there is no need to say, because of her pre-eminent position, that she outshines the glory of all the saints as the rising sun makes the stars disappear. Dear Lord, how strange that sounds! A Mother outshining
June 16 - Canonization of Padre Pio in 2002 Prayer to Our Lady of Grace Saint Pio of Pietrelcina presented himself to everyone - priests, men and women, religious and lay people - as a credible witness
in believing (as I have often heard say) that her qualities make her eclipse the glory of all the saints - like the sun, when it rises, makes the stars disappear. Lord Almighty, how strange that sounds
Fight Under the Flag of Jesus Christ! (I) One day, in a Dominican church in Paris, during the All Saints' Day octave in 1465, Blessed Alain de la Roche reproached himself for the lukewarm way he was reciting [...] you must know that nobody is without pain in this world; neither me, nor my Son, nor any of these saints have lived without suffering. What is more, you must keep the faith and patience as your weapons
gift that Jesus Christ made on the day of his incarnation is the "I am all yours," Saint John Paul's totus tuus and Saint Louis de Montfort's before him. Jesus, the Word of God, gave himself completely to
appeared to Saint Peter Nolasco (1189-1256). It was in the middle of the night of August 1, 1218, in a church in Barcelona, Spain, that the Virgin Mary, accompanied by angels and saints, appeared to
brings the Divine Redeemer into the world by an obedient fiat . She does so with an obedient faith… Saint John Paul II confirmed that before and beyond the Petrine model of the Church is the Marian model… [...] recover the purity, obedience, and love reflective of the true Body of Christ. Dr. Mark Miravalle Saint John Paul II Chair of Mariology, Franciscan University of Steubenville
December 13, 2021, Pope Francis authorized the promulgation by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints of a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Marie Rivier (1768-1838) [...] many monastic orders were being dissolved and the religious dispersed! A lively child, the future saint was the victim of an accident in April 1770, when she was barely 16 months old: she fell out of bed
This feast derives from the whole doctrine of the Church and from the teaching of the Doctors and Saints. Among those are St. Ephrem, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, and St. Louis de Montfort, whose Treatise [...] express the doctrine of Mary as universal Mediatrix of all graces. Source: Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950.
informed the local priest, Fr. Rimaud, who happily brought the miraculous statue to his church in Saint-Christo. The people came in great numbers from all parts of the region to venerate it. That very night [...] March 21, 2021, to the United Hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in the presence of Bishop Bataille of Saint-Etienne, amid a fervent assembly of faithful. Adapted from: https://www.notredamedevalfleury.fr/c
