Passion: a hammer on the left and tongs on the right as if she were offering the world the choice of nailing or of releasing her Son. The expression on her face was at once heart-rending and beatific. "She

wants it so. You will have to fight against two insurmountable powers: Love and Divine Will. Love nails You, in such a way that You cannot separate from Him; the Divine Will imposes Itself and wants the

how hard it is raining? Sinners are more numerous than the raindrops. My Son’s hands and feet are nailed to the Cross, his five wounds are open. If sinners do not convert, my Son will have to allow the

give him your last goodbye and your last kiss, you feel your heart tear away from your chest! Love nails you to his body, and, by the force of Love and Pain, you feel yourself dying with your lifeless Son

small city in northern Mongolia, in East Asia, a poor woman, mother of 11 children, fights tooth and nail to wrest a shred of life and hope for herself and her large family from the vast expanse of waste:

us, with its happy days, but also with its tragedies … until Mary’s supreme night, when her Son is nailed to the wood of the cross… We will find her again on the first day of the Church; she, mother of hope

resplendent crucifix with a hammer and pincers placed on each side of the Cross, a little beyond the nailed hands. Her eyes were filled with immense sadness: "She cried the whole time she spoke to us," said

participated in the revolt. The trauma that gripped Galilee must have been dreadful, with dying men nailed to crosses at intervals up and down the main roads or on hillsides visible to all who passed. Following

St Bernard once noted that “Love inflicted on the heart of Mary the same tortures caused by the nails in the body of Jesus.” When the Blessed Mother experienced, along with her Son, such an intense, bitter