everything. Mary educates and Saint Joseph guides. Saint Joseph closes the doors to evil and Mary opens the gates to Heaven. Mary does not tire of letting herself be touched by the requests of her chaste [...] tire of encouraging us to love our victorious, thrice admirable Mother. Both of them want us to receive their divine Son! Stanislas Péronnet, father of four children and organizer of the March of St. Joseph [...] Worker Saint Joseph closes the doors and Mary opens the gates On April 2, 2016, I went to the town of Argenteuil in France to venerate a relic of the Tunic of Christ, then on display. There I met two people
town of Ariccia near Rome. This meditation followed the thread of the Sermon on the Mount and the teaching of the Beatitudes. The preacher evoked the "beatitude of thirst" and the "beatitude of Mary." Father [...] Zeitoun apparitions in Cairo (Egypt, 1968) Without Mary, the Church risks becoming "dehumanized" The Beatitudes and the lifestyle of the faithful and of the Church: this was the concluding reflection delivered [...] Church in "Marian style": Mary who is "hospitable," who listens and who is open to life ; Mary who is "honest" with regard to God; who “serves" a bigger project . Without Mary, he concludes, the Church
and anxieties, even our fear of death, into a glorious resurrection. There are many saints who are examples of perseverance and witnesses of true expectation. I choose two of them: St. John, the forerunner [...] forerunner, and the Virgin Mary, because they are the two pillars of the portal that Jesus passed through to enter human history. Neither of them was waiting for something, but for someone. They were not trying [...] pierce his mother's heart”? Yet the Virgin Mary waited with perseverance; she welcomed Jesus into her, and gave to humanity (to each of us) someone "gentle and humble of heart", who would "not make his voice
accomplished in the other members of the Church. Was Mary miraculously preserved from sin in anticipation of the merits of Christ? We too are healed of sin by the grace of Christ, through Baptism, in the [...] absolutely unique plan of love for each of his children! If Mary has a temporal primacy and a primacy of excellence over us, we however have the same vocation: to respond to love with love. Mary's grace is special [...] this we are experiencing or will experience, but never to the same degree as the Virgin Mary. The predestination of Mary, her election, her setting apart, are admirable. But the truth revealed by St. Paul
(d. 1876) Mary invites us to enter the New Year with confidence On January 1st, the Church celebrates Mary, Mother of God. I find it very beautiful to enter a new year with the Virgin Mary. Mary invites [...] moments, but also painful ones. She felt a sword of pain pierce her. She experienced moments of unanswered questions and darkness. But she never let go of God's hand. As her cousin Elizabeth said, she is [...] rooted in God. It is a fruit of the Spirit and does not depend on the qualities of the person or the potentially positive outcomes of a situation. Trust is born through faith in God. It knows that God is
Christ, let us turn to his Mother, Mary” As the Fathers of the Church teach us, the temptations are part of Jesus’ “descent” into our human condition, into the abyss of sin and its consequences; a “descent” [...] afraid either of facing the battle against the spirit of evil: the important thing is to fight it with him, with Christ, the Conqueror. And to be with him let us turn to his Mother, Mary; let us call on [...] trust in the hour of trial and she will make us feel the powerful presence of her divine Son, so that we can reject temptations with Christ’s word and thus put God back at the centre of our life. Pope Benedict
advantage of the dispersion to found churches and spread the Good Word? It seems that John and Mary inaugurated a new kind of life in Ephesus, without direct apostolate, in silence and prayer. Library of Marian [...] Evangelist In Ephesus, the Apostle John and Mary inaugurated the contemplative Christian life After the Ascension of Jesus, the Apostle John stayed with Mary for about twenty years. From 30 to 36 A.D, after [...] Jerusalem, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles. The young John remained silent during that period, until the persecution that followed the dismissal of Pontius Pilate, at the end of 36, forced the Apostles to
1876) Mary's Divine Motherhood Called in the Gospel "the Mother of Jesus," Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the Mother of my Lord" [...] was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).
1876) Mary's Divine Motherhood Called in the Gospel "the Mother of Jesus," Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the Mother of my Lord" [...] was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).
were looking forward to the deliverance of Jerusalem” (Lk 2:38). The faith and prophetic wisdom of the old woman who nurtures the expectation of the Messiah by “serving God night and day with fasting and [...] incentive to put their hope in the God of Israel. At this particular moment, Anna’s behavior would have appeared to Mary and Joseph as a sign from the Lord, a message of enlightened faith and persevering service [...] Poland (Czestochowa, 1979) Mary Has a Role in Jesus’ Saving Mission (II) Simeon’s prophecy is followed by the meeting with the prophetess Anna: “She began to praise God, and spoke of the child to all who were
