intercession of the Virgin Mary. I learned to recite the Rosary. My daughter was born on April 21, 2006. The following summer, I took her to Lourdes to give thanks to God and Mary. Today I have been baptized [...] knew nothing about the town. Being Muslim, I don’t pray the Rosary, but I do believe in the Virgin Mary. At the Grotto, I sat and contemplated the statue of that holy woman. I thought, "Lord, you have permitted [...] baptized and I receive communion. Thank you Mother Mary! Awa Published in Lourdes’ Journal des Grâces (Journal of Graces) Issue #3, May 2016
May 27 - Italia. Madonna del Popolo (1645). Spouse of the Holy Spirit When Mary has taken root in a soul she produces in it wonders of grace which only she can produce; for she alone is the fruitful virgin [...] never had and never will have her equal in purity and fruitfulness. Together with the Holy Spirit Mary produced the greatest thing that ever was or ever will be: a God-man. She will consequently produce [...] in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things. When the Holy Spirit, her spouse, finds Mary in a soul, he hastens there and enters fully into it. He gives himself generously to that soul according
came to see the house protected by the Virgin Mary and were witnesses to the power of the scapular and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Marie de Nazareth
No one can deny that Mary bore a blessing that was singular since the beginning of the world. In Revelation, God proclaims, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Yet Mary is blessed at the very [...] divinized (cf. Pet 1:4). They deserve reverence insofar as they are vessels of God's holiness. (...) Mary holds a unique place in the Communion of Saints. God gave her a pivotal role in history, as He became
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 [...] to pray to Mary. I love the Angelus and the Rosary, that prayer of the humble, which simplifies and helps to contemplate the mysteries of Jesus. I give thanks for the mystery of the Virgin Mary, who reveals [...] le Authentic devotion to the 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
calls: when he had to journey on foot with Mary, who was expecting Jesus any day, all the way to Bethlehem; when he experienced the poverty of the stable where Mary gave birth; when he received the formidable [...] allowing him to practice three essential virtues: - The first deposit was the Holy Virginity of Mary: to keep Mary's virginity under the externals of marriage, Joseph acquired angelic purity, expressed by his [...] time of waiting that was to take place between Jesus’ death and Resurrection. For when the Virgin Mary, "seized with emotion," cried out: " My child, why have you done this to us? Your father and I were
certainty of the Angel's words sustained her: "Do not fear, Mary: you have found favor with God." In times of joy and in times of darkness, Mary never ceased to count on God. The Magnificat contains the [...] Nowhere is this disproportion between God and the means He chooses more evident than with the Virgin Mary. In Galilee, Nazareth was the butt of jokes. People would say: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth [...] Nazareth?" (Jn 2:45). But it is precisely Nazareth that God chose to play a key role in world history! Mary was planning to remain a virgin; she was prepared to face the open marks of contempt addressed to
ran to the foot of a statue of Mary inside an oratory ready to fall into ruin. Mary granted the humble prayer of her servant. Anna recovered, and so did her two children. Mary's protégée, and although very [...] against the Virgin Mary, the saints, their feasts, shrines, statues and images, was well-known. Anna Dubliken did not share the ideas of the blasphemers. Passing by the oratory of Mary, she saw an excited [...] their happy adventure. The people listened to Anna with surprise, praising and blessing the Virgin Mary. Amidst general admiration, the holy statue was carried to Maria Zell and installed in the shrine
Nicephorus observed, "and one doesn't obtain them. One asks many things to Mary and one obtains them. Why is that? It isn't that Mary is more powerful than God; but that God wishes to honor his Mother in this
initiatives. Mary is a woman of hope: only because she believes in God's promises and awaits the salvation of Israel, can the angel visit her and call her to the decisive service of these promises. Mary is a woman [...] – Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) Blessed are you who believed Outstanding among the saints is Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. In the Gospel of Luke we find her engaged in a service [...] is encountered both in prayer and in service of neighbor—only then does goodness enter the world. Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. She is lowly: her only
