"Eden" means virgin land. A virgin drove us out of paradise; thanks to another virgin we have found eternal life. As he was born from the inviolate womb of the Virgin, so he rose from a closed tomb. Just as
the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother
to listen. It is her state, her path, her life. Her life is filled with a silence that adores the eternal Word. While seeing before her eyes, in her womb, in her arms, This same Word, the substantial Word
hope in God, knowing that he Is a forgiving master, kind, merciful and fatherly. Yet, seated on his eternal throne, he is also my judge, And, when I think of my life, I seem to tremble At my uncleanliness
heart, so that her little child be a living and striking image of her first-born, the Son of the Eternal, the One who was the perfect praise of the glory of his Father.
himself; infinite in his substance and attributes, united in essence and in the trinity of Persons, eternally equal yet distinct. I first beheld him in a vast desert void of all the creatures of whom he had
heart, so that her little child be a living and striking image of her first-born, the Son of the Eternal, the One who was the perfect praise of the glory of his Father.
supernatural destiny beyond what they could have imagined: to contemplate God face to face in an eternal and jubilant ecstasy of love (Rev 5:11). Together with theologians like Saints Augustine and Gregory [...] whereby they were given an opportunity to cooperate freely with God in attaining their destiny of eternal happiness. Some mystics have maintained that at that moment of choice, the angels were strengthened
plays now that she dwells in glory. How could Mary's body, which not only received into itself the eternal Son of God but also gave birth to him, not be raised to heaven? She, from whom the sun came forth [...] divine mysteries, no vision of spiritual gifts can be given." (4) For Gregory Palamas, it is an eternal law in heaven that the inferior ones, through the greater ones, become partakers of Him who sits
the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to desire for eternal things. 5)The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish [...] justice, he shall not perish; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. 7)Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of
