occurred if Mary’s place in the Christian life had not first been diminished? Dr. Gress: No, this would never have happened if Our Lady had been held at the center of culture… I have seen Protestants write about [...] connect their will with God’s will, and then through that they were able to do things they could never do – things they could only do through God. I am thinking of women like St Helen, St. Lucy, St Monica
has limits, hers does not. Go to Mary. Go to that incomparable Mother, and believe that she will never make any difference between you and her dear Son. She will consider you as the flesh of her flesh
the kind of couple you’d look at and say, “Oh yeah, they’re big into the rosary.” I never liked the rosary. I was never sure if I was supposed to be focusing on the mystery, or the prayer, or my intentions [...] intentions, or some combination. It was what you did as a penance, or because your parents made you. I never knew if I was supposed to be coming up with some brilliant new insight into the life of Mary, or finding
asked a lot of vivid, direct, and often unexpected questions. Bernadette responded clearly, briefly, never exceeding the question at hand, completely unemotional, sometimes answering after a slight hesitation
why your sweet name fills my heart with joy, and why the thought of your majestic greatness, could never inspire fear within my soul. Yet, if I were to see you now, in sublime glory, surpassing all the saints
Lourdes’ grotto in 1858. Saint Bernadette said of the event: “I saw only the Blessed Virgin. I have never seen her look so beautiful.” After months without pilgrims, the Shrine is facing a forecasted loss [...] the poor and sick, an unparalleled school of life, service and prayer. It is a spiritual jewel that never ceases to give meaning and hope to our lives,” he said. “The resources of the Shrine are reliant on
the model of the soul that seeks the Lord "in the night of faith": "For me the Blessed Virgin will never be hidden!" During a retreat in September 1896, she understood in a new way her call to infinite love: [...] good will and be content with it... The Blessed Virgin shows me that she is not angry with me; she never fails to protect me as soon as I invoke her." www.notrehistoireavecmarie.com
"I have always felt Jesus near me. At the age of 2, I made the sign of the cross, although I had never learned it in my family: my father is a Muslim; my mother, a Catholic, was not practicing. One day [...] similar. Later, we met again, and she suggested that we pray the rosary together. Until that day, I had never finished it, as I found it a bit boring! But on that day we prayed a whole rosary and I felt as if
was stuck to this ravishing beauty: Mary!... If I wanted, I said, to explain all this, I would never, never manage to convey the whole truth..." Letter from the seer Mélanie to Father Félicien Bliard, dated
cause. God loves France, where at no time has the faith lost its vigor, where kings and soldiers have never hesitated to face perils and to give their blood for the preservation of the faith and of religious [...] St. Pius X precisely about the eldest daughter: "Her faults will not go unpunished, but she will never perish, the daughter of so many merits, of so many sighs and so many tears" (St. Pius X, November
