anything but silent? Tradition says that the three inhabitants of the holy house of Nazareth hardly ever spoke. The gentle celestial talks that we imagine as being part of the life of the Holy Family only
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 us receive her in faith, as St John received her
While we can all agree that this is the way to sainthood, we might also worry and think: "How am I ever going to get there?" The answer, of course, is that it will be through the grace of God. I must ask
Sacred Heart O Mother of Jesus, and my Mother, let me dwell with you, cling to you and love you with ever-increasing love. I promise the honor, love and trust of a child. Give me a mother's protection, for
with you,”’ Charbel recounted. “All I know how to say is that it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. From the moment I saw her, I felt peace in my heart. I felt like I’m home,” Charbel recalled
were worth the life of God. Later in the meditation I imagine Jesus speaking of Mary: “And if you ever feel that no one loves you or cares about you, remember that my mother is now your mother. When you
about how to persevere and even triumph through the most difficult times. The Blessed Virgin, as ever, urged the children to do whatever her Son told them to do. She told them, too, to pray the rosary
beatitude of Heaven. But we arrive "after" her. Mary is also the "first" qualitatively, for no one has ever welcomed Christ better, or participated more intensely and intimately in Christ's Passion, or entered
place, instituting the first Stations of the Cross. The Church has preserved this devotional practice ever since. Praying the Stations of the Cross is a way of sharing in the sufferings of the Virgin. But
resolved in pious devotional practice but is nourished by ceaseless entrustment to the arms of the ever Virgin of the whole of our life, of our ministry in its entirety. Mary Most Holy also leads us, like
