Messiah would make all things new: "Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah..." (...) "I will put my law in their inward parts, and in [...] their God" (Ezek 11:19-20). "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put [...] First Church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin (Rome, ca. 352) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (VIII) "Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant" (Jer 31:31) In Israel's and the Blessed Virgin's
to God and to his grace. In this way, Mary sends us a powerful message, even though we are sinners. Mary reveals what a human being can be, what holiness can be - a holiness fully achieved in her case and [...] nature: 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 [...] manner. Let us meditate, then, on the life of Mary, not only on the part we all know, with Jesus in Nazareth and then on Calvary, but also that of young Mary, pure and humble, even before she had any idea
Messiah would make all things new: "Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah..." (...) "I will put my law in their inward parts, and in [...] their God" (Ezek 11:19-20). "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put [...] First Church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin (Rome, ca. 352) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (VIII) "Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant" (Jer 31:31) In Israel's and the Blessed Virgin's
did not appear to Mary; rather it invites us to seek the reasons why the Evangelists made such a choice… If the authors of the New Testament do not speak of the Mother’s encounter with her risen Son, this [...] children in 1947 (approved in 1956) The Risen Christ appeared to Mary first The Gospels mention various appearances of the risen Christ, but not a meeting between Jesus and his Mother. This silence must not [...] character of the Blessed Virgin’s presence at Calvary and her perfect union with the Son in his suffering on the Cross seem to postulate a very particular sharing on her part in the mystery of the Resurrection
ennobled. Joseph, content with his slight possessions, bore the trials consequent on a fortune so slender, with greatness of soul, in imitation of his Son, who having put on the form of a slave, being the Lord [...] May 1 - Saint Joseph the Worker Joseph, like Mary his spouse, was of royal blood and yet passed his life in labor These are the reasons why men of every rank and country should fly to the trust and guard [...] Fathers of families find in Joseph the best personification of paternal solicitude and vigilance; spouses a perfect example of love, of peace, and of conjugal fidelity; virgins at the same time find in him the
Long before she received The Secret of Mary , Marthe was already living in deep communion with Mary, her Mother. The reading of The Secret of Mary was probably for her a luminous confirmation of what she had [...] Marthe Robin and the Virgin Mary Marthe Robin, a French Catholic mystic (1902-1981) and co-founder with Father Georges Finet of the Foyers de Charité, wrote this about St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort's [...] Secret of Mary : "The Blessed Virgin Mary said that this little book should really be the central book of all our Foyer de Charité homes, and even beyond, for the whole Church "(cf Father Finet, in a talk to
according to your word "(Lk 1:38). Mary’s answer was a free adhesion to the will of God, to his loving plan. It was not a ‘yes’ of convenience... Mary was aware that with her ‘yes,’ she would take part in [...] This Advent season we are invited to contemplate Mary During Advent we are invited to contemplate Mary, a young girl from Nazareth among many others... Mary could have legitimately said ‘no’ to the mysterious [...] respected her freedom, because we have a God who wanted us free and created us so, to the extent that we can actually say ‘no’ to him, and shut the door of our heart. Mary could have freely said ‘no’ to the
face. The apparition immediately disappeared in a cloud of sulphur smoke: it was the devil. That same night, she awoke in the room full of light with a new apparition that smiled at her. This time the [...] of Caravaggio (Italy, 1432) - St Philip Neri (d. 1594) Would you like to know if this is the Virgin Mary? Saint Philip Neri was often consulted by bishops to judge the authenticity of mystics. The practice [...] mystics, because the devil is proud and independent. One day in 1560, the cardinals were divided about a nun who was having visions. Since they sought his opinion, Philip went to see the young sister. He looked
but Mary is just human. She is a blessed human, but human nonetheless. Mary can help us to be less intimidated, in trying to imitate her. I see so many people striving for holiness, but they miss a lot [...] suggested he come to Sunday Mass with her. Through praying the rosary, going to daily Mass, and attending eucharistic adoration, he grew into a deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. His entire life changed [...] closest to him. And in a way, some of us may be able to relate more to Mary. I know I did when I was going through my conversion. I felt her motherly care and her closeness. Jesus can be a little intimidating
interpretations of Mary's name: "We should realize that Mary means Lady in the Syrian Language." After him St Chrysologus says the same thing more explicitly in these words: "The Hebrew word 'Mary' means 'Domina [...] Liguori, in collecting the testimony of past ages, writes these words with evident devotion: "Because the Virgin Mary was raised to such a lofty dignity as to be the mother of the King of kings, it is deservedly [...] January 6 – EPIPHANY The Epiphany of Our Lord and the Queenship of Mary (II) In one of the homilies attributed to Origen, Elizabeth calls Mary "the Mother of my Lord" and even addresses her as "Thou, my Lady
