the Virgin, who had been Satan’s slave for many months The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (VIII) The Rosary is both meditation and supplication. Insistent prayer to the Mother of God is based on confidence that [...] "Lady, thou art so great and so powerful, that whoever desires grace yet does not turn to thee, would have his desire fly without wings." When in the Rosary we plead with Mary, the sanctuary of the Holy [...] 1:35), she intercedes for us before the Father who filled her with grace, and before the Son born of her womb, praying with us and for us.
private devotions and in the Christian faith to the Virgin Mary. So what’s Mary’s proper place? First you have to learn from God Himself. It isn’t the Church who gives that place to Mary, but the Church [...] only one Lord and one God, and there is only one Savior, who is Christ. The Virgin Mary never wished to take His place! It is very clear in the Gospel. At Cana for example, the Virgin Mary, with great delicacy [...] pray to Mary, we ask her to present our prayers to Jesus; we go through her because she knows her Son (who else knows her Son as well as Mary?) and because she is able to bring us to her Son. Mary keeps
was a heartwarming experience and it hit me as if they were constantly telling me: “We are here for you! We are here for you like Mary!” How lovely it is to be like Mary near her suffering son. Fr Martin [...] for you like Mary! This year, the commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows, which in Malta we traditionally celebrate with great devotion on the Friday before Holy Week, has had a much deeper and personal meaning [...] Because, this year, Mary “standing by the cross of Jesus” (John 19:25) reminds me of how many people stood by me last year when I was going through an excruciating cancer treatment. Mary standing by Her crucified
counseling, spiritual retreats, and all-night devotions called "the 1,000 meditated Hail Marys. "Throughout the morning, visitors file up the stairs to the main statue of the Virgin Mary. They pray in front of [...] Grand-Bassam and Issia. This new church responds to a need to welcome pilgrims from all over the diocese. The Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy promotes a Catholic Marian spirituality around the sacraments and special [...] always listens to us and consoles us in our trials." "The Virgin of Mercy never ceases to welcome her children who are afflicted by spiritual, economic, physical, socio-professional and moral misery," says
level. But there is no competition between Jesus and Mary, as if by praying to one we could risk neglecting the other. The Virgin Mary does not keep anything for herself: she constantly turns our focus towards [...] the Trinity leads us to Mary God is very close to us, but he is also the "all-different" whose love is like a devouring fire. The more we desire his love, the more we need Mary's humility to enter into [...] about it—unless we consent to be little, like and with the Blessed Virgin. Where does God's love manifest itself the most powerfully? At the foot of the Cross. And it is precisely there that He gives us His
of 1917 in which three young shepherds, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, claimed to have seen the "Virgin of the Rosary" (Our Lady of Fatima) and the year before the apparitions of the Angel of Peace (or [...] Russia to me, which will be converted, and the world will be granted a certain time of peace. In Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved.” The Virgin Mary also entrusted them with three secrets [...] confirming that the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary had been done on March 25, 1984, by Pope John Paul II. The Mary of Nazareth editorial team
the people in my household really liked, and on several occasions I was sent to drop off an order or pick one up. Soon the objects became a pretext for a visit, and whenever I could, I made a quick stop to [...] spoke of religion, of course, and I must confess that I was pretty direct when we compared our respective beliefs. Once I announced to him that I had been transferred and would leave soon. He made me promise [...] December 11 – Our Lady of Consolation (Italy) When Mary is depicted... in the crescent moon When I met him, Thiam was already an old man who had a sculpture shop at the artists' market in the village of
Virgin Mary appeared under the title of Our Lady of China, during a revolt against colonialism and Christianity. A church, later a cathedral—the National Shrine of Our Lady of China—was built there and in [...] of Mary in China in 1995 Every year in May since 1996, thousands of soldiers are sent to the small village of Donglu, a few hours’ drive from Beijing, China, to close off access to the village and prevent [...] in the 1930s was consecrated and recognized as a place of pilgrimage by Pope Pius XI. Mary appeared again in 1995, during the annual Marian May Day celebrations, before 30,000 witnesses. Obviously, this
1664) Mary is "the figure of the Church, who is immaculate yet espoused" Where do we find the first mention of the expression "Mary, Mother of the Church"? Two Church Fathers, St. Augustine and St. Leo [...] "It is rightly said that [Mary] was married and was a virgin, for she was the figure of the Church, who is immaculate, yet espoused. The Virgin conceived us spiritually, and the Virgin brought us into [...] Tourneau, author of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mary, explains: "This community of the faithful is none other than the Church, who was born from Mary's womb when her head, the Christ, was born." He also
Attack against the life of Pope John Paul II (1981) Praying Mary to deliver us In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation Reconciliation and Penance, dated December 2, 1984, the Holy Father John Paul II [...] is not necessarily synonym with "sin": a "sin" implies responsibility and free consent, while the term "knot" is more general and can be assimilated to a trial allowed by God to make us grow in virtue [...] that not all knots are the result of sin. Isabelle Rolland. Marie qui défait les nœuds. D’un “miracle conjugal” à une dévotion universelle (Mary Undoer of Knots: From a "marital miracle" to a universal devotion)
