talks about the encounters between Jorge Mario and Mary, a tender Mother, Help of Christians, who welcomes us, intercedes for us: during his conversation with the Pope, Awi Mello – writes the theologian, Carlos [...] us to love Mary beyond theological reflection. As a son and member, like anyone else, of the People of God, Bergoglio – Francis – participates in the sensus fidei fidelium and identifies with the profound [...] affection for the Madonna “She is My Mother,” released in bookshops since October 2018, is the fruit of a conversation between Pope Francis and Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family
of Sister Mary of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. Her last public appearance was on October 2000, in a television documentary showing her praying the Rosary from her monastery in union with the faithful [...] Peter's Square. Another nun from her convent who had known her for 52 years, Sister Mary of the Carmel, went to Rome with her on May 13, 2000, to attend the beatification of her two cousins, Jacinta and Francisco [...] presided over by Pope Saint John Paul II. Sister Lucia lived a life of recollection, solitude and silence, hidden from the public eye. She would take a walk outside every day to pray the Rosary. Her superior
n of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary made on March 25, 1984, had met with the Virgin’s criteria, she again answered "yes." When she was told that a rumor was spreading about another secret, she [...] Frassino (Lake Garda, Italy) "Yes, it is complete," Lucia replied Pope Saint John Paul II had a special connection with Fatima (Portugal) and Sister Lucia, one of the three seers of Fatima, especially after the [...] looking for something non-existent instead of focusing on the real, well-known messages of the Virgin Mary. Translated from the French – Source: Zenit
Apparition of Our Lord (Convent Chapel in Tuy, Portugal, 1930) The May Magnificat (II) Mary, on her trip to visit Elizabeth with the Child Jesus maturing in her womb, was seen as mirrored by the budding flowers [...] ladyslippers - were seen to spring up around her steps "most beauteous". In the total union with God into which Mary was brought and entered at the Annunciation for the divine motherhood, the spiritual formation [...] Augustine observed: "Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She gave birth to Christ in her heart before giving birth to him in the flesh. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than
Apparition of Our Lord (Convent Chapel in Tuy, Portugal, 1930) The May Magnificat (II) Mary, on her trip to visit Elizabeth with the Child Jesus maturing in her womb, was seen as mirrored by the budding flowers [...] ladyslippers - were seen to spring up around her steps "most beauteous". In the total union with God into which Mary was brought and entered at the Annunciation for the divine motherhood, the spiritual formation [...] Augustine observed: "Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She gave birth to Christ in her heart before giving birth to him in the flesh. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than
Unbeliever Persevere in His Disbelief? (I) A group of Lutheran theologians from Eastern Germany published a proclamation in 1971 containing these lines filled with moving honesty: “At Lourdes, Fatima and [...] and other Marian sanctuaries, impartial criticism is faced with supernatural facts, which have a close relation to the Virgin Mary, either because of the apparitions, or because of the miraculous graces obtained [...] religion or scientific opinions, had free access to the Office of Medical Observations. Therefore, a cure declared miraculous has the greatest possible guarantee.”
Unbeliever Persevere in His Disbelief? (I) A group of Lutheran theologians from Eastern Germany published a proclamation in 1971 containing these lines filled with moving honesty: "At Lourdes, Fatima and [...] and other Marian sanctuaries, impartial criticism is faced with supernatural facts, which have a close relation to the Virgin Mary, either because of the apparitions, or because of the miraculous graces obtained [...] religion or scientific opinions, had free access to the Office of Medical Observations. Therefore, a cure declared miraculous has the greatest possible guarantee."
anarchists were trying to "cleanse" a city of all its religious objects. They attempted to tip over a statue of the Virgin Mary, but couldn’t do it! It looked like a mysterious power kept her in place. [...] vent to their hatred of religion around the mutilated statue. A few weeks later, the anarchist went to the doctor because of some problem with his hand. The doctor was dismayed: "These are leprosy spots [...] spots!" he exclaimed. Perplexed, he asked, "Were you in contact with any lepers?” – “No.” – “Are you in contact with foreigners from Africa or Asia?” – “No”. – “When did you notice these spots on your hands
disarray of the Revolution. When Marie Victoire Couderc (Saint Therese Couderc) was a young woman, her father brought her home from school to participate with her family in a mission to be given in Sablieres [...] Stephen Terme. Marie Victoire was 20 years old and had a great desire to consecrate herself to God. She confided in Father Terme who offered her the opportunity to enter the novitiate in Aps in a community [...] by the hands of Mary. The retreat centers developed in spite of the lack of means. Exhausted, Therese Couderc fell ill and had to go away to rest. On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, renewing the gesture
Jane Frances Frémyot, baroness of Chantal (1572 -1641) was a French saint from Burgundy, who founded the Order of the Visitation of St. Mary with St. Francis de Sales. [...] other filled with the bitterness and drink of anguish that your Beloved swallowed in that place of torment: ah! What does this teach me, if not to receive tribulations as something shared with the Spouse [...] be all-empty vessels, and my Son will pour into them the dew with which his head is covered, and the drops of the night of his Passion with which his head is sprinkled will be converted into pearls of
