today, then, thinking of the Virgin, let us look to Mary as a model of the quintessential woman, who lives fully a gift and a task: the gift of maternity and the task of taking care of her children in the [...] seers of Fatima are put in the public jail (Portugal) Pope Francis: “Let us look to Mary as a model of the quintessential woman” Today, the day when we commemorate the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to the [...] women. Mary teaches us to generate life and to protect it always, relating with others with tenderness and compassion, and combining three languages: that of the mind, that of the heart and that of the hands
recognize her as the Mother of men." Mary must be recognized as the Mother of men, as the New Eve. Pope John Paul II stated that through veneration of the Virgin Mary, the power of Mary's "universal motherhood" [...] Saturdays of the month requested by Heaven through the three visionaries of Fatima. The number five is linked to five types of offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The third type of offense [...] humanity, and Mary brings her help for the birth of this new humanity: that of her faith, that of her suffering. Thus she becomes, at his side, the new Eve who, at the foot of the Cross, receives the mission
ns, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and the blessing of the sick, which is one of the most important moments of the pilgrims' visit to the grotto of Massabielle. The Missionaries of the Holy Eucharist [...] May 21 - Our Lady of Arras apparition (Arras, France, 1105) The flesh born of Mary is the bread that came down from heaven One cannot contemplate Mary without being attracted to Christ, and one cannot [...] the Eucharist, as the Fathers of the Church and theologians have pointed out since the first centuries. St Hilary of Poitiers affirms: "The flesh born of Mary from the Holy Spirit is the bread that came down
rubble of fallen buildings for 52 hours as a result of the devastating earthquake, which killed more than 50,000 people and injured many more with tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands [...] La Linda (Peru, 1664) Survivor of the Turkey earthquake credits the Virgin Mary for saving him Only a few hours after Bassel Habkouk, a young Lebanese Catholic and father of two, arrived for a visit in Turkey [...] the rubble fell on me, I fell to the ground, crying out from the bottom of my heart: O MARY!” “I continued to call the Virgin Mary for the next 40 seconds until the earthquake stopped,” he continued. “Then
May 18 - The Ascension of the Lord - Saint John I, pope and martyr (d. in 526 in Ravenna, Italy) Mary's joy at the Ascension of Jesus If Mary enjoyed great joy when her Son lived bodily beside her and [...] ever said or believed that her happiness at this moment was less than that of all the joys that preceded it? The good mothers of this world feel great gladness when their sons are raised to earthly honors; [...] begotten son entering Heaven with power and dominion, and ascending to the throne of God the Father Almighty? St. Eadmer of Canterbury (Liber de excellentia Virginis Mariae, 6, PL 159, 568 C- 569 A)
to the Cross, with Mary. The doctrine of Providence takes on its full significance in the general context of the teaching of Catherine of Siena, which says: By ourselves, we think of limited things. Faith [...] April 29 - Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin, Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, patroness of Europe Saint Catherine of Siena: "Have recourse to Mary, while embracing the Cross" Faith in Providence [...] the love of God (infinite), not a love of fear (which fears punishment, finite), nor a mercenary love, but the love of God for his own sake (infinite)(2). This is why we must have recourse to Mary (letter
May 7 - Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) The wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (I) By the light that the Holy Spirit will send us through Mary, his dear Spouse, we will know our evil nature, our [...] fragrant garments, that is, those of Jesus Christ, her Son. She gives us to eat the Bread of Life that she has formed. She is the treasurer and dispenser of the gifts and graces of the Most High; she gives a [...] as a result of this knowledge and we will think of ourselves with horror, looking at ourselves as a snail that poisons everything with its slime, or as a malicious snake that thinks only of deceiving. Finally
slender, with greatness of soul, in imitation of his Son, who having put on the form of a slave, being the Lord of life, subjected himself of his own free-will to the spoliation and loss of everything. Pope Leo [...] like Mary his spouse, was of royal blood and yet passed his life in labor These are the reasons why men of every rank and country should fly to the trust and guard of the blessed Joseph. Fathers of families [...] personification of paternal solicitude and vigilance; spouses a perfect example of love, of peace, and of conjugal fidelity; virgins at the same time find in him the model and protector of virginal integrity
Our Lady of Kiev (Ukraine) Mary's feminine heart, keystone of the heavenly city The redeeming love of Christ sustains the fidelity of those who have received, like the sovereign Virgin, the gift of undivided [...] Church and the Kingdom of heaven more visible. Holiness and virginity are embraced in the feminine heart of Mary, the keystone of the heavenly city. Mary's holiness, a treasure of charity towards God and [...] the essence of our faith, which is charity, a surge of love unceasingly renewed for God" (St. Josemaría, Friends of God, §186). Chastity, in the different states of life, makes the image of Christ, the
"I" in the event of the Incarnation. With her "fiat", Mary becomes the authentic subject of that union with God which was realized in the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word, who is of one substance with [...] on of the Lord The revelation of the Trinity was already given to Mary at the Annunciation On August 15, 1988, in his Apostolic Letter On the Dignity of Women and in continuity with the Fathers of the [...] asserted that the revelation of the Trinity was already given to Mary at the Annunciation. This revelation allowed Mary to attain an unparalleled union with God through the power of the Holy Spirit. At the
