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
memorial feasts and other feasts of the saints in every country, that punctuate the liturgical year. Instead, because we at A Moment with Mary have the mission to make Mary known and loved, i.e. to promote [...] promote devotion towards our Mother Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church, and to go to Jesus our Savior through her, we have chosen to establish a daily calendar that is essentially Marian. [...] Blessed Virgin Mary and so many Marian shrines all over the world, that we couldn’t fit them all in 365 days! Therefore, we have drawn up a Marian calendar from a selection of her feasts and the feasts of
the middle of a forest and completely rebuilt in 1687. According to tradition, this shrine was built on a spot where shepherds had once found a wooden statue of the Madonna and Child. They took the statue [...] build her a shrine in Machaby. Bandits used to hideout and hold prisoners in a cave inside the shrine. One day a young girl—who was also kidnapped and thrown in the cave with other victims stunned with fear—told [...] should have confidence in Our Lady of Machaby and pray to her. Responding to their prayer, Our Lady of the Snows (Our Lady of Machaby) appeared to the prisoners and, smiling, showed them a place in the cave
desires, and worse still, our own little comfort. The Word of God was able to take flesh in Mary's womb because Mary was both abandoned to the will of God and co-operated entirely, body and soul, with [...] to resemble Mary If we want to resemble Mary, to be transformed from the inside out as the years go by, we must have this double movement of both momentum and passivity. "Yes, I am here," and at the same [...] pliable, and normally, when the Holy Spirit dwells in us, we have this flexibility in us. Flexibility is the watchword to make our hearts totally available to God’s action. Father Michel Marie Zanotti Sorkine
entrust ourselves to Mary Saint Pius X (pope from 1903-1914, canonized on May 29, 1954) wrote 16 encyclicals. One of them, entitled Ad Diem Illum (1904), is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was written to [...] the closest ties of intimacy and domestic life. Who could better than His Mother have an open knowledge of the admirable mysteries of the birth and childhood of Christ, and above all of the mystery of the [...] it, Pius X asserts the importance of entrusting oneself to the Virgin Mary in order to know Jesus better: Through the Virgin, and through her more than through any other means, we have been offered a way
of being baptized and encouraged the other natives to do the same. Some went forward and were baptized anyway, but many followed the chief. Our Lady appeared to him again in 1652, and he likewise ignored [...] ) Some time thereafter, the chief was bitten by a poisonous snake and seemed in danger of death. Remembering the apparition and Mary’s promise that if he got baptized, he would go to Heaven, he urgently [...] the Blessed Mother and Jesus, are authentic to the culture and time period of the Coromoto people in 17th-century Venezuela. How the image itself was created remains mysterious and is believed to be miraculous
Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) Why did Mary stay on earth after the Ascension? This delay was a great consolation for Christ’s disciples. It took nothing from the Mother, and it brought remedies of salvation [...] might enjoy maternal assistance and education. Although already instructed by the Spirit, they still had to learn from the one who gave the world the Sun of righteousness and made the source of Wisdom spring [...] flesh, to be able to see his Mother and be consoled by this loving sight. St Amadeus of Lausanne, Cistercian Abbot (1110-1159) Homily 7 : The death of the Virgin and her Assumption
December 6 – Our Lady of the Vow (Siena, Italy) When Mary transforms hearts Coming from near and far, regardless of their country of origin, numerous pilgrims to Medjugorje return home spiritually transformed [...] us that, these days, the people don’t use curse words in their village. Young and old have confessed their past sins, and are completely changed. We were very touched by their profound transformation! [...] come to midnight Mass. Today, these same sons are here every Sunday and even every evening, kneeling by the altar in deep prayer and sincere devotion. Nasa Ognjista, XI, 10 (78), Duvno, December 1981,
Efesina (Russia, 988) - Pie XII (d. 1958) Mary Reigns over the Entire World The Supreme Shepherds of the Church have considered it their duty to promote by eulogy and exhortation the devotion of the Christian [...] heavenly Mother and Queen. Simply passing over the documents of more recent pontiffs, it is helpful to recall that as early as the seventh century our predecessor Saint Martin I, called Mary "our glorious [...] Council, called her "Our Lady, truly and in a proper sense the Mother of God." In the eighth century Gregory II in the letter sent to St Germanus, the patriarch, and read in the Seventh Ecumenical Council
