(Pontevedra, Portugal, 1926) Mary teaches us to pray During the apparitions in Lourdes and Fatima, the Virgin Mary was seen holding a rosary. These visions might suggest that Mary prays the Rosary to herself [...] the end of each decade. Mary insisted that we also "pray for those who live in sin." In Fatima, ... Mary asked the children to recite the Rosary every day, "to end the war and bring peace to the world [...] kindly accompanies us, guiding our hesitant hands. Mary is an excellent teacher, and as Pope Francis so aptly says: "The Rosary helps us to pray, and to keep the faith!" Philip Kosloski - Aleteia
Clare’s love for Mary The new life of Saint Clare, from her conversion to her entrance in heaven, was marked by a special, very special presence of Mary—by Clare’s love for Mary and by Mary’s love for Clare [...] of “the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin” and she even suspended fasting on the feast days dedicated to Mary. Chiara Lubich Focolare Movement Saint Clare and Mary - Centro Chiara Lubich August 10, 2003 [...] Clare. Mary is present at the moment of her consecration to God. It is written: “Leaving her home, city and relatives,” we read in the process of canonization, “she hurried towards Saint Mary of Portiuncula…
the masks and wounds that life in this world imposes on us. For our true self is like a seed deeply buried within ourselves. By accepting Christ in our lives, as Mary did, we allow him to act and develop [...] apparition) Like Mary, accepting Christ in our lives Everyone is asked the question of the birth of God in us. At every moment the Angel calls us, observes that the Lord is with us and that he loves us [...] extraordinary thing in the world is that man participates in divine creation. The greatest blasphemy and cause of misfortune is to prevent the force of individual creation from becoming a reality. If we answer
of her only joys was to have the time and the freedom to say her Rosary while keeping watch over a few sheep. Bernadette continued to say her Rosary all her life, and the sisters of her convent in Nevers [...] February 18 – Saint Bernadette Soubirous (d. 1879) At Lourdes, Mary prayed her Rosary In the life of Saint Bernadette, the Rosary is a consistent thread between the different periods: Just before the [...] that remarkable, considering that she had received a special prayer just for herself from the Virgin Mary? She could have considered that this prayer, given to here directly, devalued the commonplace, popular
historical, cultural and political framework of Jesus’ time. Apocryphal texts, especially James’ proto-gospel, suggest that Saint Anne, Mary’s mother, was born in Sepphoris, and possibly Mary herself. A three-aisled [...] husband Joachim and their daughter Mary is a witness to this tradition. Whether or not Jesus' grandparents came from Sepphoris, Jesus must have certainly been familiar with this bustling and prosperous city [...] March 5 – Our Lady of the Miracle (Italy, 1440) Was Mary born in Sepphoris of Galilee? Sepphoris of Galilee (now in Israel) is not mentioned in the Bible but it was one of the most majestic cities in biblical
Covid-19 for years. National and local authorities ensured smooth operation of the celebrations. [...] The annual celebrations at the Shrine to Mary’s birth last for one week and begin at May’s end. The Marian [...] the Holy Family”, which connects the places where Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus traveled during their escape from Herod. The Church of the Virgin Mary, Jabal al-Tayr (“Hill of the Birds”) was built at [...] days when the Coptic Church celebrates Mary’s birth. The areas surrounding the Shrine were crowded with stalls selling various expressions of devotion to the Virgin Mary, despite being heavily conditioned
the “Mother of Hope.” Beneath the cross, he says, Mary “believed against hope” and “the Church, like Mary, lives the resurrection ‘in hope’… Just as Mary was close to her crucified son, so the Church is [...] do that will keep us occupied and keep desperation far from us, and that is to endure patiently to the end. Mary didn’t run away but remained there, standing, in silence, and she thus became in a very special [...] Constantinople) Mary is the "Mother of Hope" In his third Lenten Sermon, the Preacher of the Papal Household, Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap., reflects on the kenosis—or self-emptying—of Mary, the Mother
May 18 - Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Why Mary Remained in this World after the Ascension The time Mary remained with the disciples was a great consolation to them. This was not a great hardship [...] of salvation to the world. Indeed, the Lord Jesus wanted the apostles to benefit from Mary’s maternal assistance and education after His return to the Father. Although they had already been taught many [...] Spirit, they had still had much more to learn from the one who gave the Sun of Justice to the world and poured out from her immaculate bosom, like virginal meadow, the source of Wisdom. Lastly, in His admirable
May 18 - Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Why Mary Remained in this World after the Resurrection The time Mary remained with the disciples was a great consolation to them. This was not a great hardship [...] of salvation to the world. Indeed, the Lord Jesus wanted the apostles to benefit from Mary's maternal assistance and education after His return to the Father. Although they had already been taught many [...] Spirit, they had still had much more to learn from the one who gave the Sun of Justice to the world and poured out from her immaculate bosom, like virginal meadow, the source of Wisdom. Lastly, in His admirable
Paris (Chapel of the Miraculous Medal), La Salette, Lourdes, Pontmain, and Pellevoisin. This long pilgrimage, known as “The M of Mary”(1), criss-crosses France following an M-shaped route, stopping at the [...] 104 days. Every day, the Marian groups travel about 15 kilometers and stop for the night in a village, where they pray in the church and spend a convivial evening together around a campfire. In all, more [...] Cross (Edith Stein) - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) An M-shaped pilgrimage to entrust France to Mary From June 2, 2020, until September 13, 2020, the Confraternity Our Lady of France is organizing a
