heart of God that Jesus had described to her one day after Communion: "He wanted it to be dedicated to Saint Joseph. This saint would guard one of its doors, Our Lady the other, and Jesus himself would stand [...] complicated, mixed-up, hostile and dangerous world. The other is the mysterious door through which Jesus enters the world, Mary’s door, which opens onto Heaven. Father André Doze Joseph Ombre du Père ("Joseph:
Mary were spoken at the wedding of Cana. "As the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what do you want from me? My time has not yet come.’ The [...] Gospel and persecute the Church, and because the Church lacks saints, the Virgin Mary intercedes with Jesus, and, although his hour has not come yet, he will do miracles to answer the prayer of his Mother.
where Mary had carried Jesus in her arms, after having carried Him in her virginal womb. I saw the small room of the Annunciation and I placed my rosary in the bowl of the Child Jesus. What delightful memories [...] memories I have! But our biggest consolation was to receive Jesus in His house and thus to be made His living temple, in the very place He actually honored with His divine presence. (...) In Loreto, the
compare what is not comparable, it seems to me that I find and adore a greater power in the birth of Jesus than in his suffering; in the manger than in the Cross; in Nazareth than at Calvary. For the power [...] no Mother of God either on Earth or in Heaven. Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629) Greatness of Jesus, Discourse XI
March 13 - Our Lady of the Rose (Italy, 1655) Joseph, the Faithful Cooperator This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she [...] has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins' (Matthew 1: 18-21).
memorial of the death and Resurrection of Jesus. We should live the Eucharist with the same attitude that Mary had at the foot of the Cross. On Calvary, Jesus actually asked each one of us to "Behold [our]
Gospel of Saint Peter and the Book of James, some people consider the "brothers and the sisters" of Jesus Joseph's children, born out of a first wedlock he may have had prior to marrying the Blessed Virgin [...] and the shadow of the power of the Most High. I believe that the palm of virginity must belong to Jesus among men and to Mary among women. How could we, without impiousness, allot to another woman the palm
lost sheep (...) I do not believe that I can do them any greater good than that of bringing them Jesus, the Good of all goods, as Mary did in John's house at the Visitation (...). At the same time, while [...] especially by universal charity, what our religion is, what the Christian spirit is, what the Heart of Jesus is." Charles de Foucauld Excerpt from a letter to Father Jérôme , Notre-Dame des Neiges, July 17,
have you for my Mother, and you have no Blessed Virgin to love… It is true, you are the Mother of Jesus, but you have given Him to me; and He, from the Cross, has given you to be our Mother – thus we are [...] of God; and I – poor little creature – am not your handmaid but your child! You are the Mother of Jesus, and you are also mine !” Saint Therese of Lisieux Excerpt from her letter to her sister Céline dated
Gospel of Saint Peter and the Book of James, some people consider the "brothers and the sisters" of Jesus Joseph's children, born out of a first wedlock he may have had prior to marrying the Blessed Virgin [...] and the shadow of the power of the Most High. I believe that the palm of virginity must belong to Jesus among men and to Mary among women. How could we, without impiousness, allot to another woman the palm
