Throughout the Passion of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was the intermediary between Mary and Jesus and the Father in her. The Trinity was in the Passion with Mary. Everything that Jesus suffered, what He felt in [...] Mary. Through Him the Father and Mary were intimately joined together and became one. The Passion of Jesus was also the Passion of the Father and the Passion of Father was experienced by Mary. The Father borrowed [...] Father, and the same forgiveness for humanity. At the foot of the Cross, her maternity, her love for Jesus reached the summit of fullness because in her, the Father lived and He shared His fullness with her
Virgin Mary is there Jesus wanted to uniquely and singularly associate his Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the work of our Redemption, the work of Salvation. At every Mass, when Jesus renews, or more [...] an image of the Virgin Mary next to each altar. She shouldn’t be far from the altar. When we hear Jesus say through the priest, "This is my body given up for you, this is my blood shed for you and for many [...] the forgiveness of sins," we should close our eyes and imagine ourselves at the foot of the Cross. Jesus meets us there, even though he is in glory, risen and victorious today. He meets us there during his
is to bring to Jesus all who approach her. Become tiny in the arms of our beloved mother! Stay close to her and she’ll tell us that our only obligation as a Christian is to be like Jesus. There is—and there [...] always been—only one way to be like Jesus: we need to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow him. Mary also tells us what she knows from experience: that with Jesus, to renounce our self, take up our
mystic Marthe Robin on Mary: God has given us Jesus through Mary, so we must go to Mary to reach Jesus. "No one goes to my Father without my permission," Jesus said. No one can come to me without coming by [...] soul that chooses Mary as an advocate can be sure that its prayers and requests will be answered. Jesus refuses nothing to Mary. Mary is the powerful Virgin, the Virgin full of goodness, the Gate of Heaven
scene in Cathedral Square in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It depicts everything from the baby Jesus to the three wise men and a collection of animals, including sheep and a camel. Researchers at Vilnius [...] University (VGTU) have now rendered that scene in nanoscale proportions and nicknamed the project #NanoJesus. The team behind the nano-nativity says it’s the world’s smallest, and they’ve submitted it to Guinness [...] real-world nativity it’s based on. The entire nativity could sit on a human eyelash, and the Baby Jesus is smaller than a human cell. Pope Francis received one of the scenes on Friday as a gift from Lithuanian
accompanied by the Child Jesus. The apparition asked her to give her her heart. "I don't know where it is," the little girl replied. "If you find it, I'll give it to you!" The Child Jesus said to her, "I espouse [...] Her father was a tool-maker and her mother a weaver. At the age of five, Catherine had visions of Jesus, Mary, and other saints, including St. Catherine of Siena. She also had frequent ecstasies. In 1499 [...] tertiary. Her visions became more frequent, and she received the stigmata. Throughout these apparitions, Jesus as a child grew along with Catherine, who led a life of penance and expiation. Throughout her life
the Mother of Jesus. She notices, for instance, how easily Hail Mary’s trip off our tongues, and how we, who have been brought up Catholic, often spontaneously turn to the Mother of Jesus when we need help [...] traditionally devoted to honoring Jesus’s Mother. As a family we prayed the Rosary every night, taking it in turns to lead the mysteries about the joys, sorrows and glories of Jesus’ life. As we uttered each group [...] their knees as we prayed helped to nourish in us a real appreciation of Jesus, and encouraged our efforts to strive to do what Jesus was asking of us in our daily lives. After our family Rosary, I would
the world. Marthe Robin chose to live her life in conformity with the Crucified Love of Jesus: "The Heart of Jesus on the Cross is the inviolable dwelling place that I have chosen on earth." Her parish [...] receiving the sacraments, Marthe Robin (1) experienced a life-changing encounter with the Heart of Jesus on the Cross. She was filled with a new life, in her body and her heart. Everything became clearer [...] life. "After years of anxiety and despair, after many physical and moral trials, I dared to choose Jesus Christ.” She learned from the Heart of Christ on the Cross the meaning of her life as a sick person:
The Church invites us to attentively consider the depth of the love manifested in the Passion of Jesus and the Compassion of Mary. "All you who pass this way, look and see: is there any sorrow like the [...] the time of the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Here is the Heart which loved humankind so much that it spared itself nothing, to the point [...] consumed with love to bear witness for them. And as a reward I mainly receive only ingratitude." Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him in prayer each Thursday evening, for one hour, to participate
and the love of Jesus' mother for her Son. It's the pure love which brought up the Savior of the World and which now points us, her children, towards Him. The way to God is through Jesus (cf Jn 14:6) and [...] lead us by the hand to her Son, where we will find eternal peace and joy. It is through the love of Jesus that we experience complete joy. "I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy
