of the Madonna that makes you most angry!” Demon: “Because she always defeats me, because she was never compromised by any taint of sin!” “During an exorcism,” Father Amorth remembers, “Satan told me, through
the Mother of God. … This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never shone forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of God has seemed to be endangered by
1152) The sign of Mary’s inherent goodness Mary was reserved, the gospels testify to it: she was never seen as talkative or presumptuous. Through the entirety of the four gospels, if I remember correctly
fishing! Attached to the line of her fishing rod was a rosary. Word of a fisherman! St Peter had never seen this kind of bait! Mary was leisurely pulling up the souls that clung to it and passed them to
her clothes, and declared: "I am so hungry I could eat a horse.” She resumed her work as if she had never been sick. It was in 1923. Wigratzbad
religious life. Gabriel constantly strived towards an intimate union with his Mother of Heaven. He would never lose sight of Mary, even as he slept, often seeing the Mother of God in his dreams. A few moments
See how she went through fatigue and trials! How she walked up the path to Calvary with her Son, never pausing or stopping! ... Yet Our Lord gave something to us that he did not grant to his own Mother:
that I considered myself to be the vilest creature and most unworthy of divine grace. Therefore I never ceased to ask for virtue and grace."
a lady presented herself at the gate and asked to speak to Father Cottolengo. Sister Gabriela had never seen this person before. The lady carefully explained to the nun, in a lovely tone of voice, that
things” (Lk 1:53). God reveals Himself to the humble in the lowliest of disguises, but the proud, who never look below the surface, fail to find Him even in His greatest manifestations.
