actually a more fulfilling, more transformative, more impoverishing attitude—to let oneself be looked at by the flowers. The Rosary is a little bit like that—it is a way of placing oneself, with a poor heart [...] our daily life with His glory, and that we know, with a deep sense of peace, that we are loved, looked after, and can hear God calling us and know that he understands us. The Rosary is a chaplet of single [...] radiance of the life of Jesus. A way of letting oneself be looked at by Jesus, as Mary would have done, throughout an ordinary day. * A musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition. Brother Jean
Paul VI Publishes Marialis Cultus (1974) Mary Lets Jesus Shine In Mary God shows us what grace can do in a soul, in the life of a human being. When we look at Mary, it’s as if God were challenging each one [...] capable of doing when a person is generous and trustful? Just imagine what I could do in you and through you if you would give yourself to me the way Mary did!” Think for a moment of who in your life has [...] has had the greatest impact on your life? In the same vein, which of Mary’s virtues inspires you the most? I have always been taken with her humility, her ability to get out of the way and let Christ shine
Paul VI Publishes Marialis Cultus (1974) Mary Lets Jesus Shine In Mary God shows us what grace can do in a soul, in the life of a human being. When we look at Mary, it's as if God were challenging each one [...] capable of doing when a person is generous and trustful? Just imagine what I could do in you and through you if you would give yourself to me the way Mary did!" Think for a moment of who in your life has [...] has had the greatest impact on your life? In the same vein, which of Mary's virtues inspires you the most? I have always been taken with her humility, her ability to get out of the way and let Christ shine
Brothers of Mary "I began to recite the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary every day" When he was still a bishop, Pope Francis joined a group that prayed the Rosary with St. John Paul II: "I prayed with the faithful [...] following a path that had been destined for him since he was a child. That’s when I understood the importance of Mary in the life of the Pope. The Blessed Mother was present at his side at every moment, and [...] recite the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary every day." The Rosary brings us together around Jesus and Mary and also unites us to all the faithful in the world, as if we were only one great army led by the
earthly honors; and this mother - no doubt a good mother! - would she not have rejoiced with ineffable joy when she saw her only begotten son entering Heaven with power and dominion, and ascending to the [...] Ascension of the Lord - Saint John I, pope and martyr (d. in 526 in Ravenna, Italy) Mary's joy at the Ascension of Jesus If Mary enjoyed great joy when her Son lived bodily beside her and just as much joy when [...] entered Heaven before her own eyes, with that flesh which, as she well knew, he had taken from her? Who has ever said or believed that her happiness at this moment was less than that of all the joys that
in Tre Fontane (Italy) As if we were sitting at the table with Mary The Rosary is a living prayer. It is as if we were sitting at table with Mary, talking about her Son. The more we become used to praying [...] all, we experience all these moments in our heart. As you pray the rosary with all your heart, try to welcome with a fervent love each mystery of the life of Christ, as if Mary had especially entrusted it [...] softens the soul. It is a sublime gift that the Virgin Mary has given to us, in order to bring us closer to Christ. She knows how difficult it is to contemplate the things of Heaven with our limited humanity
fight for these very truths: “Perhaps the moment has almost come for the Catholic woman to stand with Mary and with the Church under the cross.” It would be a shame to let her answer the call alone. [...] July 2 - Our Lady of Piat (Philippines) Stand With Mary and With the Church under the Cross (II) The work of a mother is hidden for the most part, and even its rewards are intangible. This is exactly why [...] Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.” In an address just before Hitler’s rise to power, Saint Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) urged a group of Catholic
fight for these very truths: "Perhaps the moment has almost come for the Catholic woman to stand with Mary and with the Church under the cross." It would be a shame to let her answer the call alone. [...] July 2 - Our Lady of Piat (Philippines) Stand With Mary and With the Church under the Cross (II) The work of a mother is hidden for the most part, and even its rewards are intangible. This is exactly why [...] t. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love." In an address just before Hitler's rise to power, Blessed Edith Stein urged a group of Catholic women to fight
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
stayed with me. The sense of Mary's presence in my life that began in that moment has stayed with me as well. As a child, I did not know or fully appreciate that Mary, the mother of Jesus, would be a steady [...] 1, 2011 – Mary, the Mother of God Mary Walks with Her Son’s Priests One of my earliest memories is of my mother teaching me the Hail Mary and explaining a picture of the Blessed Mother in a book of prayers [...] understood the communion sanctorum and Mary's privileged place in that great communion. I can clearly say that she has walked with me as my faith has unfolded. She has been a most extraordinary companion in the
