of the whole Church, she will be hailed as immaculate in her conception. John Henry Newman (1) Discourses of Mixed Congregations - Discourse 17. The Glories of Mary for the Sake of Her Son (1) Cardinal [...] Pope John Paul II to Poland (Marian Shrine of Czestochowa, 1979) The discrete and modest attitude of Mary When first [Jesus] went out to preach, she kept apart from Him; she interfered not with His work; [...] proclaimed by the Holy Church, and enthroned in His temple, for He was God [...] but it was otherwise with Mary. It became her, as a creature, a mother, and a woman, to stand aside and make way for the Creator

easily distracted souls like myself. Reading or remembering a verse of Sacred Scripture before each Hail Mary does not completely eliminate my distractions, but it certainly helps to focus my mind and imagination [...] regularly. Sent by John Kippley, author of The Seven Day Bible Rosary and reader of A Moment with Mary in our English edition, September 2019

incomprehensible ruthlessness. To utter the words of the angel Gabriel and St. Elizabeth to Mary, Hail, Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, to pray the Our Father and

with statues of Virgin Mary In an unprecedented succession of ascents, two French guides, Guillaume Pierrel and Lucien Boucansaud visited, in just ten days, the seven Virgin Marys of the massif. Was it [...] altitude difference to climb the seven summits of the Mont-Blanc massif where statues of the Virgin Mary are enthroned. “We are not practicing Christians, Guillaume explains to Le Figaro, but we wanted to [...] complicated was to deal with the capricious weather of this month of June. "We had a lot of wind, rain and hail, and the weather was very unstable." The Quiet Virgins testify to these violent storms of high mountains

asked the woman if she wanted to pray the rosary. The new traveling companions were soon repeating Hail Mary’s, Our Father’s and Glory Be’s as they walked New York’s streets. Eventually, the pair came across

prayers, at night and in the morning. When you don't have time, at least say an Our Father and a Hail Mary, and whenever you can, say more. Only a few rather elderly women go to Mass in the summer. Everyone

the Rosary. The Virgin Mary appeared even more resplendent than previously. The prayer of the children and the people assembled made her beauty seem even greater. - Sing the Hail Mary! - Madam, here are some [...] prayed every day, until that number reached five. Fifty years later, Jacqueline Aubry remembered: "Mary made me taste the happiness of Heaven", with real delight in her voice! The little girls, followed [...] the Virgin blessed the crowd. - Are you going to build a grotto? - Yes, yes, we will build it. - O Mary conceived without sin... Three times the children repeated the invocation. The Virgin disappeared

wondered what one “yes” could do? When the Archangel Gabriel announced to our Blessed Mother, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women,” and then proceeded to tell her [...] replied, “I am the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to your Word.” Simply stated, Mary said “yes.” What if she had said “no” to God? We would be without a Savior, true God who became true [...] rose for our salvation. We would remain in darkness, and the gates of heaven would remain closed. Mary’s one “yes” made all the difference in the world for each and every one of us. This Advent, commit

ted her. “Do you know any others? Can you say another one?” he asked her. The child began the “Hail Mary,” but the pastor interrupted her. “That one is not a prayer, because you mustn’t pray to a woman [...] the pastor encouraged her this time. However, when she arrived to the words “was born of the Virgin Mary”, the child sighed in annoyance and said, “There she is again! What am I to do?” The pastor later [...] two pennies, sent her home and returned to his own abode very upset. There she is again, that Virgin Mary, even in the Creed, which he had recited so many times without noticing the words he was pronouncing

into the Queen of Heaven, and said to him, "Trust me. I will save you." John awoke, recited one Hail Mary with enthusiasm and felt consoled. He walked to be hanged with a firm step. He promised the Good [...] Good Mother to give up soldiering, if she delivered him from this terrible fate... He did not doubt Mary’s help for one moment. John, in the gallows, declared his innocence. And added, "I have confidence [...] hands, which he had found in the captain’s tent. The latter was condemned and executed on the spot. Mary was trustworthy to her promise. John also kept his word. He gave up his life of soldiering and went