Prophecy of Simeon And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: 'Behold this child is set for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted; and thy own soul [...] have been to Our Lady's heart. Simeon foretold the bitter Passion and death of her sweet Jesus, and she realized all the insults, blows, and torments which impious men were to offer to the Redeemer of the [...] beloved Son. Now consider that because of our sins we are unhappily among the ungrateful. Say one Hail Mary.
three days and three nights in prayer, doing penance, and flagellating himself until he actually lost consciousness. At that moment, the Blessed Mother appeared to him with three angels and said that the [...] Cathedral of Toulouse; the bells rang and people gathered to listen to him. When Dominic began speaking, a fierce storm with claps of thunder and strong winds broke out and frightened the people. Everybody [...] image of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the cathedral; the Virgin raised her arms three times to heaven. Saint Dominic began to pray the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the storm ended. On another occasion
the Mysteries of Rosary in a spirit of reparation, and confessing our sins within 8 days, with the intention of making reparation to the Heart of Mary. Our Blessed Mother promised to those who observed [...] already receive me every first Saturday, in honor of Our Lady and the 15 mysteries of the Rosary, but alas only a few keep this commitment, and those who persevere do so only to receive the graces that are [...] Saturdays with fervor and with the intention of making reparation to the Heart of your Heavenly Mother please me more than those who make 15 First Saturdays with indifference." The Marie de Nazareth team
with us as a companion and model of discipleship, calling her to be present with us in our joys and difficulties, our longings and disappointments. Come, Mary, “in mezzo a noi” and be with us “quaggiù,” [...] the Gesú, the mother church of the Society of Jesus. Scientists and art historians have studied the painting of the mother and child and believe it to be a 13th or 14th century fresco that was once part [...] dedicated to Mary, Santa Maria del Cammino, is rarely heard in English, though apparently a little-used translation does exist. But it is quite popular in Italy, where I first learned it – and so I use the
The Silence of the Holy Family (III) Between the Creator and the creature, in a relationship such as the one that existed between Jesus and Mary, silence, better than the words, was a language. What more [...] would have been an effort - a condescension - like descending a mountain, on behalf of Mary as well as Jesus. And why go down? Saint Joseph did not need to. He also remained quite high among the mountains
died in 1931. This lady then offered the shrine and the property to Father Marie-Eugène, a Carmelite, "for a Carmelite project". Thus, in 1932, Father Marie-Eugène founded the Notre-Dame de Vie Institute [...] formation and renewal for its members, who learn silent prayer there, at the school of the Carmelite saints: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and St. Therese of the Child Jesus. Father Marie-Eugène [...] Caesarius of Arles, had three churches built: one dedicated to the Mother of God, another to the Trinity, and the third to Saint John the Baptist (the latter called the Baptistery of Venasque). The same tradition
her father and her six brothers gave their lives to God at the abbey of Cîteaux, in Burgundy (France), Humbeline, sister of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, married a lord and led a dissipated and worldly life [...] also particularly venerate the Virgin Mary. All Cistercian churches are dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption. The Cistercians understood how the Virgin Mary was a model of openness to the mystery [...] in Christ. Every evening, all over the world, Cistercian monks and nuns end the day by singing the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen). Mary is present with us in our "valley of tears" as a "Mother of mercy"
daughter, I placed you in the world and I make you live only from Me, to prove to the world what the Eucharist can do, what My life in the world is for souls—light and salvation for humanity.” On Thursday [...] in Rome. Paulette Leblanc, Specialist of Alexandrina’s spirituality Notre Histoire avec Marie (Our History with Mary) [...] mission that God entrusted to Alexandrina was the Consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which Pope Pius XII made in 1942. When we recall the apparitions of Fatima, we think especially of
older brother Theodore converted to the Catholic faith and became a priest when he was just a boy. Alphonse and his parents reacted with hostility and horror. Why would Our Lady appear to a man who hated [...] towards this chapel whence so much light shone, and above the altar was a living figure, tall, majestic, beautiful and full of mercy. It was the most holy Virgin Mary, resembling her figure on the Miraculous [...] the frightful situation I was in, my sins and the beauty of the Catholic Faith."(1) _____ (1) The Conversion of Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1842), Baron Marie Theodore Renouard de Bussières, Ed. by W. Lockhard
intercession of Mary, and may she herself, the Virgin Mary, obtain it for us while we entrust to her motherly hands this father, brother and friend of ours, that he may rest in God and rejoice in peace [...] take part in all the daily prayers and in the Liturgy of the Hours; he wanted to adore and to meditate. He died while he was praying. He truly fell asleep in the Lord. "And the house was filled with the fragrance [...] spent in his private chapel he spoke to Jesus, abandoning himself totally to His will, and entrusting himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus. Like his Divine Teacher, he lived his agony in prayer. On
