Patroness of Brazil Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (V) My heart has dictated with special joy all that I have written to show that the Blessed Virgin Mary has been unknown up till now. This is one of the [...] If the knowledge and the reign of Jesus Christ will certainly come into the world, it can only be a necessary consequence of the knowledge and the reign of the Blessed Virgin, who gave Jesus to the world
Rosarium Virginis Mariae (2002), the Virgin Mary is an "incomparable" intermediary for contemplating "the face of Christ" (10). Indeed, we need a "mediator with the Mediator Himself" (Saint Louis de Montfort [...] Montfort, Treatise on True Devotion to the Virgin Mary, § 85). Mary is a creature like us, so we can entrust ourselves without fear to her intercession in order to reach the Son: "If we fear to go directly [...] Lady of the Letter (Italy) - Saints Charles Lwanga and his companions, Martyrs of Uganda (d. 1886) Mary, the privileged way to Christ Our Lady is the privileged way to Christ. As Pope Saint John Paul II
"beatitude of Mary." Father José Tolentino sees the Church in "Marian style": Mary who is "hospitable," who listens and who is open to life ; Mary who is "honest" with regard to God; who “serves" a bigger project [...] project . Without Mary, he concludes, the Church risks "becoming dehumanized, functionalist, like a hyperactive factory incapable of taking a break." Zenit [...] May 5 – Coptic Patriarch Kyrillos VI approves the Zeitoun apparitions in Cairo (Egypt, 1968) Without Mary, the Church risks becoming "dehumanized" The Beatitudes and the lifestyle of the faithful and of the
was there, but it had been a close call. During the sweep the day before, the Gestapo had searched the first two floors of the house at Tyniecka, Karol had remained behind a closed door in his basement [...] August 6 - Transfiguration of the Lord – Our Lady of Mercy (Italy) The Virgin Mary protected the seminarian Karol Wojtyla August 6th, the liturgical feast of the Transfiguration, was “Black Sunday” in [...] in Kraków as the Gestapo swept the city, rounding up young men to forestall a reprise of the Warsaw Uprising. Archbishop Sapieha immediately called in his underground seminarians, intending to hide them
(France) Lutheran theologians’ loyalty to Mary A group of Lutheran theologians from East Germany published a manifesto in 1971 that contains lines of moving loyalty to Mary: "At Lourdes, Fatima and other Marian [...] Marian shrines, the impartial critic is faced with supernatural facts that intimately relate to the Virgin Mary, either because of the apparitions or because of the miraculous graces requested and obtained [...] of religion or scientific opinion, had free access to the Bureau of Medical Findings. Consequently, a healing declared miraculous has the greatest possible guarantee." Brother Albert Pfleger. Story published
OF BANNEUX (Belgium, 1933) - First Apparition Mary, the Faithful Virgin (III) The third dimension of faithfulness is consistency. To live in accordance with what one believes. To adapt one's own life to [...] difficult to be so in the hour of tribulation. And only a consistency that lasts throughout the whole of life, can be called faithfulness. Mary's "fiat" in the Annunciation finds its fullness in the silent [...] to the object of one's adherence. To accept misunderstandings, persecutions, rather than a break between what one practises and what one believes: this is consistency. Here is, perhaps, the deepest core
of her." And she composed a sublime poem in 25 stanzas: 0 Mary I would like to sing why I love you, why your sweet name fills my heart with joy, and why the thought of your majestic greatness, could never [...] (Madrid, Spain, 1261) Why I Love You Mary "I still have something to do before I die," Therese said to her sister Celine. "I always wanted to express to the Blessed Virgin in a song everything that I think of [...] glory, surpassing all the saints in highest heaven above, scarce could I dream I am your child, O Mary, I would lower my eyes from of you! ... - Saint Therese of Lisieux (May 1897 - PA Rome p. 268)
November 28 - Saint Catherine Laboure (d. 1876) Mary in the Temple (VIII) God's most tender gaze is upon her She lives almost without making a sound, without being spoken of by the world and without Israel [...] heaven watches her and venerates her as the one whom God caused to be born so as to one day clothe her with a new nature. And this same God, who chose to be born of her, loves her and sees her in this quality
Immaculate Conception” (France, 1858) Life Came Through Mary It is fitting therefore that the holy Fathers see Mary as used by God not merely in a passive way, but as freely cooperating in the work of human [...] Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert in their preaching, “The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience; what the virgin Eve bound through her unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosened [...] loosened by her faith.” Comparing Mary with Eve, they call her "the Mother of the living," and still more often they say: “death through Eve, life through Mary.”
word of "spouse" cannot express the reality of the relationship of the Immaculate with the Holy Spirit. We could say in a sense that the Immaculate is "the incarnation of the Holy Spirit." Saint Maximilian [...] May 14 – Madonna di Domenica Targa (Italy, 1729) - St Michael Garicoïts (d. 1863) Since Mary is the Immaculate Conception itself In Lourdes, the Immaculate Virgin answered Bernadette, who was asking who [...] Conception.” By these luminous words, she expressed not only that she was immaculately conceived but in a deeper sense, that she was the Immaculate Conception itself. Something white is not the same as whiteness
