"sorrowful" Friday and "joyful" Sunday -so we cannot reach Saturday without going from sorrow to glory. Mary is therefore placed between us creatures living in this land of exile and Jesus Christ already [...] in His heavenly glory. We can discover Mary's role as Mediatrix in this awareness. 6.On Saturday Christ languished in the sepulchre and the apostles, unbelieving and discouraged, had hidden "by fear of the [...] the faith of the Church was concentrated in its entirety on Mary. Therefore, each Saturday is the memory of the Virgin Mary who believes and who awaits the resurrection of her Son. 7. The Mother of Jesus
universe was created by God and God was born of Mary. God created all things and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave Himself form, through Mary and thus He made His own creation. He who [...] ruined creation, without Mary. God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life and Mary the mother through whom [...] blessed by creation. To Mary, God gave His only-begotten Son, whom He loved as Himself. Through Mary, God made Himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary. The whole universe
we can honor Mary We honor Mary by actively participating in today’s Mass and in all the Marian feasts of the Church throughout the year. In these Masses and at other times, we give Mary hyperdulia (an [...] God’s instruments and fellow workers in God’s kingdom. Everything that happens to us has a good meaning and it is up to us to try, with God’s help, to discover and appreciate it. Mary’s words at the wedding [...] Hail Holy Queen, the Memorarae , and so on. These are prayers we should pray so often we have them memorized. We can honor Mary by cultivating an interior life like hers. Mary meditated on, that is, thought
admirable, and who humbly fulfill their mission day after day. It is important that we, the laity, support them with our prayer and sacrifices, so that they remain strong in the faith and well-armed in [...] June 21 - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (d. 1591) Novena to the Virgin Mary who guards priests The Church is affected by scandals and targeted by the media. It is in turmoil. In order to help respond to this [...] this crisis, layman Guillaume d'Alançon stresses the importance of prayer, and even proposes a new novena for priests. A husband and father, d'Alançon aspires to share the Christian message that holiness is
at such a young age. However, in Mary’s culture, having a child at that age was common. Couples got married and had children sooner than they typically do now. So Mary and the people around her didn’t find [...] April 17 - Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) We should all adopt Mary’s faith Historians believe Mary was between 12 and 14 years old when Jesus was born. She was a teenager, which may be shocking in [...] with. However, Mary was more spiritually mature than her age suggested. God knew her soul and chose her soul out of numerous others to be the earthly mother to the world’s Savior. Mary could handle her
Lourdes How was Mary’s faith a journey? The Council says that Mary “advanced in her pilgrimage of faith” ( ibid. , 58). In this way she precedes us on this pilgrimage , she accompanies and sustains us. How [...] other than to follow Jesus; to listen to him and be guided by his words; to see how he acts and to follow in his footsteps; to have his same sentiments. And what are these sentiments of Jesus? Humility [...] night … And when she received word that the tomb was empty, her heart was filled with the joy of faith: Christian faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Faith always brings us to joy, and Mary
didn't even want to write - and that is understandable. When we experience certain things, when we have had such close ties to someone - like the relationship between Jesus and John - we don't really feel [...] that John communicated to him. This friendship between John and Luke always reminds me of the relationship that God worked between Moses and Aaron at the time of Moses' vocation. When God sent Moses to [...] bring the people of Israel out of Egypt, Moses was afraid and he immediately found a good excuse: "Please, my Lord, I have never been eloquent." And God answered him: "There is your brother Aaron the Levite
spiritually to this popular act of faith and devotion, so that through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, the Lord may grant mercy and peace to the Church and to the whole world,” the Pontiff said. [...] the sick and newlyweds to place themselves with confidence under Mary's protection. "Be certain that she will not deny you her assistance in your hour of trial." Twice each year, on May 8th and again on [...] goes back to Blessed Bartolo Longo, who converted from satanism and became, as Saint John Paul II said at his beatification, “a man of Mary.” Bartolo felt Our Lady told him that his path to Heaven was through
Albania and Croatia), then, on the night of December 9-10, 1294, to the ancient territory of Recanati (near Ancona, Italy), first close to the harbor and then to the hill where the house of Mary still stands [...] out in Nazareth, in the Church of the Annunciation, between 1955 and 1960, and in Loreto in the basement of the Holy House between 1962 and 1965. In Nazareth, the excavations showed that the house of the [...] Holy House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) The House of Mary, transported from Nazareth to Loreto In 1291, when the crusaders left the Holy Land for good and the Muslim armies, as they advanced, sacked all the
unexpected ways. [...] Joy and hope instilled through praying it, because it brings us closer to Jesus and Mary. We never have to ask whether or not we are loved by Jesus and Mary with each petal of prayer [...] (All Souls’ Day) “When I let Mary enfold me in her maternal presence, the anxiety blurring my vision was cleared away” Like being in a sunlit, tranquil garden, being with Mary and Jesus as I prayed the rosary [...] live lives of faith, hope, and charity. No matter how many times we pray the rosary, we can always see these virtues illuminated in the Mysteries, understanding how the joyful and sorrowful experiences of
