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 up [...] Beginning of the novena of prayer to St Joseph Mary’s motherhood called for Joseph’s fatherhood In this month of March, traditionally dedicated in the Church to Saint Joseph, and on this first day of the novena [...] up the mystery of 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
Mother Mary for her recovery. His funeral was held in the church of Naves near Castres. Georges and Gina were true children of the north of France, nevertheless the couple grew fond of the region of Castres [...] March 18 – Our Lady of Mercy (Savona, Italy, 1586) - St Cyril of Jerusalem A famous conductor who loved Mary George Prêtre, a famous conductor (born on August 14, 1924, in Waziers, northern France), who [...] dedicated to his work and personality omitted to mention that George Prêtre was throughout his life a man of a vibrant Catholic faith. It is not surprising that the family obituary announced his death as “God
district of Turin, Italy. Every week, the Company met to pray and take stock of the work done or accomplished... (1) Don Bosco is the founder of the Salesian religious family, at the service of youth education [...] March 9 – Our Lady of Miracles (Treviso, Italy, 1510) – Death of Saint Dominic Savio (Italy, 1842 - 1857) An unlimited trust in Mary Having cherished the Blessed Virgin from an early age and oriented his [...] life to serving God, the young Italian Dominic Savio died on March 9, 1857, at the age of 14. He had been a pupil of the Italian priest and educator Saint John Bosco(1), in Turin, Italy. Don Bosco quickly
February 23 – Apparition of the Immaculate Mother of Victory to Cäcilia Geyer (Germany, Wangen/Wigratzbad, 1938, approved) Mary’s words “Here I am,” the key phrase for life Mankind, at the origin, says [...] 10). In the second case, however, God goes to Mary, without sin, who responds: “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord” (Lk 1:38). Here I am is the opposite of I hid myself . Here I am opens one up to God [...] ” No, Mary does not love the Lord when she feels like it, off and on. She lives by entrusting herself to God in all things and for all things. This is the secret of life. Pope Francis Angelus of December
wife." "There is a perception of the 'maternity' of the Church that comes from the 'motherhood' of Mary, the 'tenderness' of the Church that comes from the tenderness of Mary," he concluded. Zenit [...] Marco Pozza, a theologian and chaplain of the Padua prison, particularly about the prayers of the Hail Mary and the Magnificat . "When God entered the world through Mary, he came patiently." And developing [...] February 24 – Our Lady of Sorrows (Italy, 1879) – Death of Catholic writer Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955) God entered the world patiently, through Mary In a television appearance aired on December 17, 2018
baptized the name of “Mary”. The soul of every Christian begets Jesus through faith, after Mary's example: "Every believing soul (like Mary) conceives and gives birth to the Word of God... According to [...] Augustine, Doctor of the Church, (d. 430) - Our Lady of Tears (Syracuse, Italy, 1953) When a soul is baptized in Christ, its new name should be “Mary” Saint Augustine (354-430) teaches that Mary first conceived [...] in her womb. This birth of the Verb through faith heralds the birth of Jesus in the souls of those who believe in him as the One sent by the Father. This is why Saint Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) gave the
August 6 - Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Through Mary, we share in God's very life Gregory Palamas (1296-1359), a saint of the Orthodox Church, defines the Church as a "communion of deification": [...] God the son of man and she made men the sons of God; she made the earth a heaven and she made our race divine". (3) As in a cascade of light or a chain of grace, she is the "administrator" of God's riches [...] can thus better understand Mary's greatness and the role she plays now that she dwells in glory. How could Mary's body, which not only received into itself the eternal Son of God but also gave birth to
July 9 - Our Lady of Itati (Argentina) - Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Colombia) When a Jewish father sings the Hail Mary (I) Back in 1981, our Peruvian "Eau-Vive" ("Living Water") restaurant had been open [...] doves and an image of the Blessed Virgin, and placed them between mom and dad. The whole room broke into a loud applause, but many guests had tears in their eyes. Then we sang the Hail Mary. When we passed [...] son said shyly, "We're Jewish". The missionary worker invited them to join us in singing to “Mary, a daughter of Israel", and they all did! They were moved to hear the announcement over the microphone that
June 20 - Our Lady of Consolation, patron saint of Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) Former atheist and occultist converted by Mary (I) Former atheist and occultist William Toro is a Catholic apologist who [...] who spends most of his life defending the faith with theological and philosophical arguments. But it was not always like this. A few years ago, he stopped being the leader of an atheist association he founded [...] important aspects of his life, such as a childhood marked by bullying, an adolescence that led him to rebellions and fights, and a youth that found him militant in atheism. After a long period of studying leading
June 3 - Our Lady of the Letter (Messina, Italy) - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - St. Charles Lwanga and Companions Mary herself dared to say: "Why have you done this to us?" Father Guillaume de [...] de Menthière, a priest of the Diocese of Paris, gave the following homily at the funeral Mass for Father Cyril Gordien on March 20, 2023, in the Parisian church of Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge in Paris (excerpt): [...] (excerpt): "A parishioner of the Church of the Assumption in Paris challenged me yesterday by exclaiming: ‘Father, the death of this priest, who was so good, so loved, and so young, makes no sense!’ From
