their mother consecrated them to the Virgin Mary as infants in order to save their lives. Now serving as a nun and a priest, one of them shared their story with the public. Last year, Sister Monica took [...] officially became a part of the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence in Chile. She revealed to the Catholic News Agency that it is no coincidence that she became a nun, while her twin [...] brother became a priest at the Shrine of Nuestra Señora Purísima de Lo Vásquez. A few years back, Sister Monica's learned from their mom about how she consecrated them to the Virgin Mary when they were
Spirit At the Annunciation, Mary, who was already filled with graces, became, in a very special way, the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit: it was He, in fact, who covered her with his shadow so that she could [...] at the forming of the body and soul of the Son of God in Mary, so now the Spirit forms Christ in the nascent Church. Just as the Spirit moved Mary to go and visit her cousin Elizabeth, so He moves the apostolic [...] apostolic mission. And in the same way that He inspires a song of thanksgiving to spring from Mary's heart (Lk 1:46-56), so He is the source of the wonder-filled public witness of the apostles and disciples
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. Commendation Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph [...] to be our Savior and Brother, you gave us Mary, His Mother, to be our Mother also. Grant, we pray you, that we may be worthy of so great a Brother and so dear a Mother. May we come at last to you the Father [...] Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.
it is also a profound and meditative prayer. When we pray the whole Rosary, all the mysteries… In truth, we look at the life of Jesus, we contemplate it, we consider it with the eyes of Mary, which gives [...] gives great added value to this meditation on the life of Jesus – with her own eyes, with her own help, with her intercession. Cardinal Willem Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007 and Cardinal since 2012 [...] now completed – to set up a Year of the Rosary. During this year all the bishops of the Netherlands, including my two auxiliary bishops, took part: we went to pray the Rosary with the faithful in various
is. But it can look at Mary's perfection. Mary is like the moon compared to the sun. It is made bright and reflects on you the light that has illuminated it, but it softens it with mystical mists so your [...] his knees to go to Mary, or another who, detaching himself from her bosom, comes to me... I say to you, ‘Love Mary. I give you to the one who loves you and who will enlighten you with just the sweetness [...] can sustain it. That is why, for centuries, I have offered her as a model to all of you, whom I wanted to be as brothers, precisely in Mary. She is the Mother. How sweet it is for children to look at their
mean what we say. So I turned to Mary. Prayers to Mary are emergency reserve prayers: there is not one Marian prayer in the whole liturgy, not one, you hear me, not a single one that the most miserable [...] In the mechanism of salvation, the Hail Mary is the last resort. With it, one cannot be lost. " Charles Péguy French poet, essayist, and editor Excerpt from a letter to his friend Lotte, during the illness [...] People like us always have as much faith and charity as we need; it’s hope that we sometimes struggle with. Can you imagine, for 18 months I could not say the "Our Father ... Thy will be done!" I couldn’t
doctrines regarding Mary, especially her immaculate conception, her perpetual virginity, and her bodily assumption into heaven. (...) Mary was to be filled with Christ and only with Christ. That is the [...] seems to emphasize her role as an intercessor. There we see that it was Mary who triggered Jesus' public ministry. She pointed out a need: the wedding feast had hardly begun, and the newlyweds had already [...] be returned to ordinary earthly use. She remained "perpetually virgin." She had no sexual relations with her husband, Joseph. She had no children after Jesus. This has been the constant faith of Christians
That same year, a cripple from a nearby village who made a difficult pilgrimage to the statue of the Virgin Mary on foot and holding three candles, regained his full health. In 1595, a woman gathering [...] Fr. James Buret, decided to place a small terracotta statue of the Virgin Mary inside a hollow place in the trunk. After this, the Virgin herself began appearing. A young man who had stolen flowers left [...] of the chapel, in a silent apparition... Twenty-six years later, a wet nurse obtained the cure of a deformed child she had in her charge after praying for six weeks to the Virgin Mary. The pilgrimage to
surmounted by flames, and, in the other, a piece of green cloth. On one side of the scapular was the image of Mary and on the reverse side “a Heart all ablaze with rays more dazzling than the sun and as [...] as transparent as crystal.” The heart, pierced with a sword, was surrounded by an inscription: "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death." Sister Justine understood that this [...] the People (Italy, 1771) Conversions increased On January 28, 1840, the Blessed Virgin appeared to a novice of the Daughters of Charity, who was making her first retreat at the Mother House, located at
white gown with a high-cut neckline and flat, simple sleeves. Her head was covered with a white veil that draped down to her feet. She wore her hair parted in the middle, with a small lace headband over her [...] 27, 1830, which was one Saturday and a day before the first Sunday of Advent, at 5:30 pm, during silent meditation, I thought I heard a noise like the rustling of a silk gown, on the right side of the chapel [...] and her feet stood on a globe, or rather, a half-globe. At least I could only see half of it. Her hands, raised to the height of her chest, seemed to be effortlessly holding a small golden globe. Her
