People are sometimes troubled by the silence of St Mark's Gospel and the New Testament Epistles about Jesus' virginal conception. Some might wonder if we were merely dealing with legends or theological constructs [...] constructs not claiming to be history. To this we must respond: Faith in the virginal conception of Jesus met with the lively opposition, mockery or incomprehension of non-believers, Jews and pagans alike;
specifically human personality, at least in appearance, for « a man is always a child for his mother. » Jesus, whilst being God, did not wish to escape this law. He wanted to owe his weakness and his fragility [...] enrichment and strength. The deeply human facts that he learned from Mary rooted him in his faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the Incarnation eventually became for him, through Mary, a totally positive
to a son, and His name is Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). "Immanuel" means "God with us." For indeed this Jesus whom Mary is expecting is Himself a great mystery: God who has taken our flesh. This event is decisive [...] for it represents man’s response to God's plan. God wanted His plan of salvation, the coming of Jesus, to depend on the answer of a young girl, the Virgin Mary: "Fiat mihi ... Let it be done to me according [...] Angel. Having opened the way of her heart, Mary also opened the way of her body: she first conceived Jesus in her soul by faith, before conceiving Him in her womb according to the flesh. God wanted salvation
in the Passover of Jesus Christ. What passage in the Gospels equates the Virgin with the new people of God? The answer is found in the account of the Announcement of the birth of Jesus made to Mary: "Mary [...] will come upon you" - this time in reference to the apostles (Acts 1:8) - just before Pentecost. Jesus answered them (the apostles): "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Then you [...] the Church at the hour of the Crucifixion is found in the Gospel according to John. Before dying, Jesus delivers the Spirit to the believers ("...bowing his head, he gave up the Spirit" Jn 19:30), entrusts
God for our spiritual growth. In the story of the blind man (Jn 9:1-12), Jesus answers a question from his disciples: "As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth. His disciples asked him [...] his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'It was not that he or his parents sinned; but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.'" Jesus therefore explained that the blindness
the flight into Egypt, the loss of the Child Jesus before finding him in the temple, meeting Jesus on the way to Calvary, His crucifixion and death, Jesus’ body being taken down from the cross, and His [...] sorrow, no sadness, no difficulty in the world that is too big for our Blessed Mother to take to Jesus and ask Him to solve. So, why not take whatever is piercing your heart today, and turn it over to
the one who best learned Jesus’ ways. Mary never said: “Come, I will take care of things.” Instead she said: “Do whatever He will tell you;” always pointing her finger at Jesus. This behavior was typical [...] incomparable splendor, formed and smoothed by patient acceptance of God’s will through the mysteries of Jesus meditated in prayer. How beautiful it would be if we too could be a bit like our Mother! With a heart
that she was “nailed on” the table. Then, I remembered the crucifix and I thought: “nailed like Jesus on the Cross,”… 3:15 AM - The doctor told me that it was time to prepare a cloth in which to wrap [...] I started following the Way of the Cross in my mind, (I remembered that from my catechism). I saw Jesus whipped, struck and then fall on the rocky path. I was so concentrated in my thoughts that I thought [...] our behalf with the force of her tears. Then, for a moment I forgot my own suffering and said to Jesus, “Lord, have mercy on Your mother.”
rosary The great secret of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort on how to attract souls and give them to Jesus is Marian devotion. He founded everything he did on her, he leaned on her, and he could not find a [...] Church tradition as well as Christian and Catholic common sense—primarily tends towards union with Jesus, under the guidance of His Mother… And that is why, dear sons and daughters, we fervently wish that [...] as much as possible the virtues of the Virgin of Virgins, and the vehement ardor of his love for Jesus and His Mother. Pius XII, speech to the pilgrims gathered in Rome for the beatification of St Louis
Altar of the Chair on September 29, 2019. “During the daily Mass the priest comes face to face with Jesus Christ and at that precise moment, he is identified, he identified himself with Christ, becoming not [...] cross, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary. “According to St Josemaría Escrivà, the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is the vital spring of the priest, the pillar on which his priestly existence is built,” he [...] as a mother, who “educates us to grow in faith.” “Without the Eucharist we cannot live,” he said. “Jesus reveals to us the secret of this heavenly food, that it is His very flesh that becomes nourishment
