– Madonna del Ravenna (Italy) What impressed me the most I learned as a child to love and venerate Mary. In the evening, I often walked to my paternal grandmother’s house. Her name was Herminia. We always [...] impressed me, from this episode of my childhood, is the image of my grandmother taking me to Jesus, with Mary, her Mother and our Mother. What I experienced then is very important to me. I carry it in my heart [...] Carvalho, OFM Bishop Emeritus of Campanha - Minas Gerais (Brazil) Exclusive Interview for A Moment With Mary Author: Thácio Siqueira

generous,” people who “at the school of Mary, accept the Gospel without reserve in their own lives.” … "The Holy Hous is the home of the young, because here the Virgin Mary, the young woman full of grace, continues [...] current site, where it’s been a pilgrimage site for Catholics since the 14th century… “God, through Mary, entrusts a mission in our time: to bring the Gospel of peace and life to our contemporaries, often

the meaning of it except he have lain on Jesus' breast and received from Jesus Mary to be his mother also. … For if Mary, as those declare who with sound mind extol her, had no other son but Jesus, and [...] himself no longer, but Christ lives in him; and if Christ lives in him, then it is said of him to Mary, Behold your son Christ. Origen, Commentary on the Gospel of John 1:23

mercy those whom the righteousness of your Son can no longer save," he wrote to the Virgin Mary. For him Mary isn’t of course more merciful than her Son, but she participates in a unique way in the divine [...] the Virgin, so he rose from the closed tomb. In the same way that his birth did not cause the Virgin Mary to lose her virginity, so his resurrection did not break the seals of the sepulcher." Saint John

the Assumption (Italy, 1624) Can a Christian pretend to be an orphan? Mary is Mother, and one cannot conceive any other title of Mary that is not ‘Mother.’ She is Mother, because she brings us Jesus and [...] Mother! We have a Mother. An elderly preacher once ended his sermon by saying, “Whoever does not want Mary as a Mother will have her as a mother-in-law!” Pope Francis Speech given to 7,500 members of the

of Mary. "All you who pass this way, look and see: is there any sorrow like the sorrow inflicted on me?" (Lm 1:12). At the time of the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque [...] bear witness for them. And as a reward I mainly receive only ingratitude." Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him in prayer each Thursday evening, for one hour, to participate in his anguish at

incredible. Thank you,'” Fr Siray said. “I couldn’t help thinking this church is dedicated to Mary, and Mary was always one humble of heart. She was willing to start small, and great things came from her [...] church on May 30, 2020, designating it as the first Marian shrine in the Diocese of Calgary. The Virgin Mary is sitting with her son Jesus in a lush Alberta forest, surrounded by deer drinking from a gurgling [...] dedication came as Pope Francis led the major shrines worldwide in praying the Rosary to implore Mary’s intercession and protection amid the coronavirus pandemic. In his homily, McGrattan recognized the

are a religious congregation of men dedicated to Mary and to the Christian education of the young. When I was an impressionable teenager, that image of Mary tenderly holding the Infant Jesus was held out [...] her for help and assistance and through Mary have experienced the love of her Son, Jesus, our Lord. Our Holy Father Pope Francis encourages us to approach Mary during this pandemic. He wrote, “It is t [...] of May in our Catholic tradition is dedicated to our Blessed Mother. In 2020 on the first day of Mary’s month, in response to the coronavirus pandemic that we are facing, the President of the United States

that future knights would spend their vigil of arms, because Mary was the purest and noblest expression of their ideal: "the chaste cult of Mary has always been the inspiration of the French knighthood and

Paulines Publications Africa, p. 42). Under the wise guidance of St Louis Marie, I realized that if one lives the mystery of Mary in Christ this risk does not exist. In fact, this Saint's Mariological thought [...] A work destined to become a classic of Marian spirituality was published 160 years ago. St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin at the beginning of [...] "There I found the answers to my questions," for at one point I had feared that if my devotion to Mary "became too great, it might end up compromising the supremacy of the worship owed to Christ" ( Dono