and chose the sad Pompeii Valley for residence, in order to illuminate the world with light, your graces and your mercies, lower your eyes filled with compassion on me and accept me as your servant and [...] your voice in my ears, my sweet Lady, because your words are those of life. Open your hands full of graces and help your unworthy servant who calls you and deliver him from the traps of his enemies. Hand
of Mary's spiritual maternity and her mediation of grace that she is the 'spiritual' mother of all mankind, as well as the 'channel' by which all grace comes to us. This promise implies that Mary will intercede [...] intercede to ensure that the wearer of the Scapular obtains the grace of final perseverance. This is a devotion which has also been continually encouraged by more recent popes, and so it is not something
Laghet (France) – Immaculate Heart of Mary 2019: A jubilee year for the Shrine of Cotignac Our Lady of Graces Shrine in Cotignac (southern France) is celebrating a jubilee year in 2019, for the 500th anniversary [...] erased by confession," as explained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Each shrine has its own grace or mission. Cotignac is called the Shrine of the Holy Family, attracting families and couples who [...] The rock we are asked to remove is our heart of stone hardened by sin that prevents the flow of grace, source of life. Saint Joseph was the protector of Jesus and Mary, and he is now the protector of
Pure Virgin" (first day), "Filled with Grace and Lady of Beautiful Love" (second day), "Handmaid of the Lord and Lady of Holy Hope" (third day), "Mediatrix of all graces and Mother of God"(eighth day), and [...] Mary Undoer of Knots, attesting to both the granting of requests and often to the speed at which graces are received. There are several reasons for the extraordinary power of this novena. The decision
younger than sin, younger than the race from which she sprang, and though a mother, by grace, Mother of all grace, our little youngest sister. George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest (Translated from [...] new Eve. But she is also our daughter. The ancient world of sorrow, the world before the access of grace, cradled her to its heavy heart for many centuries, dimly awaiting a virgo genitrix . For centuries
January 5 – Our Lady of Good Counsel (Bergamo, Italy) You are filled with God’s love The grace I received is something that was completely unfathomable. The closer I got to the grotto, the more I felt [...] I wish everyone could have the same experience. Caroline (France) Journal des grâces de Lourdes (Graces of Lourdes bulletin) #7, September 2016
misdemeanors of the future doctor of grace, her tears ran like a river of glory bearing her incredulous son in her tirelessly outstretched arms to the Author of Grace. Yet tears were all she had to offer
Pilgrim Virgin is Changing Our Generation, Thomas McKenna presents several extraordinary stories of graces received from God through Our Lady, in places where the famous pilgrim Virgin of Fatima has traveled [...] two warring factions signed a lasting peace treaty. It was not the statue itself that obtained this grace, of course, but the force residing behind it: the " Woman clothed with the sun" (Rev. 12:1) who unties
entrusted her with a painful situation related to my emotional life, and she had already granted me a grace beyond all my expectations. This time, after two months of struggles, in desperation, I turned to [...] Undoer of Knots! I.C. Testimony sent to Mary of Nazareth If you wish to write a testimonial about a grace received through the intercession of Mary Undoer of Knots, you may send it to the address above, or
and supernatural world of God's grace offered to man. The faith and works of the whole life of Father Maximilian show that he thought of his cooperation with divine grace as warfare under the banner of
