Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833) "I never hammered a nail without the permission of the Blessed Virgin Mary" Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833) shone as a bright light in the Russia of his time. Jesus said [...] prayer, standing on a rock. This long spiritual ascent was accompanied by apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Returning to the monastery out of obedience, Seraphim requested seclusion in a small cell. One day [...] the end of his life, he said: "I never hammered a nail without the permission of the Blessed Virgin Mary." Marian Encyclopedia
Let us stand close to the Cross, with Mary Through the Mystery of the Cross, the Lord restores our souls to splendor through all his sufferings. Let us stay with Mary, close to the Cross, her soul pierced [...] of grief. And what bitter pain was hers! The Heart of Jesus could not be immersed in sorrow without Mary's soul sharing in the crucifixion. Her compassionate heart is the fruit of a great love for Jesus [...] and love, and let us taste in advance a little of that heaven with which she is inebriated. Mother Marie of the Cross www.petitessoeursdemarie.com
August 15, 1652, when the Virgin Mary appeared to Jeanne Courtel, a deaf and mute 11-year-old shepherdess tending her sheep in the Fontenelles meadow. The first conversation Mary had with Jeanne went like this: [...] January 31 - Saint John Bosco In 574, the Virgin Mary appeared in Querrien in Brittany. Querrien, in France's Côtes d'Armor region, is a recognized place of Marian apparitions in Brittany, France. In 574 [...] should search the pond to find her image, buried and lost centuries ago. She said she was the Virgin Mary, and that a chapel should be built for her in the middle of the village so that pilgrims could come
I entrust all my patients to her: ‘Mary, you see them, you hear them, place them in the heart of your son Jesus.’ I, who am sometimes clumsy in my prayers, ask Mary to say them in her own way, so that [...] Brightness depicts Mary with a star on her shoulder... It is a beautiful reminder of Mylène's story and path of prayer. Interview by Lætitia d'Hérouville https://frejustoulon.fr/marie-ma-guidee-sur-mon [...] January 4 - Our Lady of Roses (Italy, 1418) A miracle of Mary, "Our Lady of Brightness" (2) Several years passed and new difficulties led Mylène, now a mother, to go on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje (1).
the Orthodox icon of the Virgin Mary with a little star on her shoulder. That's when I realized it was her." Interview by Lætitia d'Hérouville https://frejustoulon.fr/marie-ma-guidee-sur-mon-chemin-de-foi/ [...] The bishop of Fatima asks Sister Lucia to write down the 3rd Secret of Fatima (1944) A miracle of Mary, "Our Lady of Brightness" (1) When Mylène, a young Frenchwoman living in Provence, was 18, her parents [...] a beautiful lady with a veil full of light, who looked at me with a smile and told me her name was Mary. As I had given up all religious practice, I didn't think of the Blessed Virgin at all. So I asked
coronation of the Virgin Mary. It was inaugurated and blessed on January 10, 2021, by Archbishop Beau of Bourges. This fresco will be a memorial to the recent pilgrimage of The M of Mary attended by thousands [...] John the Apostle, on the other we see Saint Mary Magdalene: both were witnesses of the Passion of Christ. They contemplate the coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At their feet, the Archbishop of Bourges [...] monk and artist who works at the Saint Jean Damascène workshop. It was at the closing of the M of Mary pilgrimage on September 12, 2020, that together they conceived the idea of representing the arrival
Trust in his wisdom and power! The two cherubim carved on the Ark of the Covenant were the symbols of Mary and Joseph in the attitude of adoration they had in Bethlehem before the cradle of Jesus. Two evangelists [...] according to the order of the nature of God's law. If we were to set Joseph aside to mention only Mary, he would rightly say to us: ‘Why do you separate me from my wife? Why don't you want the genealogy [...] said to him: ‘Because you did not beget by the work of the flesh,’ he would answer us, ‘What about Mary? Did she beget by the work of the flesh?’ What the Holy Spirit worked in her, he worked for both of
be sent out on March 19th, the solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In addition, Marie de Nazareth is offering a virtual, printable novena to Saint Joseph starting tomorrow (10th) [...] and especially because the year 2021 has been entrusted to the saint by Pope Francis, A Moment with Mary will bring you meditations about Our Lady’s chaste spouse for the next nine days, to enable you to [...] a form of prayer in which we ask for the intercession of a particular saint, or the Blessed Virgin Mary. The prayers can also be addressed directly to God that Father as Jesus taught us: " Ask, and it will
devotion to Mary. The title of that encyclical may put off some, those who might think that philosophy is separated from Faith and reserved for intellectuals, while a relationship with Mary is a matter [...] when they called Mary “the table at which faith sits in thought.” In her they saw a lucid image of true philosophy and they were convinced of the need to philosophari in Maria. May Mary, Seat of Wisdom [...] understanding of faith, may be fruitful and creative. And just as in giving her assent to Gabriel's word, Mary lost nothing of her true humanity and freedom, so too when philosophy heeds the summons of the Gospel's
not be extinguished, because they are in our hearts. Mgr Charles Journet Dans Entretiens sur Marie (About Mary)
