hagiographer, musician and illuminist (d. 872) The two servants of Mary (I) One night in the year 1215, St Dominic was watching and praying in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and the Lord Jesus appeared [...] send him to the world. He will announce your word to men and they will convert and seek you. I have another servant, I will send him as a helper, and he will do the same work.” The Son of God said to his [...] spears he was about to hurl at the world. Blessed Mary, his mother, having prostrated herself on her knees, begged him to forgive those whom he had redeemed, and to temper his justice by his mercy. Her Son said
Catherine of Siena, great mystic and doctor of the Church Go pray to Mary! She is your Mother, she will help you! In Italy, an exorcist priest told me that one day, a troubled and desperate young man came to [...] pray to Mary in front of the statue and look her in the eyes! She is your Mother, she will help you!" The young man went to kneel before the statue, pouring out his misery, his eyes locked into Mary’s eyes [...] had engaged in occult practices, not to mention drugs, alcohol and other harmful things! The priest was busy with another difficult case and could not interrupt his work, but seeing the young man’s suffering
Lejeune answered the question "Do you love Mary?" in an interview given to the parish newspaper "Le Sourire de Marie" (Mary’s Smile): Professor Lejeune: "Mary is the wonder of wonders. Biology teaches us [...] patients and their parents from all over the world in his medical practice in Paris. Lejeune left a mark in history by tirelessly defending the dignity and life of his patients against eugenic laws and by having [...] September 30 – Saint John Paul II commissioned a Basilica and gave a gold rose (Knock, Ireland, 1979) "Mary is the wonder of wonders" A great scientist of the 20th century, a pioneer of modern genetics
Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Raphael - Archangels - Feast Day Mary Gives Us the Courage to Go On We may well ask how the Blessed Virgin helps us. She certainly prays for us, and in my own case I have [...] did happen. What did she do? She remained faithful and believing, and although it is not emphasized in the gospel, she surely had the most incredible and rewarding experience that any human being in great [...] The Passion of the Christ, Mary is portrayed as the one who goes on in the worst of circumstances; it is a most powerful image. Many Protestants are more interested in Mary than they have been for centuries
July 6 - Tears and Messages to Sister Agnes Sasagawa (Akita, Japan, recognized by Bishop Shojiro Ito in 1984) Fight Against Death With a Hail Mary (I) In the year 1958, we lived in a poor working suburb [...] had not yet fallen to sleep. She was agitated... and suddenly the drama happened. My little girl went into convulsions. Her tiny body became stiff and unrecognizable. She no longer looked like a human [...] such a blasphemer! In fact, I belonged to a sect that prohibited us to honor Mary, forbid us to make the sign of the cross and to enter a Catholic church. However, I had spent a year as a girl in a parochial
Canonization de Saints Louis Grignion de Montfort and Catherine Labouré (1947) The Hail Mary This new hymn, the Hail Mary, is in praise of the Mother of God and is sung directly to her; nevertheless it greatly [...] is the cause of all her virtues and perfections. When we honor Our Lady we truly glorify God. God the Father is glorified because we are praising His most pure Mother, and God the Holy Spirit is glorified
healing and inner enlightenment. Seraphim is the most famous Russian saint in the world, and his strong spirituality, both traditional and modern, makes him a privileged bridge between East and West. At [...] (Mount Athos, Greece) - St Basil and St Gregory of Nazianzus - St Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833) "I never hammered a nail without the permission of the Blessed Virgin Mary" Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833) [...] light in the Russia of his time. Jesus said to him: "Acquire inner peace and thousands of souls will find salvation with you", and that's what happened! A hermit for some ten years, he led the life of an
Many will come and be converted For 54 years, between 1664 and 1718, the Virgin Mary appeared to a shepherdess named Benedicta Rencurel near the locality of Le Laus in the French Alps. Mary said to her [...] place of conversion for numerous sinners.” Through Benedicta’s intercession, the Virgin Mary grants many graces and physical healings at Le Laus, especially when the oil of the sanctuary lamp is used to [...] messenger: "I asked my Son to give me Le Laus and he granted it to me. I would like a church to be built there, where many sinners will be converted." At the end of September 1664, an apparition took place
“As man is soul and body, Christ is God and Man” In a few sermons for the feast of the Nativity, St. Augustine highlights the fact that God willed that Mary would remain a virgin through and after childbirth: [...] Word withdrew and was destroyed on being clothed with flesh, but rather that flesh, to avoid destruction, drew near to the Word, so that, as man is soul and body, Christ might be God and Man. (Sermon 186) [...] existed before she was created; and, because He was omnipotent, He was able to become man while remaining what He was. He created His own Mother when He was with the Father; and when He was born of that Mother
October 30, 2019, and Pope Francis blessed the two images of Our Lady of Lujan. The original statue of this Name of the Virgin Mary, Patroness of Argentina, will return to Argentina and a copy, made by [...] troops left the image in the church of Port Stanley, and the English took it to the UK and placed it in the Catholic Military Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint George in Aldershot. Since then, the figure [...] Our Lady of Bessières (France) Our Lady of Lujan: A link between Argentina and the UK The Bishops of the Armed Forces of the UK and Argentina exchanged the statue of Our Lady of Lujan, which was taken to
