which I shall find peace, love and the strength to become reconciled with God and others. To you, O Lady, do I give up my past, my present and my future, and all my abilities and talents. I want to grow with [...] with you. And from now on, let my soul sing for joy for His love and mercy. I dedicate to you, Mother, my family too, all my friends, all those with whom I live and those with whom I work. Mary I would like [...] of Caravaggio (Italy, 1432) May We Grow in God’s Love with Mary (II) O Mary, with you I wish to learn how to love all people as my brothers and sisters because they are all yours. I devote myself to you
ourselves like Mary gave herself, without delay, without reservation, without turning back, and without ceasing. Mary gave herself entirely, with all she had—her being, her life, and her will. Mary never took [...] this gift of herself, and never looked back. She never stopped for a moment, and she answered “yes” to God again and again. In return, God kept sending her more light, more love, and more strength, expressing [...] Marthe says, how Mary is immaculate in her Conception and in her divine maternity. Father Manteau-Bonamy Excerpts from Marthe Robin sous la conduite de Marie ( Marthe Robin: Under Mary’s Guidance ) - Editions
in Mary's womb “On the subject of the Incarnation, I believe that God the Verb, the only-begotten Son of the Father, who before all ages and ages was born, in the impassibility of the same God and Father [...] begotten him, and with the divine approval of the Spirit, without leaving the bosom of his Father, descended to our low estate. According to the common will of the Father and the Spirit, and according to [...] nature and his infinite being, suffering no limits, ignoring our successive movements, acting by nature in a completely divine way, he entered Mary's womb, all shining with virginal purity - Mary the holy
mother and virgin... We greet you, who held in your holy, virginal womb, the one who cannot be contained. Because of you, the Trinity is worshiped and adored. Because of you the cross is venerated and adored [...] Because of you heaven rejoices, the angles and archangels delight and demons are put to flight. Because of you, the devil, the tempter, has fallen from heaven, and fallen creation is taken up to heaven.. [...] sit in darkness and in the shadow of death (cf Luke 1:79). Because of you the dead are raised and kings rule through the grace of the Holy Trinity. Who can sing adequately the praise of Mary? She is both
Canterbury, Doctor of the Church (d.1109) Thanks to Mary, the universe rejoices with indefinable loveliness Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night—everything that is subject to the power [...] to its true destiny, was corrupted and tainted by the acts of men who served idols. Now all creation has been restored to life and rejoices that it is controlled and given splendor by men who believe in [...] God. The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness. Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God himself, its Creator, it sees him openly, working and making it holy. These great blessings
of churches and monasteries are placed under her patronage, all over Europe. This is not by chance, but rather because of the centrality of Mary's person in the culture we have inherited and owe a great [...] generally associated with fertility and the earth, and represented as a pregnant, often multi breasted goddess. In Greco-Roman paganism, she was either Aphrodite or Hera (Venus and Juno). One, the dangerous beauty [...] were nymphs, Muses and Graces, whose beauty was always depicted as sensual. On either side stood two indomitable and formidable virgins: Athena, feared for her sharp intelligence, and Artemis, feared for
respected and sage in the eyes of men, didn’t hesitate to make this long journey to come and bow down before the "Child," this infant who is different from other children and besides Mary, Joseph knows [...] Adoration of the Kings — Feast of the Epiphany What Mary prophesied in her Magnificat "Entering the house, they saw the Child with Mary his mother, and, falling on their knees, prostrated themselves before [...] Jerusalem. Joseph, a just and upright man, recognized the work of divine wisdom – the poor and humble have to appear before those who are satisfied with themselves. Both the shepherds and the Wise Men represent
pray to Mary, we lose our identity Since the recent war against Isis, more and more women in Syria—grandmothers, young mothers, and girls—have been wearing a piece of clothing known as “Mary’s dress” during [...] who lost her son at the front, Mary is the obedient and patient mother: "She stands half way between heaven and earth. She understands us because she has given life and she is made of flesh. She has e [...] to my son, where Jesus and Mary watch over him." Syria has been at war for more than seven years. It is a bloody and deadly war, and mortars have not spared the Christian neighborhoods of cities like Damascus
intimates (for instance, Joanna Chusa and Susanna of Jerusalem) various secrets about herself and about Our Lord, which she knows partly from inner knowledge and partly from what her holy mother Anna told [...] heard her telling Susanna and Martha that during the time when she was bearing Our Lord within her she never felt the slightest discomfort, nothing but infinite inner joy and beatitude. She told them, [...] too, that Joachim and Anna had met in the hall under the Golden Gate in a golden hour; and that God’s grace had been granted to them here in such abundance as to make it possible for her alone, from her
God and the truth of her mission. I ask you only to look at and imitate my Mother and yours. Grow in spiritual beauty to resemble Her; from Her learn the silence which speaks to God and of God and the [...] teaches faith, generosity, and charity. Always look at my sweet Mother so as to see Her clearly at the hour of death. Whoever dies in Mary immediately has Jesus. Contemplate Mary and receive my peace. Nothing [...] apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) “Mary’s gaze purified, her silence uplifted, her smile instructed” Here is what Jesus himself told Maria Valtorta (1) about His Mother: “Mary has attracted millions of creatures
