born of a woman" (Gal 4:4). And so it is, the coming of the Son in our human flesh is the supreme expression of the divine method of salvation. God, who so loved the world, sent us his Son, "born of a woman"
figure of the Church, who is immaculate yet espoused" Where do we find the first mention of the expression "Mary, Mother of the Church"? Two Church Fathers, St. Augustine and St. Leo the Great, give us
a minimalistic ethic and a superficial religiosity. In this light one can understand better the expression that Benedict borrowed from St Cyprian and summed up in his Rule (IV, 21), the monks' programme
was the purity of the Virgin that Jesus had given me. I saw the Virgin so beautiful that I cannot express it to you… I saw that from the womb of the Virgin Mary flowed two fountains, one of milk, the other
him of the fact that the world has been consecrated to this Immaculate Heart by this... [obscene expression addressed to John Paul II] and that this consecration has caused the failure of many of his plans
are eyes of gentle pity, wondering sadness, and with something more in them, never yet known or expressed, something which makes her younger than sin, younger than the race from which she sprang, and though
inscription "Mother of God" (Theotokos). On her forehead and shoulders, the three shining stars express the dogma that she is a virgin before, during and after the birth of her Son. The golden tunic of
encyclical on the Sacred Heart, Haurietis aquas (1956). Throughout history, there have been various expressions of this devotion, in different forms and languages, all of them having in common the Father’s
the least bit of fear and animated by that spirit of faith that moves mountains, according to the expression of Our Lord, the young Lievin stretched his hands over the heads of those possessed men, and pronounced
national director Jonathan Luciano said, one of the highlights of the campaign is the “concrete expression of support by Filipino children to other children in countries where Christians are persecuted
