Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.” More than anyone else, Mary was a disciple of her son. Her life was entirely given to bringing forth the Word of God. She was conceived of the Redemption, and lived [...] at the end of her time on earth, she was taken body and soul into the Heavenly Kingdom. She is both hidden within God and offered to all of us. Mary is near us in the glory of her Assumption. She is forever [...] the Church, that we constantly become. Let us not reduce Mary to a saint we should call on now and again. The maternal love of the Virgin Mary is ever present. In God, we are forever her children. Let

grace of God, you must find Mary." (1) Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort was a French Catholic priest (1673-1716), author of the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin and The Secret of the Rosary [...] France) Why we must find Mary Saint Louis de Montfort (1) explains that there are many ways to use the grace that God gives us for each day to produce fruits of holiness. And he lists the means that are [...] These means are found in the Gospel and the lives of all the saints: "Humility of heart, continual prayer, mortification in all things, surrender to Divine Providence, and conformity to the will of God." While

be extra attentive and loving to the whole family. And for dessert, as a surprise, we brought two beautiful ice doves and an image of the Blessed Virgin, and placed them between mom and dad. The whole room [...] we sang the Hail Mary. When we passed out the sheets with the evening prayer, the eldest son said shyly, "We're Jewish". The missionary worker invited them to join us in singing to “Mary, a daughter of Israel" [...] Lady of Itati (Argentina) - Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Colombia) When a Jewish father sings the Hail Mary (I) Back in 1981, our Peruvian "Eau-Vive" ("Living Water") restaurant had been open only 5 months

good teacher, Mary does not act in our place, but she teaches us to do what we must do, how, and when we must do it. Then our life becomes ordered, and is deeply pacified. “By asking Mary to pray for us [...] feel rotten to the core, can taste absolute purity and find their way back to it. Mary is our Mother: this is not an honorary title, but a reality as concrete as the maternity of all earthly mothers. The [...] is that our maternal love is limited, fragile, mixed with selfishness, laziness, and cowardice... but not the love of Mary, precisely because she is immaculate. Her purity does not make her ethereal, a little

Palestine, is dedicated to the divine maternity of the Virgin Mary The Virgin Mary’s breast milk has been the subject of veneration for centuries and even today couples battling infertility often imbue it with [...] in Bethlehem, where faith and fertility go hand in hand. The Milk Grotto in Bethlehem, Palestine, is dedicated to the divine maternity of the Virgin Mary. Both Christian and Muslim believers claim that [...] in from all over the world. These days, the underground cave is filled with altars and artworks of the Virgin Mary and her child. But the site has been a place of homage since the 4th century AD, with a

Let us spend his "day" in joy and Christian gladness and let us ask Our Lady to help us receive this grace of new life more and more, to obtain for us a greater faith and a more radical conversion of our [...] If Christ had not risen, our faith would be vain, says St. Paul, and we would be the most miserable of men. But Christ is truly risen and he appeared to the Apostles! Each Sunday we relive this mystery [...] who established the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii (d. 1926) - Saint Faustina Kowalska Mary, help us to enter into the new life of the risen Today, Wednesday, the day in which we pray the glorious

have done. We should also remember and reflect on her long intercessions on their behalf, and the intentions she presented to Mary for them, for the Church, for France and for the world. Marthe interceded [...] this day (1456) French mystic Marthe Robin: "Mary comes to the rescue of all human beings" Marthe Robin (1902-1981), a stigmatized French Catholic mystic and founder of the Foyers de Charité, lived in [...] International Meeting of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre in 2004, on the theme "Marthe Robin and Father de Montfort": Marthe's love of Mary cannot be reduced to a private devotion. Since the goal is to learn how to love

of making a pilgrimage with Mary Although the Guadalupana pilgrimage that usually draws thousands was virtual this year, Francisco Hernández, 55, who suffers from prostate and bone cancer, walked the 12-mile [...] different experience. “It gave me great joy to walk.” He was praying the Rosary and other prayers, listening to hymns and singing to the Virgin, he said. He did not feel alone on his pilgrimage because [...] 5 to pray for Our Lady of Guadalupe's intercession in the pandemic. He also prayed for his health, and for wisdom to continue promoting the devotion of the prayer of the Rosary. Francisco has participated

the Blessed Virgin Mary. When I pray, I always say a prayer to Mary. When I am upset or fearful, I quickly say a few Hail Marys… for instance, I’m scared of flying, and a Hail Mary always calms my fears [...] see the proud expression of the older one and the joyful and astonished look of her younger sister while they were reciting the Hail Marys together with their baby voices. This video brought back a memory [...] (Be Queen of Our Home). I love this song that tells us how much Mary is at home everywhere. Mary is our Queen, she reigns over the saints and the angels, at the feet of our Lord. Charles Beigbeder, business

revealed herself as the Virgin Mary and asked him to have a church built on the site of the apparition. The unbelieving bishop asked the seer to obtain a sign from the Virgin Mary. This didn’t take long—on [...] appeared to Juan Diego, and who is printed on his tilma, is with child! Our Lady of Guadalupe was declared Patroness of the Americas and Star of Evangelization by Saint John Paul II. The Marie de Nazareth Team [...] the fourth and last time, the Virgin sent him to pick roses on the hilltop. He came back utterly amazed, as his tilma (or cloak) was filled with the most beautiful roses he had ever seen and that were