crossed a double lane highway separated by a median strip. A month after the incident I was finally able share this story with my prayer group. We all agreed that this is how Heaven protects Mary's children [...] Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25 Heaven protects Mary's children I have been praying the Rosary united with the Marie de Nazareth Association for years. What wonderful, heavenly protection [...] at me in the dark! As I looked around, I noticed a gray gate behind an overgrown hedge and some birch trees, at the end of a driveway. Opposite, I saw a street that served the companies in that industrial
married couples, Mary still discreetly intervenes today so that Jesus can renew His miracle and change the water of conjugal love into the wine of a new marriage. On November 12, 2020, in Rome with Saint Ignatius [...] foundation of the Society of Jesus), I strongly felt that Mary, Mother of the Church, is still with us, leading us to her Son, and that Pope Francis—also a Jesuit and present on that unforgettable day—blesses [...] gave us Mary to be our best companion At the Jesuit novitiate, I loved the litanies of the Blessed Virgin and all her titles in Latin that express our veneration. On summer evenings, before a dying campfire
through her, with her and for her, so as to do them through Jesus Christ, in Jesus Christ, with Jesus Christ and for Jesus Christ our last end” (#115). And a little further (#120), he says: "Mary being the [...] What it means to devote oneself to Mary On the topic of the consecration to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort, in his Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, recommends "beginning, continuing [...] which consecrates and most conforms a soul to Our Lord is the devotion to the Most Holy Virgin, his holy Mother, and that the more a soul will be consecrated to Mary, the more she will belong to Jesus Christ
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 and radiant Virgin, full of divine wisdom, and [...] our form, he who, according to the divine essence, did not have a form, as far as the exterior and appearance were concerned; he took on a body like ours. He, the immaterial, became truly human, without [...] Miracolosa (Italy, 1855) – Saint Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (Palestine) God took our likeness in Mary's womb “On the subject of the Incarnation, I believe that God the Verb, the only-begotten Son of the
Banneux (Belgium, 1933) In 1933, Belgium was visited by Mary twice Belgium, a Christian land since early Christianity, has many shrines dedicated to Mary. Two of them are well-known both locally and abroad [...] Virgin Mary in the same year, 1933, six years before the outbreak of World War II: - The shrine of Our Lady of Beauraing, near Dinant, where Mary appeared in 1932-33, dressed in white and crowned with a royal [...] Lady of Banneux, where Mary referred to herself as "Our Lady of the Poor." It is now an important place of pilgrimage, with more than 600,000 pilgrims visiting it every year, and certainly one of the major
discloses the "great sign" in heaven, "a woman robed with the sun", engaged in a monumental struggle with the dragon, he invited the Church in Europe to resolutely turn to Mary to overcome the hardships she faced [...] act, entrustment to Mary plunges us into the history of Salvation and makes us take stock of the present time as a phase of this Universal History: "The whole Church, then, looks to Mary. Thanks to the countless [...] Apparition in Lourdes Entrustment to Mary John Paul II gave the conclusion of his Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Europa (2003) this title: "Entrustment to Mary." Commenting on the vision from the Book
into a serious housing problem. I was going to be evicted, with no place to go. I was desperate. I had a week to myself, so I decided to walk an hour each day to visit a special statue of Mary in a grotto [...] surprising to me, because with my baroque tattoos and my rebellious spirit, I didn't think I would interest Mary. I bought a small statue of the Madonna online and installed it in my home. A few months later, [...] has changed for the better. I pray to Mary every day. In the village where I live, we have a statue perched on a hill, called Our Lady the Overlooker. I think that Mary is indeed powerful in watching over
Christ. The Virgin Mary never wished to take His place! It is very clear in the Gospel. At Cana for example, the Virgin Mary, with great delicacy, intercedes with her Son because she saw a difficult situation [...] True devotion to Mary is not adoration "Is it really necessary to ‘go through Mary’ to reach the Lord? I’m asking this because the way people are praying to Mary around me looks like a kind of idolatry [...] pray to the Virgin to ask for her intercession—but true devotion to Mary leads us to a greater faith in her Son. Mary does not compete with Jesus: she is the Servant of the Lord and she helps us to serve Him
Veneration of Mary True Marian devotion never obscures or diminishes faith and love for Jesus Christ Our Savior, the one Mediator between God and humankind. On the contrary, entrustment to Our Lady is a privileged [...] privileged path, tested by numerous Saints, for a more faithful following of the Lord. Consequently, let us entrust ourselves to her with filial abandonment!
Virgin Mary In the late 17 th century, a good hermit in the north of France was assailed by temptations. The demon said to him: “The torments that I am causing you are nothing in comparison with what you [...] in your cell!” This was the image of the Virgin Mary, before whom the hermit prayed. From that day, the good hermit prayed with increased fervor to Mary in front of her image! The demon, discouraged, left