attract the blessing of God and of the Virgin Mary. Isn't Mary honored as "Gateway to Heaven" and "Mediatrix of all graces"? By means of the Rosary, we often tell Mary our love; it is not a simple repetition [...] , it is an effective way to keep in touch with her. Thirty-nine years later, I thank Mary for having helped me to persevere. Roger www.perifmedia.com
(Italy) She prepared herself. What about us? Dear brothers and sisters, Mary was being prepared to receive the Word of God. Mary prepared herself to welcome the Word of God. The same should go for us. [...] lives, we must prepare ourselves, like Mary, by following in her footsteps, alongside her. A mother always shows us the concrete reality of life, so in imitation of Mary, let us make some room in our hearts
2002. The Virgin Mary appeared there under a new title by which she wishes to be known and loved by all people in our times: "The Lady of All Nations" or "Mother of All Peoples." Mary drew a striking picture [...] apparition in Banneux (Belgium, 1933) The gradual revelation of a Plan On March 25, 1945, the Virgin Mary appeared in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to a woman named Ida Peerdeman (d. 1996). This first apparition [...] the world and prepare it, through His Mother, for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. To this end, Mary gave this prayer to the nations: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now your Spirit over
scapular. In Garabandal, Mary herself wearing the scapular invites us to (re)discover its meaning: the devotion of the Carmelite scapular is a variant of the consecration to Jesus by Mary. F. Breynaert, April [...] origin not yet established) Mount Carmel: a link between Garabandal, Lourdes and Fatima The title Mary gave herself in Garabandal, Spain(1), "Our Lady of Mount Carmel", suggests a link with the apparitions [...] Portugal. "In closing her visits to Lourdes on July 16, 1858, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mary placed the symbol of Mount Carmel at the culmination of a spiritual journey of which the previous
at the forming of the body and soul of the Son of God in Mary, so now the Spirit forms Christ in the nascent Church. Just as the Spirit moved Mary to go and visit her cousin Elizabeth, so He moves the apostolic [...] March 23 - Mater Domini (Italy, 1650) The Marian experience of the Spirit At the Annunciation, Mary, who was already filled with graces, became, in a very special way, the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit: [...] shadow so that she could become, in total adherence to the Word of God, the Mother of the Son of God. Mary is the Ark of the Covenant that carries the Son of God within her (Lk 1:26-38). The event of Pentecost
the month of Mary. My grandmother is a member of the Daughters of Mary and I was able to pray the rosary with her. We began by the Creed, then the Our Father, and when we got to the Hail Mary, I began to [...] myself into the Heart of Mary. Then, all of a sudden, my fear completely disappeared! This shows how the devil trembles when we pray the rosary! H. K. Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth on June 14, 2022
Virgin Mary, and what better way to do so than to go directly to this world-famous Marian apparition site? Our group did one spiritual action after another: the Rosary, a special consecration to Mary, the [...] group: "To know Jesus intimately, we have to go through Mary." He advised us to adopt three attitudes as Christians: following a path of abandonment to Mary, the woman of faith; taking the path of the cross [...] radiant joy alongside Mary, the one who says "my soul exalts the Lord". Let us abandon ourselves, lay down our burdens and our crosses, and live in the joy of the Risen Christ, with Mary as our sure guide
Rosary is also an act of intimacy with the Virgin Mary; each Hail Mary prayed is like presenting her with a rose to show love for her. “If each Hail Mary is a rose, then what an act of intimacy of prayer [...] rose The Rosary is both a weapon for spiritual warfare and a rose presented as a gift to the Virgin Mary, said a TOR (Third Order Regular) friar during a talk on the importance of the prayer... Brother Daniel [...] unique gift which allows Catholics to both defend themselves in spiritual warfare and honor the Virgin Mary by presenting her with spiritual roses… “Wars and bloody crimes have been stopped through the spiritual
must face this struggle - Mary does not leave them alone: the Mother of Christ and of the Church is always with us. She walks with us always, she is with us. And in a way, Mary shares this dual condition [...] she is distant or detached from us; rather Mary accompanies us, struggles with us, sustains Christians in their fight against the forces of evil. Prayer with Mary, especially the rosary – but listen carefully: [...] the Rosary every day? But I’m not sure you do [the people shout “Yes!”]… Really? Well, prayer with Mary, especially the Rosary, has this “suffering” dimension, that is of struggle, a sustaining prayer in
moon. The eye of the soul cannot fix the perfection of God as it is. But it can look at Mary's perfection. Mary is like the moon compared to the sun. It is made bright and reflects on you the light that [...] who, leaving my side, gets up from his knees to go to Mary, or another who, detaching himself from her bosom, comes to me... I say to you, ‘Love Mary. I give you to the one who loves you and who will enlighten [...] centuries, I have offered her as a model to all of you, whom I wanted to be as brothers, precisely in Mary. She is the Mother. How sweet it is for children to look at their mother! I have given her to you
