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
three days and three nights. During this time he did nothing but weep and do harsh penances in order to appease the anger of God. He used his discipline so much that his body was lacerated, and finally he [...] La Vang (Vietnam) Mary to Saint Dominic: “If you want to win souls over to God, preach my Rosary!” It was in the year 1214 that the Church received the Rosary in its present form and according to the method [...] died in infancy, the Queen sought our Lady's help more than ever, and had a large number of rosaries given out to all members of the court and to people in several towns in the Kingdom, asking them to pray
summit of love, and may the Blessed Virgin envelop us in the rays of her tenderness and love, and let us taste in advance a little of that heaven with which she is inebriated. Mother Marie of the Cross www [...] with Mary Through the Mystery of the Cross, the Lord restores our souls to splendor through all his sufferings. Let us stay with Mary, close to the Cross, her soul pierced by a sword of grief. And what [...] of Jesus could not be immersed in sorrow without Mary's soul sharing in the crucifixion. Her compassionate heart is the fruit of a great love for Jesus and for sinners. He who remains united to the vine
of Mary The Blessed Virgin Mary is the only human actor in the history of Salvation. Mary saw it all and lived it all. The salvific mission of Christ cannot be complete without the mention of Mary. Hence [...] pandemic, wars, violence, killings, insecurity and terrorism ... Let us journey with Mary through the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. Mary is our defender and maternal protector against danger. She defended [...] this devotion and accorded it the universal character it has. In these difficult times, we can benefit from this knowledge of who the Blessed Virgin Mary is in the plan of our salvation and what we can achieve
are Saturdays especially dedicated to the Virgin Mary? In the Catholic Church, Saturdays are special days in the liturgy and are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. On most Saturdays throughout the year, priests [...] a votive office for each day of the week, and two offices especially for Saturday in honor of the Virgin Mary. But this still does not tell us why Saturday and not another day. According to St. Thomas Aquinas [...] the existing link between Saturday and devotion to Our Lady, whose role has always been to draw the faithful to her Son Jesus. Saturday is a "day of preparation", and Mary is the one who prepares us to harvest
flesh born of Mary is the bread that came down from heaven One cannot contemplate Mary without being attracted to Christ, and one cannot look at Christ without immediately perceiving Mary's presence. There [...] filled us with the angelic gift. Mary has restored to salvation what Eve had destroyed by her fault." And St. Peter Damian notes: "This body which the most blessed Virgin Mary begot, nourished in her womb [...] devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is associated with a strong and constant reminder of the Eucharist through daily Eucharistic celebrations, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and the blessing of the sick
(Portugal, 1917) June 13, 1917: The consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the reparation of sins As soon as Jacinta, Francisco and I had finished praying the Rosary, with a number of other people who [...] take us to Heaven.” “Yes. I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon. But you are to stay here some time longer. Jesus wishes to make use of you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish in the world devotion [...] forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.” As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands and for the second time, she communicated to us the rays
Our Lady of Coromoto (Venezuela) Mary appears to a tribal chief to urge him to be baptized At the end of the 16th century, the evangelization efforts of the Franciscans and Dominicans in Venezuela had produced [...] Kospes tribe so that they could both settle there and receive instruction in the faith. Most of them were baptized, but the cacique, who missed his jungle and his independence, refused baptism. There, he [...] 8x10 inches in size, it represents the Virgin Mary in a sitting position with the child Jesus on her lap. Jesus is holding the globe with his left hand and blessing it with his right hand. After this second
grace and virtue?" The Blessed Virgin answered, "You should know that I considered myself to be the vilest creature and most unworthy of divine grace. Therefore I never ceased to ask for virtue and grace [...] made a resolution in my heart to take God as my father, and I often wondered what I could do to please him. I also made vows to remain virgin and possess nothing on this earth. I placed my whole will in [...] for the birth of the Redeemer's mother and eagerly entreated God to preserve my eyes so that I might see her, my tongue so that I might praise her, my hands and feet so that I might serve her, my knees
from Nazareth, but she returned and lived there with Jesus and Joseph, who worked to earn their daily bread. But what was the bread that nourished the faith of Mary and Joseph? It was the sacrament of [...] (Rome, 1610) Mary Did Her Part (III) There is very little unusual about the outward life of the Blessed Virgin, or at least the Gospels do not record it. They show her life as very simple and ordinary. What [...] What she did and endured might have been done and endured by anyone in her station of life. She visited her cousin Elizabeth just as her other relatives did. Like all her neighbors, she went to Bethlehem
