(1918) Mary is the Mediatrix of all Graces I would wish you each day, each moment, to draw ever closer to the Immaculate, to know her better and better, and to love her more and more. (...) Mary is the [...] strong love, and often needs to have recourse to the Mother of God, because she is the Mother of supernatural life, the Mother of Divine Grace. The Lord wishes us to receive graces through her and this can
actions that contradict our positive self-image, and we know it. And knowing it humbles us and makes us admit that we need God's grace. This highlights Mary's greatest merit. Other than the fact that she [...] 1755) Why we should reflect on Mary's childhood (I) The humility of the Virgin Mary before the moment of the Annunciation is often overlooked. We usually stress Mary’s humble response to the Angel announcing [...] of the Savior. And of course we should do so. But we do not think about the years of her life leading up to that moment, from the time she was born. As the Immaculate Conception, Mary’s whole life had
on crosses, the nearby capital city in flames, and fellow citizens either killed or exiled into slavery. The future of this family (of Joseph and Mary) and the Child that they carried was hardly certain [...] were stored there, he and his followers began to rampage throughout Galilee. Pockets of revolt and opposition to Rome broke out all over the country. …The Romans reacted quickly and with overwhelming force [...] that later beheaded John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus. Herod chose to fortify and rebuild the city of Sepphoris, making it his palatial capital, and he did it in high Greco-Roman style
A.D. (Saragossa, Spain) Mary, Show Us the Right Way Mary's message is one of hope for all the men and women of our day, whatever their country of origin. I like to invoke Mary as the Star of Hope (Spe [...] that enlightens us and gives direction to our journey. Through her "yes," through the generous gift of herself, she has opened up to God the gates of our world and our history. And she invites us to live [...] her maternal presence amid the events of our personal lives, our family lives, and our national lives. Happy are those men and women who place their trust in him who, at the very moment when he was offering
back on a path of hope and light if we are in darkness, or trials, or sin. Perhaps the period we are going through is an opportunity to put some light back into our lives, and Mary can guide us. She also [...] Sacred Heart, a school dedicated to the Heart of Jesus, and there she also showed us her Heart. Finally, the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary are in the loving Heart of the Father. In these difficult [...] the Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. Perhaps through these titles she invites us to rediscover a somewhat hidden dimension of our lives? We are from this earth of course, and we are aware of all
her human and womanly limitations as one who has believed. It is the faith and the fidelity of this humble handmaid, "full of grace" that enables her to be the perfect instrument of God, and nothing else [...] work of God. "He that is mighty hath done great things in me." The glory of Mary is purely and simply the glory of God in her. and she, like anyone else, can say that she has nothing that she has not received [...] the mercy of God and in no way resisted His love and His will. Hence she received more from Him than any other saint. he was able to accomplish His will perfectly in her… She was and is in the highest
of Montmartre in Paris and will conclude their pilgrimage on August 15, 2021, in Cotignac (southern France), a village where the Virgin Mary appeared on August 10-11, 1519, and later St. Joseph himself [...] church occasionally and even the bystanders who happen to be there and are moved by the passing procession.” The itinerary passes through important French shrines, such as Vézelay and Paray-le-Monial. Pilgrims [...] Apostle - Our Lady of the Castle (Dalmatia) After the "M" of Mary Pilgrimage, a Great March of Saint Joseph After the success of the "M" of Mary pilgrimage in France last year, a new pilgrimage to Saint Joseph
the Virgin Mary be there when I die? Jesus does not come alone. He brings all the saints with him. Since the role of the saints and of the deceased’s relatives is to welcome the dying person and to gently [...] if she is not wanted and instead she will send the mother or grandmother of the deceased. In the case of a Protestant who distrusts the Mother of Jesus and the saints, the Virgin Mary stays in the background [...] send depending on the soul’s unique sensibility. If the person is Catholic or Orthodox and is close to the Virgin Mary, she will be there. In many of her apparitions she has explicitely promised to assist
interiorly and also how to carry out His holy will in all things, O Mary, You are joy, because through You God descended to earth [and] into my heart. Saint Faustina Kowalska, (1905-1938) Polish nun and mystic [...] waist, and He said to me, I give you eternal love that your purity may be untarnished and as a sign that you will never be subject to temptations against purity. Jesus took off His golden cincture and tied [...] 1490) The greatest grace the Virgin Mary obtained for Saint Faustina During Holy Mass, before Communion, we had the renewal of vows. When we had left our kneelers and had started to recite the formula for
1: 1 and 16 - 20). After Joseph wholeheartedly accepted Mary as his wife and the mystery of the child conceived in her (Mt 1:24), they jointly devoted themselves to their task of raising Jesus and prepared [...] to the holy spouse of the Virgin Mary, let us meditate on the mystery of Joseph's paternity, with the help of Mary. Indeed, the mystery of Mary's motherhood is so great that it has until now sort of covered [...] Joseph's paternity. We should strongly affirm this: Mary's motherhood of Jesus called for Joseph's paternity; it is inseparable from it and draws its source and its greatness from it. By inseparable, we don’t
