punctuating our space with heaven’s beat as the world outside fractures. We do not pray alone, but rather with—with Mary to carry our prayers to her Son, with saints whose charism coincides with our intentions [...] Christian, and a little Motown remix… The Rosary is musical, much like those moments. Praying the Rosary is a back and forth movement, a swaying to the music of the Holy. The Hail Marys’ familiar words [...] of Sorrows (Quito, Ecuador) The Rosary has something musical about it I often used to spend time with a friend from church I’d known for years. During all our conversations, music lightly played in the
letter M surmounted with a little cross and below it the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Again, an interior voice spoke, telling me to have a medal struck on this model. It would be a source of wonderful [...] same moment I heard a voice saying, 'These rays are symbols of all the graces that Mary obtains for people.' (...) "Then an oval formed around the Blessed Virgin, and I read these words: 'O Mary, conceived [...] wonderful graces to those who wear it with confidence.
3, 1933, with a beautiful dialogue between the little children and Our Lady: "Do you love my Son? Do you love me? Then sacrifice yourselves." Her message is about love, a love to be deepened, a love for [...] Virgin. A love that ends in sacrifice. Sacrifice is a difficult word, but when she said to sacrifice yourself she surely meant to say give yourself, give your life. Perhaps in this very difficult moment that [...] also give ourselves in difficult moments, offering our life and our suffering, offering our pain out of love. At Beauraing Mary showed her Heart of gold: she appeared in a school courtyard, the Institute
Joseph as a sign from the Lord, a message of enlightened faith and persevering service. Beginning with Simeon’s prophecy, Mary intensely and mysteriously unites her life with Christ’s sorrowful mission: [...] and day with fasting and prayer” (Lk 2:37), offer the Holy Family a further incentive to put their hope in the God of Israel. At this particular moment, Anna’s behavior would have appeared to Mary and Joseph [...] Paul II’s First Visit to Poland (Czestochowa, 1979) Mary Has a Role in Jesus’ Saving Mission (II) Simeon’s prophecy is followed by the meeting with the prophetess Anna: “She began to praise God, and spoke
Joseph as a sign from the Lord, a message of enlightened faith and persevering service. Beginning with Simeon's prophecy, Mary intensely and mysteriously unites her life with Christ's sorrowful mission: [...] and day with fasting and prayer" (Lk 2:37), offer the Holy Family a further incentive to put their hope in the God of Israel. At this particular moment, Anna's behavior would have appeared to Mary and Joseph [...] Paul II’s First Visit to Poland (Czestochowa, 1979) Mary Has a Role in Jesus’ Saving Mission (II) Simeon's prophecy is followed by the meeting with the prophetess Anna: "She began to praise God, and spoke
(Spain) As a good Mother, Mary never wants to abandon her children There can be a no more difficult experience for a mother than to witness the death of her child. It is heartrending. We see Mary there, at [...] situations… Mary has always been in our hospitals, our schools and our homes. She has always sat at table in every home… Hers has been a discreet and silent presence, making itself felt through a statue, a holy [...] card or a medal. Under the sign of the Rosary, we know that we are never alone, that she always accompanies us. Why? Because Mary simply wants to be in the midst of her people, with her children, with her
mother. (Take a minute to express your heartfelt thoughts to Mary in personal prayer.) Now Mary please turn your gaze on me... (Take a minute to experience Mary's gentle presence in the silence of your soul [...] this "heart to heart" moment with you. As Jesus, I say unto you, you are my mother, I am your child. By the Holy Spirit, lead me to my Father in Heaven because I am his child. O Mary my mother! Amen. [...] (5th C.) O Mary My Mother! Let me nestle up close on your heart, like your son Jesus, where I will be safe. Protect me, console me, reassure me, and comfort me. Listen to me as your own child, Mary my mother
the son of David and a carpenter, would give him a name in the royal line of David. Faced with Mary's pregnancy, Joseph responded with the greatest respect for her person and with the most docile obedience [...] uncertainty, he chose the solution that was most respectful of Mary. This is the mark of a good man with a big heart. He had too much respect for Mary to condemn her to the reprobation of the whole village, and [...] March 19– Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) Joseph understood Mary's silence A shadow crept into Joseph's happiness. Mary was now lost to him: he would be alone, and she too would
you. The Rosary is a bit like that: it is a way of placing oneself, with the heart of a pauper, under the radiance of the life of Jesus. It is a way of letting Jesus look at you, as Mary did, throughout the [...] us how much we are loved, looked after, called and understood by a God who works wonders. The Rosary is a string of moments where Mary, Mother of Jesus, brings us her presence and her intercession, as [...] saving moments of the life of Jesus. The Rosary allows us to inhabit her gaze, to commune with her listening, and to enter into resonance with the prayer of her heart. There are many ways to cross a garden
November 11 - Paul VI declared Mary "Mother of the Church" (1964) A Son of Israel Converts (I) Hermann Cohen was born in Hamburg on November 10, 1821. His family held a distinguished rank among the twenty [...] own success, lived a sinful, dissolute life, ruled by his passions alone. However, at age 26, one Friday in May of the same year, a friend asked him to fill in for him at the head of a church choir, during [...] become Catholic. A few months later, having overcome his prejudices against priests, he attended Mass numerous times. On August 8, in Germany for a concert, he attended Sunday Mass in a little church. At
