devout soul feels, namely how intense is the flame of affectionate and active charity which glows in Mary, in her who is truly our mother not in a human way but through Christ. Nobody knows and comprehends [...] strength, and help of every kind to the children who are dear to her. Accordingly, let us approach Mary confidently, wholeheartedly beseeching her by the bonds of her motherhood which unite her so closely
tradition, the Blessed Virgin herself inspired the building of the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major) in Rome, as early as the 4th century A.D. She appeared in a dream to a patrician named John [...] which recognized the title of Theotokos, "Mother of God" for the Blessed Virgin. The Basilica Saint Mary Major, the first Marian basilica in the West and the most important of all the churches dedicated
Jesse the Church Fathers came to see all plants and their burgeoning as signatures and symbols of Mary - applying to her the scriptural titles of Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley and Lily Among the Thorns [...] (Springtime's first flowers give thee honors). Then, with the 18th century re-burgeoning of devotion to Mary, the Church dedicated to her the entire springtime budding and flowering of plants of the month of
in a message recorded in the pope’s hospital room, he entrusted humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One year later, on May 13, 1982, he went to give thanks to the Virgin in Fatima and one of the bullets [...] statue of the Virgin. Finally, on March 25, 1984, he consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in union with all the bishops of the world, as requested by the Virgin. Russia was freed without bloodshed [...] Bishops’ Jubilee, the Pope proclaimed at Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican the “Act of Entrustment” to Mary, during which he entrusted the Third Millennium to the protection of the Mother of Christ.
hands on Mary’s knees, after working in the fields of Burgundy and serving the poor. Do you realize, my little sister, what you have just said? The others saw, but, in addition to seeing Mary, you touched [...] to say under oath what pretty white the teeth the Blessed Virgin has. They are only a part of you, Mary, but I call them your sparkle. Clerk, the next one please. Sister Catherine Labouré, living at 140
they are," cried the seer, "the scapular is the sign of our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary!” When Father Rafferty asked if the leaders of the Blue Army (1) were right to insist on wearing the [...] uniform. In the same way, the scapular manifests, on the part of the one who wears it, his belonging to Mary and, on the part of Our Lady, the commitment to help him on every occasion, especially at the hour [...] Lady's words of June 13, 1917: “To whomever will embrace this devotion (of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), I promise Salvation; these souls will be cherished by God, like flowers placed by me to adorn His
prayer for conversions is the Rosary, according to Father Walshe, because when we pray the many Hail Mary’s of the Rosary, we ask Our Lady to pray for us now and at the hour of our death. “That’s pretty much [...] pray for the conversions of ourselves and for others.” There was a holy nun named Venerable Sister Mary Potter (1847-1913) who founded a religious order dedicated to prayer for the dying. “There is none [...] salutary for the saving of souls and people in heaven,” she wrote in her book, Devotion for the Dying: Mary’s Call to her Loving Children. Potter recommended offering sacrifices and putting sinners into the
Franciscan Crown. This rosary is said with seven decades of Hail Marys, book-ended by an Our Father and a Minor Doxology, with two more Hail Marys added at the end. In 1851, the Vatican approved the Chaplet [...] prayer around which the chaplet was structured is the Trisagion. In 1233, the Order of the Servants of Mary, known as the Servites, instituted their rosary known as the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady
and popular fervor accomplished the rest. 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) [...] whiteness of the ribbon. The story of this marital miracle, recorded in the ex-voto of the painting of Mary Undoer of Knots, is producing fruits today that no one could have imagined. It has given life to a
thousands of Egyptians, both Christians and Muslims say that they are currently seeing the Virgin Mary. This is happening while pogroms are being waged everywhere against Christians. "El Adra, El Adra [...] Nile near the famous pyramids of Giza. This bright figure, whom the crowds identify as the Virgin Mary, has been appearing there since December 2009. As always in Egypt, both the Christians and the Muslims [...] visible to Muslims above churches, is telling them to stop the violent persecution of Christians. Marie-Gabrielle Leblanc, February 6, 2010 France Catholique magazine
