Baptist Mary, show me your Son As you are about to recite the Rosary, holding it in your hands, go ahead and tell the Blessed Virgin: "Mary, show me your Son." Mary is the mother of all of us, and she knows [...] anyone else. Let her take your hand, and reveal to your heart the whole Mystery of Christ. Contrary to what people often assume, the Rosary is not a prayer of praise to Mary, but a path to Christ. Each decade [...] in significance and spiritual depth. By praying the rosary with all possible devotion, in your heart try to look at each mystery of the life of Christ as if it were a direct gift from Mary. Lorena Moscoso
Lady to St Bonnet (7th C.) Mary’s Tears (I) The tears of the Mother of Sorrows fill the Scriptures and flow down across the centuries. All of the weeping mothers, widows and virgins will add nothing to [...] alone, she is there weeping too, because all tears belong to her as the Empress of Beatitude and Love. Mary’s tears are the very Blood of Jesus Christ, but differently shed, just as her compassion was a
Paul VI Publishes Marialis Cultus (1974) Mary Lets Jesus Shine In Mary God shows us what grace can do in a soul, in the life of a human being. When we look at Mary, it’s as if God were challenging each one [...] am capable of doing when a person is generous and trustful? Just imagine what I could do in you and through you if you would give yourself to me the way Mary did!” Think for a moment of who in your life [...] on your life? In the same vein, which of Mary’s virtues inspires you the most? I have always been taken with her humility, her ability to get out of the way and let Christ shine. All she wanted was for
living in the age of Mary" "I have chosen you, to experience my Passion the most fully after my Mother. Moreover, no one after you will live it as fully; you will suffer day and night, and never sleep again [...] II is Mary's pope; she chose him. We are in the age of Mary." For more information: Marian Encyclopedia (1) Marthe Robin was born in 1902 in Châteauneuf-de-Galaure in the Drôme region of France, and died
Gregory Palamas explains that Mary puts us in contact with the divine life, and that this contact transfigures us. The Eastern Fathers actually say that this contact deifies us and makes us participants in [...] August 6 – The Transfiguration of Our Lord Mary puts us in contact with the divine life The Gospel of the Transfiguration does not mention any role played by Mary, but the tradition of the Church, particularly [...] real; while remaining creatures, we will participate in the divine nature and in the divine life, through the divine energies. Mary was the first to achieve this by grace. Then, considering the mystery of
have exhausted the depths of that mystery? Then say to yourself, "How would Mary have seen her Son on the cross?" And then ask Mary, "Give me a little of your own understanding." In this manner, the Virgin [...] (1370) Mary's Own Understanding I am convinced that when the shepherds arrived at the grotto, they did not go straight to the Christ Child. They must have looked first at the Blessed Virgin Mary, looked [...] looked in her eyes; she would have shown them her Child, and then they would have looked at Jesus with her eyes. Try to meditate upon the mysteries of the Gospel with the Virgin's eyes. Think about the death
Lady to St Bonnet (7th C.) Mary’s Tears (I) The tears of the Mother of Sorrows fill the Scriptures and flow down across the centuries. All of the weeping mothers, widows and virgins will add nothing to [...] alone, she is there weeping too, because all tears belong to her as the Empress of Beatitude and Love. Mary's tears are the very Blood of Jesus Christ, but differently shed, just as her compassion was
two. It is difficult and important to be consistent for one's whole life. It is easy to be consistent in the hour of enthusiasm, it is difficult to be so in the hour of tribulation. And only a consistency [...] January 15 – OUR LADY OF BANNEUX (Belgium, 1933) - First Apparition Mary, the Faithful Virgin (III) The third dimension of faithfulness is consistency. To live in accordance with what one believes. To [...] adherence. To accept misunderstandings, persecutions, rather than a break between what one practises and what one believes: this is consistency. Here is, perhaps, the deepest core of faithfulness. The fourth
Paul VI Publishes Marialis Cultus (1974) Mary Lets Jesus Shine In Mary God shows us what grace can do in a soul, in the life of a human being. When we look at Mary, it's as if God were challenging each one [...] am capable of doing when a person is generous and trustful? Just imagine what I could do in you and through you if you would give yourself to me the way Mary did!" Think for a moment of who in your life [...] on your life? In the same vein, which of Mary's virtues inspires you the most? I have always been taken with her humility, her ability to get out of the way and let Christ shine. All she wanted was for
earning victories against the Swedes and Napoleon. The last political act of Czar Nicholas II, in 1918, was to consecrate his Empire to her. He was arrested a few days later and, on the orders of Trotsky, executed [...] the vast destruction of icons and holy images of that period, but in 1965, the news came out that it was on sale at a major antique dealer in New York, without its oklad and very damaged. The asking price [...] Russians of the diaspora bought it first, and had it restored. It was placed in Fatima, because of the prophecies about Russia given there by the Virgin Mary, in the Domus Pacis, in a bullet-proof room
