months in seminary, I knew that I was going to be a priest. I think the Blessed Virgin Mary is responsible for my vocation. I have a deep devotion to Mary. I feel like she is my mother. I can go to her and [...] surrounding villages come together. They usually stay a few nights. The hardest part is trying to feed everyone! I served as a parish priest for a while. I liked it. It was all very new. In the beginning [...] second. We were raised in a farming community out in the countryside. In our village, we had 200 families, and everyone was Catholic. It was very special to live there because we are a mostly Buddhist country
notion as well in the context of God's promises and the Covenant. However, with Mary virginity takes on a new importance. Mary is the only woman of the New Testament to receive the title of virgin (Lk 1: [...] Victory at Toledo (Spain, 1202) Mary's Virginity (I) Virginity is hardly in fashion these days. It is undervalued and some go as far as to challenge Mary's virginity. Before Mary's time - although the Jewish [...] original sin, the latter that Mary conceived Jesus of the Holy Spirit while remaining a virgin. On a philosophical level, an atheist or an agnostic could logically affirm that virginal conception is impossible
doctor of the Church (d. 1109) Mary Immaculate and the cosmos Saint Anselm understood, through faith, that all creation, both on earth and among the angels, was restored in Mary Immaculate. This perspective [...] man – rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it were, useless for men or for the praise of [...] sustained by the mastery of men and made beautiful by the use of men who praise God. The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness. Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God himself, its Creator
time, the Virgin Mary has been watching over me!" Smiling and chatty, he talked about his life. He started out as a farm hand, then worked as a driver in a cider factory, before becoming a cattle breeder [...] (Luxembourg) " All this time, the Virgin Mary has been watching over me!" "Do you know why, at age 92, I am still in such good health?" Maurice Mesnil, the oldest guest at a community dinner in Brix (department [...] couple had three children, two boys and a girl, six years apart, eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Maurice and Julienne ran their own farm with more than twenty dairy cows. After the death
Tuesday Pope asks Mary Immaculate to watch over Rome Pope Francis made a surprise visit to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna on December 8, 2020. “At 7 a.m. this morning [...] Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Father went to the Spanish Steps for an act of veneration in private to Mary Immaculate,” the press office said. “At the first light of dawn, in the rain, he laid a bouquet of [...] and traveled to the Basilica of St Mary Major, where he prayed before the icon of Salus Populi Romani , Mary Protection of the Roman People. Since 1953, it has been a custom for popes to venerate the statue
(England) Mary is the foundation of freedom and mercy Peter Nolasco was born in Castelnaudary (located in southern France) in 1189. His well-to-do parents died when he was very young. They left Peter a substantial [...] after making a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat, he began to display his charitable virtue. His concern for captive Christians began to build, and he decided to establish a religious order [...] Penafort started a lay organization for the purpose of ransoming slaves. Peter, who was an advocate for this, decided to start an organization made up of religious members under the patronage of Mary. In 1218
Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) Mary, God’s first collaborator The Virgin Mary is more than the mother of a prophet of salvation. With Jesus, salvation is not just a promise, it is already there! Jesus [...] Annunciation and throughout the public ministry of her Son, up until she stood at the foot of the Cross, Mary is the first collaborator in the Savior's work. On Holy Saturday, while Creation is in mourning for
ancient Visigothic cathedral that had been turned into a mosque. Thus the cathedral was returned to Catholic worship and dedicated once more to the Virgin Mary. In memory of that day, every year on October 9th [...] December 13 – Our Lady of the Sainte Chapelle (France) When the Virgin Mary returned to her cathedral On September 29, 1238, after 18 months of siege, the Muslims who occupied Valencia, Spain, capitulated [...] Valencia holds the celebration of "Valencian Glories" (las Glorias valencianas) that includes singing a solemn Te Deum (“Glory to God”) in the cathedral. However, for the past three years, city officials
Lourdes The Virgin Mary travels from Ocean to Ocean (I) Did you know that an exciting Marian pilgrimage was started on January 28, 2012? Following is an excerpt from an interview by CF News with Dr. Thomas Ward [...] Love and Life into the hands of the Mother of God. CFN: Why the name From Ocean to Ocean? TW: It is a pilgrimage of an icon of the Mother of God from the Pacific Ocean at Vladivostok to the Atlantic Ocean [...] East as well as in the West and in Russia Our Lady of Czestochowa is the patron of those who desire a restoration of family values. It is one of Christianity's holiest relics. From Ocean to Ocean
Virgin grew to such an extent that he became convinced that God had given him a mission - to set up a giant statue of the Virgin Mary near an important highway not far from Paris. He managed this feat and on [...] October 14 - Our Lady of Larochette (near Geneva,Switzerland) Mary Comes to Her People (I) It all began in April 1984, when Edmond Fricoteaux, a French lawyer in his mid-fifties, visited Rome for the first [...] first time. He had an astonishing conversion of heart during a confession he made in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. His thirst for the truth grew stronger and stronger, and he became an avid reader of
