there was so much misery in the world, why God allowed such great inequalities and why the Cross of Jesus hadn't solved everything... And then one day, at a very precise moment, the Virgin Mary came to me [...] Oliver witnesses to his faith around him, even at work. "I have friends, but my only true friend is Jesus: He gave His life for me, to Him alone can I entrust everything. To Him and to Mary. Adapted from

the Virgin Mary: " O my Mother, take my heart and place it in the heart of Jesus! " Or this ardent prayer to Our Lord: " Jesus, my God, I love you above all things!" She also wrote: "It is not important [...] ordeal, by using all her willpower, through blind faith, taking refuge in Mary's embrace, resting on Jesus’ Heart, no matter what effort it cost her and asking for the grace to remain faithful. The Marie de

firmament, we beheld Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady robed in white with a blue mantle, beside the sun. Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus seemed to bless the world, for they traced the Sign

and by her race, and by her local color. Rev. Fr. Bruckberger (1) In Marie, Mère de Jésus-Christ (Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ) , Ed Albin Michel, Paris, 1991. (1) Raymond Léopold Bruckberger was a French

meaning of the figure of Mary: " Who is Mary? A teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘ narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a Lady “unapproachable” and impossible [...] word, we have to acknowledge the essential, vital and providential relationship uniting Our Lady to Jesus, a relationship that opens before us the way leading to him.” Aleteia

coming to me" Our Lord appeared many times to Sister Josefa Menéndez (1), many times as the Child Jesus with the Blessed Virgin. Two of these times were on Saturday, December 25, 1920, and Monday, December [...] chapel aisle walking toward the altar, when I saw Our Lady coming to me. She was holding the Child Jesus in her arms who was covered with a white veil, which she took off as soon as I had taken communion [...] Virgin came close to me again. She slightly raised the Child who was lying in her arms. The Little Jesus opened his arms and caressed his Mother. Then, with His little right hand, He seemed to ask me for

of the Church. In a certain way, it is the whole of humanity that is reborn in the virgin birth of Jesus. "These words can be attributed better to the Mother of the Lord than to St Paul of himself: "My little [...] until Christ be formed in you!' (Gal 4: 19). Every day I give birth to the children of God until Jesus Christ my Son be formed in them in the fullness of his age" (Treatise on True Devotion, n. 33). This [...] in her maternal heart and an abiding refuge in her mercy, so that by her you may truly form in me Jesus Christ" (The Secret of Mary, p. 81). John Paul II, Letter to the Montfort Religious Family vatican

my mother, that she was the mother of those who had gone astray and was calling us back to God, to Jesus. She made it clear that she was not God, but she was pointing to her Son and saying He is the Messiah [...] animated. I had life again and felt so much different. My body tingled all over. I was so wrapped up in Jesus that I became aware of how much I was loved. I was so at peace that I felt like a little boy snuggled

We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross were associated with the pain of Jesus, firmly keeping your faith.” “You, who know how to untie the knots of our existence, and know the [...] ” “ Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform ourselves to the will of the Father and to do what Jesus will tell us, who took upon Himself our sufferings and took upon Himself our sorrows to lead us, through

renouncing understanding, but understanding sustained and assisted by the mystery of the love of Jesus who offered himself for all of us, as the Lamb sacrificed for the salvation of humanity. It is silence [...] surrender oneself with trust to the will of the merciful Father. Finally, it is the silence that Jesus asked for when he taught us: “When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your