earth to appear to a mere child. You, the Queen of Heaven and Earth chose to use what is weakest in the eyes of men. O Mary, give the precious virtue of humility to she who dares to call herself your child [...] Bernadette's prayer to Mary How happy my soul was, good mother, when I had the good fortune to gaze upon you! How I love to recall the pleasant moments spent under your gaze, so full of kindness and mercy [...] In a word, grant that I may be a child according to your heart and the heart of your dear Son. Amen. Saint Bernadette of Lourdes (1844-1879)
he is all flushed!" Mary said to the saints Father Jean Edouard Lamy was a French priest born in 1853, who died in 1931. The founder of the Community of Servants of Jesus and Mary, he had frequent mystical [...] mystical visions of the Blessed Virgin. He was known for his love of simplicity. One day, the Virgin Mary caught him by surprise, appearing to him at the most unexpected moment, in all simplicity, while he [...] absorbed by his work, Father Lamy didn’t notice her, so the archangel Gabriel had to announce: "The Queen of Heaven is here!" Father Lamy was very embarrassed to find himself in such a position, which made the
Saturday is Mary's day (I) The dedication of Saturday to Mary in the liturgy began in Carolingian times, with the English monk Alcuin of York (735-804), a leading scholar and teacher at the court of Charlemagne [...] completed the work of nature, and in Mary, God completed the work of grace. 3 - Saturday is the day when God, after the work of creation, rested (cf. Gen 2:2), but God's true "rest" is Mary, to whom the liturgy [...] that followed, theologians and liturgists such as Humbert of Romans, a French Dominican friar (who served as the fifth Master General of the Order of Preachers from 1254 to 1263) offered at least seven reasons
eternal life! Raphaël (8): Mary is the greatest of mothers. She did not have a single stain on her. Mary is a very important person—she is the "head" of Heaven after Jesus. I ask Mary for many things and especially [...] Pentecost – La Linda (Peru, 1664) Mary, take us under your mantle! Anne (wife): Mary is the Mother of us all. Through her "fiat," she teaches us to live each moment of our life under her gentle maternal [...] Jesus, your Son, that His divine mercy may open the gates of paradise for us at the hour of our death. Gaël (22): Mary is for me the model of the Immaculate Mother preserved from all sins. I like to imagine
Mother Mary Most Holy Virgin Immaculate, my Mother Mary, to you who are the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the universe, the advocate, the hope, the refuge of sinners, I who am the most miserable of all [...] pray you to assist me always, but most of all at the last moment of my life. Forsake me not then, until you shall see me safe in heaven, there to bless you and sing of your mercies through all eternity. Such [...] hopes for salvation; accept me as your servant and shelter me under your mantle, you who are the Mother of mercy. And since you are so powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or at least obtain
Mother Mary Most Holy Virgin Immaculate, my Mother Mary, to you who are the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the universe, the advocate, the hope, the refuge of sinners, I who am the most miserable of all [...] pray you to assist me always, but most of all at the last moment of my life. Forsake me not then, until you shall see me safe in heaven, there to bless you and sing of your mercies through all eternity. Such [...] hopes for salvation; accept me as your servant and shelter me under your mantle, you who are the Mother of mercy. And since you are so powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or at least obtain
February 18 – Saint Bernadette Soubirous (d. 1879) At Lourdes, Mary prayed her Rosary In the life of Saint Bernadette, the Rosary is a consistent thread between the different periods: Just before the [...] where one of her only joys was to have the time and the freedom to say her Rosary while keeping watch over a few sheep. Bernadette continued to say her Rosary all her life, and the sisters of her convent [...] special prayer just for herself from the Virgin Mary? She could have considered that this prayer, given to here directly, devalued the commonplace, popular prayer of the Rosary. But no, in this as with everything
real people, in search of love and inner peace, through an abundance of graces and powerful witnessing. All you have to do is surrender yourself to Mary. It is a constant exchange of love. You have nothing [...] Medjugorje has been a place of Catholic pilgrimage since the Virgin Mary began to appear to several visionaries there in 1981, on the "hill of apparitions". Even today, some of the visionaries continue to [...] Katsuko (Japan, 1973-1981, approved by Bishop Ito in 1984) When Mary comes to visit us, let us not disappoint her... The Marian shrine of Medjugorje(1) is located in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the Balkans.
Cardinal Léger, in a monotone voice, would say the first part of the Hail Mary, and we would mechanically respond with the second part of the Hail Mary, along with those on the radio. I found it long and the [...] praying to Mary was quite a life lesson for a little boy. I felt that Mary was happy to see us all together. It was as if I were saying to her, "Mom, I love you." The repetition of the Hail Mary's seemed [...] my father praying to Mary on his knees was a life lesson" "My mother was very exhausted towards the end of her second pregnancy, and was ordered to rest. Fearing for the health of her future baby, she
Death With a Hail Mary (I) In the year 1958, we lived in a poor working suburb. Life was miserable for everyone and the second halves of the month were especially hard. On the evening of July 12th sadness [...] doctor, who saw at once the gravity of the case and spent the entire night with us, trying to use, without success, all the resources of medical science. I thought of asking the Blessed Virgin for help [...] us to honor Mary, forbid us to make the sign of the cross and to enter a Catholic church. However, I had spent a year as a girl in a parochial school where I had learned some elements of religion. But
