power? Satan: 75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service. Jesus: You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will. Jesus gave Satan [...] succeeded—by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! (1) Famille Missionnaire Father Bernard Domini Superior of the Famille Missionnaire de Notre Dame, a French religious community [...] Advent – First apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) – Saint Juan Diego So that the Virgin Mary might help the Church in these times of crisis Famille Missionnaire (1) invited everyone to pray the
visionary and victim soul, a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who wrote thousands of handwritten pages, without modification, recording events throughout Christ’s life. Together [...] which we must react with all our strength, so that our souls may not perish, and we may not lose God. ” Maria Valtorta, The Gospel as Was Revealed to Me, Vol. 1, 25 (1) Maria Valtorta was a 20th -century visionary [...] December 23 – Our Lady of the Oak Mary and Joseph's painful trial before their marriage (1/2) In Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me (1), the Blessed Virgin recalls how she and Joseph
Conception The conception of the Virgin Mary " There is no doubt that in this necessary conception, a vivifying and incandescent spirit filled each of the two parents with a singular power and that the protection [...] angelic presences around the predestined child. The Lord willed that such a creature should appear with a unique splendor, and born with an admirable purity: "Extraordinarily blessed virgin, you cannot, as [...] Joachim and Anna were at the object of a mysterious intervention by God, who made them worthy of giving birth to a unique creature whose future was to be filled with supernatural events; and this would be
is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Having reached his adult age, he always continued the tradition of the Fathers of the Church in maintaining a filial devotion to the Virgin Mary. His Sermons about her echo [...] honey." ( 4:10-11) - "Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death." (8:6) - "The Son crowned His Mother today with the diadem of heavenly glory." (Saint [...] (Julian calendar) - 2nd apparition at Fatima Saint Anthony praised Mary in song Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) began singing praises to Mary by paraphrasing the common woman in the Gospel who spontaneously
recently visited the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). This trip ended with the act of consecration of the country to the Virgin Mary, during a Mass celebrated on Saturday, February 4, 2017. Three thousand faithful [...] April 6 – Apparition of Mary to Father Jakob Rem (Ingolstadt, Germany, 1604) The Republic of Congo was recently consecrated to the Virgin Mary The current Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin [...] " the good Christian is above all the one who commits himself every day to walking with God and living in harmony with Him, doing good and fleeing evil ." Zenit.org
challenge God with the humility that I could have at that moment, a grace of humility that God gave me at that moment and I started to say to him: ‘Okay, here I am, you’ve already taken a first step, if [...] Feast of the Visitation of Mary - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Jesuit novice (d. 1591) Former atheist and occultist converted by Mary (II) Former atheist and occultist William Toro is a Catholic apologist who spends [...] defending the faith with theological and philosophical arguments. One day, while he was still an atheist, his girlfriend - who is now his wife - asked that he attend a spiritual retreat and, with some distrust
mysteries of the Rosary, we can become similar to Jesus and Mary” In the spiritual journey of the Rosary, based on the constant contemplation – in Mary's company – of the face of Christ, this demanding ideal [...] frequently in each other's company, tend to develop similar habits, so too, by holding familiar converse with Jesus and the Blessed Virgin, by meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the same [...] can become, to the extent of our lowliness, similar to them and can learn from these supreme models a life of humility, poverty, hiddenness, patience and perfection”. John Paul II, apostolic letter Rosarium
prayer marathon to Mary, Undoer of Knots in 2021 was the first of its kind The pope led the recitation of the Rosary in a breezy Vatican Gardens May 31 before an image of the Virgin Mary untying knots brought [...] southern Germany. The image, completed in around 1700, shows Mary untying knots in a long white ribbon while her foot rests on the head of a snake curled in knots. Several shrines around the world were [...] the pope prayed: “O Mary, you always give light on our path as a sign of salvation and hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross were associated with the pain of Jesus, firmly
shrine (France, 1856) The Triumph of Mary in the Celestial Court The crowning of the Virgin Mary by her Son is an ancient iconographic theme depicting the triumph of Mary in the heavenly court. In the mid-19th [...] Universality of Angels and Saints." 1 Mary wears a single crown, but her sovereignty is multiple. Her crown symbolizes her universal influence over this Earth and a seat of primacy in Heaven. Translated [...] reads at the shrine, " the Virgin has a crown because she is the Queen of the shrine, of the city, of the region, of France, and of the World. She is crowned with stars, as John saw her in the Apocalypse
put Mary!” Sometimes we might be afraid to welcome the Virgin Mary into our lives. The root of this fear is the place that the Virgin Mary could occupy in our spiritual life. As one participant in a retreat [...] time, I was greatly helped by a book by Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin … There I found the answers to my questions, Yes, Mary does bring us closer to Christ; [...] unceremoniously told me: “I don’t know where to put Mary!” In his youth, Saint John Paul II had his doubts too: “At one point I began to question my devotion to Mary, believing that, if it became too great, it