emic with Mary! Inaugurated on December 12, 2015, the 7.5 acre Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy in San Pedro, Ivory Cost (Africa), ranks fourth among Ivory Coast’s Marian shrines, after those of Abidjan, G [...] diocese. The Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy promotes a Catholic Marian spirituality around the sacraments and special Marian devotions. It offers Masses, confessions, weddings, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament [...] stairs to the main statue of the Virgin Mary. They pray in front of her for a few minutes, leave candles, flowers, or money, before climbing down again. We talked to Elizabeth, a young mother in her 30s
1984) Mary's wound is deeper than yours! The Virgin Mary appeared in Japan from 1973 to 1981, in the chapel of the Eucharistic Servants of the Sacred Heart, a modest convent close to the city of Akita [...] began to pray, and suddenly felt in the hollow of her left hand a wound two centimeters wide and three centimeters long, in the shape of a cross. The sensation of a deep sting, like a needle, kept her awake [...] heard the voice of her guardian angel, saying: "Do not be afraid! Do not pray only for your own sins, but in reparation for those of all people. The present world hurts the Most Holy Heart of Our Lord by its
ion ongoing) In 1187, Mary reconciled the English and the French In the spring of 1187, the Duchy of Berry (Central France) was the scene of a confrontation between the Houses of France and England. The [...] Blessed Virgin Mary, whose painted sculpture is above the portal, provoked the mockery of some English soldiers. A rock, thrown by one of the soldiers on the statue of the Virgin, broke the arm of the Child [...] to burn the town of Déols and to destroy the monastery. On Saturday, May 30, 1187, at nightfall, the situation became critical. The residents of Déols gathered in front of the portal of the abbey church
life of Christ with Mary, to make our requests known to Christ with Mary, to let ourselves be transfigured by Christ with Mary, and to announce Christ with Mary. F. Breynaert See also: Library of Marian [...] Virgin Mary Let's look at a detail of the vision that the French nun St. Catherine Labouré had on November 27, 1930, in the Rue du Bac convent of the Daughters of Charity in Paris. It was on the eve of the [...] the first Sunday of Advent, a time of the liturgical year in which the faithful unite themselves more closely with Christ by contemplating all his mysteries. Catherine noticed that Mary wore 15 rings on
what interests God! Mary is my Mother. Jesus allowed that through her, the miracle of the transformation of all these things (the “water” of our lives) would be able to take place. Mary is the teacher that [...] bring, it is His capital of grace earned by the merits of His Passion and Resurrection that I allow to be made fruitful for my own salvation and sanctification. Every drop of water is transformed into [...] into delicious wine, a symbol of festivity and joy! Thus everything in me is called to be transformed if I allow myself to be educated by Mary. Our Lady of Schoenstatt Team Impulsions June / July 2017 for
Ecumenical Council with all the Fathers concurring, called the Mother of God "The Queen of all, the true Mother of God," and also "the Queen of all Christians." [...] 988) - Pie XII (d. 1958) Mary Reigns over the Entire World The Supreme Shepherds of the Church have considered it their duty to promote by eulogy and exhortation the devotion of the Christian people to [...] Simply passing over the documents of more recent pontiffs, it is helpful to recall that as early as the seventh century our predecessor Saint Martin I, called Mary "our glorious Lady, ever Virgin." Saint
d, 1480) Mary is the Immaculate Conception Who is the Holy Spirit? The flowering of the love of the Father and the Son. If the fruit of created love is a created conception, then the fruit of divine Love [...] love. There we have the intimate life of the three Persons by which they can be distinguished one from another. But they are united in the oneness of their Nature, of their divine existence. The Spirit is [...] Love, that prototype of all created love, is necessarily a divine “conception.” The Holy Spirit is, therefore, the “uncreated, eternal conception,” the prototype of all the conceptions that multiply life
authenticity of the revelations by the remarkable holiness of their individual lives. Simple peasants with little education were granted gifts of wisdom surpassing those of the leaders of the world. What [...] children learned of the trials that were to come in a century of upheavals. They heard of wars and revolutions, persecutions, and a surge of demonic activity. They were granted a vision of hell itself. It [...] Virgin Mary gave us in Fatima In 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in Fátima, and to them, she revealed heaven’s answers to questions that were burning in millions of hearts
rubbing of billions of soft touches. As you pass by, take the time to look at the ever-flowing spring on the left. Watching it flow and hearing its sound is soothing. Near the grotto, millions of candles [...] interruption. When the Bible evokes the state of sin in which humanity has found itself since Adam's fall, it often uses two images: that of captivity and that of darkness. In contrast, the salvation brought [...] enlightenment. And to give a concrete sign of this, the priest blesses the fire and the light of the candles at the Easter Vigil, followed by the blessing of the water for baptism. Translated from: https://www
Marielle, were preparing to receive the sacrament of marriage, according to Father Jean-Baptiste, one of the Canons Regular of the Mother of God of Lagrasse Abbey. Father Jean-Baptiste said in a statement: [...] where he asked the Virgin Mary to help him to meet the woman of his life, he met Marielle, whose faith is deep and discreet. The engagement was celebrated at the Breton abbey of Timadeuc on Easter 2016. [...] “I was able to give him the Sacrament of the Sick and the apostolic blessing at the moment of death… It was the Friday before the Passion, just before the opening of Holy Week. I had just prayed the Midafternoon
