tell you that Mary takes us by the hand as soon as we get there! The days went by, and I must admit that not everything was rosy. At times some of the talks reopened a painful past, and I wanted to be [...] we quickly realize that Mary is using all this to help us move forward on a path of healing. And you never feel alone, first of all because you can always find a place to go and pray, but also because the [...] group called "Club Medj "... Things went very fast, and a few weeks later I found myself in a bus headed to Medj, with two friends. The trip started, and we all introduced ourselves. Then we reached Medjugorje

the Churches in the Holy Land (Ethiopia) Mary’s role as co-operator with the One Redeemer The Church’s teaching makes a clear distinction between the Mother and the Son in the work of salvation, explaining [...] applied to Mary, the term “co-operator” acquires a specific meaning. The collaboration of Christians in salvation takes place after the Calvary event, whose fruits they endeavor to spread by prayer and sacrifice [...] sacrifice. Mary, instead, co-operated during the event itself and in the role of mother; thus her co-operation embraces the whole of Christ’s saving work. She alone was associated in this way with the redemptive

were dispersed and the closed church, stripped of its works of art, was transformed into headquarters of the National Lottery and stock exchange. The church was reopened for worship in 1809 and became a parish [...] 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 [...] of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The purpose of this organization, he wrote, was to obtain the conversion of all sinners from the Divine Mercy, through the protection and prayers of Mary. From this time on, the

December 26 - Saint Stephen, First Martyr Mary’s Veil on display in Chartres Cathedral The Veil of Mary ( Sancta Camisa ) is an oblong piece of silk that Mary is reported to have worn during the Annunciation [...] her Veil on the threshold of the Cathedral on the day of the Annunciation to Mary. Taken from Deacon John Veil of Mary and The Pandemic [...] Cathedral and the town of Chartres. In The Veil of Our Lady , French author Yves Delaporte explains that, “during the siege of Chartres by the Normands in 911 the relic acquired its notoriety and entered

faculty of coming out of ourselves. Therefore Mary, who was assumed into Heaven with her body and soul, is now in continual relationship with the world and all people. Third, by bringing to light the central [...] of God The Assumption of Mary also reveals the mystery of woman The feast of the Assumption falls in the middle of summer, on August 15. This date was not chosen at random. Mary's ascent to heavenly glory [...] with her "body and soul" as expressed in the dogma defined by Pope Pius XII, came at “harvest time”: the Assumption marks the summit of the of the paschal mystery, its crowning achievement and ripe fruit,

1650) Mary Has Given the World its True Light Holy Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world its true light, Jesus, your Son - the Son of God. You abandoned yourself completely to God's call and thus [...] flows forth from him. Show us Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, so that we too can become capable of true love and be fountains of living water in the midst of a thirsting world.

over. God does not come to fix things in a human manner, and much less in the manner of a magician. He comes to us first and foremost to save us and to give us Eternal Life. Of course, miracles can happen [...] Do we continue to believe in his presence and support anyway? Prayer is not meant to be effective according to our plans, it aims to unite us with God, and helps us to accept His sometimes mysterious [...] May 27 – Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - Madonna del Popolo (Italy, 1645) Stay with Mary, even when everything seems to be over In the middle of a gruesome war, a Syrian bishop said: “Hope is not

force: the force of the living Spirit, the Spirit of the Father and of the Son. Marie Benoite Angot In Adorer avec Marie (Adoring With Mary), le Sarment-Fayard, Paris 2002 [...] (Rumilly, France) Mary attracts the love of her God It was in the silence of her home that Mary withdrew to be alone with her God. "But you, when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your [...] your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees everything, will reward you"(Mt 6:6). There was already, in Mary’s soul, a mysterious knowledge of these words of the Gospel, which her Son would later say

conversion of heart during a confession he made in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. His thirst for the truth grew stronger and stronger, and he became an avid reader of spiritual writers such as Saint Louis [...] had given him a mission - to set up a giant statue of the Virgin Mary near an important highway not far from Paris. He managed this feat and on October 15, 1988 the statue was blessed by the late Cardinal [...] trailers) came from all over France, each one bearing one of the 108 different statues and icons of the Blessed Virgin, and all converged on a highway near the Puy-en-Velay, the chosen site for the launch of

the Holy Cross, Jerusalem Mary’s Tears (III) When Mary weeps over us, her Tears are indeed a universal out flowing of heavenly Blood, of which she is the sovereign Dispenser, and this outpouring is at the [...] utters her fourth word after she has found her Son. And it is she who is speaking then. Elsewhere, the gospel-writers merely say that Jesus wept, and this must be sufficient for us to guess as to what His [...] Bernardino of Sienna says that the grief of the Blessed Virgin was so great that if it were divided and shared among all creatures capable of suffering, they would die in an instant. Now, if we take account