pray the Rosary, I believe the peace I feel is due to the presence of Mother Mary. Who else could be such a perfect Mother as Mary? Testimony by Donna Jones [...] Queen Mother of the Church The Lord allowed me to see that if we look in the Bible we have Mother Mary as a perfect example. The Lord exalted her. He allowed me to see that she was truly the Queen Mother [...] people who have given their lives totally over to God, they exhibit great peace. I believe because Mary gave herself over so completely to God to be used totally for His will that she was filled with God's
Francisco (age 9) and Jacinta Marto (age 7), reported six apparitions of Mary, who identified herself as "Our Lady of the Rosary." Mary urged people to pray the rosary, do penance for the conversion of sinners [...] Apparitions of the Past (III) 1879, Knock, County Mayo, Ireland - During a pouring rain, the figures of Mary, Joseph, John the Apostle, and a lamb on a plain altar appeared over the gable of the village chapel [...] asked the Supreme Pontiff to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart. 1932-33, Beauraing, Belgium - Mary is believed to have come 33 times to the playground of a convent school to five children (ages 9-15)
there is an area where we should especially seek the help of Mary: to increase our faith. Why this importance of faith in our prayer to Mary? Because of all the dimensions in which our lives unfold, none [...] Icon of ‘She Who Points the Way’ (Hodegetria) The most precious gift the Virgin can give us Why is Mary the guardian of the faith? While it is legitimate to pray to the Virgin for health, family, professional [...] important in this life than the relationships we have with Him. No saint is more qualified than the Virgin Mary to educate us and show us how to maintain the vital link of faith with our Creator. Not only has no
Sessions are a beautiful path of discipleship that follows the Virgin Mary's recommendation to "do whatever He tells you" (John 2). The Marie de Nazareth Team [...] June 23 – Madonna del Ardesio (Italy, 1607) The Saint Mark Sessions: A Marian Pedagogy Historically, Mary’s apparitions have usually lasted from several days to several weeks. They are to be understood as [...] g Bernadette and a whole crowd of people. In December 1947, in the French town of L’Ile-Bouchard, Mary taught some children how to pray, over the course of seven days, hence her name of Our Lady of Prayer
and grace, You are our refuge and our hope, Protect us, O Mary, and have mercy on our deceased. Although you are far away from us, O Virgin Mary, May your intercession accompany and save us. From Him who [...] Intercede for us to your Son, And ask him to forgive us our sins through His mercy. Desert us not, O Good Mary, O full of all grace, Save all of your servants, So that we may thank you forever more.
and grace, You are our refuge and our hope, Protect us, O Mary, and have mercy on our deceased. Although you are far away from us, O Virgin Mary, May your intercession accompany and save us. From Him who [...] Intercede for us to your Son, And ask him to forgive us our sins through His mercy. Desert us not, O Good Mary, O full of all grace, Save all of your servants, So that we may thank you forever more.
– OUR LADY OF SICHEM (The Netherlands, 1306) This Birth Perfectly Reflects the Messiah's Condition Mary did not know how her child would be born, but she must have sensed that this birth would reflect the [...] and earthly in its other aspects. The incident of the grotto was probably not the humiliation for Mary, as it seems to be for us, since at that time in Nazareth peasants also built their homes in natural [...] a major event for a mother: with it, the past is history and a life story begins. And in the case Mary and Jesus, what a past! What a life story!
for “consecration,” connecting the practice of entrusting ourselves to Mary’s motherhood with Christ’s entrustment of John to Mary at the foot of the Cross. What I had failed to recognize in my naivete [...] baptismal consecration to Jesus. Jesus, and not Mary, is the goal of our action. The Pope explained how Father de Montfort’s teaching showed him that “Mary does bring us closer to Christ; she does lead us [...] of St. Louis de Montfort’s famous text on Marian Consecration (True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary), I was open to hearing the Pope’s thought. He shared how “This treatise by De Montfort can be a bit
It is a testimony of healing, as a result of entrusting oneself to the Virgin Mary: "I want to testify how the Virgin Mary obtained my healing from a chronic illness that made me extremely weak since I [...] only chance for me was to go to the Virgin Mary at the Marian shrine in Schoenstatt Mount Sion Gikungu. I wondered how I was going to appeal to the Virgin Mary since I never prayed the Rosary. Little by [...] by little, I learned to pray it and I began to visit the shrine regularly, asking the Virgin Mary to intercede for me. During the first two months of praying the Rosary, my colds became less frequent and
the more I felt my heart growing heavy, and I could not hold back my tears. I said to the Virgin Mary: "Mary, this is my life, I come to you with all of my pain. I am not worthy of your Son anymore, because [...] d my heart opening up to Mary and Jesus, which I didn’t believe could happen. After that, I confessed to a priest for the first time and unpacked my “load” of sins. In Mary’s and Jesus’ light we see everything
