announced the trials ahead. He said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign of contradiction; and you, a sword will pierce your soul [...] the desertion of the disciples, and finally the death on the Cross of her beloved Son. She withstood all this through faith and hope, meditating in her heart the joyful and painful mysteries of the history [...] history of salvation. Because of her humility, obedience and faithfulness, Mary has become for those who have recourse to her, a refuge and a path. To Lucia of Fatima who was worried about the difficulties

is believing in love and thus opening our hearts wider and wider, as sons and daughters. Finally, turning to Mary in prayer is to contemplate Jesus in a different way, as Son and Brother. Father Bertrand [...] Holy Rosary Can we ask Mary anything? Mary is like a mother! We should all start by asking ourselves about our relationship with our own mother. Was that relationship life-giving and constructive, or hurtful [...] heart, with the faith and love we should reserve for a mother so beautiful and so perfect, then we will receive graces, even if they don’t always match our initial request. Why ask Mary instead of Jesus? When

Virgin Mary appeared to him in his sleep and gave him a piece of papyrus, saying, "Take it and eat it". (cf Ezk 3:1; Rv 10:9). He obeyed and swallowed it. When he awoke, it was Christmas Day, and he immediately [...] Our Lady of Prokov - Saint Romanos the Melodist (6th C.) The Cantor of the Virgin Mary The only authority for the life and date of this greatest of Greek hymn-writers is the account in the Menaion for October; [...] immediately marveled and glorified God. He went up to the ambo and began the strains of his he parthenos semeron ton hyperousion tiktei. After this improvisation for the feast of the Nativity, he composed

myself to the Mother of Christ and Church, and conscious of the great difficulties, I accept” (“Witness to Hope,” 254). Karol Wojyla—Saint John Paul II—said, “yes,” and that one “yes” changed the world [...] the Rosary, and Jan. 1, 1992, the Soviet Union—the Evil Empire—officially dissolved. The power of one individual “yes” joined to and collected with many others will change individual hearts and the world [...] Sisters of Loreto and a teacher, was on a 400-mile train ride to a convent in Darjeeling for a retreat when she experienced a mystical encounter with Christ. “I heard the call to give up all and follow Him into

faith through ‘Broken Mary.’ “It’s just a concrete statue, but where that statue is, Mary is, and where Mary is there’s Christ, and where there’s Christ, there’s God,” Matthews said, “and I’ve seen a lot of [...] Cantius and by Kevin Matthews, who rescued Mary from the garbage in 2010. But really, Matthews told CNA, the procession was all Mary’s idea. Matthews first spotted what is now known as ‘Broken Mary’ outside [...] shouting, they quietly prayed the Rosary and sang Ave Maria. Instead of a politician or city official, they were led by ‘Broken Mary,’ a statue of the Virgin Mary rescued from a dumpster, who still bears

forgotten week of meditations and prayers. Still, I persevered, and managed — one day late — to say the consecration prayer. And … nothing happened. The semester was ending, and it was time for finals. I stayed [...] woman’s pregnancy was and still is a wonder and a mystery to me. I can never know exactly what it is like to nourish and grow a person within me, but I do know it is a miracle and a blessing. What surprised [...] at Mass was first nourished by Mary. I talked with a priest about this afterward, and he reminded me that Mary also received the Eucharist at Mass with the apostles and disciples of the early church. She

Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) Mary is the "Good Mother" of all "Go and tell the priests to build a chapel here and to come in procession." These words from the Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette of Lourdes [...] former hospitality volunteer. I witnessed the miracle of hope and I understood how much Mary loves us and intercedes for us with her divine Son. Mary is very present in my prayer, with her appeal to Jesus at [...] of Lourdes Robert Leblanc Married and father of 5, engineer, former president of the Ethics Committee of Médef and EDC (French Association of Christian Entrepreneurs and Managers), vice-president of the

her own particular life, she fully and responsibly accepted the will of God (cf. Lk. 1:38), because she heard the word of God and acted on it, and because charity and a spirit of service were the driving [...] (Italy, 1776) - Sinaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Orthodox Church) Mary, the most perfect of Christ's disciples First, the Virgin Mary has always been proposed to the faithful by the Church as an example [...] example to be imitated, not precisely in the type of life she led, and much less for the socio-cultural background in which she lived and which today scarcely exists anywhere. She is held up as an example to

“the way, and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6), “the goal of human history and the point on which the desires of history and civilization turn.” [...] of the Virgin Mary (I) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless saints and encouraged by [...] its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, “the

snake’s words and gave birth to disobedience and death; the Blessed Virgin Mary conceived of faith and joy when the Angel Gabriel announced to her that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and that the [...] 1672) Mary, the New Eve We realize that Jesus became man through the Blessed Virgin, and the disobedience caused by the snake ended in the same way in which it had begun. Indeed, Eve, virgin and intact [...] that the Holy One conceived in her womb would be the Son of God. And Mary answered: “Let it happen to me as you have said.” Therefore Mary gave birth to the Child foretold in the Holy Scriptures… By Him