the more the Holy Spirit will give you the love of prayer; and the more you will appreciate the graces that prayer brings." Father Jean-Edouard LAMY (1853 - 1931) Excerpts from his homily given on October
in order to illuminate her; and the angel has found her in order to greet her thus: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!" Here she is, the strong woman, the one in whom temperance replaced curiosity
throughout Belgium and around the world. We should top off this time of prayer, of thanksgiving for the graces received, with the offering of ourselves to Jesus through Mary, and asking for divine help in these
apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph that occurred in 1519 under the title of Our Lady of Graces. Adapted from Aleteia
the Virgin Mary... Her whole life, her daily activities on the farm, became permeated with Marian grace." Faure also quotes Marthe speaking about the Blessed Virgin: "I really like to leave everything in
Mary. Of course, we wish to enter the wonderful atmosphere of Advent and fully taste the special grace of this liturgical period. And we are invited to follow the path that leads to the Heart of the Mother
Mary with the words that the Archangel Gabriel pronounced at the Annunciation: " Hail Mary, full of grace," with Elizabeth’s blessing: "You are blessed among all women." The second part, "Holy Mary, Mother
himself entirely changed. He immediately arose, called for a confessor, and weeping bitterly, through grace received from the Virgin, made a sincere confession; and he afterwards said that he felt greater
The bishop is very open about it: his own spiritual life is permeated by a love of Mary, "a special grace that helped him in his ministry." This solemn Marian consecration took place on Sunday, May 13, 2018
heresy (of the Reformation) has left this city (in 1599), the blessings of heaven and the miraculous graces of past times have returned.” It should be noted that less than a hundred years after the devastating
