down. By contrast, the prayer of the Rosary offers a different kind of peace—Peace that comes from Jesus. Faith is a light shining in the darkness for the sick and the dying. As a priest, I am always amazed [...] Because millions of Catholics, on all continents, have seen the graces that meditating on the life of Jesus with His Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, can bring. Fr. Manuel Rivero, O.P. Saint-Denis/ Reunion

secrets only to its lovers, that is, to those who are animated by the same dispositions that led Jesus to accept and endure it. The Blessed Virgin, full of wisdom as well as affection, is one of those [...] that King Solomon had asked of the Most High. Like her Son, she accepted the Cross out of love for Jesus’ brothers and sisters. Her "yes" was all the more fervent that she remained attentive to the Spirit

phone call from Mel Gibson, who wanted someone who was 33 years old and had the initials “JC” to play Jesus Christ in his film about the Passion. “Is that a coincidence?” the actor asked his audience. “I don’t [...] even closer to Our Lady,” he told his audience in Amsterdam. “The more you experience the Passion of Jesus, ladies and gentlemen, the more you understand the compassion of Mary,” he continued. Life Site News

precursor of Jesus Christ, who would recognize in him the Savior of the world. In fact, John miraculously gave this witness while still in the womb, leaping for joy as Mary came near carrying Jesus in her womb

March 21 – Our Lady of the Rain (Italy, 1367) The present Church crisis and Mary Does the Mother of Jesus have any relevance to the present Church crisis? Mary brings the Divine Redeemer into the world by [...] measure, Mary responded to Peter’s office of authority with the same obedient fiat . For Mary saw Jesus in Peter, and thus continually gave the obedience to her Son’s Vicar that which she gave to her Son…

Pieuse-Union, Marcelle Lanchon (in religion Sister Marie-France) received several apparitions (1) of Jesus and Mary during the First World War. On September 8, 1914 - the Feast of the Nativity of Mary - Marcelle [...] of Versailles from 1931, authorized and approved the Pious Union of Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of which Marcelle was one of the first members. The bishop also allowed the image of Mary, Queen of

the way to God, who is not represented by an adult Christ but by the divine child - a reminder of Jesus’s admonition in Mark’s Gospel: "Amen, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as [...] in her heart" (Lk 2:19), thus rendering the way in which Mary relived in her memory the deeds of Jesus when he was still a child? Arthur Herlin Excerpted and translated from: L’Hodigitria : l’icône de

we observe an improbable focus, the peak of an expectation, precisely around the years in which Jesus appeared. This is a proven historical fact: inexplicable as it may seem, the world's attention in [...] announcing the coming of the Prince of Peace shone above Palestine. Excerpts from Hypothèses sur Jésus by Vittorio Messori, Mame, 1978

apostolic ministry of St. Louis de Montfort, his great secret for attracting souls and giving them to Jesus, was his devotion to Mary. On her he based all his action: in her all his assurance, and he could [...] Church, that, we would say, of good Christian and Catholic sense, tends essentially towards union with Jesus, under the guidance of Mary. Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) Excerpt from his speech to the pilgrims gathered

that we behold "a woman encompassing a man" when we see Mary enclosing in her womb Jesus, the Man-God? For I may call Jesus a man not only when He was proclaimed " a prophet mighty in work and word," but