the fullness of joy. The heart of Mary, more than any other, is a humble heart, capable of accepting God’s gifts. In order to become man, God precisely chose her, a simple young woman of Nazareth, who [...] praise to God except this foreigner?” ( Lk 17:17-18). After Mary, our Mother heard the message of the Angel, she lifted up her heart in a song of praise and thanksgiving to God, saying: “My soul magnifies [...] palaces of power and wealth, or do extraordinary things. Let us ask ourselves – it will do us good – if we are prepared to accept God’s gifts, or prefer instead to shut ourselves up within our forms of material
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, "Arise [...] (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
length, skimmed over the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, although she exceeds them ad infinitum by her excellence and her virtue. Why, I asked myself, have they told us nothing of her birth, her education [...] to know about the Blessed Virgin, you will find contained in these few words: Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. This is her story - it’s a very long and interesting story. [...] education, her habits, her daily life with her Son, her life with the Apostles after the Resurrection of the Lord? … The Holy Spirit has not depicted her in the Holy Letters, to leave it up to you to make your
length, skimmed over the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, although she exceeds them ad infinitum by her excellence and her virtue. Why, I asked myself, have they told us nothing of her birth, her education [...] to know about the Blessed Virgin, you will find contained in these few words: Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. This is her story - it's a very long and interesting story. [...] education, her habits, her daily life with her Son, her life with the Apostles after the Resurrection of the Lord? ... The Holy Spirit has not depicted her in the Holy Letters, to leave it up to you to make your
knowing that the town has a renowned religious shrine, since he had never heard of God, Mary or Jesus before. On the set of KTO (a French Catholic TV channel) he openly spoke about his conversion story, [...] Florian Boucansaud, born in 1981 (France) is a French soccer player who played in the first division of the French championship from 2005 to 2009, in Troyes then in Caen. To the question, “What advice would [...] him to solicit the Blessed Virgin. Every morning, go pray to the Blessed Virgin, say a little Hail Mary, and ask her to help you to know her Son. I would tell him to read a passage from the Gospel, and
Virgin Mary. “I have always had a Marian grotto at home since I was a student,” he says. “When I pray the Rosary, I really feel in touch with God through the Virgin Mary. She is my mother, and of course [...] ess of her intercession in my life.” His wife Victoire Kalou is also a practicing Catholic. The movie “What if God Did Not Exist?” (2012), a fictional Christian drama, was her idea. Both sides of this [...] Since 2015, Guy Kalou has passed on his knowledge of the big screen to students at a higher education institution where he is the director of the Film and Audiovisual Specialties School. Guy Aimé Eblotié (in
Every year, on the 4th Sunday of May, the feast of Santa Maria de Carquere is celebrated. According to tradition, Our Lady of Carquere is associated with the miraculous healing of Prince Alfonso Henriques, [...] very small statue in the ruins of the chapel—this statuette is called Our Lady of Carquere. He carried the young prince to the altar of the church, found in the middle of the ruins, and the prince was healed [...] the 19 th century, a large part of this religious heritage was lost by the secularization of society, but in the 20th century, Carquere became one of the pillars of the Portuguese Catholic heritage. Paulette
with the Virgin Mary that made young Bernadette a saint—the little shepherdess was already a saint before the apparitions took place. This conclusive and inspiring perspective comes out of a book by Father [...] particularly the Lourdes apparitions. He wrote in this book that Bernadette gave several accounts of the story of the apparitions and had to write down her testimonial seven times by hand! Laurentin endeavored [...] sometimes gently mocking—just like Saint Joan of Arc before her judges. “I have been asked to tell you about it, not to make you believe it.” The book tells the story of her short and simple life and is punctuated
Hail Mary that we offer her with the same joy as that with which she heard the greeting from the mouth of the angel Gabriel on the day of the Annunciation, when she became the Mother of the Son of God.
the fourth attempt I was able drink On Thursday, February 25, 1858, the 9th apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette Soubirous took place in Lourdes, France. Three hundred people witnessed
