conception, not just as a free gift, but as a gift of mercy, a 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 [...] from her part, but also against the law which normally, had she not been made an exception, would have swallowed her.
painted on canvas or opaque surfaces that have no reflection). "This is pure folly. But the images are there and we can't pretend they don't exist," several scientists have observed.
of God. Mary was soon on her way to congratulate the happy mother. This trip did not have a human motive. Having Jesus in her womb, Mary possessed all the riches and all the joys of Heaven. This was enough [...] the Hail Mary, making it one of the most beautiful Christian prayers that exists. And these words have indeed resounded everywhere through all the centuries since! Thus, the mission of Jesus began before
their son together and suffered together: "My son," Mary said to Jesus, "why have you done this to us? Behold, your father and I have been anxiously searching for you" (Lk 2:48). Both of them experienced an [...] etymology of the word—helped him to grow. Only he who knows how to obey knows how to command. And as we have seen, Mary and Joseph knew how to obey. Pablo Largo Dominguez Excerpt from: María, microcosmos de
We may well ask how the Blessed Virgin helps us. She certainly prays for us, and in my own case I have often asked my best Friend’s mother to put in a good word. Anyone familiar with Marian devotion knows [...] two ways. First, through her intercession we may realize that things did not go as badly as we might have expected them to, or perhaps they even vastly improved (which is rare). The second aspect we experience [...] circumstances; it is a most powerful image. Many Protestants are more interested in Mary than they have been for centuries because of that portrayal. Surely, the Mother of Christ prayed at every step of
I see the church open. I must enter. Mother of Jesus Christ, I have not come to pray. I have nothing to offer and nothing to ask. I have come only, Mary, to gaze upon you. To gaze upon you, to weep with
Jesus? He is your Life – your All. Yet, it is the Will of the Eternal One that wants it so. You will have to fight against two insurmountable powers: Love and Divine Will. Love nails You, in such a way that [...] your voice, trembling and broken with sobs, saying: "Son, O Beloved Son, this is the last relief I have left to soften my pain: to pour out my love infinitely on the wounds of your humanity, to adore them [...] doing it, my strength is dissolved, and my life flees from me. Give me this grace, O Son, that I may have the strength to make the bitter separation. Allow me to let myself be completely buried in you and
moment when I should have been between the road and the truck, as it grabbed several logs at once, the metallic hand dropped an enormous one, which crashed down exactly where I would have been! This log would [...] would definitively have killed me! The Miraculous Medal of the Chapel of the Rue du Bac in Paris that I wear around my neck protected me! "Thank you Mother Mary!" Personal testimony of Danièle M. (June
Sabbatine privilege. Its origin is the "Sabbatine Bull" that Pope John XXII granted in 1317, after having been favored by a vision of the Blessed Queen of Carmel. The Virgin Mary promised the Holy Father [...] canonical hours (the Little Office of Our Blessed Mother). Some modern historians of the Carmelite order have questioned the authenticity of the Sabbatine Bull. We do not wish to go into this controversy, which [...] authoritatively confirmed the content of this bull, namely the "sabbatical privilege." Few indulgences have in fact received so many and solemn pontifical approvals. Suffice it to quote the acts and approvals
my heart what I came to know in my mind: I am a child of God. I don't just have God as my Father and Christ as my brother; I have His Mother for my own. A friend of mine who had heard I was thinking about [...] that word "honor," kaboda, that Hebrew word means to glorify, to bestow whatever glory and honor you have upon your father and mother. Christ fulfilled that law more perfectly than any human by bestowing
