1660) Mary, Mother of God’s Word and Temple of the Trinity The Blessed Virgin, temple of the Holy Trinity, radiates God's light. Daughter of the Father, source of life, Mary is not a goddess but a creature [...] page evokes Mary's availability and her absence of sin. Through Mary, God made Himself visible to our eyes. The Life of God was manifested in Jesus. Whoever sees Jesus sees the Father. Just as a narrative [...] patronage of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God’s Word. Of about 400 female congregations of apostolic life, 130 have a Marian name. No one has loved the Word made flesh as much as Mary. No one has welcomed

we can honor Mary We honor Mary by actively participating in today’s Mass and in all the Marian feasts of the Church throughout the year. In these Masses and at other times, we give Mary hyperdulia (an [...] in God’s kingdom. Everything that happens to us has a good meaning and it is up to us to try, with God’s help, to discover and appreciate it. Mary’s words at the wedding feast of Cana reveal her basic [...] These are prayers we should pray so often we have them memorized. We can honor Mary by cultivating an interior life like hers. Mary meditated on, that is, thought about, the events of her life in relation to

Bull" that Pope John XXII granted in 1317, after having been favored by a vision of the Blessed Queen of Carmel. The Virgin Mary promised the Holy Father to deliver from Purgatory, on the Saturday after [...] celebrated mass at Le Bourget Airport (Official visit to France, 1980) Saturday, the day consecrated to Mary Among the many spiritual privileges granted by the Church to those who wear the Brown Scapular, the [...] Cross, while close to death, happily recalled "how the Mother of God of Carmel, on Saturday, came with her help and favor to Purgatory, and how she delivered the souls of religious or people who had worn

consecrate the parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In a great act of faith, the priest entrusted the pastoral success of his parish to the Virgin Mary, and created a spiritual organization in honor of the [...] became a parish church. There were few parishioners, as it was in a commercial area, and in fact the priest, Fr. Charles Dufriche-Desgenettes, was considering resigning due to what he perceived to be a failure [...] Victories (Paris, France) Dedicate your parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary One of the 16 churches in Paris to be designated as a Minor Basilica , Our Lady of Victories (Notre-Dame-des-Victoires), is one

Christ The Virgin Mary tells the story of the Nativity (II) In The Gospel as Revealed to Me , by Maria Valtorta, the Virgin Mary returned to the grotto of Bethlehem many years later with Jesus and his Apostles [...] enveloped the Just ... I heard another voice from the earth: Are you sleeping, Mary? But it was so distant ... An echo, a memory of the earth, so weak that it didn’t reach the soul. I do not know what [...] what answer I made while I kept rising in this abyss of fire, of infinite beatitude, a foretaste of God, to him, to Him ... Oh! But was it you who were born, or was it I who was born of the Trinitarian splendor

shot the Pope from a distance of less than twenty feet. In great pain, the Holy Father kept repeating, “Mary, my Mother! Mary, my Mother!” Exactly one year after, the Pope made a pilgrimage to Fatima [...] (2005) Saint Pope John Paul II’s devotion to Mary Pope John Paul II’s devotion to Holy Mary cannot be understood without reference to his beloved Poland, a country distinguished by its intensely fervent [...] portrayed Mary with an “M” in the Papal Coat of Arms, the first Pope in the Church’s history to do so. On May 13, 1981, 64th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish

(Dalmatia) Everything taught about Mary also applies to the Church What is the Church? To answer this question, we can turn to Saint Paul. Or we can just look at Mary, because a rule of ecclesiology holds that [...] passage in the Gospels equates the Virgin with the new people of God? The answer is found in the account of the Announcement of the birth of Jesus made to Mary: "Mary said to the angel, ‘How shall this be [...] announces that the Spirit will create a new people: "...until the Spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the desert is turned into an orchard, and the orchard into a forest." The same expression reappears

for Jesus, Mary, and souls. Saint Louis's passion and zeal lit a fire in young Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope Saint John Paul II. A few years before his death, the pope was able to realize a lifelong dream [...] 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) Saint Louis de Montfort, the warrior of Jesus and Mary Take a look at a map of France. Now notice something about its shape. See how one part sticks way out almost [...] wild warriors, for nobody wanted to mess with him either. In fact, he was known for having the fieriest temper in all of Brittany. As one author puts it, "He was a frequently erupting volcano." Saint Louis

the Parish (Italy, 1829) Where Mary is, so too is the Church I’ve sometimes had to explain to non-Catholics that we do not worship the Virgin Mary but rather pray to her with deep veneration. Manchester [...] Maria, ibi ecclesia” — “where Mary is, so is the Church.” Wherever the Blessed Mother is loved and praised and her protection sought, the Church is strong. [...] Where Mary is, so too is the Church. And [...] University’s John Rylands Library is home to a scrap of Egyptian papyrus that experts date to about 250 AD and which contains the words in Greek, “Mother of God (Theotokos) hear my supplications: suffer

but especially thanks to the Virgin Mary. Her statue should have been smashed, because the great vault fell on her. But the stones fell at her feet. For me, this was a sign. It was she who wanted to stay [...] June 28 – Saint Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon and martyr (died c. 202) "I am convinced that it was Mary who protected Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris" Three years to the day after the fire that partially destroyed [...] opportunity to clean up the cathedral as we have never done it before. I am convinced that it was Mary who protected the cathedral. I often say that it was saved thanks to the firemen, thanks also to the