moments of salvation history are relived. The various steps of Christ's mission are traced. With Mary the heart is oriented toward the mystery of Jesus. Christ is put at the center of our life, of our time [...] within itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary". Benedict XVI, address in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on Saturday, May 3, 2008 [...] past, like prayers of other times thought of with nostalgia. Instead, the Rosary is experiencing a new Springtime. Without a doubt, this is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation
means to truly entrust ourselves to Mary, to truly put our trust in the intercession of the Virgin Mary, for Heaven and for today. I will share with you the story of a monk, a former soldier, who before [...] Dom Chautard, a native of Briançon, abbot of the Sept-Fond Trappist monastery in France we can see with what confidence we should approach the passage of death. Bishop Louis Malle of Gap (Southern France) [...] November 26 – Our Lady of Remedies (Philippines) "Is she or is she not my mother?" What does it mean to consecrate our diocese and consecrate ourselves to Mary? What does it mean to take Mary into our homes?
January 12 - Our Lady of the Broad Street (Rome, Italy) - St Aelred of Rievaulx (d. 1167) Devotion to Our Lady and Queen We also owe her our service, because she is our Lady. For the Bride of our Lord is our [...] our Lady; the Bride of our King is our Queen; so let us serve her. Let no one say: Though I should do this or that against the Lord, I don't much care; I will serve Holy Mary and will be safe. It is not so
want you to come here on the 13th of next month. Continue to pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, to obtain peace in the world and the end of the war, because only she will be [...] make a sacrifice: ‘O Jesus, it is out of love for you, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary’." Saying these words, the Blessed Virgin [...] July 13, 1917, Our Lady appeared to Lucia, one of the visionaries of Fatima (Portugal), and to her two young cousins, while a crowd of 4,000 to 5,000 people had gathered at the site. The Virgin told the children:
- Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church (d. 430) - Our Lady of Tears (Syracuse, Italy, 1953) “As man is soul and body, Christ is God and Man” In a few sermons for the feast of the Nativity, St. Augustine [...] willed that Mary would remain a virgin through and after childbirth: “Let us rejoice, my brethren, let the nations exult and be glad because, not the visible sun, but the invisible Creator of the sun has [...] Mother when He was with the Father; and when He was born of that Mother He remained in His Father. How would He who granted to His Mother the privilege of remaining a virgin when she brought forth her child
capable of perceiving in the gift of her Son the coming of that “fullness of time”(Gal 4:4) in which God, by choosing the humble path of human existence, entered personally into the history of salvation [...] (caro) of Christ – which, as Tertullian says, is the hinge (cardo) of our salvation – was knit together in the womb of Mary (cf. Ps 139:13). This inseparability is also clear from the fact that Mary, chosen [...] December 23 - Our Lady of the Oak (Italy) Jesus cannot be understood without his Mother Today we are reminded of the words of blessing which Elizabeth spoke to the Virgin Mary: “Blessed are you among women
August 3 - Our Lady of Bows (London, 1071) Spiritual Mother Through Mary, we were born in a better way than through Eve, since Christ was born from Mary. […] She is our mother, the mother of our light… Therefore
August 3 - Our Lady of Bows (London, 1071) Spiritual Mother Through Mary, we were born in a better way than through Eve, since Christ was born from Mary. [...] She is our mother, the mother of our light... Therefore
doctrine that the Blessed Virgin Mary was, in the first moment of her conception, by a grace and a singular favor of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved intact [...] the original purity of Mary, in a celebration of "the Conception of the Holy Mother of God," especially in Greece, in the middle of the eighth century. Then pilgrims returning from the Holy Land introduced [...] Conception as: "Mary was preserved from the original sin in anticipation of the merits of Christ." This feast has been celebrated every year on December 8th, the presumed date of the conception of Mary, since 1477
death." And the hour of my death was now! So I started to pray: "Hail Mary, full of grace..." We got to the OR...I remember the ceiling of the hallway rushing by, and people wearing blue scrubs all around [...] Hail Mary before my mother's body. Suddenly I understood that this prayer, which I had been reciting like a parrot, was the prayer of the last moment: "Pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death [...] This conversion changed my life. Praise be to God! Thank you, Virgin Mary! G. R., from Périgueux, France. Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth in November 2022.
