There was a lot of tension in the house. My aunt offered me some coffee. On the mantelpiece, she had a candle and a small statue of the Virgin Mary of Lourdes with Bernadette Soubirous. It had been a gift from [...] de Montfort’s “Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary” inside a chest, as he had prophesied How Mary showed her protection to a family fleeing the war in Algeria On July 16, 1962, I was 16 [...] heart. We had to carefully choose what to take, since we could only take a few things with us. We had to resign ourselves to part with many objects that held precious memories. The independence of Algeria
Trent declares Mary to be free of any sin by a special grace (1547) - Saint Hilary of Poitiers In Mary, God "dwelt on earth and made his imprint on it" Michael Psellos (1018-1078 or 79) was a Byzantine Greek [...] Greek monk who gave a truly splendid ascetic and virginal image of Mary in her luminous path of ascent to God. "The Virgin was truly a virgin, she kept the thoughts of her spirit wholly pure, and remained [...] in her body like a sun with intelligible graces, illuminating and ennobling it (...). Unique among all human souls, her soul, very similar to God, shone in her immaculate body like a celestial splendor;
began to pray to the Virgin Mary. The Virgin appeared to her on Sept. 25, carrying the infant Jesus and wearing a blue gown and veil. Her figure glowed with light. With only a fourth-grade education, Gladys [...] Gladys had no great knowledge of the Bible or theology. She is a mother of two daughters and a grandmother. At various times, the Virgin Mary apparition referred the woman to several Bible verses. One month [...] gave Gladys a white rosary and said, "Receive this Rosary from my hands and keep it forever and ever. You are obedient; I am happy because of it. Rejoice, for God is with you." The Virgin Mary asked Gladys
to her as the Immaculate Conception, standing on a globe with light streaming from her hands and crushing a serpent underfoot. “A voice said to me, ‘Have a medal struck after this model. All who wear it [...] Labouré was a novice with the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul when she received three apparitions from the Blessed Virgin Mary, a vision of Christ present in the Eucharist, and a mystical encounter [...] Medal features a cross with the letter “M” underneath it, surrounded by 12 stars, and the images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The other side has an image of Mary as she appeared
declares that Mary is free of all sin by a special grace (1547) – Saint Hilarius Free from all sin by a gift from God Obviously it was not Mary who exempted herself from original sin: this was a free gift [...] fortunate." The exceptional grace given by God to Mary is the ability to say a perfectly free "yes"! (From a talk about Mary and the Protestants) Source: Mary’s Perfect Holiness [...] exceptional gift of God to the Virgin Mary in several places. First, the Archangel Gabriel addresses Mary with these words: "Rejoice, Thou" (or "I greet you," because in Greek a greeting is expressed by the expression
April 17 – Apparition of the Virgin Mary at Tre Fontane in 1947 after a first apparition in 1937 (approved) The Blessed Virgin and Our Redemption When we welcome the full truth contained in the Magisterium [...] divine by means of the human, the Blessed Virgin becomes the necessary path to redemption. The Virgin Mary is the way God presents Himself to us: through her we can reach Him. The Mother, in fact, did not [...] has in our redemption (the same encyclical defines her as "Mother of the Son who is consubstantial with the Father and his generous companion in the work of Redemption"), the importance of Christ ends up
1956 when I was still a seminarian: While I was on vacation in a village, in my home region of Sarandira, Brazil, I participated one day in a procession of Our Lady of Fatima with a nursing home. Many elderly [...] Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora-MG (Brazil) Exclusive interview by Thácio Siqueira for A Moment With Mary [...] 1441) All this happened as a result of praying to Our Lady As Saint Bernard used to say, " De Maria nunquam satis, "-- "Of Mary, one can never say enough.” I have always had a particular devotion and veneration
fasted was on a Good Friday. I liked the idea of accompanying my prayer with a short fast. I felt an incredible peace when I entered a Catholic church for the first time. I remember praying before a statue of [...] sometime soon. I had a bad experience at a non-Catholic church, and now it’s hard for me to talk to the grown up Jesus directly. I feel very close to Mary, to the Holy Family with Jesus as a child, and to St [...] already prays the Rosary every day! She needs our prayers to continue on her journey. X, a reader of A Moment with Mary, from Le Rosaire Vivant (The Living Rosary), sent on June 20, 2021 Source: The Living
Italy, 1816) - Bernadette Soubirous (d. 1879) in Nevers (body in a state of perfect preservation) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (II) Mary is a woman of hope: only because she believes in God's promises and awaits [...] from the Word of God. Here we see how completely at home Mary is with the Word of God, with ease she moves in and out of it. She speaks and thinks with the Word of God; the Word of God becomes her word, and [...] her to the decisive service of these promises. Mary is a woman of faith: "Blessed are you who believed", Elizabeth says to her (cf. Lk 1:45). The Magnificat--a portrait, so to speak, of her soul--is entirely
Rosary we plead with Mary, the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit (cf. Lk 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 [...] October 26 - Beatification of Bartolo Longo, a devout lover of 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 [...] properly understood, of Blessed Bartolo Longo in his Supplication to Our Lady. This is a conviction which, beginning with the Gospel, has grown ever more firm in the experience of the Christian people. The
