saying “I love you” to God, the Trinity, to Jesus and to Mary. With each successive bead (or decade) the meaning shifts as we contemplate a new aspect of Jesus or Mary’s love. Before beginning the Rosary [...] you pick up your rosary beads, imagine that you’re holding Mary’s hand and taking a trip to visit Jesus. For when we pray the Rosary, that’s exactly what happens! Gary Zima, Catholic speaker, author and

the hour of death. Whoever dies in Mary immediately has Jesus. Contemplate Mary and receive my peace. Nothing else is needed to be happy.” Jesus to Maria Valtorta Notebook of 1943 - September 8, 1943 (1) [...] Lourdes (France, 1858) “Mary’s gaze purified, her silence uplifted, her smile instructed” Here is what Jesus himself told Maria Valtorta (1) about His Mother: “Mary has attracted millions of creatures to Herself

One of God (Jn 6:29). Jesus himself said: "The Holy Spirit is upon me because he has anointed me to bring the good news to the poor" (Lk 4:18). It is the same Spirit who formed Jesus in Mary, who brought [...] womb and who brought him out of the tomb alive and victorious over death. And as the Spirit raised Jesus, so he will raise all the members of his Church, because through Mary he has obtained power and j

turn to Mary than to Jesus. Her motherly figure is less intimidating than the Crucified Christ. The saints were not mistaken: they knew that Mary is one of the surest paths to Jesus, and expressed their [...] speeches, we see that John Paul II concluded almost all his speeches with a salutation to the Mother of Jesus. While he emphasized that there is only one mediator between God and men, who is Christ, he always

non-Catholic church, and now it’s hard for me to talk to the grown up Jesus directly. I feel very close to Mary, to the Holy Family with Jesus as a child, and to St. Joseph. I hope to go to Lourdes one day because [...] remember praying before a statue of St. Anthony of Padua. I really liked this saint, who holds the baby Jesus in his arms. I feel that I am Catholic. I plan on being baptized. I hope to begin this two-year process

pierced through (cf. Lk 2:35) by the torment inflicted on the Innocent One born of her flesh. Just as Jesus cried (cf. Jn 11:35), so too Mary certainly cried over the tortured body of her Son. Her self-restraint [...] suffering is merely suggested by the traditional symbol of the seven swords. As in the case of her Son Jesus, one might say that she too was led to perfection through this suffering (cf. Heb 2:10), so as to [...] becoming the mother of Christ in his members. In that hour, through the figure of the beloved disciple, Jesus presents each of his disciples to his Mother when he says to her: Behold your Son (cf. Jn 19:26-27)

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."

of her child if he implores her aid with confidence and love. Let us follow Jesus, with Mary his incomparable mother: Jesus, the perfect model, the complete model, the model of all... Let us fix our gaze

and in the story of the Lord's Passion. "This child is here", says the holy old man of the Child Jesus, "as a sign of contradiction, and you yourself - he is now speaking to Mary - a sword will pierce [...] it was only by piercing your soul that it was able to penetrate the flesh of your Son. After your Jesus gave up his spirit, the cruel spear that cut open his side obviously couldn't reach his soul; but

important to remember that Mary offered Jesus a virginal and immaculate space where his glorious body could grow without encountering any obstacle. In Mary, Jesus finds his glorious Body. He can place in