Apparitions (I) The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in 1830 to Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-76), a young French novice of the Daughters of Charity. This visit of Mary gave rise to the devotion of the Miraculous [...] Sister Catherine received the extraordinary favor of conversing on three occasions with the Virgin Mary. The following text was told by Saint Catherine herself. "It would be impossible for me to describe
(I) At the time of the Annunciation, the angel Gabriel prophesied that all generations would call Mary blessed. In our generation, we need to fulfill that prophesy. We need to call her blessed. We need [...] Israelites. In Matthew's Gospel especially, we find Jesus portrayed as the royal Son of David and Mary as the queen mother. The Wise Men, for example, traveled far to find the Child King with his mother [...] 12 stars, for the 12 tribes of Israel. The New Testament writers, you see, were careful to show us Mary's important place in the kingdom, and how we should love and honor her.
Heaven." Dear Peter, Paul, James, Natalie and the others, if Mary had not said "YES" to the Lord, we would still be waiting for the Messiah. "Mary, blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your [...] my plans were upset! Strangely enough, the first thing that the Most High corrected was my idea of Mary, the Nazarene Woman... Although a practicing Catholic, I was "cold" towards the Mother of the Savior: [...] She spent the rest of her life doing the same thing—saying "YES" to God nonstop. The girl was called Mary, the Immaculate, conceived without sin and who always remained so—by her own free will. She was a
1966) The May Magnificat (III) Our interior mystical growth in union with Christ, in emulation of Mary, the Mystical Rose, has been discerned as sustained by the budding and blooming of a subtle spiritual [...] works." […] Viewed thus spiritually, the burgeoning flowers of May call us to emulate in our lives Mary's growing union with the heart, mind and soul of the incarnating Son of God in her womb.
Between the Creator and the creature, in a relationship such as the one that existed between Jesus and Mary, silence, better than the words, was a language. What more could words have done? What could they [...] Son. Speaking would have been an effort - a condescension - like descending a mountain, on behalf of Mary as well as Jesus. And why go down? Saint Joseph did not need to. He also remained quite high among
meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross. 5. The Crucifixion. 6. The taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross. 7. The burial of Jesus. "And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: 'Behold
1966) The May Magnificat (III) Our interior mystical growth in union with Christ, in emulation of Mary, the Mystical Rose, has been discerned as sustained by the budding and blooming of a subtle spiritual [...] works." [...] Viewed thus spiritually, the burgeoning flowers of May call us to emulate in our lives Mary's growing union with the heart, mind and soul of the incarnating Son of God in her womb.
of permanent homage of their devotion to Mary far and wide. In the cities and the countryside, on the hilltops and overlooking the sea, shrines consecrated to Mary—whether humble chapels or splendid bas [...] Marian land; there is not a nation redeemed in the blood of Christ that does not glory in proclaiming Mary its Mother and Patroness. This truth is brought into sharp relief by reflection on the history of [...] including thousands of young people. The Middle Ages, which, especially through Saint Bernard, sang Mary's glory and celebrated her mysteries, witnessed a marvelous flowering of French cathedrals dedicated
bearing the name of "Church of Mary." To distinguish the central church, located inside the old city within the walls of the old Arab medina , city leaders called it "Church of Mary of the Almenuda." The original [...] wheat storage, or almud , measure (of wheat). It should be noted that the ancient name was also "Mary the Great" ( Santa Maria la Mayor ). Several traditions tell about the origin of the Shrine of Our [...] Almudena , consecrated by Pope Saint John Paul II during his fourth trip to Spain on June 15, 1993. The Marie de Nazareth editorial team
once realized, to his great surprise, that God was humiliating the devil by forcing him to praise Mary. Indeed, while this priest was invoking the Virgin, the devil said, "She is the only one who is everywhere [...] strangles me every time; none of us can resist." At these words, the exorcist exclaimed, "Thank you Mary, thank you Immaculate Heart!" The devil immediately replied, "Leave that Heart alone: we thrust a [...] die; she took other sons!" In another exorcism, while the priest was praising the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the devil said, "Her Heart is our pain; the more we pierced her Heart, the more it was alive; the
