works he had produced, for the merit of a single Ave Maria recited with devotion. One day, Saint Mathilda, who was very fond of the Virgin Mary, endeavored to compose a beautiful prayer in her honor. Our Lady [...] this Marian prayer for forty straight days in Rome, filling his audience’s hearts with a sense of ecstasy. Father Suarez, a scholarly Jesuit, declared that at the time of his death he would gladly exchange [...] He preached on this prayer for forty days Saint Jerome said that "the truths contained in the Hail Mary are so sublime, so marvelous, that no man, no angel could fully understand them." Saint Thomas Aquinas

Israel's joy and the honor of our people." And the Virgin responded with these words, "You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people that God has acquired to Himself to announce the praises [...] of the Resurrection (III) Christ told Mary what He had done in hell, how He had chained up Satan, and presented to His mother the patriarchs He brought back with him. They all bowed low in front of her [...] her. I will let you ponder what the feelings of Adam and Eve were when they said to the Virgin Mary: "Blessed are you our daughter and our Lady. The Lord was thinking about you when he told the serpent,

prayer of the rosary Mary increased in size and the stars multiplied; in Beauraing and Banneux (1933), Mary appeared with a rosary; in Lourdes (1858), she appeared in a grotto where a wild rosebush (dog [...] (dog rose) grew, she wore a rosary and a rose bloomed on each of her feet; At Ile Bouchard (1947), the Virgin Mary presented the rosary to the young seers and taught them how to pray it; at Fatima (1917), [...] peace, to pray for our families, and to answer the repeated pleas of the Virgin Mary, during the different apparitions with which she has blessed us. Isabelle Rolland, excerpt from Le Rosaire, présent du

flooded with light from the sun shining through a window, lighting up the whole sanctuary. The eyes were dark, well formed and in harmony with the whole of the face. The Virgin's gaze was that of a living [...] 22, 1888, in which Blessed Frederic Jansoone gave the sermon with these prophetic words: "From henceforth, this sanctuary shall belong to Mary. Pilgrims shall come from every parish, from every family in [...] and, in the evening at about seven o'clock, Father Desilets, Father Jansoon and Mr. Pierre Lacroix, a disabled man, entered to pray the Virgin. Then something extraordinary happened: "... the statue of

Virgin, a true but inviolate Mother, gave birth to Him who became visible for our sake and by whom she herself was created. A virgin conceives, yet remains a virgin; a virgin is heavy with child; a virgin [...] soul and body, Christ is God and Man” In a few sermons for the feast of the Nativity, St. Augustine highlights the fact that God willed that Mary would remain a virgin through and after childbirth: “Let [...] His own Mother when He was with the Father; and when He was born of that Mother He remained in His Father. How would He who granted to His Mother the privilege of remaining a virgin when she brought forth

Their martyrdom happened in solidarity with the passion of Christ, and forms a whole with it. In Fatima 1917-2017, La dévotion au cœur immaculé de Marie, de 1917 à la Venue glorieuse du Christ (Fatima 1917-2017 [...] is not a film of anticipation of the future, to which nothing could be changed. This vision was given only to stress the role of freedom and to orient it in a positive direction. - The vision has a symbolic [...] recognize in it the past century, as being a period of martyrs and persecutions of the Church. - In the way of the cross of this century, the figure of the Pope holds a special place. - In the same way that

"communion with Fatima" will culminate with the celebration of a Mass of thanksgiving for the intentions of Pope Francis, on May 15, 2017. "Each shrine reveals part of Mary's mission and each one has a particular [...] December 17, 2016. A special program at the Shrine of Lourdes, from May to October, will include an exhibit on the major Marian shrines, Marian processions with statues of Our Lady of Fatima, and a film about [...] particular charism, without contradicting the others’ charism," said a document sent by the Shrine of Lourdes to the Shrine of Fatima. Zenit

love you” to God, the Trinity, to Jesus and to Mary. With each successive bead (or decade) the meaning shifts as we contemplate a new aspect of Jesus or Mary’s love. Before beginning the Rosary, we should [...] who consider the Rosary to be monotonous. Using the analogy of a husband telling his wife “I love you” or a mother proclaiming “you’re a good boy” to her child, Sheen stresses that the words mean something [...] pray devoutly. Although the Rosary follows a simple pattern, it can be a very challenging prayer to master. Rest assured that many of the saints struggled with it too. If you find it difficult to pray the

confidence. He likes to see her name always united to his, and when a church is erected to his glory, he wants it to house a humble altar to Mary. Finally, he wishes that wherever the Son is adored, the Mother [...] purest, most perfect of all creatures; he preserved her from all sins and adorned her with every grace and every virtue. As a man, he loved her as the most respectful, docile, submissive, and affectionate child [...] during the nine months that He rested in her virginal womb as in a cradle, and during the thirty years of intimate life He spent with her in Nazareth! In the course of his public life, it was often at

We need not wonder that he thought himself unworthy of the society of such a virgin when we hear the holy Elizabeth exclaim with fear and trembling : “Whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should [...] account of it. If he had told his opinion and the proof he had of Mary's purity, would not the people have mocked him and stoned Mary? How would they have believed in the Truth still mute in the womb? [...] invisible Christ? It is therefore with good reason that this just man, in order not to be reduced to lying or exposing an innocent woman to blame, wanted to send Mary away in secret. Saint Bernard, excerpt