and the Virgin Mary" - "Do you know how to be in the grace of God?" someone asked Joan during her trial. - "It is a great thing," she replied, "to answer such a request!" - "Yes, it is a great thing," said [...] be the saddest creature in the world if I knew I were not in His grace." She added, if she were in a state of sin, she did not think that the voice would come to her; I am not in it, God put me in it! [...] and to all the blessed men and women saints of Paradise. And I am of the opinion that it is all one with Our Lord and the Church, and that there should be no difficulty about it. Why do we make it difficult
Therese Couderc, foundress of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Cenacle (d. 1885) Mary is the secret of God Because Mary remained hidden during her life she is called by the Holy Spirit and the Church "Alma [...] though Mary was his faithful spouse, God the Holy Spirit willed that his apostles and evangelists should say very little about her and then only as much as was necessary to make Jesus known. Mary is the [...] foster her humility. He called her "Woman" as if she were a stranger, although in his heart he esteemed and loved her above all men and angels. Mary is the sealed fountain and the faithful spouse of the Holy
the allowance for adults with disabilities since the beginning of this year. But what makes me happy is that I have been walking normally since last June. I owe this miracle to a medal that I found in an [...] I have to! I have been praying to the Virgin Mary every morning since 1996. She is even tattooed on my shoulder! Before that I was an atheist. I became a believer following my first stay at the Sainte-Anne
brief exchange with Lucia, just before rising to Heaven, the Blessed Virgin said: "Say the Rosary every day to bring peace to the world and an end to the war (WWI)." This idea seems to be a little forgotten [...] alone suffices. Ora et labora! Besides our prayers, God also asks us to act, even if sometimes, from a human point of view, our modest actions may seem to have little chance of succeeding. But to these concrete [...] said Our Lord. We can also interpret his admonition as "Without the Rosary, you can do nothing." The Mary of Nazareth Team
Rosary as a profound, life-sustaining encounter with God. Shouldn’t we? Tod Worner Tod Worner is a husband, father, Catholic convert and practicing internal medicine physician. He blogs at A Catholic Thinker [...] feverish delirium, moments of lucidity found the soldier’s trembling finger tracing — etching — something onto the earthen floor. Ten dots were roughly connected in a circle and in the center, a cross. And then [...] bloodied lips began to mutter, Hail, Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee… The Rosary, this soldier later recalled, was what kept him sane in the midst of a time of incomprehensible ruthlessness
shown to Mary somehow detracted from or competed with my love for Christ. And that was my error: seeing those loves as competitives. [...] Mary is not a mediator in the same way that Christ is a mediator [...] Through Mary, the Incarnation is made known to us. Mary, then, is a mediator between Christ and humankind, in a way that is both analogous to from Christ’s mediation to the Father. This notion of a human [...] wanted to know, which exposed the deep-seated unease I still harbored toward Mary - the real Mary, not Mary qua feminist symbol. For a while, I tried to dismiss the whole experience, write it off as some imaginative
to clarify a point regarding our June 17, 2022, issue of A Moment with Mary: “On June 17, your article stated: We do not know if Louis XIV had knowledge of the message. You were referring to a message dated [...] often: 'Sweet Heart of Mary, be the salvation of Russia, Spain and Portugal, of Europe and the whole world.' And at other times: 'Through your pure and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, obtain for me the conversion [...] dated June 17, 1689, brought by the nun St. Margaret Mary to King Louis XIV, asking him on behalf of Our Lord for the consecration to his Heart. Louis XIV did not carry out this consecration, and 100 years
is spreading like a flood of filth and is being propagated by the means of social communication, especially the cinema, the press and television. By means of this last-mentioned, a subtle and diabolical [...] every family. The most defenceless victims are children and youth, whom I look upon with the tender preoccupation of a Mother. Only the powerful force of prayer and reparative penance will be able to save [...] the greater part of my children spend the last hours of the year in amusement and dissipation, watch with Me, my beloved ones, in silence and more intense prayer. Prayer of thanksgiving—for all the graces
the proud it represents a stumbling block. *The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. Pope [...] does. The exceptional grace that God gave to Mary was the ability to say a perfectly free yes when He asked her to be the Mother of the Savior. On her own Mary could not have escaped the mark of original [...] Catholics and Orthodox look at Mary as if she were God. No Catholic or Orthodox believes this. They simply believe that Mary is All Pure, All Immaculate, and has been so from the moment of her conception, because
souls of this great Mercy! Mary, Mother of Mercy, occupied a very special place in the spirituality of Saint Faustina, who from childhood was very attached to Mary. When she became a nun in the Congregation [...] n of Our Lady of Mercy, her devotion to Mary grew even more. Sister Faustina was favored with several visions of Mary during which the holy Mother of God instructed her, helped her and assisted her in [...] Mother” (Notebook 330). Sister Faustina venerated Mary especially as the Mother of the Son of God, who is Mercy incarnate, and Mother of all mankind. Mary taught Faustina to live in the presence of God in
