to God and Mary thanks to this wonderful gift of becoming a mother! From now on I am going to share the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows with friends who have been trying to conceive for months and with all [...] October 20 – Mater Admirabilis (Rome, Italy) Thanks to Mary who made me become a mother My husband and I wanted a baby, but because of menstrual issues, I thought that I was unable to conceive. I was very [...] heart, telling Mary that I wanted to become a mother, but leaving it up to her to decide the right moment. I asked her to help me accept my trial patiently. After 3 days of light bleeding and while praying
the Prodigal Son. Bishop Grech referred to the story of the prodigal son and drew parallels between what happened in that family and what happens in the Catholic community. … The younger son’s departure was [...] hand is male and the other is female. Bishop Grech said that there are various instances in the scriptures which describe the maternal side of the love of God. “No one more than the Virgin Mary can lead us [...] us to best discover the maternal love of God. Mary, sweet, loving, full of compassion is a reflection of the love of God and His best mirror,” concluded Bishop Grech. News Book
effects we like to describe and whose manifestations we like to mock, as if our century were prone to mystical excesses, and as if it were a clever thing to mock the miseries and sufferings of simple people [...] Jerome, Doctor of the Church (d. 420) "I never got tired of repeating those 'Hail Marys'" In 1976, the great French writer and communist convert André Frossard published a book entitled Il y a un autre monde [...] priests, nor devotions, nor pious images, Frossard contemplates the Virgin Mary in her dazzling purity. He writes: "The 'Hail Mary' is sometimes challenged even by preachers who would sooner believe in little
Our son started to have convulsions and stopped breathing. We ran to the church, a few miles away, to implore Our Lady in front of her altar. Mary listened to us and Luc started breathing again! Immediately [...] evening. His father, a military doctor, was on a leprosy tour in the whole area, and was not home. Our son had diarrhea, and vomiting, he could not be rehydrated by mouth. When his dad returned, the epicranial [...] after Easter 1976. A medical evacuation followed and for Luc a stay at the Necker Hospital (the Children’s Hospital in Paris): he had no lasting problems. Mary was watching over him! Thank you to Our Lady
Our Lady, patroness of Bavaria Mary found me a job very quickly! Hello, today I want to thank Mary Undoer of Knots with all my heart. I had been unemployed since 2018 and, in my head, I couldn’t really [...] to work as a home helper with the elderly and disabled, although I have absolutely no experience in this delicate field! So I started to say the prayer of Mary Undoer of Knots: on the second day of the [...] read it and at that moment I received a call from the company to which I had applied, asking me if I was available! Whatever the cause of the "knots", the fact of presenting them to the Virgin Mary, our "Heavenly
words that Jesus spoke from the cross, "Woman, this is your son," and "Son, this is your mother." I felt that Mary was indeed my mother and it helped me trust God through this difficult time. When I was appointed [...] October 21 – Our Lady of Europe How I have experienced Mary’s presence in my life My own experience of Mary’s presence happens daily. The way I pray to her consists in presenting to her motherhood, with [...] loved, the daily cares and concerns that are in my heart as a bishop. I entrust the priests of my diocese to the Virgin, so that they may live their priesthood with joy, enthusiasm and readiness to do the
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
underfoot: the Virgin Mary. Let’s show children, for example, a Miraculous Medal, where Mary is represented with a serpent under her feet. That serpent is a representation of Satan. In Mary, Satan is vanquished [...] Pontmain (France) When speaking of Satan to children, don’t forget to remind them about Mary The devil exists. And not only does he exist, he’s not a detail, a bit player in our spiritual life. He’s the [...] to have recourse to images of horned and cloven creatures, nor to more or less fantasy descriptions. On the contrary, we must explain that Satan is very strong and powerful, but that he is infinitely inferior
Ne’mat brought a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Jerusalem and enthroned it in the shrine. The carved-wood statue is perhaps 150-200 years old and was made in Italy. As soon as the statue was placed [...] saying to us. According to Christian sources, Blessed Virgin Mary and Lord Jesus Christ walked the mountain range, which runs along the Jordan, and took refuge for a time here in the present location of Anjara [...] pilgrimage site where a statue of Mary wept tears of blood in 2010 On Friday, June 18, 2021, the Catholic Church in Jordan marked its annual celebration of the national and Christian pilgrimage day to the
