chaplain of the Padua prison, particularly about the prayers of the Hail Mary and the Magnificat . "When God entered the world through Mary, he came patiently." And developing this idea, he said, "When I see [...] 'maternity' of the Church that comes from the 'motherhood' of Mary, the 'tenderness' of the Church that comes from the tenderness of Mary," he concluded. Zenit [...] 1879) – Death of Catholic writer Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955) God entered the world patiently, through Mary In a television appearance aired on December 17, 2018, in Italy, the pope talked with Fr. Marco Pozza
reach the haven of all happiness. Fr. Guillaume de Menthière Excerpt from the book Je vous salue Marie (Hail Mary) , Paris 2000 [...] the Church calls Mary “the Gate of Heaven” In her great wisdom, the Church, who is an expert in humanity, offers words that give great hope to the faithful for the crucial hour ("Holy Mary, Mother of God [...] God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death"). But praying Mary in this way does not constitute a nostalgic regression towards a childish state. On the contrary, it is a projection towards a future
July 7 – Pius XII consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Before Mary, we are family As a young seminarian on a summer internship at the Shrine of Lourdes, I helped with the preparation of the [...] August, there were a great number of pilgrims from many countries. We had the idea of providing the Hail Mary in all the languages spoken by the pilgrims. I was in charge of collecting as many versions as possible [...] minutes before she finally gave me back my sheets of paper, filled with something other than the Hail Mary in Italian, I knew that. What had she written? I found out later, when an Italian priest translated
love for Mary was readily passed on to me and my brother and sister (who was named for Mary) as our mother taught us the Hail Mary—the simplest of prayers, made up of two salutations to Mary: the first [...] the familiarity she observes in most cradle Catholics towards Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She notices, for instance, how easily Hail Mary’s trip off our tongues, and how we, who have been brought up Catholic [...] devotion to Mary survived into our adult lives, and my sister Mary and I prayed the Rosary each night at the presbytery we shared at St Cecilia’s Parish for over 13 years. During the last months of Mary’s life
there was and is the fullness of grace and every good. Hail his Palace! Hail his Tabernacle! Hail his Home! Hail his Robe! Hail his Servant! Hail his Mother! Amen [...] October 4 - Saint Francis of Assisi A Greeting to the Virgin Mary Hail, O Lady, Mary, holy Mother of God: you are the Virgin made Church and the one chosen by the most holy Father in heaven whom he consecrated
healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary." Pope Benedict XVI Address made on May 3, 2008 Vatican.va [...] October 8 – Mary Mother of Hungary The Rosary contains within itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus When reciting the Rosary, the important and meaningful moments of salvation history [...] history are re-lived. The various steps of Christ's mission are traced. With Mary the heart is oriented towards the mystery of Jesus. Christ is put at the center of our life, of our time, of our city, through
unceasingly call out to her, "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her millions and millions of times each day with the angelic greeting: "Hail Mary", while prostrating themselves before her [...] 1875)May 9 - Feast of Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (II)Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (III) Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heaven and [...] praises and make known her compassion! There is not a child who does not praise her by stuttering a Hail Mary. There is scarcely a sinner, however hardened, who does not possess some spark of confidence in
of Eternity... this is the eternal origin of He who took flesh in Mary, a fact that we keep evoking each time that we say the Hail Mary ... (1) The Masoretes (Hebrew ba'alei hamassora , "masters of tradition") [...] February 2 – Presentation of Jesus in the Temple The Divine Word took flesh in the Virgin Mary When the time of the Purification came, Jesus was brought to the Temple. ... A prophetess, Anna, daughter
to her every day. We ask her through the Hail Mary to protect us at all times and to take us under her large, starry blue mantle. Gabriel (husband): Holy Mary, model of mothers, watch over us tenderly [...] undo all the knots that hinder my bond of peace with God. Clément (18): Mary is for me the one we pray to every day. Each Hail Mary said in the evening with the family or alone is an opportunity to pray [...] to listen to because she is a mother who listens to us all. Colombe (13): When I say Hail Marys, I remember what Mary did, and I realize that she was very important for the salvation of the world and C
sword, said Klimek. He said that praying the Rosary is also an act of intimacy with the Virgin Mary; each Hail Mary prayed is like presenting her with a rose as a sign of our love for her. Adapted from an article [...] June 22 - Proclamation of the dogma of Mary Mother of God in Ephesus (431) A spiritual weapon and a rose given to Mary Brother Daniel Klimek, a Franciscan tertiary, during a lecture in Steubenville, Ohio [...] gift that offers both effective spiritual protection against evil and a means of honoring the Virgin Mary by presenting her with spiritual roses. “Wars and bloody crimes have been stopped through the spiritual