heaven. Yet do thou at that boy's birth, in whom the iron age shall cease, and the golden age arise over all the world.” The Virgin Mary, in whom the Son of God would descend, certainly did not know this oracle
December 5 - Our Lady of the Jesuit College (Rome, 1584) The Mother of Mercy Mary is the antithesis of Satan, because she not only accepted God's grace, which Satan refused, but also the perfect forgiveness [...] grace of forgiveness, since it would have been right for her to be included in the fall of the sons and daughters of Adam. Though she had never been defiled by sin, she was forgiven in a greater measure
Blessed Virgin (I) She is the Eve of the new Covenant, the mother shared by all believers; yet this cost Mary the death of her first-born Son. She had but to join the eternal Father, with whom she gave her consent [...] the cross. She came here to sacrifice her own true Son; that He might die, so that man might live. And, here, she came to bear new children: "Woman", said Jesus, "behold your son." How painful were those
Jesus and his life, not directly and in themselves—like actually seeing the Way of the Cross—but through Mary. One contemplates that which was at the center of her life, what she saw, felt, and treasured [...] We find the beloved’s image reflected in the other person, and that image takes on a new aspect for us. Our eyes meet two eyes that also love and see the beloved. Their eyes increase our visual power. Our [...] seen only from a single angle. Father Romano Guardini Italian-born German Catholic priest, theologian and philosopher Le Rosaire de Notre Dame , (The Rosary of Our Lady), Ed. Bloud et Gay, 1950
France. On February 15, 1876, around midnight, 33-year old maid, Estelle Faguette, saw the Virgin Mary at her home, then fourteen more times up until December 8, 1876. As a sign of spiritual warfare, the [...] for a few short moments, by an apparition of the devil. She recounts: "The Virgin turned towards me and said softly to me: ‘ Fear not, you are my daughter. Courage, be patient, my Son will let Himself be [...] apparition), Estelle miraculously recovered from tuberculosis. Adapted from: Father René Laurentin and Patrick Sbalchiero, Dictionnaire encyclopédique des apparitions de la Vierge. Fayard, Paris 2007.
across my ideas about her. In the first place, I would have shown how little is actually known about Mary’s life. Of course, I believe that we must not say incredible or made-up ideas about her; for example [...] to the Temple at the age of three, “to offer herself to God, filled with intense feelings of love and great enthusiasm”, when the truth is that perhaps she only went there to obey her parents… Why do we [...] the Blessed Virgin had Christ’s passion constantly present before her eyes from that moment on? … “And a sword shall pierce will pierce your soul too…” (Lk 2:35). It is clear to see, my dear Mother, that
across my ideas about her. In the first place, I would have shown how little is actually known about Mary's life. Of course, I believe that we must not say incredible or made-up ideas about her; for example [...] to the Temple at the age of three, "to offer herself to God, filled with intense feelings of love and great enthusiasm", when the truth is that perhaps she only went there to obey her parents... Why do [...] the Blessed Virgin had Christ's passion constantly present before her eyes from that moment on? ... "And a sword shall pierce will pierce your soul too..." (Lk 2:35). It is clear to see, my dear Mother, that
exchanged between a human being and the Mother of God, that there is a poverty worse than destitution, hunger, cold, ignorance, social degradation, illness, death, and so on. This poverty is that of human [...] physical poverty, she is enriched with this knowledge and grace. She discovers that true riches consist in the mercy of God, who offers Himself to sinners and transforms them ... if they consent, to His will [...] with Our Lady begins with a gesture of poverty. As Jesus came to the world in a humble manger, so did Mary come to Massabielle, a muddy grotto filled with rubbish that washed up from the river, dressed in
the Christian faithful who asked for a special place to come and pray to the Virgin Mary: “Go and look for places that you like. Arrange them and we will come to them.” On March 31, 1968, a group of faithful [...] thousands of pilgrims came to gather at the foot of the Virgin of Yagma to express their gratitude to God and to show their attachment to Our Lady. The Eucharistic celebration was presided by Archbishop Séraphin [...] Séraphin Rouamba of Koupela (Burkina Faso), with several cardinals in attendance. Sources: Lefaso.net and Notre Dame de Yagma
Assumption of the Virgin and Saint-Bruno, pronounced her final vows at the Deir Rafat monastery in Bethlehem, a monastery whose mission is to pray for the unity of the Latin and Eastern Catholic Church [...] Assumption of the Virgin and Saint Bruno, were founded in 1950 in Rome after Pope Pius XII declared the promulgation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A few months later, in 1951 [...] founded in France, and in 1976, the first community of monks of Bethlehem was established in the mountains of the Chartreuse, also in France. Today, there are 30 monasteries for the Sisters and 3 for the monks
