are a silent prayer rising to heaven, always finding a place in Mary’s mantle. In her and with her, God has made himself our brother and companion along the journey; he carries our crosses with us so as [...] Let’s look at the Blessed Mother from within our own sufferings, our own fear, hopelessness, sadness, and say to her, “What can I offer since I am not learned?” We should look at our Mother with eyes that [...] Mopohua , 107). “Yet am I not here with you, who have the honor of being your mother?” ( ibid ., 119). Mary tells us that she has “the honor” of being our mother, assuring us that those who suffer do not weep
voice loud enough to tell all the sinners of the world to love Mary." He went on: “I feel myself burning without a fire. I feel tight and bound to the Son by means of this Mother, without even seeing the [...] wrote: “How many times have I confided to this mother the tormented anguish of my restless heart! And how many times has she comforted me! ... In difficult times, it seems to me that I have no mother on [...] the chains that bind me so closely.” Padre Pio saw in this Mother the one who leads to Jesus and who, by her powerful intercession, obtains innumerable graces from him. He wrote in a letter dated 1915:
which recall events in the lives of Jesus and Mary. Five decades are recited per Rosary. The repetition in the Rosary is meant to lead one into restful and contemplative prayer, according to the U.S. [...] craziness, the panic and anxiety, when things look like they cannot be solved, we say, as Sister Lucia said, the Rosary is the solution,” Amigot said. “We invoke the Virgin Mary, and we’ll see what happens [...] effort to bring peace to a world full of panic and anxiety. Organizer Mikel Amigot, a Greenwich resident, hopes the idea will catch on regionally, nationally and internationally. He said it is the first in
child. He was astonished and frightened to find himself in front of the Virgin Mary who showed him a crying baby in her arms. "Don't be afraid," she said, "I am the Mother of God, and the baby whom you see [...] Our Lady of Graces in Provence, and a drawing of the church." At that instant Brother Fiacre saw the painting in precise detail as well as the chancel where it was and still can be seen today. Alerted [...] brother corresponded exactly! On 5th November, an official report was drawn up and signed by the entire Augustinian community, and sent to Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld, since these three novenas had become
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, made by Pope Pius XII on October 31, 1942, the bishops of France consecrated all French parishes to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 28, 1943, and inaugurated the return [...] entire area of France, and the statues visited 16,000 parishes in 88 dioceses. Everywhere, there were unprecedented vibrant crowds, praying fervently. Conversions and miracles happened, and the people were in [...] fruits of this huge, fervent, moving and very popular mission, which lasted until 1947, were innumerable. The Virgin gave hope to the people at the end of World War II and witnesses of her astonishing pilgrimage
Franciscan Crown. This rosary is said with seven decades of Hail Marys, book-ended by an Our Father and a Minor Doxology, with two more Hail Marys added at the end. In 1851, the Vatican approved the Chaplet [...] used are the Paternoster and the Ave Maria. The Rosary is cherished in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Fulton Sheen did say, “The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest [...] initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the
of Molen (France) Christmas Anticipation Prayer Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In [...] vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires, (State your intention(s) here...) through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of his blessed Mother. Amen.
the Shrine of Altoetting in Bavaria, the most famous and oldest Marian shrine in southern Germany. This shrine dates back to Carolingian times and the bishop Saint Rupert. During the pilgrimage season [...] moving is the unique custom of carrying a wooden cross on one's shoulders and walking three times around the chapel, praying and imploring the Mother of Sorrows that God forgive one’s sins. Several historical [...] torchlight procession ends in front of the Gnadenkapelle as the faithful cry out: "Come to my help O Mary, come to my help also! Before you I stand, a sinner! O Mother of Mercy, stay close to me on the day
established the liturgical memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, and inserted it in the Roman calendar. The Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments explained [...] "the promotion of this devotion can foster among pastors, religious and the faithful the growth of a maternal sense of the Church and of true Marian devotion. The term "Mater Ecclesiae" had already been [...] Church, Lumen Gentium , whose Chapter VIII, entirely dedicated to the Virgin Mary, explores her role in the mystery of Christ and the Church. Pope Paul VI, who had a deep devotion to the Mother of God, saw
one, and 8 days in the cathedral. The church that hosts her stays open day and night for the faithful, and the presence of the Virgin Mary in her image is always a source of innumerable graces. Marie de [...] shrine of Our Lady was built later, in 1690. The natives did not bother about the origin of the Madonna and adopted her as one their own. It had been brought from the Old World by the conquistadors, but it was [...] light that it did not look like other statues from Spain. The image was small—34 cm tall (13 inches) and brown like the natives. It proabably was blackened by the smoke of candles, or its varnish could have
