nearest Sunday and not on weekdays, and which has now been rescheduled to its exact date – how many faithful will it attract? Well, it really wasn’t bad at all. And what really surprised me, and even made me [...] even be said that every Dutch Catholic knows the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary, even if many do still know them). But it is also a profound and meditative prayer. When we pray the whole Rosary, all the [...] me feel good, is that at 6:30 p.m., most of the faithful were already present, and that they actively said the Rosary… And it was quite a big group. Therefore, the Rosary prayer is still alive in the N
Our Lady of Poverty The way and path is difficult and the gate through which one passes and enters into life is narrow; there are both few who walk it and enter through it. And if there are some who walk [...] way and to persevere till the end. For this reason, I bend my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that, through the supporting merits of the glorious and holy Virgin Mary, his Mother, and of our [...] our most blessed father Francis and all the saints, the Lord himself, who has given us a good beginning, will also give the increase and final perseverance. Amen.
The Virgin Mary, who at the message of the angel received the Word of God in her heart and in her body and gave Life to the world, is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and Mother of [...] the Redeemer. Redeemed by reason of the merits of her Son and united to Him by a close and indissoluble tie, she is endowed with the high office and dignity of being the Mother of the Son of God, by which [...] also the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit. Because of this gift of sublime grace she far surpasses all creatures, both in heaven and on earth. Dogmatic Constitution on the
that we love (...), composed of modesty and greatness, which inspired the German saying: "Happy as God in France", and the Polish saying: "The sky is too high and France is too far." Who could say that [...] church, then in the streets of the towns and villages, the famous procession, whose tradition was so happily taken up again in Paris by Cardinal Lustiger (and later by his successors). In 1922, the first [...] his apostolic letter "Galliam, Ecclesiae filiam primogenitam", he states: "We declare and confirm that the Virgin Mary Mother of God, under the title of her Assumption into heaven, has been regularly chosen
blessed Mary is all of this. But what are we to do for her? What kind of gifts shall we offer her? Would that we could at least return what we are in duty bound to do, for we owe her honor and service [...] we owe her love and praise. We owe her honor, for she is the mother of our Lord. He who fails to honor the mother clearly dishonors the Son. Also, Scripture says: Honor your father and your mother. What
She is the vast and divine world of God where unutterable marvels and beauties are to be found. She is the magnificence of the Almighty where He hid His only Son, as in His own bosom, and with Him everything [...] everything that is most excellent and precious. What great and hidden things the all-powerful God has done for this wonderful creature, as she herself had to confess in spite of her great humility, "The Almighty [...] April 28 - Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort God’s Paradise I declare with the saints: Mary is the earthly paradise of Jesus Christ the new Adam, where He became man by the power of the Holy Spirit, in
She is the vast and divine world of God where unutterable marvels and beauties are to be found. She is the magnificence of the Almighty where He hid His only Son, as in His own bosom, and with Him everything [...] everything that is most excellent and precious. What great and hidden things the all-powerful God has done for this wonderful creature, as she herself had to confess in spite of her great humility, "The Almighty [...] April 28 - Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort God’s Paradise I declare with the saints: Mary is the earthly paradise of Jesus Christ the new Adam, where He became man by the power of the Holy Spirit, in
you and praying to you. Many have chosen to devote themselves to you, including kings, such as Louis XIII on behalf of his people. O Mary, give the gifts of the Holy Spirit to get these brothers and sisters [...] so as to impart new youth, the youth of faith, to these Christians and their communities, which I entrust to your Immaculate Heart and your motherly love. [...] Honoring You Here, in this land of France, I entrust to your motherly love, O Mother of God, the sons and daughters of this nation. They have never stopped honoring you in their traditions, in the art of their
intentions Mary entrusted to the three children. I often manage to pray 5 decades, but the effects are more evident when I pray the whole Rosary: the pattern of my daily life is transformed, and I see events
hostile Indians and the statue of Mary disappeared. According to tradition, a few days later two Guaranis Indian children - who happened to be canoeing down the river - saw the statue of Mary standing on a [...] Buenaventura and Luis de Bolanos) arrived at Itati, a small village on the banks of the large Parana River, where they founded a mission. They brought a statue of the Blessed Virgin along with them and built [...] a stone surrounded by a radiant light. They alerted the missionaries and the entire village came in procession to collect the miraculously found statue of the Blessed Virgin. This time a proper sanctuary
