authority, she naturally told Jesus what to do, on the countless opportunities that presented themselves in family life, as any mother would do with her child. And Jesus humbly accepted what she said: [...] and the example of the Christian home in Nazareth The Holy Family refers to the family formed by Jesus of Nazareth and his parents, Mary and Joseph and is always given as a model to Catholic families.
My Mother, reign over my soul ... make Jesus reign within me! ... I put in your blessed hands all the deeds of my life to be presented to my King and Lord Jesus'' (March 4, 1930). ''O Mary, oh my sweet [...] with more and more love. May my life be only a loving yes... May I be only a soul consecrated to Jesus." (March 7, 1930). Going further, Marthe also said: ''My whole life project consists in staying united
Resurrection of Jesus, which took place on a Sunday, and with the unshakeable faith of the Virgin on the previous day. (...) Others have argued that since Sunday is dedicated to Jesus, it seemed logical [...] between Saturday and devotion to Our Lady, whose role has always been to draw the faithful to her Son Jesus. Saturday is a "day of preparation", and Mary is the one who prepares us to harvest the fruit of our
tasks to other people?" Instead, with the humble eyes of faith, hope and love, we are able to say: "Jesus, I accept your plan for me; I trust you now and I want to learn from Mary with all my heart. She will [...] me. I will let her instruct me without setting conditions, even if I don't understand everything. Jesus and Mary, I won't wait to act. I will listen to what my heart tells me and act. The lesson I learned [...] learned here is to practice Christian charity by reaching out to loved ones who can use my help. Jesus and Mary, I accept to learn from you and therefore I will immediately set to work. With Mary I will learn
to focus on Jesus and get to know him than prayerfully reflecting on His life and passion in the mysteries of the rosary. You can even dive deeper into praying with these moments of Jesus’ life by trying [...] “powerful” form of prayer. I was very wrong. As I have been revisiting the rosary myself, Mary and Jesus have been hitting me over the head with “grace-bombs” lately, and it has been incredible. Nick Longo
Christian scriptures, her role is much more limited. For Muslims, she is nothing more than the Mother of Jesus the Prophet. The Coran does not say anything about why God raised this creature above all others. [...] unveil the mystery of Mary and that through the fully-known Virgin, they would discover the truth of Jesus Christ. For Father Abdeljalil, despite her ambivalent features, the Mary of the Coran "constitutes [...] recitation of this mystery to the conversion of Muslims? In other words, just as Mary once brought Jesus physically to her cousin Elizabeth, so today we can bring him mystically to Muslims. Annie Laurent
This gift of the Holy Spirit was intended for them first and, through them, for the whole Church. Jesus prayed for this mission of the Holy Spirit: " I will pray to the Father and he will give you a Helper [...] Helper " (Jn 14: 16-17). He promised his Apostles to send the Holy Spirit to them. By his sacrifice, Jesus earned this gift for us, whose purpose is to perfect the establishment of the Church and of our spiritual [...] union. In Mary, it is through Him that the Incarnation was accomplished. Our Creed teaches us that Jesus "was conceived of the Holy Spirit". In us, the Holy Spirit is like the soul of our soul, the principle
right hand of Jesus; she seemed to say to me with a smile: 'You do not take into account the gift you received the day you took the veil.' This gift was the purity of the Virgin that Jesus had given me [...] words flow from my Heart, when I recite poems for the King’ (Ps 45,2); the word coming from her is Jesus, to whom she gave birth, for us. And the Virgin was addressing these words to the King, that is to
of Eternal Wisdom and The Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin . We went twice to the Jesus the Messiah conference in Paris (France), where Catholic missionaries and converts from Islam meet [...] coming out of the Albigensian whom St Dominic had exorcised by means of the Rosary: "This Mother of Jesus Christ is all-powerful to prevent her servants from falling into hell (...) We are obliged to confess [...] of those who persevere in her service are damned with us." I was first moved by the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Then my love for the Blessed Virgin Mary began to grow, after I started wearing the Miraculous
heart opening up to Mary and Jesus, which I didn’t believe could happen. After that, I confessed to a priest for the first time and unpacked my “load” of sins. In Mary’s and Jesus’ light we see everything
