follow the path of humility. What is important is to work on one's own heart, to be docile to the Holy Spirit, and not fall into the trap of activism. At the beginning of this year, a small book we received
the years, I learned what it meant to “ponder all these things.” It meant to hold space for the Holy Spirit at all times, to be tuned in to His quiet whispers and movements, to be aware of when He was speaking [...] knew what it meant to embrace Mary’s love. I didn’t. We faithfully attended Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation, prayed before meals, and my parents would bless my younger brother and me every [...] that often left my parents holding their heads in their hands. Still, I’d cradle the shiny, laminated holy card with the image of the Immaculate Conception and beg her, “Mary, please help me be more like you
yes in our hearts, because everything that comes to us through her will bear the stamp of the Holy Spirit. Father Jean Lévêque, Carmelite of the Province of Paris http://bibleetviemonastique.free.fr/m [...] mysterious and so incredible that Joseph did not know what to do; but it is at this moment that his holiness and spiritual wisdom came to the fore. It is then that he reacted as a just man, fully adjusted
will by her maternal intercession guide the Church in America, obtaining the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as she once did for the early Church (cf. Acts 1:14), so that the new evangelization may yield [...] of America. In the prayer composed for the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops, Holy Mary of Guadalupe is invoked as “Patroness of all America and Star of the first and new evangelization”
to protect us at all times and to take us under her large, starry blue mantle. Gabriel (husband): Holy Mary, model of mothers, watch over us tenderly! Inspire our actions, and since we are imperfect, plead [...] large mantle. I often ask her to accept me as I am, with my imperfections. Mary is the Mother we need. Holy Virgin, save us. Blanche (21): The Blessed Virgin Mary welcomes me under her maternal mantle; she [...] me, she is the star that guides my steps and my choices. She is purity itself. Mary is for me the spirit of devotion that helps me to pray. She inspires me to seek the confidence that I would like to have
renunciation of any physical relations Mary, since she conceived without him, by the action of the Holy Spirit. It is within this double renunciation that Joseph became the foster father of the Son of the Eternal
the dying boy's head, saying, "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." "Why did you do that?" I asked him, surprised. "I learned to do it in school. I am a pagan, but
of Monticino (Italy, 1776) The wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (I) By the light that the Holy Spirit will send us through Mary, his dear Spouse, we will know our evil nature, our corruption and our
Elizabeth. And she does not come alone: she brings us the Savior conceived in her womb by the Holy Spirit. Full of joy and gratitude, we cry out our surprise with her cousin Elizabeth," explained Bishop
popes issued their own statements. "The Catholic Church, instructed by the magisterium of the Holy Spirit, has always professed the highest devotion to Mary, as the most loving Mother, who was left as
