Why didn't Mary ask for the first miracle earlier? In his commentary on the dialogue between Mary and Jesus at the Wedding at Cana, St. John Chrysostom offers this explanation: "Now there was a shortage [...] given Mary the highest impression of the child of whom she was the mother. Saint Luke confirms this explanation when he says: 'And his mother kept all these things in her heart.' Why, then, did Mary not [...] his mother had not dared to make a similar request. But as soon as she heard the testimony John had given of him, and saw him surrounded by disciples, she prayed to him with confidence. Translated from Marian
Virgin Mary (VII) The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same [...] Now, since Mary is of all creatures the one most conformed to Jesus Christ, it follows that among all devotions that which most consecrates and conforms a soul to our Lord is devotion to Mary, his Holy [...] and that the more a soul is consecrated to her the more will it be consecrated to Jesus Christ." Never as in the Rosary do the lives of Jesus and Mary appear so deeply joined. Mary lives only in Christ
these things in her heart” (Lk 2:51). Mary’s memory is first of all a retention of the events in remembrance, but it is more than that: It is an interior conversation with all that has happened. Thanks to this [...] July 12 - Our Lady of Lure (Avignon, France, 1110) Mary Remembers What John says in his Gospel about how remembering becomes understanding and the path “into all the truth” (Jn 16:13) comes very close [...] account of the Annunciation of Jesus’ conception by the Archangel Gabriel. There Luke tells us that Mary took fright at the angel’s greeting and entered into an interior “dialogue” about what the greeting
case of a Protestant who distrusts the Mother of Jesus and the saints, the Virgin Mary stays in the background. Until the intelligence of the soul accepts the reality of the communion of saints, Mary respects [...] Nuestra Senora de la Paz (Antipolo, Philippines) Will the Virgin Mary be there when I die? Jesus does not come alone. He brings all the saints with him. Since the role of the saints and of the deceased’s relatives [...] on the soul’s unique sensibility. If the person is Catholic or Orthodox and is close to the Virgin Mary, she will be there. In many of her apparitions she has explicitely promised to assist at the time
is enticing them to follow. Father Emmanuel Excerpt from Chaque jour avec Marie, dans la Sainte Espérance (Every day with Mary, in Holy Hope), § 31 Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France [...] April 18 – Our Lady of Health (Italy, 1428) – Beatification of Sister Faustina Kowalska (1993) Mary wants us to be faithful Christians Our Lady wants us to be faithful to God, and to be better Christians [...] too deserving of Our Lord's reproach: "Men of little faith!” Our faith is too often languid, and as a result, our hope is weak and our charity grows cold. We get preoccupied by what is happening around
Council of Toledo in 656 In the time of the Virgin Mary, this conjunction of planets occurred three times The Babylonian astrologers had calculated with remarkable accuracy the coming of the star of the [...] then discovered an ancient commentary on Scripture by Rabbi Abarbanel, recalling that, according to a Jewish belief, the Messiah was to appear precisely when, in the constellation of Pisces, the light of
Virgin Mary the forerunner of the forgiveness that we seek, the mercy that God shows us, and the power of God at work in our life. "Nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37), the Angel said to Mary, not [...] for the evil that we do. The Virgin Mary intercedes for sinners because she is inscribed in this eternal will of God to bring salvation to the world. ...It is therefore a great hope for us to recognize in [...] December 7 – Vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mary, the great gift of God to the human race "In the Epistle to the Ephesians, Saint Paul reminds us that God chose us in Christ before the
(Portugal) My Name is Lady Mary (II) Finally, one morning at the end of September, the shepherdess, who had left her sheep and goats to graze on a river bank, saw Lady Mary in the distance, glowing beautifully [...] like the sun. She hastened to catch up with her. But the old wooden bridge that crossed the river was broken, so she crossed the water by climbing on the back of a big goat. When she had got close to the [...] to the village of The Laus and found the small chapel. She entered and saw the Virgin Mary standing on the altar. Mary congratulated her on having searched without losing her patience. Delighted as she was
to do specifically with a wife and espousals. It is all contained in the intimate, total, definitive "here I am" said to God. God is not known - in the biblical sense of the word - in a conceptual, intellectual [...] is the woman who is the stronger sex." Therefore, for a woman - provided she is called to it - the religious consecration of her whole person is a privileged enhancement of her deepest being, of what she [...] first Marian shrine of Haiti (Cozumel, Haiti, 1518) – Our Lady of Walsingham (Walsingham, England) Mary's feminine "here I am" reveals the universal feminine "here I am" (II) The woman, every woman, is
would resume without the daily anguish of learning that a son, a husband, or a father had been killed in combat. The next year, it turned out that only a handful of those 40,000 communes - less than 10 in fact [...] 1800) – 12th apparition at Lourdes (France, 1858) Mary brought back all the men of this French village safely from the war On November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m., all the bells of the 40,000 communes (civil [...] They regularly received the ‘bulletin of the armies’ with the long list of fallen soldiers who had died for their country. Each time, they breathed a sigh of relief: none of "their men" was on the grim
