student midwife at the time), I met a young Oblate priest of Mary Immaculate and asked him about Mary, the Rosary, etc. He answered that the Rosary was the prayer of the little ones and the poor, and that explanation [...] communion with them, being small and poor myself. Like a starting gift from the Lord, the first joyful mysteries seemed to have been made for me and my mission: these mysteries of the announcement of a pregnancy [...] "The first one on the way, Mary you lead us to say our yes to the unexpected that God sends us... Walk with us Mary, on our paths of faith..." and at the end of mass we dance with "Anna Maria éé", or other
Church crisis and Mary Does the Mother of Jesus have any relevance to the present Church crisis? Mary brings the Divine Redeemer into the world by an obedient fiat . She does so with an obedient faith… [...] her superiority to Peter in most every conceivable measure, Mary responded to Peter’s office of authority with the same obedient fiat . For Mary saw Jesus in Peter, and thus continually gave the obedience [...] and joyfully, possible in our times. Our Lady, with a unique and personal maternal solicitude, encourages each of us, in the quiet of our hearts, towards a greater generosity of time in Adoration of her
Christ. The Virgin Mary never wished to take His place! It is very clear in the Gospel. At Cana for example, the Virgin Mary, with great delicacy, intercedes with her Son because she saw a difficult situation [...] True devotion to Mary is not adoration "Is it really necessary to ‘go through Mary’ to reach the Lord? I’m asking this because the way people are praying to Mary around me looks like a kind of idolatry [...] in the Christian faith to the Virgin Mary. So what’s Mary’s proper place? First you have to learn from God Himself. It isn’t the Church who gives that place to Mary, but the Church recognizes the place
suddenly filled with shivers and completely healed of all my pain in an instant. I was able to raise both my arms and say, "Glory to you Lord, glory to you Mother Mary!" Since then, I have not had any pain [...] shoulder hit a bench, which straightened my head and saved my brains from exploding in front of the children and traumatizing them. That was my immediate thought, thanking Jesus and Mary for protecting [...] thinking of the ordination of the priests, who lie face down in front of the altar. The firemen took me to the hospital where my shoulder was operated on. It was broken and after a year of rehabilitation I could
abuse our own freedom. (1) " A "knot" is not a synonym of sin: sin involves our responsibility and the assent of the will, whereas a "knot" is a more general term used to describe a situation permitted by God [...] result of the other. Isabelle Rolland, Marie qui défait les nœuds : d'un miracle conjugal à une dévotion universelle (Mary Undoer of Knots: from a marital miracle to a universal devotion). Paris, MDN productions [...] actually placed this prayer marathon under the special patronage of the Virgin Mary Undoer of Knots, and its culmination was the solemn coronation of Mary Undoer of Knots. It is therefore important to
of receiving the sacraments, Marthe Robin (1) experienced a life-changing encounter with the Heart of Jesus on the Cross. She was filled with a new life, in her body and her heart. Everything became clearer [...] of sickness, which became a means of union and communion, a place of offering and abandonment. It was the beginning of many graces. She lived in the presence of the Virgin Mary, her great teacher and beloved [...] Robin (1981) Marthe Robin lived in the presence of the Virgin Mary, her “great teacher” Through God’s grace, one day of December 1928, during a parish mission in Chateauneuf-de-Galaure (southeastern France)
"can I be pardoned, when for sixty years I have served the devil, made myself his slave, and have laden my soul with innumerable sins?" "Son," answered the priest, encouraging him, "do not doubt: if you repent [...] always preserved in devotion to Mary’s sorrows There was once a lord as noble by birth as he was low and sinful in his habits. He had given himself by an express compact as a slave to the devil, and had served [...] confessor went, and the sick man told him that he had no need of a confessor, for that he had often made his confession. The confessor visited him a second time, and that poor slave of hell persevered in his
hallmark of Mary's beauty Our relationship with the Virgin Mary is not something abstract. It cannot be, since it is in her that God became incarnate. The miracle of Nazareth is repeated, in a way, when [...] liturgical celebrations, events, or images. Personally, I have learned a lot from looking at stained glass windows that represent her. I remember seeing a stunning, but not very well-known, stained-glass window [...] the most beautiful I have ever seen, representing the Trinity. In it the Virgin Mary is truly majestic, but not in an intimidating way. She seems to be drawn to Heaven. She sits like a Queen on her throne
Heart of Mary. It was approved by Pope Pius IX in 1870 and has been a popular sacramental ever since. The Green Scapular is a simple green cloth that has the image of the Virgin Mary on it, with a prayer [...] scapular should not be used as if it were a “lucky charm,” or in a superstitious way, but with an intense love of God and trust in his divine providence. With God, all things are possible. Philip Kosloski [...] The Green Scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary We all know of someone in our lives who is in need of healing. They might need a physical healing, or a spiritual one. Whatever the case might be, we
out the rain and pray under a tree. At 3:00 PM, he saw a flash of light, then "a beautiful, barefoot lady, dressed in white, with a blue belt and a light cream-colored veil with gold embroidery. Rays of light [...] the Virgin Mary encouraged Bernardo to make his messages known: "Do not be afraid. I am going to help you. And tell the priest." On September 8th, the Virgin appeared as a child: "I saw a little girl [...] but she was a little girl. In this apparition the Virgin Mary asked for ‘the restoration of the living temples that we are’ and insisted on the construction of peace, not raising funds for a new church
