the Roman Rite: "Send forth flowers as the Lily, and yield a fragrance, and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in His works." […] Viewed thus spiritually, the burgeoning
divine nature and divine life, through divine energies. Mary was the first to achieve this through grace. Then, considering the mystery of the Church as a communion of deification, St Gregory Palamas explained
those young men. Later, what the saint feared would happen did happen—all those novices lost the grace of their vocation. Saint Philip Neri used to say to penitents while hearing confession: “My child
one ever saw her angry, no one ever heard her speak ill of someone. All her words were so full of grace that one recognized God on her lips. She spent her time praying and meditating on the Law. She was
pondered and kept in her heart, no tongue has been able to tell, nor pen translate. May this Mother of Grace form my heart, so that her little child be a living and striking image of her first-born, the Son
the Roman Rite: "Send forth flowers as the Lily, and yield a fragrance, and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in His works." [...] Viewed thus spiritually, the
e, their prayers and petitions, and the announcements from God concerning your birth, and by his grace your unexpected and wonderful birth. And may your thoughts not remain on this Jewish people and your [...] only shows the inner richness of her virtues but also the unutterable abundance and beauty of those graces from the Spirit, which are deeper than thought.
few quotes from Scriptures, Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that the angels were created in a state of grace, but without yet seeing God. From the moment of their creation, the angels became aware of their own [...] supernatural order, especially their dependence on the future Incarnate Word and His Mother, full of grace yet a simple human. For their pure spirit, this certainly constituted a test, for it was tantamount
Eucharist form the Body of Christ and contribute to the deification of the faithful who collaborate with grace. In this way, the saints not only share in God's life, but also communicate Him to others. We can [...] made the earth a heaven and she made our race divine". (3) As in a cascade of light or a chain of grace, she is the "administrator" of God's riches because "Through her alone Christ dwelt among us and was
up of sinners, the Bride of Christ is only holy through the very holiness of God, and through the grace of God who calls her members, unceasingly and ever more, to conversion. Mary delivers us from a c [...] on, France Excerpt from his homily given on December 8, 2022 at the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Grace in Cotignac. Source: www.france-catholique.fr (Translated)
