was not made for you," so the Holy Spirit reveals to us that from the first moment of her existence on this earth, Mary was the object of [...] with which the Most High has laid, from his divine hand, the foundations even to the summits of the holy mountains. The first fullness of grace wins out and raises her without comparison over the consummate
that transports us into a divine and superhuman sphere. Mary conceives Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit, and she gives birth to him in a miraculous way. These marvels take nothing away from her motherhood: [...] talk given by Dom Louis-Marie Spick In Chaque jour avec Marie dans la sainte Espérance (Living in Holy Hope Every Day with Mary) , December 29, p. 94 Hermitage of Saint–Evroul Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France
de Nazareth is offering a virtual, printable novena to Saint Joseph starting tomorrow (10th) and concluding on March 18th. Click here to subscribe . A novena is a series of prayers offered for a particular [...] Lady’s chaste spouse for the next nine days, to enable you to better grasp the magnitude of Joseph’s holiness, and hopefully inspire you to emulate him. The first of these meditations will begin on March 11th
this shrine every day Bandel is located 40 km from Calcutta, India. The Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, also known as the Bandel Church, was built by the Portuguese in 1599. The basilica is visited [...] the statue hundreds of candles are lit by the pilgrims and the faithful. Every November, during the novena of Our Lady of the Good Journey, the shrine is filled with crowds of pilgrims. The Marie de Nazareth
woman in the Gospel who spontaneously blesses Jesus for freeing the possessed from the grip of evil spirits: " Happy! Truly happy is the womb that was worthy enough to carry for nine months the Good, the sovereign [...] diadem of heavenly glory." (Saint Anthony’s Sermon for the feast of the Assumption) Excerpt from the Novena to St Anthony of Padua (Day 9) written for the Marie de Nazareth Association by Brother Valentin
recently founded by the King in gratitude for his first military achievements. Mary asked for three novenas: one to Our Lady of Cotignac in Provence, another to Our Lady of Paris, and a last one to Our Lady [...] authentic and the Virgin Mary's message conveyed to the Queen. Brother Fiacre finished the three novenas on December 5. Exactly nine months later to the day, Louis XIV was born. The heir received the baptismal [...] particular our person, State, crown and all our subjects, to obtain thereby the protection of the Holy Trinity, through his intercession and that of the whole heavenly court by his authority and example;
followed the prayer. When I became a teenager, I wanted to learn to meditate the mysteries of the Holy Rosary myself. My father wrote them down for me on a piece of paper used to wrap bread. This paper [...] this relic. I memorized the mysteries and started praying the Rosary with the neighbors during the novenas that were made in the area. When I entered the seminary, I continued this devotion and later, as
united in the oneness of their Nature, of their divine existence. The Spirit is, then this thrice holy “conception,” this infinitely holy, Immaculate Conception… The creature most completely filled with this [...] - Madonna del Sasso (Locarno, Switzerland, 1480) Mary is the Immaculate Conception Who is the Holy Spirit? The flowering of the love of the Father and the Son. If the fruit of created love is a created [...] of divine Love, that prototype of all created love, is necessarily a divine “conception.” The Holy Spirit is, therefore, the “uncreated, eternal conception,” the prototype of all the conceptions that multiply
Mother of Jesus O Holy Virgin, I beg you, enable me to receive Jesus from the Spirit, according to the same process by which you bore Him. May my soul possess Jesus thanks to the Spirit through whom you [...] Jesus be granted to me through the Spirit who enabled you to know, To have and to bring forth Jesus. May my lowliness show forth the greatness of Jesus in virtue of the Spirit in whom you recognized yourself [...] according to the angel's word. May I love Jesus in that Spirit in which you adored Him as your Lord and contemplated Him as your Son. May I have holy fear of Jesus, just as He, being God, submitted Himself
reference to the Holy Spirit at the Annunciation? This expression refers to the prophecy of Isaiah 32:15 where the prophet announces that the Spirit will create a new people: "...until the Spirit is poured out [...] no man?’ The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God" (Lk [...] that "the Spirit will come upon you" - this time in reference to the apostles (Acts 1:8) - just before Pentecost. Jesus answered them (the apostles): "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon
