USA, 1809) Jim Caveziel credits the Virgin Mary for becoming an actor “Back in 1997, I had auditioned for a role that every big name in Hollywood wanted. A role in Terrance Malick’s upcoming role The [...] against me, but I at least got a meeting with Malick. I pulled up to his house for my 6:00 meeting, but I couldn’t leave the car. I was plagued by self-doubt. I had made a decision: if this didn’t pan out—if [...] Glorious Mystery. You see, six months earlier, my manager, who is a bit like a Catholic mystic, said that I should start praying the rosary on a daily basis. My wife, Kerri, taught me how to pray it. I started
taken a big step forward! Thank you Mary for undoing all the knots in my heart as a wife and as a mother, because this situation could have taken a turn for the worse. S. C. Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth [...] Convent (Spain, 1930) Mary revived my love for my husband I would like to share with you how Mary has restored my love for my husband and given me the grace to continue living with him. We have always been [...] aside by a difficult daily life and not resolved with my husband resurfaced. I was exhausted and I was seriously considering divorce, as I didn’t feel valued and loved in our relationship. I went on a retreat
the largest city in Myanmar, former Burma) said in a homily at the Marian National Shrine of Nyaung Lay Bin, dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. Addressing a crowd of some 100,000 pilgrims, the cardinal said: [...] employment for the poor.”… "Faced with these difficulties," the report sent to Fides Agency continues, "the people ask the help of our merciful Mother. We, as human beings, live with limitations and disabilities [...] disabilities. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the one we can trust because she is our loving mother who looks after her children with compassion.” The Cardinal also recalled that “Christianity cannot be selfish… In
Will Reign Through Mary (IV) Indeed, despite all this, we must still say with the saints: De Maria nunquam satis. We have still not praised, exalted, honored, loved and served Mary adequately. She is worthy [...] the external glory which heaven and earth vie with each other to give her is nothing compared to what she has received interiorly from her Creator, namely, a glory unknown to insignificant creatures like [...] Finally, we must cry out with the apostle Paul, "What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualize” - the beauty, greatness and excellence of Mary, the miracle of miracles
Fountain (Italy, 1320) In the light of Mary, the Church discovers the true face of women Femininity has a unique relationship with the Mother of the Redeemer… The figure of Mary of Nazareth sheds light on womanhood [...] ministry of a woman. It can thus be said that women, by looking to Mary, find in her the secret of living their femininity with dignity and of achieving their own true advancement. In the light of Mary, the Church [...] Church sees in the face of women the reflection of a beauty which mirrors the loftiest sentiments of which the human heart is capable: the self-offering totality of love; the strength that is capable of
Will Reign Through Mary (IV) Indeed, despite all this, we must still say with the saints: De Maria nunquam satis. We have still not praised, exalted, honored, loved and served Mary adequately. She is worthy [...] the external glory which heaven and earth vie with each other to give her is nothing compared to what she has received interiorly from her Creator, namely, a glory unknown to insignificant creatures like [...] Finally, we must cry out with the apostle Paul, "What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualize" - the beauty, greatness and excellence of Mary, the miracle of miracles
love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength" (cf. Deut 6:4). An African proverb says, "a woman conceives through the ear," which is a way of saying that listening [...] the theology of the Word. Mary, "Mother of the Word of God" and "Mother of Faith" appears as “model of docile acceptance of God’s word.” At the Annunciation, Mary listens with all her heart to the announcement [...] are all connected. Mary, the Jewish woman, and the first Christian, brings the Old Testament to its fulfilment, into the New Testament, in Jesus, born of a woman (cf. Gal 4:4). "Mary is also the symbol
love for each of his children! If Mary has a temporal primacy and a primacy of excellence over us, we however have the same vocation: to respond to love with love. Mary's grace is special only because she [...] Why Mary's grace is unique Mary is "the first" chronologically, because she was the first to have welcomed Christ, to have participated in her own way in Christ's Passion, and to have entered, with her [...] soul, into a blessed eternity with God. Through our baptism, we too welcome Christ, participate in his death and Resurrection, and can reach the beatitude of Heaven. But we arrive "after" her. Mary is also
love the Virgin Mary just by staying on our knees and praying the rosary. Let us ask Mary, with simplicity, to teach us how to pray as she taught Jesus, during all the time he was with her in Nazareth [...] the one that gives men joy." "Mary, most beloved Mother, give me a heart so beautiful, so pure, so full of love and humility, that I may receive Jesus, as you do, and with eagerness go out to bring Him [...] catholique.fr/Aimer-la-Vierge-Marie-ne-s-apprend-pas-seulement-en-restant-a-genoux (1) Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born into Albanian family on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, a city situated at the crossroads
before it became a sequence (a hymn spoken or sung before the Gospel) in 1727 for the feast of the Seven Sorrows [or Dolors] of the Blessed Virgin Mary on September 15th. Its use as a sequence is optional [...] people, Israel,” calling Him “a sign that shall be contradicted” (Lk 2:32 and 34). He told Mary that she would suffer along with her Son as well, saying that “thy own soul a sword shall pierce” (Lk 2:35) [...] Canonization of Padre Pio (2002) The Stabat Mater: Mary's Bitter Passion Is there any grief like a mother’s when she loses her child? Stabat Mater , a Latin hymn that can also be recited in prayer, immerses
