front and center just how fully our Blessed Mother suffered along with Jesus, like Him on our behalf! St Alphonsus Liguori once wrote that “two hung upon one cross.” While she wasn’t crucified, of course [...] Is it any wonder that we have devotions and prayers to our Blessed Mother as Our Lady of Sorrows? St Bonaventure wrote of Mary’s sorrow at her Son’s death that “no grief was more bitter than hers, because [...] “thy own soul a sword shall pierce” (Lk 2:35). Her wounds would be figurative but just as painful! St Bernard once noted that “Love inflicted on the heart of Mary the same tortures caused by the nails

House of Loreto after praying the Angelus on September 9, 2018, with some 15,000 pilgrims gather in St Peter’s Square. “The Nativity of Mary was celebrated yesterday at Loreto, in the Pontifical Shrine

in imitation of Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary. He recommended to his brothers to keep the Church of St Mary of the Angels, known as "the Porziuncola," as the Mother House of the Order. Every day, the friars

In addition to the March 19th feast, the Church also honors the saintly patron of workers on May 1st. And the faithful venerate him during the whole month of March. Notre Dame des Neiges

it spring forth from the bosom of God. Blessed Father Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus Notes, March 1st, 1964 In the Notebook of the Notre Dame de Vie Institute ‘Je veux demander pour vous l’Esprit Saint

son entering Heaven with power and dominion, and ascending to the throne of God the Father Almighty? St. Eadmer of Canterbury (Liber de excellentia Virginis Mariae, 6, PL 159, 568 C- 569 A)

origin: it was brought by angels, and gifted to King Ferdinand III of Castile by King Louis IX of France (St. Louis, cousin of the Castilian king). Historians also report that this statue accompanied the Spanish

say with certainty that no one has fully penetrated the mystery of Christ except for the Virgin Mary. St. Paul often speaks of the "understanding" that was given to him, and yet, how shadowy all the saints

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. The statue was enthroned in Piat, in a small shrine, on the feast day of St. Stephen, December 26, 1623. Incredibly, despite the fact that the region was not very populated and

Rosary every day" When he was still a bishop, Pope Francis joined a group that prayed the Rosary with St. John Paul II: "I prayed with the faithful. We all belonged to God. Our representative leader was guiding