Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved Son. With Mary holy we should pray To God with love this Christmas day; In Bethlehem upon that morn There was a blessed
of Valvenere (Spain) - Saint Padre Pio (d.1968) We Will Never Let You Go Again O blessed Rosary of Mary, Gentle chain linking us to God, Bond of love connecting us with the angels, Tower of Salvation against
Italy, 1240) Like a Sweet Lure The Lord revealed to Saint Catherine of Siena the reason why He created Mary: “I reserved this beloved girl for myself,” He said, “because she is like a sweet lure and she will
Italy, 1240) Like a Sweet Lure The Lord revealed to Saint Catherine of Siena the reason why He created Mary: "I reserved this beloved girl for myself," He said, "because she is like a sweet lure and she will
guided the steps of the Magi: that we too may be led into your presence and worship you, the Child of Mary, the Word of the Father, the King of nations, the Savior of mankind; to whom be glory for ever.
John and His Mother "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus
the iconostasis (2), wept at the funeral of Saint Peter-Paul Aron, a bishop devoted to the Virgin Mary and a staunch defender of unity with Rome. After this miracle, the cathedral became a Marian shrine [...] Orthodox churches, a partition decorated with icons, which separates the nave from the sanctuary. The Marie de Nazareth team
birth and had never walked. His father, Lucretius Martin, heard about the great graces dispensed by Mary at her shrine of Bargemon (France), so he decided to consecrate his son to Our Lady of Bargemon. He [...] evidenced by the signs he addressed to his father when he spoke to him of his promise to the Virgin Mary, the boy had the same disposition of heart and the same resolve. They started on their way. When they
seems to forget or leaves someone in the shadows, keeping a discreet silence about her: the Virgin Mary. She is mentioned at the foot of the Cross, and is present among the first community gathered in the [...] Saint Ignatius of Loyola recommends that we meditate on the fact that Jesus appeared to the Virgin Mary. Even though Scripture does not mention it, it is implied, when it is written that Jesus appeared
be for every day! The grace of Christmas is given to all, but it is received in fullness only with Mary, and by imitating her. The silence of the mother of Jesus is a silence of contemplation and transformation [...] to hear to the Word in us. No one is more qualified to teach us the practice of contemplation than Mary. Adapted from an article by Jean-Michel Castaing January 2019 Aleteia
