have never approached you, O most pure Virgin, lily bright with light and beauty. Certainly, Mary belongs to the race of the redeemed and everything in her is the fruit of the Redemption. Like us, she is still [...] but in an order of redemption so exceptional and so sublime that her immaculate soul remains the masterpiece of God, the edifice of grace, the great and mighty wonder of the love whose foundation were [...] holy mountains." The first plenitude of grace is superior and places her without comparison above the grace consumed by all the saints in heaven and all the saints to come.
knowledge of the true Catholic doctrine on the Blessed Virgin Mary constitutes a keystone to an unmistaken understanding of the mystery of Christ and the Church.
knowledge of the true Catholic doctrine on the Blessed Virgin Mary constitutes a keystone to an unmistaken understanding of the mystery of Christ and the Church.
was a child, Mary was waiting, in the midst of her people Israel, for the coming of the Messiah, who had not been announced by just one prophet, but by a long line of men, predicting and completing their [...] the other over several centuries. Mary was waiting at the heart of a small nation, buffeted by history, which had survived confrontations with neighboring empires and eventually became the only nation [...] accurate portrait of the Expected One, His birth, life, death, mission and fate, as it was imagined by Christ’s contemporaries and recognized by the Christians who followed Jesus. The "Foi Chrétienne" (
rebel lords on July 4, he credited his diplomatic success to his patroness, the Virgin Mary. In gratitude to Mary, for whom he had a special devotion, he founded a perpetual mass to be said at 7am every [...] in Marsat, a French commune in the Auvergne region. Marsat is home to one of the oldest in France and once quite famous Marian shrine. In 1465, Louis XI, in the difficult early days of his reign, came [...] every day of the year in the church of Marsat. A painting commemorating this visit was painted in 1891 and is now on display in the Marsat church. Adapted from www.lamontagne.fr
traced the outline of the new church and John provided its financing. Pope Sixtus III celebrated its dedication in 435, soon after the Council of Ephesus (431) in which Mary was recognized as Theotokos, "Mother [...] in Rome, and also the only one of the four papal basilicas of Rome that resembles a second-century imperial basilica. The miraculous icon "Salus Populi Romani," relics of Bethlehem crib, and the "Miracle [...] Maggiore in Rome, in the 4 th century, by appearing simultaneously in a dream to the patrician John and to Pope Liberius (d. 366). She then indicated the location by a miracle. In the morning of August 5th
intentions with confidence," the pope exhorted. The Pope sees in Mary, the Mother of God, a particularly important support for the young, the sick and the newly married, as he said in Italian at the end of the [...] people, in facing with courage your daily cross and may she be your reference point, dear newlyweds, so that your family may be a domestic source of prayer and mutual understanding." Pope Francis Vatican City [...] beginning of May 2015, Pope Francis exhorted the baptized to trust in the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, during the general audience of Wednesday, May 6, in Saint Peter's Square. His exhortation
the Virgin: one represented the Immaculate Conception and the other was of the Virgin holding the baby Jesus. First the box with the statue of Mary and Jesus was removed, but the oxen were still unable to [...] shrine in the city of Luján and its final sanctuary was completed in 1935. In 1930 Pope Pius XII gave the sanctuary the title of Basilica and it was declared a National and Historical Monument in 1998 [...] crown, which is set with 365 diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires, 132 pearls and a number of enamels depicting the emblems of the Archbishop and the Argentine Republic. In 1887, in order to prevent its
invite Mary into what we are doing, and she is our Mother. She never fails. She is so good, so full of love for her Son, and for all of us. When we pray the Rosary, it is as if we are saying to Mary, “Mother [...] more exciting and significant; and if he were to wash in a river, there were better ones than the Jordan. Nevertheless, at the urging of his servants, he relented and was miraculously cured, and he returned [...] this unhappy trend: Mary and the Rosary. I know, it sounds too simple, even a bit boring. The Rosary? Yes, the Rosary. I have yet to meet in my life a person who prayed the Rosary and left the faith. Never
isn’t it? The less we pray to and venerate Mary, the less we are connected to the church. It would follow, then, that the opposite also is true. The more we honor and pray to Mary, especially in her signature [...] also is facing a large — and growing — gap between the moral teachings of the church and the evolution of our secular society. Recent years have seen an increase in cultural mores and public policies at odds [...] themselves in the form of pride and self-centeredness. In all of these moments of difficulty, we can turn to the rosary. The meditative quality of the devotion can help focus us and break through the external
