knees and praying the rosary. Let us ask Mary, with simplicity, to teach us how to pray as she taught Jesus, during all the time he was with her in Nazareth." "Joy is our strength: let us imitate the Virgin [...] Virgin Mary, she who knew how to look at people with clear and limpid eyes like those of her Son Jesus; she who knew how to meet people as her Son met them, not to possess them but to give them the true and [...] beloved Mother, give me a heart so beautiful, so pure, so full of love and humility, that I may receive Jesus, as you do, and with eagerness go out to bring Him to others." Translated from https://toulouse.catholique
and Joseph’s first great trial was during the time of Advent During the period before the birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph had to undergo a very painful trial. This was the first of the great trials that [...] between Mary and Joseph, in the early days of their common life in their home, even before the birth of Jesus, was a major test for their mutual love, but also for their faith, just as it had been for Abraham [...] the price of this test for the holy spouses, reported in the Scripture, that the virgin birth of Jesus is highlighted without any ambiguity. The Marie de Nazareth Team
.. After coming back from Lourdes, I experienced a lot of suffering. It felt like the three days Jesus spent in his grave. In our chapel, before the Blessed Sacrament, I felt the same sensation of peace [...] had had at Lourdes during the Eucharistic procession for the sick. I had the strong impression that Jesus was walking in our midst and was bearing all our suffering. In this chapel, I experienced a sort of [...] morphine for years ... In an act of faith I took all the apparatus off. I thought about the Gospel where Jesus said to the paralytic: "Get up, take up your pallet and walk!" And to my great surprise when I took
each month, to share the mortal sadness that Jesus had experienced when he was abandoned by his Apostles in his Agony. Since the revelation of the Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary, the Church has established [...] several times in the convent. The most famous of these apparitions occurred in June 1675. On that day, Jesus showed her his Sacred Heart, saying: “Behold this Heart, which has so loved men that It has spared
the Lord, the Virgin Mary returned daily to the places where the Passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus had taken place, instituting the first Stations of the Cross. The Church has preserved this devotional [...] violently opposed. 2. The massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem and the flight to Egypt. 3. The loss of Jesus in the Temple at age twelve. 4. Mary seeing her Son carrying the cross. 5. Mary standing at the foot [...] foot of the cross. 6. Mary receiving the lifeless body of her Son. 7. Mary mourning at the tomb of Jesus. The stations of the Via Matris reconstitute the path of suffering and faith that the Virgin followed
right-hand side of Jesus; I thought I could hear her say to me while smiling: "You do not take account of the gift that you received the day when you took the veil." This gift from Jesus was the Blessed Virgin's [...] stirred by a noble theme; I address my poem to the King" (Ps 45:1). The word coming from her mouth was Jesus, to whom she gave birth in this world for us. And the Virgin was speaking to the King, i.e. to our
that my eyes could not remain fixed on Jesus alone, and were forced to look at His mother as well. Suddenly the child awoke in my arms, his clothes had come loose. Jesus opened His eyes and looked at me. His [...] trembling with respect. Suddenly I hesitated; I was afraid to go any closer. She reassured me and held Jesus out to me. She said, "You love my Son, so take the One that you love." She placed Him in my arms.
would sing with manly voices the "Salve Regina," entrusting their unknown future to the Mother of Jesus. Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae! Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve! As I would climb the steep [...] the CANA (2) retreat sessions for married couples, Mary still discreetly intervenes today so that Jesus can renew His miracle and change the water of conjugal love into the wine of a new marriage. On November [...] celebrating Mass in the tiny chapel of the Storta (birthplace of the foundation of the Society of Jesus), I strongly felt that Mary, Mother of the Church, is still with us, leading us to her Son, and that
his bag representing Our Lady of Altagracia! The image shows the Virgin in prayer before the Baby Jesus, with Saint Joseph behind her. Nina’s father excitedly offered to buy it from the man, but the latter [...] event. Saint John Paul II visited the shrine in 1992. The image of Our Lady of Altagracia depicts Jesus’ birth in the manger of Bethlehem. It highlights Our Lady’s maternity. At the center of the painting [...] together. On her chest we notice a white triangular-shaped light, denoting the virginal birth of Jesus. Her head is covered with a dark blue veil that falls to her shoulders, and she wears a crown of pearls
(Belgium, 1933) - Week for Christian Unity (January 18-25) The Virgin Mary waited with perseverance Jesus encourages us to remain faithful to him until the end. Let us wait for Him with perseverance. He will [...] St. John, the forerunner, and the Virgin Mary, because they are the two pillars of the portal that Jesus passed through to enter human history. Neither of them was waiting for something, but for someone [...] and “a sword pierce his mother's heart”? Yet the Virgin Mary waited with perseverance; she welcomed Jesus into her, and gave to humanity (to each of us) someone "gentle and humble of heart", who would "not
