First, that Mary has so much influence with her divine Son that all the graces granted by God to men are always given to them through and at the wish of the Blessed Virgin; Second, that Mary is so good [...] heretics, who attacked all the truths of faith and especially the divine maternity and virginity of Mary with horrible blasphemies, the Spaniard Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order, while defending [...] devout servant is easy to guess from the fact that Mary taught the Church, her Son’s Spouse, the Most Holy Rosary. This prayer both vocal and mental—it is a meditation of the principal mysteries of our religion—is
removed from his reputation as a "bad boy." A child with fast feet and a head filled with dreams of glory, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples, Italy, in the 1980s. He was a prized athlete and knew his worth [...] for a few days and traveled to Lourdes to keep a promise he had made to his wife Claudia: to go thank the Virgin Mary for the birth of their daughter, Dalma-Lourdes. When he arrived in Lourdes, a crowd [...] soccer legend, died of a heart attack on November 25, 2020. It is a well-known fact that he was always faithful to his homeland and to soccer, but less well known is that he was a man who kept his promises
my roof.” Joseph looked on himself as a sinner and as unworthy to entertain one in whom he beheld a superhuman dignity. He beheld with awe in the Virgin-Mother a certain sign of the Divine Presence, and [...] expose Mary, why had he a mind to put her away ? I give you on this point not my own opinion, but that of the Fathers. Joseph’s reason was the same as Peter’s when he said, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful [...] and as he could not penetrate the mystery, he wished to put her away. Peter was struck with awe at the greatness of Christ's power; the centurion by the majesty of His presence. Saint Bernard, excerpt from
this recommendation after the final blessing of Vespers and a procession to the Chapel of Graces with the following words: "We salute you, Holy Mary, Our Lady of Einsiedeln! In you God has offered us the original [...] 1984: "Hail Mary, Our Lady of Einsiedeln! ... I commend you today, Holy Mother of God, this country, Switzerland... I join the crowd of the many pilgrims who venerate you and seek refuge with you here and [...] The bishops met at the Abbey of Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz. The episcopal conference opened with the bishops entrusting Switzerland to the protection of the Mother of God at Vespers on June 8th.Saint
the heart of a mother." This is true with regard to obvious biological motherhood but it is also true of the "birth" of every form of fidelity to the Vocation of Christ. We cannot do without a spiritual [...] ip with her cannot be resolved in pious devotional practice but is nourished by ceaseless entrustment to the arms of the ever Virgin of the whole of our life, of our ministry in its entirety. Mary Most [...] letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration, and the Stabat of Mary, "Woman of the Eucharist," beneath her Son's Cross, is the most significant example of contemplation
Easter to October, a few hundred pilgrims walk through the 12 miles from Rome to the shrine through the night. These nocturnal pilgrimages, which begin at midnight and end with a 5 a.m. Mass in the shrine [...] intimacy with the Virgin Mary. At a time of social distancing, increased anxiety and worldwide fear, Pope Francis is not just making an appeal to Catholic devotion. He is calling us all to consider Mary not [...] is associated with a countryside church about 12 miles from Rome’s historic center. Divino Amore traces its first miracle to the 18th century, much later than the Salus Populi Romani icon. A pilgrim was
three quarters of his blood, and a blood transfusion could transmit a virus to him. He remained in reanimation for a long time, but five days after the attack, adopting a Polish proverb, he declared, “One [...] brought an image of Our Lady of Czestochowa with them from Poland, and they had set it on the ground in front of the Pope’s chair while they prayed for him with all their might. The operation lasted five [...] the bells rang the Angelus the following Sunday, in a message recorded in the pope’s hospital room, he entrusted humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One year later, on May 13, 1982, he went to give
known as the Franciscan Crown. This rosary is said with seven decades of Hail Marys, book-ended by an Our Father and a Minor Doxology, with two more Hail Marys added at the end. In 1851, the Vatican approved [...] of the same prayer, at first the Lord’s Prayer, using knots on a rope to keep count. In ninth century Ireland, the laity began using a string of beads to keep count of the one hundred fifty Our Fathers [...] Rosary of the Holy Trinity on a chaplet of three groups on nine beads. The prayer around which the chaplet was structured is the Trisagion. In 1233, the Order of the Servants of Mary, known as the Servites,
three quarters of his blood, and a blood transfusion could transmit a virus to him. He remained in reanimation for a long time, but five days after the attack, adopting a Polish proverb, he declared, "One [...] brought an image of Our Lady of Czestochowa with them from Poland, and they had set it on the ground in front of the Pope's chair while they prayed for him with all their might. The operation lasted five [...] the bells rang the Angelus the following Sunday, in a message recorded in the pope's hospital room, he entrusted humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One year later, on May 13, 1982, he went to give
“Zesus!” On January 17, 1871, Mary appeared in Pontmain, 40 km from a routed French army after the defeat of Le Mans (a city in western France). Pontmain was a hamlet with a population of less than 100. [...] square in front of the church from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, on a clear starry night, two children (followed by others) saw a sweet smiling figure above a barn. Every fifteen minutes, more children joined them [...] anything), and even a baby who shouted "Zesus!” as he pointed… Two nuns and the parish pastor, mingled with the fifty witnesses... During the improvised liturgy, in the biting cold (a Rosary, litanies, Marian
