one and only Mediator. Embracing God's salvific will with a full heart and impeded by no sin, she devoted herself totally as a handmaid of the Lord to the person and work of her Son, under Him and with [...] Lourdes (1858) Mary: a very distinct holiness underlined by Vatican II It is no wonder therefore that the usage prevailed among the Fathers whereby they called the mother of God entirely holy and free from [...] as "full of grace"(Luke 1:28), and to the heavenly messenger she replies: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1:38). Thus Mary, a daughter of Adam, consenting
re-enacted with hundreds of extras and Our Lady of the Militias, the Virgin on Horseback, is carried in triumph and celebrated in a huge popular parade. Adapted and translated from: www.lasciliainrete [...] tradition, documented by various authors of historical and religious works, a fortnight before Easter in 1091, a confrontation between Roger the Norman and the Saracen emir Belcàne took place on the shore of [...] the back of a white horse, amid a cloud of intense blue smoke and with an unsheathed sword! Faced with such an apparition, the Moors fled and Sicily remained Christian. Since then, every year in Scicli,
826) Mary is the New World (II) Mary is the earth that was not accursed like the first, which was covered in thorns and thistles, but she is the earth on which the Lord's blessing has descended, and her [...] transported from the earth to Heaven, and yet you do not cease to protect mankind... Mother, you remained virgin, because he "was God, the One to whom you gave birth." And this is also what makes your "death" [...] "death" so different from ours--only you--and it is right, have an incorruptible body and soul.
Shepherd (Italy) Every prayer to Mary is centered on Christ The maternity of Mary in the order of grace began with the consent she gave in faith at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering [...] surrounded by dangers and cultics, until they are led into the happiness of their true home. (Lumen Gentium 62) Jesus, the only Mediator, is the Way of our prayer; Mary, His Mother and our Mother, is completely [...] traditional Eastern and Western iconography. Prayer to the Blessed Mother of God is therefore centered on the Person of Christ manifested in her mysteries. In the countless hymns and antiphons that express
Virgin Mary Saint Anne was the wife of Saint Joachim, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and grandmother of Jesus our Redeemer. She was a Jewish woman who lived in Sephoris near Nazareth in Galilee and then [...] veneration of the Virgin Mary, especially in the mystery of her Immaculate Conception, her Nativity and her Presentation in the Temple. Throughout the world, Saint Anne is venerated and prayed to in many religious [...] In Brittany, the veneration of Saint Anne, and especially in the region of Auray, is historically linked to the first evangelization of Armorica, in the 7th and 8th centuries. http://www.sainteanne-sanctuaire
that his glory and power were beginning to be revealed by the testimony of John, and by what Jesus himself was saying to his disciples. Moreover, and long before that, his divine conception and the prodigies [...] Saint John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church Why didn't Mary ask for the first miracle earlier? In his commentary on the dialogue between Mary and Jesus at the Wedding at Cana, St. John Chrysostom offers [...] given Mary the highest impression of the child of whom she was the mother. Saint Luke confirms this explanation when he says: 'And his mother kept all these things in her heart.' Why, then, did Mary not
Let the primacy of the worship of God and of my Son be restored, and let those whose holy life is a permanent source of virtues be invoked (...) Let the churches and the hierarchy be respected, let the authority [...] the messenger of faith and love for Christianity traumatized by discord, in the midst of a humanity threatened in its spirituality. To the Church of my Son, as the guardian and first interpreter of his [...] Peter. Let us beware of the arsonists of the faith and discipline within the Church itself!" The local bishop granted the imprimatur to the messages and authorized the construction of a shrine. Excerpts
calling you. I talk to her and tell her my worries. I know Mary well, but I had forgotten about her for the last few years. Now I think of her often, and I talk to her as I used to. And she helps me! I pray [...] to her again and I feel less sad now. When I get the statue in my house, I will feel less lonely. And I will not forget that the Virgin Mary is always with us! A call received from Marie Louise October [...] February 1 – Our Lady of Copacabana "Mary wants me to have her in my home" This is a transcript of a call received at the Mary of Nazareth Association office on a Thursday morning: - Hello Madam, I would
suddenly, the child awoke and her body looked human again; her contracted arms and legs slackened, positioning themselves back into their natural angle. Her eyes opened full of life and the doctor, without taking [...] with the mysteries of the Rosary. I would like to cry out and tell everyone about the power of the Mother of God and about the impact the ‘Hail Mary’ has on her maternal heart that has suffered so much. Her [...] strange certainty of a supernatural intervention. I called my husband and told him if he believed in God to start praying the ‘Hail Mary’, because it all seemed to be over. My husband joined his hands in
case and not in an asymptotic 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 [...] never actually chosen. Adam and Eve were not stained by original sin either. But they did sin, by diverting the gifts of creation to their own selfish ends. Mary did not. And as we have said, this was already [...] above all she did so through a total openness 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
