feel like a desperate prayer. It just felt like this was right.” A few years later, as she kept reflecting on the events of Sept. 11 and the inexplicable way she found herself praying with a stranger, [...] faith in part by praying the rosary with a stranger in New York during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Walking toward the twin smoking towers, Donaldson noticed a disoriented woman muttering to herself [...] searched for her residence, Donaldson noticed a crucifix hanging around the stranger’s neck. Although raised a Catholic, Donaldson was more of what she describes as a pagan at that time in her life. She hadn’t
intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Looking up, one of them saw Our Lady kneeling in prayer on a rock that could be seen above the churning waters, joining her prayers with those of the monks. The waters [...] have served as a pilgrim’s stage on the way to Saint James of Compostela. The imprints of the knees of the Virgin Mary are still visible today in the chapel of the Agenouillade , protected by a grating in [...] waters stopped rising at her feet, and the storm abated. The monks built a chapel on the spot where the Blessed Virgin had knelt, with the marks of her knees still visible on the rock. From then on, Our Lady
Spanish prisons In the prison of Vitoria, Spain, a priest came to visit a prisoner and found him shivering with cold. It was winter and the poor man had only a thin shirt on. The priest took off his cassock [...] The hour arrived, Juan-José was perfectly calm. A witness later said, "Saints are made in Spanish prisons!" In Le Sourire de Marie ("The Smile of Mary"), n. 27, March 1975 [...] wrote: "A happy day it was when I entered this prison! This is where I learned to pray and to weep over my sins." On November 28, 1951, Juan-José was sentenced to death. Alone in his cell, with the passing
not as a mechanical movement that excludes the soul, but as a movement of the spirit bowing before the queenship of Mary, and rising to her motherly heart. If you could say these words with a true spirit [...] Maria’: I greet you, Mary! It is a greeting that purifies the lips and the heart because we cannot say these words, in a thoughtful and sincere way, without the feeling of being a better person! It is [...] were approaching a source of angelic light and an oasis of lilies in bloom. ‘I greet you’: this is the word of the angel that you may say to greet the one whom the Three Persons greet with love! The invocation
trust in the Virgin Mary is less based on feelings than when I was a child. But it is essentially the same. It is perhaps a bit more pure. I trust the Church, who is a Mother, like Mary, and teaches me to [...] Mother of God doesn’t take us away from her Son My relationship with Mary has somewhat evolved throughout my Christian life. It began with a great childlike trust. I learnt St Bernard's prayer the "Memorare" [...] spiritual life on Christ (1)." One is surprised by such a statement, so great was John Paul II's attachment to Mary. Later in his book, he admits that "it was a youthful indiscretion!" At the school of St John
Pio’s usual way of conversing with the Virgin Mary. He called the Rosary his "weapon" that allowed him to conquer and obtain everything. Giving thanks to the Virgin Mary was for him the necessary way to [...] to give thanks to God. He himself received a special grace through it: In August 1959, after a journeying to several Italian cities, the statue of Our Lady of Fatima arrived in San Giovanni. An huge crowd [...] crowd was present. The statue had barely entered the church when Padre Pio went to meet her. With tears in his eyes, he kissed her affectionately and placed his rosary in her hands. Since he was very ill
understood as miraculous by the people of his time in that the grape vine normally blossoms not from a rod or a shoot growing up from the ground, but from new shoots emerging from upper points of further growth [...] Windows in her honor; in her Litany gave her the title of Mystical Rose; and honored her with the Christmas carol, "Lo a Rose 'ere Blooming". An old capitol in the ancient Abbey of Cluny bears in the middle [...] flores adducit honores' (Springtime's first flowers give thee honors). Then, with the 18th century re-burgeoning of devotion to Mary, the Church dedicated to her the entire springtime budding and flowering
combination. It was what you did as a penance, or because your parents made you. I never knew if I was supposed to be coming up with some brilliant new insight into the life of Mary, or finding some kind of spiritual [...] always lose track and end up saying either nine or eleven Hail Marys. But more and more often, dealing with the problems that naturally come with full lives, we found ourselves saying, “I don’t know. I don’t [...] very least it seemed like a rosary couldn’t hurt. We already go running together most days, so we decided to make a decade of the rosary part of the routine. Since we’ve made it a daily practice, literally
Immaculate Heart of Mary. A month later, very struck by the content of Lucia’s memoir, Bishop da Silva asked her to write a complete account of the apparitions. Lucia therefore sent him a fourth memoir also [...] to fry them alive in a pot of boiling oil! After Francisco died on April 4, 1919, followed by Jacinta on February 20, 1920, Lucia remained the only person to know the secret. With Heaven’s permission, [...] Virgin entrusted it to three little visionaries. Lucia did not hide the fact that they had received a secret, but none of the three children ever revealed the slightest element of it, even when Artur de
name of this earthly spot unique in History: where God became flesh in the womb of a virgin. This is where the Virgin Mary lived the everyday life that all mothers live. Her life was humble and offered to [...] in the home and synagogue, sharing her life with friends and neighbors. Just like all other mothers across the world... Just like all mothers, but having a Child who would become the Savior of the World [...] surrounded by the loving care of Mary and Joseph for the first thirty years of His life on earth (his ‘hidden life’), the Word of God made flesh grew in up Nazareth. With them was able to grow the spirituality
