Genazzano, 1476) Mary Our Mother of Love Needless to say, Our Lady is the mother of humankind and she particularly favors mothers and those who live and care for their families and children, as she lived [...] with her Son and husband. Mary's love is the love of a mother for us her children and the love of Jesus' mother for her Son. It's the pure love which brought up the Savior of the World and which now points [...] towards Him. The way to God is through Jesus (cf Jn 14:6) and His mother wants to lead us by the hand to her Son, where we will find eternal peace and joy. It is through the love of Jesus that we experience
drinking and doing drugs. I had very low self-esteem, and fell into depression. In 2003, I had a baby boy. His father left me when I was three months pregnant. I fell into another major depression and tried [...] brunt of all this: I would drive while drunk, and do crazy things. I had become an alcoholic and reached my lowest point. I had lost my faith in 2003 and refused to enter a church. For me, God could not [...] my job several times. In March of last year, seeing that I was sinking deeper and deeper and in danger of dying, my cousin and my aunts insisted that I go to Medjugorje. I went with my father, while my mother
Him the Father and Mary were intimately joined together and became one. The Passion of Jesus was also the Passion of the Father and the Passion of Father was experienced by Mary. The Father borrowed her heart [...] singular fusion of love. The Passion of the Father and the Passion of Mary became a one and only human Passion, experienced by Mary with infinite love and intensity -- the Passion of the Father Himself. [...] the father and the mother grow closer to one another, even if their human union is not perfect, sharing one and the same love and one and the same pain, in a singular fusion of fatherhood and motherhood
must come and receive the anointing of the Lord: "The Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear [...] 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 the belt [...] (Is 42:2). "A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth" (Is 42:3) and his "power and justice (will abound) to the skies" (Ps 71:6)
must come and receive the anointing of the Lord: "The Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear [...] 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 the belt [...] (Is 42:2). "A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth" (Is 42:3) and his "power and justice (will abound) to the skies" (Ps 71:6)
She is the treasurer and dispenser of the gifts and graces of the Most High; she gives a good portion, and the best, to feed and provide for her children and servants. She leads and directs us according [...] wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (I) By the light that the Holy Spirit will send us through Mary, his dear Spouse, we will know our evil nature, our corruption and our inability to do any good; we [...] merits and satisfactions, Mary makes us her own children, worthy to appear before our heavenly Father; changing our clothes with clean, new, precious and fragrant garments, that is, those of Jesus Christ
who has entrusted himself to Mary succumbed to the malice, the number, and the strength of his enemies. She intercedes for us with her Son and appeases him with her prayers, and she unites us to him with [...] which will make us remain firm and constant in the midst of storms and torments; an active and piercing faith which, like a mysterious master key, will give us entry into all the mysteries of Jesus Christ [...] into the final ends of man and into the heart of God Himself; a courageous Faith, which will make us undertake and come to the end of great things for the sake of God and the salvation of souls, without
to Nazareth and became more and more obvious in the words and attitudes of the leaders of the people. In this way the Blessed Virgin would often have come to know the criticism, insults and threats directed [...] disbelief of relatives and acquaintances who would try to use Jesus (cf. Jn 7:2-5) or stop his mission (Mk 3:21). Through this suffering borne with great dignity and discretion, Mary shared her Son’s journey [...] journey to Jerusalem (Lk 9:51) and, more and more closely united with him in faith, hope and love, she co-operates in salvation. The Blessed Virgin thus becomes a model for those who accept Christ’s words
Nativity It is through Mary that the Treasure came Jesus came into the world through the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is also through her that he must reign in the world. Because Mary remained hidden during [...] Holy Spirit and the Church "Alma Mater," Mother hidden and unknown. So great was her humility that she desired nothing more upon earth than to remain unknown to herself and to others, and to be known only [...] only through Mary. Whatever desires the patriarchs may have cherished, whatever entreaties the prophets and saints of the Old Law may have had for 4,000 years to obtain that treasure, it was Mary alone who
Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. (USA, 1959) Mary is the mother of the recreated world Blessed Lady! Sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night—everything that is subject to the power or use [...] working and making it holy. These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb. Through the fullness of the grace that was given you, Mary, dead things rejoice in their freedom, and those [...] God, then, is the Father of the created world, and Mary the mother of the recreated world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new
