have been married for 42 years and Mary consoles us, gives us support and always leads us to Jesus. "All to Jesus through Mary," as Saint Louis de Montfort said. As a teenager, I distanced myself from the [...] the Catholic Church. One day, I hitchhiked to California with a friend to get to know the "Jesus freaks" we’d seen on TV. The US police escorted us back to Quebec! I had asked God: "If You exist, reveal
adulthood, after a period when I somewhat deserted the life of faith and prayer, I was totally seized by Jesus Christ, His radiance which seemed to me the answer to all my questions and more broadly, the key to [...] given its proper place and situated in the mystery of the Church, it helps us to grow in trust of Jesus the Savior and do "whatever He tells us." Today, my trust in the Virgin Mary is less based on feelings [...] the Rosary, that prayer of the humble, which simplifies and helps to contemplate the mysteries of Jesus. I give thanks for the mystery of the Virgin Mary, who reveals the greatness of humanity when it is
star when I was adrift, the light that led me back to Christ. Of course, Jesus is the Light of the world, Mary is just a star. Jesus calms storms; Stella Maris just guides us through them. But in moments [...] wallowed in self-pity all through Mass. As I knelt in the pew after communion, a sob escaped my lips. “Jesus,” I prayed, “I’m wandering! I’m just wandering!” Then I heard the words the congregation was singing
that the Second Vatican Council dedicated the 8th chapter of Lumen Gentium to Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Her place is at the heart of the Church, and it is a unique place. She is her Mother." The Pastoral [...] Ephesus in 431, Mary is Theotokos , that is to say the Mother of God. "Therefore the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is but one person, and He has two natures since He is also truly her Son born of her substance [...] substance." (Father M.J. Lagrange O.P.) Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church, wrote that the body of Jesus is united to the Church, thus forming the total Christ, head and body. This is what we proclaim with
2002 to enroll in a School of Evangelization in Paray-le-Monial, the city of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I was very touched by Van’s witness of life and vocation, but also by his Vietnamese outlook which [...] love will spread throughout the world. I will use her to extend the reign of my love everywhere" (Jesus to Van, col 75-76). Fr. Pierre Nguyen Bulletin des Amis de Van, n°84, April 2023 Marcel Van (1928-1959) [...] after the country's independence. During his life, he had conversations with St. Therese of Lisieux, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. His "colloquies" were published in the edition of his complete works. His cause
the hour of our death, as she did for her Son Jesus, "the firstborn of many brothers" (Rom 8:29). Is not the Passion of the Son of God on Calvary what Jesus in John's Gospel accurately called "the hour" [...] hour", the hour of his death, "his hour"? The hour of Jesus' Passion is also the hour of the Virgin's compassion. So let us pray for our own hour, that it may also be the hour of Mary, consoler of the afflicted
prayer, especially for families, and we must remember that Jesus promised us to grant what we ask in common. Moreover, through the Rosary we remind Jesus and the Blessed Virgin of what they have done for our [...] "the all-powerful supplicant." Saint Louis de Montfort used to say: "My predestined ones, slaves of Jesus in Mary, you should know that the Hail Mary is the most beautiful of all prayers after the Our Father;
Christ. Jesus himself told us how we become his mother. It happens in two ways: by hearing the Word and by practicing it. Let us just think again of how Mary became a mother: by conceiving Jesus and giving [...] body.” Unfortunately, these two sad possibilities exist on a spiritual level too. Those who conceive Jesus without giving him birth are those who accept the Word without practicing it; those who have one spiritual
may easily be imagined, and never approaching the sacraments. Now, this prince was about to die and Jesus Christ, in his compassion, commanded St Bridget to tell his confessor to visit him, and exhort him [...] and that poor slave of hell persevered in his obstinate determination not to make his confession. Jesus again directed the saint to tell the confessor to go to him again. He obeyed, and this third time [...] he received communion, and on the sixth he died, contrite and entirely resigned. After his death, Jesus Christ further revealed to St Bridget that this sinner was saved, and was in purgatory, and that he
abstraction, and all of a sudden she saw him laid upon the ground, naked. Then Mary quickly took Jesus in her arms and wrapped him in swaddling clothes.
