Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be her glorious Assumption. Blessed be the name of Mary, virgin and Mother. Blessed be Saint Joseph [...] Italy) The Divine Praises Blessed be God. Blessed be His holy name. Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Blessed be the name of Jesus. Blessed be His most Sacred Heart. Blessed be His most [...] Joseph, her most chaste spouse. Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints. Amen.
"Full of grace" is the name Mary possesses in the eyes of God. Indeed the angel, according to Saint Luke's account, uses this expression even before he speaks the name "Mary" and thus emphasizes the predominant
their life with Christ and for Christ. For Him and with Him they went from Nazareth (whose name means Garden) to Bethlehem (whose name means City of Bread), from Bethlehem to Egypt, and from Egypt to Nazareth [...] Christ became the missionary vocation of Mary and Joseph who put their freedom at the Son’s disposal. These two saints, united in the respect and in the love of a pure and fecund community, began the journey [...] Here we learn to observe, to listen, to meditate, and to penetrate the profound and mysterious meaning of that simple, humble, and lovely manifestation of the Son of God. (Paul VI Reflections at Nazareth
to a man named Joseph, of the House of David, and the virgin's name was Mary (Lk 1:26). "Rejoice, full of grace! The Lord is with you!" (Lk 1:28). "Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is [...] your womb" (Lk 1:42). Many Catholics still do not know this prayer by heart. Then why not memorize it and say it at least once a day at noon? It would be a beautiful gift to the Blessed Mother during the month [...] thanksgiving for her graces! Saint Louis de Montfort, also, wrote that every time we recite the Angelus, Mary feels the same joy as the one she felt when she received the visit of the Archangel Gabriel in Nazareth
rational and critical resources that theology, as the understanding of faith, may be fruitful and creative. And just as in giving her assent to Gabriel's word, Mary lost nothing of her true humanity and freedom [...] for the Church and, at first glance, not related to the devotion to Mary. The title of that encyclical may put off some, those who might think that philosophy is separated from Faith and reserved for i [...] Blessed Virgin and the vocation of true philosophy there is a deep harmony. Just as the Virgin was called to offer herself entirely as human being and as woman that God's Word might take flesh and come among
e Conception” In Lourdes, Bernadette asked the Virgin Mary her name and she replied: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” By her luminous words, Mary expressed that she was not only conceived immaculately [...] white and whiteness itself, or something perfect and perfection. (...) The Holy Spirit is the uncreated Immaculate Conception. (...) The third person of the Trinity is not embodied as we all know and our [...] our word “spouse” is insufficient to express the relationship between the Immaculate and the Holy Spirit. It can be said that the Immaculate Conception is in a sense “the incarnation of the Holy Spirit.”
the world and fair this night With stars about its head, And the hall is filled with laughter and light, And fires are burning red. The bells of Paradise now ring With bells of Christendom, And Gloria, Gloria [...] was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. … The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All ways and paths were wild: [...] apart was rent, And here was born a Child. … In the dale of dark in that hour of birth One voice on a sudden sang: Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth Together at midnight rang. Mary sang in this world
taught us: “When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as [...] shrine of Eucharistic and Marian devotion, Pope Francis recalled “ How many families, over the course of almost a century and a half, have passed on the faith to their children and gathered their daily [...] the prayer of the Rosary with the image of Our Lady of Knock at its centre! The arms of the Virgin Mary in a praying position still show how fundamental the life of prayer is, which comes as a message of
miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary and the tomb of a saint from long ago. Tourists come to Rocamadour for its religious interest, historical significance, beautiful architecture, and most of all, for the spectacular [...] Rocamadour, about 100 miles north of Toulouse, is a popular destination for pilgrims and tourists alike. This spectacular natural and religious site perched high on a rocky plateau receives 1.5 million visitors [...] to legend, Rocamadour was the home of an early Christian hermit named Zaccheus of Jericho. It is believed that he died in about 70 AD and had conversed with Jesus himself. According to some accounts, this
am. I am the ever-Virgin Mary, mother of the true God who gives life and maintains its existence. He created all things. He is in all places. He is Lord of Heaven and Earth and I desire a church in this [...] sincerely ask for my help in their work and in their sorrows will know their mother’s near in this place. Here I will see their fears and I will console men and they will be at peace.” Based on her words [...] Guadalupe. This is the feast of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego, a native Mexican peasant who experienced apparitions of Mary on the Hill of Tepeyac in present-day Mexico City. There
