ourselves, we can allow Mary to pull us through. Father Geoffrey A. Brooke Jr. Father Brooke is a priest of the diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA. His website is Padre Geoffrey [...] looked at in a different light and seen as a great gift to the young faithful. Two of my fondest memories growing up are going to ballgames and going on vacation. There is something that both have in common: [...] prayers, the Hail Mary and Our Father. Difficult because it is so easy to get distracted while repeating the same prayers over and over. One of the noted side effects to the new digital age is a rapidly shortening

pray or ask for graces. Since then, we have prayed the Rosary as a group every day at 5:30 p.m. to the great joy of the parishioners and of our priest who, as a result, now celebrates Mass every day after [...] the intentions of the Rosary for the World too! Damien H., a reader of A Moment with Mary , August 2020 Personal testimony sent to the Marie de Nazareth Association [...] spiritually intense for us, in a monastic way that suited us well. In May, when the lockdown was lifted, I understood that Mary's sweet voice was asking me to organize a Rosary group every day in our parish

presence of Mary in my life. I feel that she accompanies me and blesses my ministry. Messias dos Reis Silveira, Bishop of Uruaçu GO (Brazil) Exclusive interview by Thácio Siqueira for A Moment With Mary [...] I entered the seminary, I continued this devotion and later, as a priest and as a bishop, I kept praying it. Today I still pray the Rosary daily. One thing I really like to do is to stand before an image [...] book I was born into a family that gathered every evening before going to bed, to pray the Rosary. My father was the one who led the meditation of the mysteries and we, the children with our mother, followed

of Jesus. It was in this difficult context that he received a Christmas card from a German nun with a painting by J. G. M. Schmidtner of Mary Undoer of Knots. He was captivated by this work of art, and [...] name of Francis. 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). MDN 2022 (1) This [...] devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots In 1986, the Jesuit priest Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, returned to Argentina from his stay in Frankfurt, Germany, where he had spent a few months gathering

married couples, Mary still discreetly intervenes today so that Jesus can renew His miracle and change the water of conjugal love into the wine of a new marriage. On November 12, 2020, in Rome with Saint Ignatius [...] foundation of the Society of Jesus), I strongly felt that Mary, Mother of the Church, is still with us, leading us to her Son, and that Pope Francis—also a Jesuit and present on that unforgettable day—blesses [...] in the evening of my life, I have an unshakeable joy and a certainty about the all-powerful tenderness of God, Our Father, who has given us His Son Jesus as Savior and Mary to be our best Companion. (1)

Conference of Bishops of Brazil and Primate of Brazil Exclusive Interview by Thácio Siqueira for A Moment with Mary [...] the Sacred Heart of Jesus Seminary in Corupá (Brazil), when I came to the conclusion that I did not have a vocation to the priesthood. I thought that it was prideful to believe that God was calling me rather [...] front of the image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, asking for her maternal protection after I left the seminary. During the rest of the retreat I felt a great peace envelop me and I completely forgot

womb.” As a young man, a woman’s pregnancy was and still is a wonder and a mystery to me. I can never know exactly what it is like to nourish and grow a person within me, but I do know it is a miracle and [...] sacramentally at Mass was first nourished by Mary. I talked with a priest about this afterward, and he reminded me that Mary also received the Eucharist at Mass with the apostles and disciples of the early [...] Glory,” a book that was becoming popular with Catholic young people. I don’t know why, but I picked up a pamphlet and then decided to do it. I went through the consecration process poorly. I was at a point

devil hates and fears the Holy Name of Mary. He was given so much according to his nature and he became a moral monster. The Virgin was born with a humble nature, but grace sanctified her as the Queen of [...] also welcomed him into her bosom. 5) The demon was a spiritual being that eventually became worse than a beast (still being spiritual). 6) Mary was a material being who eventually became better than an [...] why Satan flees before the Holy Name of Mary Among all sacred things, the devil most fears the Most Holy Name of Mary. When we speak of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Lucifer, we speak of two creatures, that

and enthroned in His temple, for He was God [...] but it was otherwise with Mary. It became her, as a creature, a mother, and a woman, to stand aside and make way for the Creator, to minister to her Son [...] like a cedar in Lebanon, and as a cypress in Mount Sion; I have stretched out my branches as the terebinth, and my branches are of honor and grace." Thus was she reared without hands, and gained a modest [...] discrete and modest attitude of Mary When first [Jesus] went out to preach, she kept apart from Him; she interfered not with His work; and, even when He was gone up on high, yet she, a woman, went not out to preach

and it is a hymn to the Holy Trinity. The Our Father was dictated to us by the Son, and it is a prayer addressed to the Father. The whole of the Hail Mary is imbued with meaning both with regard to the [...] “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.” This is also a prayer addressed to God through Mary: Because Thou art the Mother of God, pray for us. It is indeed a trinitarian [...] Incarnation of the Word. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee.” Thou art full of grace, because in Thee resides the source of this same Grace. And it is by Thy union with the Most Holy Trinity that