itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary". Address of Pope Benedict XVI in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, May 3, 2008 [...] confirm that the Holy Rosary is not a pious practice banished to the past, like prayers of other times thought of with nostalgia. Instead, the Rosary is experiencing a new Springtime. (…) When it is prayed
2013, on the eve of the celebration of the birth of Mary, Queen of Peace, he spontaneously removed the icon of Our Lady from its spot and circulated it among the crowd during a vigil of fast and prayer [...] to the Mother of God to express his thanks, before and after each trip, because he sees in her the faith of the people of God who for centuries, in times of crisis, have gathered around Mary to ask Heaven [...] early September 2017, Pope Francis prayed in front of the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary Salus Populi Romani in Rome, for the 52nd time since the beginning of his pontificate. The Holy Father repeats this
founded the congregation of the Annonciades whose specific mission is to serve Christ by imitating the virtues of Mary, according to the wish of the Virgin Mary herself: "Make a rule of what you will find written [...] or at the top of the list of French saints. Although she was the daughter, sister and wife of kings, no child was more deprived of freedom, no wife more rejected than her. At the age of nine, her father [...] principal virtues of the mother of Christ: "Prudence, purity, humility, truth, praise, obedience, poverty, patience, piety and compassion." She died of exhaustion on February 4, 1505, at the age of 41. Fifty-six
e Conception” In Lourdes, Bernadette asked the Virgin Mary her name and she replied: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” By her luminous words, Mary expressed that she was not only conceived immaculately [...] and perfection. (...) The Holy Spirit is the uncreated Immaculate Conception. (...) The third person of the Trinity is not embodied as we all know and our word “spouse” is insufficient to express the re [...] and the Holy Spirit. It can be said that the Immaculate Conception is in a sense “the incarnation of the Holy Spirit.”
widow) to love and pray to the Virgin Mary, and he turned to her often. When he was 9 years old, Mary showed him the path he should follow. He had a vision in the form of a "dream," something which happened [...] force will get you nowhere. Try using gentleness. ” Suddenly, the children turned into a bunch of wild animals of all kinds. When they saw the Lady, they all turned into docile sheep. Then, I asked her who [...] would help me .” This dream, called “the dream of the nine-year-old,” helped John Bosco understand his mission more clearly, over the years. It is plain that Mary played a central role in revealing his mission
which he had previously never heard before: “Glory be to Jesus, the only Son of God. And glory to the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.” “It was shocking for me,” Charbel recounted to the National Catholic [...] his experience. That Christmas Eve, Charbel was studying at home. “I saw the Virgin Mary for the first time in front of me. And she told me, ‘Don’t be afraid. Keep searching. I’m with you,”’ Charbel recounted [...] heart. I felt like I’m home,” Charbel recalled of the vision. He tried to meet Christians on social media, but to no avail. He would see the Virgin Mary again on Christmas Eve for the next three years
touch her, not even with the thinnest end of its large untamed wing. Nobody has ever lived, suffered, or died as simply as Mary, nor lived in such pure ignorance of her own dignity, a dignity which however [...] for the joy of the Father - and this makes her such sacred solitude! Demons of old well familiar to man, masters and servants united, the terrible patriarchs who guided the first steps of Adam to the threshold [...] however placed her above the angels. She was of course born without sin, what amazing solitude! Mary is a source so pure - so limpid, so limpid and so pure that she could not even see her own reflection. She
touch her, not even with the thinnest end of its large untamed wing. Nobody has ever lived, suffered, or died as simply as Mary, nor lived in such pure ignorance of her own dignity, a dignity which however [...] for the joy of the Father - and this makes her such sacred solitude! Demons of old well familiar to man, masters and servants united, the terrible patriarchs who guided the first steps of Adam to the threshold [...] however placed her above the angels. She was of course born without sin, what amazing solitude! Mary is a source so pure - so limpid, so limpid and so pure that she could not even see her own reflection. She
(Italy, 1598) The Keystone The knowledge of the true Catholic doctrine on the Blessed Virgin Mary constitutes a keystone to an unmistaken understanding of the mystery of Christ and the Church.
(Italy, 1598) The Keystone The knowledge of the true Catholic doctrine on the Blessed Virgin Mary constitutes a keystone to an unmistaken understanding of the mystery of Christ and the Church.
