sufferings that it occasioned, Mary was so often presented with the « inner side » of things...and she never ceased to go beyond mere appearances in order to reach the divine message and the deeper meaning of
ion from God, an openness to his grace in such a way that sin, always theoretically possible, is never actually chosen. Adam and Eve were not stained by original sin either. But they did sin, by diverting [...] Mary, who is one of us, was able, by her openness to the grace with which she was filled, not only never to sin, even while leading an ordinary human life, but above all she did so through a total openness
with which within the Virgin's womb fecundated by the Holy Spirit, whose virginity was destined never to be lost , the Son of God was so inseparably united that He who was born without time of the Father's [...] Who remained Almighty in His own. And so our Lord Jesus Christ, being at birth true man though He never ceased to be true God, made in Himself the beginning of a new creation, and in the form of His birth
Duns Scotus Testimony of a convert: "I feel very close to Mary" "My background is Algerian Kabyle; I never identify as being a Muslim, probably because I don’t understand Arabic. I can’t read or write it either [...] my own way. But something bothered me in this religion, which I couldn’t exactly pinpoint. I have never observed Ramadan, because it has become very commercial. The first time I fasted was on a Good Friday
the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mother of God. And the one who declared it was someone we never would have expected to do so. The event is related by Father Gabriele Amorth, a late exorcist of the [...] ng them, one about the Immaculate Conception. The devil admitted that the Virgin of Nazareth had never been under his power: not even at the first instant of her life, because she was conceived “full of
decline of Christianity in the western world is due in no small part to the fact that many people never pray. Life, they think, can be handled without God. This is true in families as well. For some families [...] Yes, the Rosary. I have yet to meet in my life a person who prayed the Rosary and left the faith. Never. I have my own theories on why the Rosary is such a powerful prayer. First, it prays with the Word [...] powerful. When we pray the Rosary we invite Mary into what we are doing, and she is our Mother. She never fails. She is so good, so full of love for her Son, and for all of us. When we pray the Rosary, it
spiritually allergic to Marian devotion. Even though I grew up saying the rosary with my family, I never really understood the idea of being devoted to Mary, specifically. (...) One day when, at my university [...] your womb.” As a young man, a 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 [...] Mary also received the Eucharist at Mass with the apostles and disciples of the early church. She never stopped receiving Christ’s body, even after being united to Jesus so closely. All of this deeply moved
Foucauld It is Normal that Children ask their Mother An enthusiastic prayer to the Blessed Virgin is never pushed away: Jesus makes a point of showing us today, as in Cana, that He loves his Mother, always
to love Mary, if we reflected for a moment upon her affection for us, and the benefits which she never ceases to lavish upon us. “Alas,” exclaims Saint Bernard, that great servant of Mary, “how blind and
march Towards a wicked death; And You bear this trial alone, Abandoned by Peter who promised “I shall never deny You at your passing!” Thomas, too, abandoned You, he who exclaimed “Let us all die with You.”
