unique way without imposing herself. She comes to serve us so that we can better discover her Son, Jesus. Whether you know her well or very little, I invite you to simply open the door of your heart to her [...] come." The Lord wants us to enter into an intimate and strong relationship with the Virgin Mary. Jesus so wanted us to love her that He gave her to us as our Mother. Mary is a precious gift for all of [...] real person and wonderful to have around. She is such sweet company. Mary draws us in the wake of Jesus—in the breath of the Holy Spirit—so that we may become more and more like the children of the Father
that Children ask their Mother An enthusiastic prayer to the Blessed Virgin is never pushed away: Jesus makes a point of showing us today, as in Cana, that He loves his Mother, always answers her prayers [...] mother; so let us ask the Blessed Virgin. It is not possible for us to be true brothers and sisters of Jesus, to imitate him and resemble him, if we are not true children of the Blessed Virgin.
that Children ask their Mother An enthusiastic prayer to the Blessed Virgin is never pushed away: Jesus makes a point of showing us today, as in Cana, that He loves his Mother, always answers her prayers [...] mother; so let us ask the Blessed Virgin. It is not possible for us to be true brothers and sisters of Jesus, to imitate him and resemble him, if we are not true children of the Blessed Virgin.
person to whom the risen Jesus appeared. Could not Mary’s absence from the group of women who went to the tomb at dawn (cf. Mk 16:1; Mt 28:1) indicate that she had already met Jesus? This inference would [...] would also be confirmed by the fact that the first witnesses of the Resurrection, by Jesus’ will, were the women who had remained faithful at the foot of the Cross and therefore were more steadfast in faith [...] to be passed on to the Apostles (cf. Jn 20:17-18). Perhaps this fact too allows us to think that Jesus showed himself first to His mother, who had been the most faithful and had kept her faith intact when
therefore also through Mary, Mother of Jesus, her firstborn son, that this birth and this introduction into the Kingdom of God takes place. To all the brothers of Jesus, which we become by receiving him if [...] children may be definitively established in the likeness of the Son of God. But the Kingdom of which Jesus spoke will only come when its King is enthroned on earth by his victory over "the prince of this world" [...] situations, God can free us if we allow him, because God does not force anyone, as we have learned from Jesus. If we accept, even though we are wounded and altered, nothing is lost. The important thing is to
person to consecrate herself to Jesus Christ, the first to offer her whole heart to do His will, to serve his beautiful plan of redemption. Mary carried the Child Jesus in her blessed womb, beneath her [...] pierced. She goes with us now, as she always has and always will, the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of the Church. As Jesus entrusted himself to Mary, we need to entrust ourselves to her and look to her [...] doing in this pandemic as a great example of the "new evangelization" that he called for, bringing Jesus Christ to the people of our time with a new sense of urgency and apostolic conviction. Saint John
your noble heart forever, Saint Joseph, for all the love that it held and will hold eternally for Jesus and Mary, for all the care that it provided for the needs of the Son and the Mother and for all the [...] of ungrateful people! Great Saint Joseph, we offer our hearts to you; bind them to yours, and to Jesus' and Mary's. Beg them to make this union inviolable and eternal.
means "being with" in an active, operative form. Mary was present with Jesus and she is present with the Church, because where Jesus is present and born, Mary is there. She is therefore especially present [...] the Vatican II Council linked Mary's cooperation in the Redemption to her indissoluble union with Jesus. From Christ’s and Mary’s indissoluble union decreed by God the Father flows the doctrine of Mary's
recommends that we meditate on the fact that Jesus appeared to the Virgin Mary. Even though Scripture does not mention it, it is implied, when it is written that Jesus appeared to many others. Saint Teresa of [...] of Avila had a private revelation: “Jesus told me that having resurrected; he went to see Our Lady, because she was in great need. Her sorrow kept her absorbed and pierced, and she had not yet turned into
“no” to. She said “no” to the temptation to oppose God's decision. She saw the cross waiting for Jesus. She could have begged God to change the course of events, but instead she accepted them. She said [...] to the feeling of repulsion she probably felt about becoming the mother of us all. From the cross, Jesus entrusted to her his faithful disciples, that is to say, all of us. She said “no” - and continues [...] smallest negligence in her love or prayer for us. Mary did not resent the disciples who abandoned Jesus on the cross. After the Ascension, she devoted her time to praying for us. She lives in the kingdom
