to the Blessed Virgin and renewed the promises of his First Communion: "Mary, I give you my heart, keep it forever. Jesus and Mary always be my friends, but please, let me die rather than have the misfortune [...] every time my confessor permits me. 2) I want to sanctify holy days. 3) My friends will be Jesus and Mary. 4) Death rather than sin. Don Bosco was traveling through the region in October 1854, and people
my sins and the beauty of the Catholic Faith."(1) _____ (1) The Conversion of Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1842), Baron Marie Theodore Renouard de Bussières, Ed. by W. Lockhard, Kessinger Publishing, 2008 [...] altar was a living figure, tall, majestic, beautiful and full of mercy. It was the most holy Virgin Mary, resembling her figure on the Miraculous Medal. At this sight I fell on my knees where I stood. Unable
him on the path of the gift of ourselves to Christ through the intercession of Mary, and may she herself, the Virgin Mary, obtain it for us while we entrust to her motherly hands this father, brother and [...] private chapel he spoke to Jesus, abandoning himself totally to His will, and entrusting himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus. Like his Divine Teacher, he lived his agony in prayer. On the last day
day, she asked Mary what was to become of her. The Blessed Virgin said that she would see her no more, that she would be with Estelle, but invisible. Holding out the scapular, which Mary had asked Estelle [...] her Son, straight from His heart. When the Blessed Mother started to leave, Estelle became very sad. Mary reassured her, "Be brave, if he [the Prelate] does not do what you desire, go higher up. Do not be
string of moments where Mary, Mother of Jesus, brings us her presence and her intercession, as during the beginnings of the Church, when disciples gathered in the Upper Room and Mary "was there," awakening [...] heart improvises? It is simply a filial imitation that imprints in us the icon we contemplate. If Mary can meet us so easily in our mysteries, it is because she used to keep all things in her Heart; she [...] of a pauper, under the radiance of the life of Jesus. It is a way of letting Jesus look at you, as Mary did, throughout the day. Father Jean Lévêque , from the Carmel of the Province of Paris
message the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, gives to humanity again and again throughout the ages. Traditionally, the month of October is dedicated to the Rosary, or prayer through Mary. The month of May is [...] Marian month during which we express our filial love, trust and veneration to Mary. But throughout October the Church honors Mary as the one who achieves victories for us in the most difficult situations.
then to the southwest, also to reach Pellevoisin. The “M for Mary” pilgrimage was to have started at the beginning of May, the month of Mary. Because COVID-19 restrictions on public worship were only lifted [...] where Archbishop Michel Aupetit celebrated Mass and consecrated France to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The dramatic fire of Notre Dame of Paris last year led to the impossibility of holding the national [...] lasting 104 days before reaching Pellevoisin on September 12th, on the feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Adapted from Life Site News
take her. All the children of God should take Mary into themselves and all that she has taught you through her life. You have a great support which is Mary, use it more. Pray to her, pray to her more, make [...] 2006, while an exorcist was reading from the Gospel of John the words Jesus on the cross addressed to Mary, "Woman, behold your Son," and to John, "Behold your Mother," the devil spoke and said: "In that single [...] us, his wounds, his blood, his sufferings, his humiliations, his offering to the Father, as well as Mary's tears and sufferings at the foot of the cross and her offering in union with her Son to the Father
County, England (c. 1165), of which his father was governor. His mother was devoted to the Virgin Mary, and Simon was not yet one year old when he was heard clearly articulating the Angelic salutation [...] y chosen to deprive himself of human conversation, he was favored with that of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the angels who urged him to persevere in his life of sacrifice and love. The Queen of Heaven told [...] joined them in 1212 and was elected Vicar General of the Carmelite Order in 1215. He begged the Virgin Mary by fervent prayers and tears to defend this Order, which was devoted to her, and she appeared in a
Mother, Mary, that sometimes defy reason. These mysteries are divided into five each: the Joyful mysteries prayed on Monday and Saturday are: 1) the Annunciation by the angel announcing to Mary that she [...] the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles; 4) the Assumption of Jesus’ Mother, Mary, into heaven; 5) the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of heaven and earth, who intercedes for us. In 2002, five Luminous [...] she said, but after she questioned and pondered the message, said “ yes ;” 2) the Visitation when Mary traveled a distance to visit her cousin, Elizabeth, and to share with her what she was told; 3) the
