from Mary. This is how she acted when the angel said to her: "Look! You are to conceive a son, and must call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High" (Lk 1:31). (...) Mary said
from Mary. This is how she acted when the angel said to her: "Look! You are to conceive a son, and must call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High" (Lk 1:31). (...) Mary said
foundress of the Foyers de Charité. Her whole life and all her activities, including growing up on her farm, were permeated with Marian grace. This is what she wrote about her attachment to Mary: ''I really [...] blind trust, in the hands of this tender and beloved Mother, whose protection I feel more and more, I who am her child. To make sure that my trust is not inferior to the generosity of the Blessed Virgin, I [...] pray to her with the trust of a child that she never ignores. O My Mother, reign over my soul ... make Jesus reign within me! ... I put in your blessed hands all the deeds of my life to be presented to
the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, on December 8, 2018, at the Marian Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto–believed to be the original house of Mary from Nazareth. The prefect of the Congregation [...] silence, devotion to Mary and the celebration of the sacraments—especially the sacrament of reconciliation—we can experience the joy of encountering the Lord and learn from Him the virtues of love, hospitality [...] condition of our lives." A shrine has a homey atmosphere, he continued: "Being at home does not just mean being under a roof and between four walls. For us, this word evokes the family, the warmth of love,
Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, handed them personally on September 8, 2016, on the occasion of their Jubilee of Mercy. The distribution of these "weapons" was the culmination of the Jubilee [...] Jubilee of the two Vatican civilian police corps, marked by the passage of the Holy Door and a special Mass on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Saint Peter's Basilica. These new weapons are God’s [...] God’s weapons, the Cardinal observed: "The bread and wine of the Eucharist, a few words from the Book of Life, a small Rosary and the passage through the Holy Door. ... Although apparently weak, these
not be influenced." She also said: "That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who fall [...] December 26, 1957, Sister Lucia, the seer of Our Lady of Fatima (Portugal), alluding to the third secret, confided to the priest: "Only the Holy Father and the Bishop of Fatima are permitted to know the Secret [...] tricks, even going so far as to suggest the delay of entrance into religious life." "The Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but She made me understand it…She told
Mother, all the Polish people because on each of them depends the perseverance on the road to renewal, justice and peace. Mother of our heart! May the power of forgiveness arise everywhere from these words [...] returned to Poland four years after his first journey, when the country was still in a state of siege and the leaders of Solidarity in prison in particularly dramatic circumstances. Then, on June 19, 1983, he [...] escape from the shackles of hatred. Hatred is a destructive force, and we should neither destroy nor let ourselves be destroyed by it. Forgiveness is imbued with the strength of love. Forgiveness does not
attitude of self-effacement, and in which are nested both the freedom of God who calls, and the freedom of the answer: the Amen of Jesus and the Fiat of Mary. Bishop Dominique Rey, Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon [...] modesty is made of silence, natural reserve and meditation. Joseph preserves the privacy of his adopted Son, Jesus. He respects the other-ness of Mary his wife, in the mysteries of her virginal conception and [...] a sure sign of the mystery deposited in him, that of his own election. His modesty is a mortification of the senses, an antidote to vanity, the source of his chastity, and the seclusion of his prayer.
points of further growth or pruning. From the Rod of Jesse the Church Fathers came to see all plants and their burgeoning as signatures and symbols of Mary - applying to her the scriptural titles of Rose [...] Then, with the 18th century re-burgeoning of devotion to Mary, the Church dedicated to her the entire springtime budding and flowering of plants of the month of May, applying to her the passage, [...] (1933) The May Magnificat (I) Isaiah's prophecy of the virgin birth of the Redeemer as the blossoming Rod of Jesse was understood as miraculous by the people of his time in that the grape vine normally blossoms
appointment at Fatima The Virgin Mary had made an appointment with the three children of Fatima (Portugal) to meet at the Cova da Iria on August 13, 1917. But in the morning of that day, several men arrived [...] means of pressuring them into saying publicly that they had lied about the apparitions. But the children remained silent, and since the crowds were beginning to express anger at the treatment of the children [...] reflection of a light appear, followed by a small cloud that hovered a few moments above the oak tree, before rising to the sky and disappearing. Then a rainbow appeared, about the height of a man, coloring
