initiatives. Mary is a woman of hope: only because she believes in God's promises and awaits the salvation of Israel, can the angel visit her and call her to the decisive service of these promises. Mary is a woman [...] of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) Blessed are you who believed Outstanding among the saints is Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. In the Gospel of Luke we find her engaged in a service of charity [...] center, but leaving space for God, who is encountered both in prayer and in service of neighbor—only then does goodness enter the world. Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God,

Melanie and Maximin, the young seers, Mary asked that her message be made known to all her people. Indeed, the children’s voices were heard. Pilgrims came. There were many conversions. Mary appeared in [...] purification and salvation. The arm of the Son of Mary will not weigh upon, nor condemn, the people who walk humbly in the ways of the Lord. Christ will take the outstretched hand into his own, and lead to [...] attestation that the message of Mary is not contained solely within the suffering expressed by her tears. The Virgin called for spiritual composure, penance, perseverance in prayer, and especially fidelity in the

better definition of what Mary has brought to the world? To a world completely abandoned to proud egoism, Mary teaches the humility of Bethlehem. To a world dominated by money and greed, she recalls the poverty [...] dishonest world, she brings truth and simplicity. To a world that gets more and more hardened by hatred every day, she repeats her lessons of gentleness. To an impure and vain world, she offers the testimony [...] Necessary to My Life A German Catholic priest told that one day he saw a painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary hanging in place of honor in the cabinet of Field Marshal Hindenburg. As the priest did not hide his

trip. According to the pope, there’s a need for “simple and wise people, humble and courageous, poor and generous,” people who “at the school of Mary, accept the Gospel without reserve in their own lives [...] pilgrimage site for Catholics since the 14th century… “God, through Mary, entrusts a mission in our time: to bring the Gospel of peace and life to our contemporaries, often distracted, taken by earthly interests [...] lives.” … "The Holy Hous is the home of the young, because here the Virgin Mary, the young woman full of grace, continues to speak to new generations, accompanying each one in the search for their own vocation

have lain on Jesus' breast and received from Jesus Mary to be his mother also. … For if Mary, as those declare who with sound mind extol her, had no other son but Jesus, and yet Jesus says to His mother [...] himself no longer, but Christ lives in him; and if Christ lives in him, then it is said of him to Mary, Behold your son Christ. Origen, Commentary on the Gospel of John 1:23 [...] mother, Woman, behold your son , John 19:26 and not Behold you have this son also, then He virtually said to her, Lo, this is Jesus, whom you bore. Is it not the case that everyone who is perfect lives himself

Christian pretend to be an orphan? Mary is Mother, and one cannot conceive any other title of Mary that is not ‘Mother.’ She is Mother, because she brings us Jesus and she helps us with the strength of [...] Holy Spirit, so that Jesus will be born and grow in us. She constantly gives us life. She is Mother of the Church. She is maternity. We do not have the right — and if we think we do we are mistaken – to [...] Mother! We have a Mother. An elderly preacher once ended his sermon by saying, “Whoever does not want Mary as a Mother will have her as a mother-in-law!” Pope Francis Speech given to 7,500 members of the

y consider the depth of the love manifested in the Passion of Jesus and the Compassion of Mary. "All you who pass this way, look and see: is there any sorrow like the sorrow inflicted on me?" (Lm 1:12) [...] to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Here is the Heart which loved humankind so much that it spared itself nothing, to the point of becoming exhausted and consumed with love [...] love to bear witness for them. And as a reward I mainly receive only ingratitude." Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him in prayer each Thursday evening, for one hour, to participate in his anguish

devotion to Mary became too great, it might end up compromising the supremacy of the worship owed to Christ. Under the wise guidance of St Louis Marie, I realized that if one lives the mystery of Mary in Christ [...] April 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort “I myself found reading this book a great help.” " St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin at the beginning of the [...] practically unknown for more than a century. When, almost by chance, it was at last discovered in 1842 and published in 1843, the work was an instant success, proving extraordinarily effective in spreading

joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries of the Rosary; in Pontmain (1871), during the prayer of the rosary Mary increased in size and the stars multiplied; in Beauraing and Banneux (1933), Mary appeared with [...] rosebush (dog rose) grew, she wore a rosary and a rose bloomed on each of her feet; At Ile Bouchard (1947), the Virgin Mary presented the rosary to the young seers and taught them how to pray it; at Fatima (1917) [...] Dominic, piety and fervor flourished in the religious orders that practiced this devotion, and throughout the Christian world; but after this gift from heaven was neglected, nothing but sin and disorder was

French geneticist, who discovered the cause of Down syndrome and was a fervent disciple of Mary, published in the magazine Le Sourire de Marie (Mary’s Smile). [...] little prophet who leapt inside Elizabeth at the approach of Mary carrying Our Lord? He was 6 months old. Saint Luke noted the detail. And how old was Jesus? The Gospel simply says that after the Annunciation