Immediately she saw that I had started breathing and color was coming to my face. My mother told me this story only after my priestly ordination. Devotion to Mary and the daily Rosary have always been very important [...] As a bishop, I make petitions to Mary every day. I entrusted to her the diocese of Saint Louis de Caceres in Mato Grosso (Brazil) and I also offered the Virgin Mary the diocese of Saint John of Boa Vista [...] her My experience with Mary began the day I was born! My mother had already lost three children during pregnancy. She almost lost me as well. I was born premature at seven months and I wasn’t breathing. Exhausted
the Husband who is the essence of Love itself. Thus, just as in The Song of Songs, Mary’s Beloved is for her and Mary is for her Beloved. [...] United Hearts The Father’s Heart is for Mary, just as the most loving heart of every father is for the pleasantest of all daughters. The Son’s Heart is for Mary, just as the warmest heart of every son [...] all mothers. The Holy Spirit’s Heart is for Mary, just as the most devoted heart of every husband is for the most cherished of all wives. Reciprocally, Mary’s heart is for the Father, just as the heart
with the Heart of Mary. When we recite the Rosary in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we offer Jesus the perfect Adoration of Mary. We join our own love for Jesus to Mary's worship and perfect love. [...] Jesus welcomes our time of Adoration as if it were Mary’s own prayer. No matter how weak our faith or how poor our love, Mary receives us into her Heart, and Jesus acknowledges our time of prayer as if it [...] it came directly from the Heart of his Mother. The Immaculate Heart of Mary makes up for what is lacking in our hearts. Father Martin Lucia, Rosary Meditations with Mother Teresa of Calcutta Missionaries
same day as the feast of the Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth! This convergence of dates is undoubtedly a grace and a sign from Heaven. As if Mary wanted us to receive the visit of the Holy Spirit [...] filled with the Holy Spirit, was inspired with the spirit of prophecy and recognized in Mary the Mother of her Lord. As for Mary, exulting under the action of the Holy Spirit, she spontaneously sang her [...] celebrate the visit of Mary, expecting Jesus, to her six-month-pregnant relative Elizabeth, the future mother of John the Baptist, who while still unborn, leapt for joy as Mary approached. Then Elizabeth
on my shoulder, and led to a room and left alone with the most beautiful young woman I could ever imagine,” Schoeman begins. “I knew without being told that it was the Blessed Virgin Mary.” “When I found [...] wish I at least knew the Hail Mary.’ But I didn’t.” Schoeman said Mary then offered to answer his questions. He said, “My first thought was to ask her to teach me the Hail Mary…but I was too proud to admit [...] added that as soon as he woke up, he was completely in love with the Blessed Virgin Mary and he “wanted to be as fully and completely as Christian as possible,” which eventually led him to Catholicism. “During
declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God [...] sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. Hail Mary . . . And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us. Hail Mary . . . Pray [...] the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
spot, and at times kneeling before the cross on the roof. She acknowledged the people’s presence by smiling at the crowd and blessing them with her hands. Mary had long white and blue robes, and a veil [...] apparitions and the number of witnesses, the Blessed Virgin Mary did not speak or deliver any verbal messages. She maintained an attitude of prayer bowing towards the cross and blessing the people. Mary was seen [...] attention. Black and white photographs exist showing a brightly luminous being, the Blessed Virgin Mary, on top the Church. The apparitions would begin with a ball of light gradually materializing, and then, taking
be vigilant and prepare ourselves with Mary, who also prepared for this beautiful and great mission that transformed the history of mankind forever. As Saint John Paul II said: "Walk with Mary. Walk with [...] balance. Who better than a woman—and a mother—to teach us how we can live this time of Advent in a meaningful way? We should set out then on our journey with the Virgin Mary. Mary received the Word of God, she [...] with Mary. Let the echo of her fiat resound in your hearts." This is my wish for all of you during this time of Advent. Father Pierre Le Bourgeois Former pastor of Nantua (France) saintmichelnantua.com/A
witnessed her apparitions of the Virgin Mary every day. People came from every state and other nations to venerate the Virgin Mary at the Colafrancesco home and in a nearby field. After one such apparition [...] Virgin Mary started to appear to six youth on June 25, 1981. The Virgin Mary has continued to appear daily for 40 years. Over 50 million pilgrims have visited Medjugorje since 1981. The Virgin Mary identified [...] Birmingham and stayed in the home of Terry and Annette Colafrancesco. Marija was in Birmingham to donate a kidney to her sick brother. While Marija was staying in the Colafrancesco home for two and a half
devout servant of Mary; a love which is at once confident, ardent, expansive and effective for Mary who is the Refuge of Sinners, the Mother of Divine Grace, our life, our sweetness and our hope. She is [...] great secret for drawing souls and giving them over to Jesus, is devotion to Mary. This devotion is the source of all his activity; the reason for all his confidence. And it would have been impossible for [...] is also our advocate. Placed as she is between God and the sinner, Mary is ever busy invoking the clemency of the judge in order to move Him to pity, and she is ever trying to overcome the obstinacy of the
