Sacrament, we love Jesus with the Heart of Mary. When we recite the Rosary in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we offer Jesus the perfect Adoration of Mary. We join our own love for Jesus to Mary's worship [...] and perfect love. Jesus welcomes our time of Adoration as if it were Mary’s own prayer. No matter how weak our faith or how poor our love, Mary receives us into her Heart, and Jesus acknowledges our time
to follow her Son: he – Jesus – is the way, he is the path! To press forward in faith, to advance in the spiritual pilgrimage which is faith, is nothing other than to follow Jesus; to listen to him and be [...] sentiments. And what are these sentiments of Jesus? Humility, mercy, closeness to others, but also a firm rejection of hypocrisy, duplicity and idolatry. The way of Jesus is the way of a love which is faithful [...] through the cross. Mary understood this from the beginning, when Herod sought to kill the newborn Jesus. When Jesus’ “hour” came, the hour of his passion, when Mary’s faith was a little flame burning in the night
title of Theotokos ("who gave birth to God" in Greek). Jesus is both man and God. Mary is the mother of God because she is the mother of Jesus, and Jesus is God. By giving Mary the features of eternal youth [...] there was much debate about the dual nature of Jesus: could he be both Son of Man and Son of God? In 381, the Council of Constantinople proclaimed that "Jesus Christ, only Son of God, true God born of true [...] youth, Michelangelo must have intended to underline her eternal purity, while her son Jesus, having taken on our human nature, was made to appear, in the stripping away of death, as a man like all others
most of the time with the Child Jesus in his arms or working beside Him in his humble workshop of Nazareth. It is true that Saint Joseph lived in the intimacy of Jesus and Mary. He shared in the intimate [...] goodness, his meekness, his patience in trials and his tender affection for Jesus and Mary. As the adoptive Father of Jesus, we can also consider him as our own adoptive Father. We put our trust in him [...] intimate secrets of the hidden life in Nazareth. We know that Jesus attended Saint Joseph's school for daily work, but we also know that Joseph had the Child God, of whom he was the foster Father, as his own
reaction to Jesus' preaching. She raises her voice above the crowd and exclaims: "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts that nursed you!” (Lk 11: 27-28). Mary gave birth to Jesus and breastfed [...] imitate, and it is these things that Jesus wants to us to remember and make applicable universally. "Happy, happy all those who hear the word of God and keep it!" Jesus is also describing Mary, but this is [...] Beatitudes, for her as for us, comes from accepting the words of Jesus, not just feeling his closeness. Mary, the human person who was closest to Jesus physically and emotionally, was especially the one who lived
joyful mystery, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem (Mt. 2:1-12; Lk. 2:1-20), whose fruit is the spirit of poverty. The Holy Eucharist is the continuation of the Incarnation of Jesus. When we come to the Blessed [...] Bethlehem. Thus, our humble visit to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament causes him such joy that it will be repeated throughout eternity, hastening the day when Jesus will establish his promised peace on earth [...] and the shepherds, for Jesus continues his Incarnation on earth. The Word becomes flesh again and dwells among us, veiled under the species of the Sacred Host. There, the same Jesus, born two thousand years
Elizabeth, and to share with her what she was told; 3) the Birth of Jesus — why we celebrate Christmas; 4) the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, where he was dedicated to God per the Jewish custom; [...] Tuesday and Friday are centered on the happenings at the end of Jesus’ life, and are recalled during Holy Week in Lent. They are, Jesus’ 1) Agony in the Garden; 2) Scourging (beating) at the Pillar; 3) [...] Sunday; 2) Jesus’ ascension into heaven, celebrated in the Catholic church on Ascension Thursday, 40 days after Easter; 3) the Coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles; 4) the Assumption of Jesus’ Mother
believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God; she knew that if Jesus had appealed to the Father, he would have sent him “more than twelve legions of angels” (Matt 12 :53). But she saw that Jesus didn’t [...] Mary was tempted, as even Jesus was in the desert, this took place above all beneath the cross. And the temptation was very deep and painful because the reason for it was Jesus himself. She believed in [...] thoughts and wishes must have spontaneously come to her mother’s heart. She no longer even asked Jesus, "Son, why have you treated us so?" As she did when, having lost him, she later found him in the Temple
Child Jesus in the temple. (Lk 3: 43-45) 4. The meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross. 5. The Crucifixion. 6. The taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross. 7. The burial of Jesus. "And
couple to let Jesus know about an impending wine shortage. When Jesus says this is not our concern, she tells the servants, “do whatever he tells us you.” (John2:5) Notice, Mary does not tell Jesus what to do [...] Mother Mary is with us in our times of troubles. She is there drawing Jesus’ attention to our needs. She is there pointing us to Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Deacon Bill Gervais, August 30, 2021 (blog) Adapted [...] my perspective, neither adoration nor ignoring her is ideal. Anyone who claims to be a follower of Jesus needs to include Mary in their faith life because she is a model of faith. She is not-God, but she
