practiced silence as Mary did Tradition says that the three inhabitants of the Holy House at Nazareth, Jesus, Mary and Joseph hardly ever spoke… A deeper silence than that of a Carthusian house where the Alpine [...] corridors and shake the casements reigned there, and all else is silent as the tomb. The words of Jesus were very few. That was the reason Mary laid them up in her heart, because, like treasures, they were

November 7 – Coptic Church: Feast of Saint Anne If you could say Ave Maria Jesus said, "Blessed are the lips and the lands where the words ‘Ave Maria’ are spoken. ‘Ave’: I greet you! From the smallest [...] of divine mercy open not only at the push of my Mother's hand, but at her mere glance." (Words of Jesus in the notebooks of Maria Valtorta, 1943, September 3-7 and November 8) From The 20 mysteries of the

lived by my spirit. Finally I call upon the Apostles of the last times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in a contempt for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in humility, [...] you in these days of woe. May your zeal render you like the starving for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you the small number who can see; for behold the time of times,

of silk that Mary is reported to have worn during the Annunciation of Jesus’ birth by the angel Gabriel, or during the birth of Jesus. King Charles the Bald gave the veil to the Chartres Cathedral in 876 [...] readings of the Christmas passages, the idea of being close to something that might have touched Jesus captured my imagination. Praying near the Veil has taken on great meaning to me. Some of my most

(Rome) - Catherine Labouré (d. 1876) Mary's Divine Motherhood Called in the Gospel "the Mother of Jesus," Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her

Compassion of the Blessed Virgin (V) Now we must understand that Mary gave birth twice: she gave birth to Jesus Christ, and she gave birth to the faithful; she brought forth both the sinless and the sinner. She

told in the Franciscan Chronicles that Brother Leon one day saw two ladders: a red one, on which Jesus-Christ stood; the other a white one where Mary was standing. He then saw souls who tried to climb

exempt from the original stain and to be the Mother of God. But even so, regarding this last point, Jesus told us: ‘He who does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, my sister, my mother’ (Mt

fact, peace and reconciliation. It contains within itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary". Address of Pope Benedict XVI in the

the Franciscan chronicles it is related of Brother Leo, that he once saw a red ladder, upon which Jesus Christ was standing, and a white one, upon which stood his holy mother. He saw persons attempting