Experienced by Mary (II) There was also the invisible presence of Saint Joseph, who shared everything with Mary. Mary said with Jesus, in a low voice: "I am thirsty." She was thirsty with Him, and not only [...] thirst in his bruised body, drained of blood and burning with fever. Mary certainly tried to relieve that thirst. But how strongly she must have felt with Jesus that spiritual thirst that thirst for all of us [...] us who He wanted to save by His death. What Jesus went through, Mary went through with him. In her motherhood that knew its most intense fullness, she brought her children together in herself -- absolutely
for the feast of the Most Holy Rosary Can we ask Mary anything? Mary is like a mother! We should all start by asking ourselves about our relationship with our own mother. Was that relationship life-giving [...] the heart, with the faith and love we should reserve for a mother so beautiful and so perfect, then we will receive graces, even if they don’t always match our initial request. Why ask Mary instead of [...] life-giving and constructive, or hurtful? Next, we should examine our relationship with Jesus. Because Mary brings us back to her Son, every time. She doesn’t keep anything for herself, and all the graces we obtain
Folgoët (France) Mary awaited the Savior in the midst of turmoil A case unique in history, Israel was expecting the coming of a Savior Messiah after so many prophecies! As a small girl, Mary awaited the coming [...] coming of the Messiah with her people. They awaited the Messiah who had been announced not just by a single prophet, but by a long series of prophets that kept completing each other’s prophecies over the [...] the centuries. Mary awaited the Savior, in the heart of a small nation tossed about by historical events, which had survived conflicts with neighboring empires and would one day be the sole survivor of
Virgin Mary in his sketches. The mother of Jesus is often represented with a crown of twelve stars, a reference to the book of Revelation written by Saint John: "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman [...] is present: the color of the Virgin is blue. In the book of Revelation (21:19), Mary has a blue mantle and a stone, a blue sapphire, which "supports the foundations of the walls of New Jerusalem." Source: [...] woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head” (Rev 12:1). What about the color of the flag? The blue background of the European flag represents not only
according to thy word." Thus Mary, a daughter of Adam, consenting to the Divine Word, became the mother of Jesus, the one and only Mediator. Embracing God's salvific will with a full heart and impeded by [...] stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature. Adorned from the first instant of her conception with the radiance of an entirely unique holiness, the Virgin of Nazareth [...] by no sin, she devoted herself totally as a handmaid of the Lord to the person and work of her Son, under Him and with Him, by the grace of almighty God, serving the mystery of redemption.
in Austria. They loved the Virgin Mary and made it a point to start their marriage off under her protection. Charles and Zita had their wedding rings inscribed with a prayer in Latin: Sub tuum praesidium [...] under Mary’s gaze Charles and Zita knew each other during childhood, but it wasn’t until Zita was 19 and Charles 24 that the two started to spend more time with each other. One day Charles heard a rumor [...] other possible suitor. Both shared a love of the Catholic faith and so it wasn’t a surprise that Charles proposed to Zita inside the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary (also known as the Mariazell Shrine)
Delon: "Mary is the woman I love the most in the world" A cinema legend with a reputation as a ladies’ man, French actor Alain Delon (b. 1935) frequently shares his attachment to the Virgin Mary. Can she [...] for him? Mary, on the contrary, is very real to him, with her two feet on the ground. Could this be the secret of the attraction she exerts on the star? "I really believe in Mary. I talk to her a lot,” the [...] prestigious career. Today, living alone and with declining health, he says he has only one woman in his life: the Virgin Mary. A surprising revelation from this eternal charmer, who confides that he would have
humble, and a friend to the poor: he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for [...] 13 - Our Lady of the Holy Chapel (Paris) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (IV) 'The Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him" (Is 11:2) Like all Israel, Mary meditated on the figure of "God's chosen One" [...] for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness
humble, and a friend to the poor: he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for [...] 13 - Our Lady of the Holy Chapel (Paris) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (IV) 'The Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him" (Is 11:2) Like all Israel, Mary meditated on the figure of "God's chosen One" [...] for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness
not be glad with inexpressible joy when she sees her only Son enter heaven with commanding power and reach the throne of God the Father Almighty? Was a joy like this ever heard of? Was a joy like this [...] Augustinian nun – Our Lady of Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) Mary’s joy in the Ascension of Christ Oh, if she had joy while her Son was still living with her in the flesh, if she had joy after her Son rose from [...] did she then rejoice with lesser joy when her Son entered heaven in the flesh that, as she knew well, had been taken from her? Who ever said, why, who ever even believed that Mary’s joy did not surpass
