monotheistic faith such a thing was difficult to imagine. Only by the power of the Holy Spirit, who "overshadowed" her, was Mary able to accept what is "impossible with men, but not with God" (cf. Mk 10: 27) [...] announced to the Virgin Mary that she was called to become the mother of Jesus, the Son of the Most High (Luke 1: 26-38). Indeed, the Virgin Mary needed "God’s strength" at the moment of the Incarnation, as [...] his apostolic letter Mulieris dignitatem on the dignity and vocation of women, § 3: Hence Mary attains a union with God that exceeds all the expectations of the human spirit. It even exceeds the expectations

mother. (Take a minute to express your heartfelt thoughts to Mary in personal prayer.) Now Mary please turn your gaze on me... (Take a minute to experience Mary's gentle presence in the silence of your soul [...] this "heart to heart" moment with you. As Jesus, I say unto you, you are my mother, I am your child. By the Holy Spirit, lead me to my Father in Heaven because I am his child. O Mary my mother! Amen. [...] (5th C.) O Mary My Mother! Let me nestle up close on your heart, like your son Jesus, where I will be safe. Protect me, console me, reassure me, and comfort me. Listen to me as your own child, Mary my mother

earthly honors; and this mother - no doubt a good mother! - would she not have rejoiced with ineffable joy when she saw her only begotten son entering Heaven with power and dominion, and ascending to 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 just as much joy when [...] entered Heaven before her own eyes, with that flesh which, as she well knew, he had taken from her? Who has ever said or believed that her happiness at this moment was less than that of all the joys that

52). - Mary is "united to Him by a close and indissoluble tie" (Lumen Gentium 53). Cooperation means "being with" in an active, operative form. Mary was present with Jesus and she is present with the Church [...] Jesus. From Christ’s and Mary’s indissoluble union decreed by God the Father flows the doctrine of Mary's collaboration in salvation: Mary depends on Christ but she acts with Christ, being united to Him by [...] II: Mary is at the Heart of the Church In its dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium , the Vatican II Council linked Mary's cooperation in the Redemption to her indissoluble union with Jesus

Rosary “is at heart a Christocentric prayer” and can be called a “compendium” or concise summary of the gospel ( RVM n. 2). The Seven Day Bible Rosary provides a broad compendium on a weekly basis. So I [...] read them regularly. Sent by John Kippley, author of The Seven Day Bible Rosary and reader of A Moment with Mary in our English edition, September 2019 [...] 20 – Virgin of Bozzola (Italy, 15th century) The Seven Day Bible Rosary In early 1967, a newspaper columnist asked a Catholic celebrity if she still prayed the Rosary. She replied, “Oh no! I don’t want to

Holy Trinity at the school of the Virgin Mary Sister Emmanuel, prioress general of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, shared with us some secrets of prayer life, with a nun’s simplicity. The Monastic Family [...] concerned with freely giving, about a relationship, the second part with petition. Give us today our daily bread. Please give me at this time everything that I need for today. If the Virgin Mary in her [...] dogma of the Assumption of Virgin. On that day, a few French pilgrims heard the call to a life of adoration of the Holy Trinity at the school of the Virgin Mary. What is the purpose of prayer? Nothing, we

Paul VI Publishes Marialis Cultus (1974) Mary Lets Jesus Shine In Mary God shows us what grace can do in a soul, in the life of a human being. When we look at Mary, it’s as if God were challenging each one [...] capable of doing when a person is generous and trustful? Just imagine what I could do in you and through you if you would give yourself to me the way Mary did!” Think for a moment of who in your life has [...] has had the greatest impact on your life? In the same vein, which of Mary’s virtues inspires you the most? I have always been taken with her humility, her ability to get out of the way and let Christ shine

Paul VI Publishes Marialis Cultus (1974) Mary Lets Jesus Shine In Mary God shows us what grace can do in a soul, in the life of a human being. When we look at Mary, it's as if God were challenging each one [...] capable of doing when a person is generous and trustful? Just imagine what I could do in you and through you if you would give yourself to me the way Mary did!" Think for a moment of who in your life has [...] has had the greatest impact on your life? In the same vein, which of Mary's virtues inspires you the most? I have always been taken with her humility, her ability to get out of the way and let Christ shine

letter 'M' surmounted by a cross, with a crossbar beneath it, and under the monogram of the name of Mary, the Holy Hearts of Jesus and of His Mother; the first surrounded by a crown of thorns and the second [...] (1981) Mary appears at the Rue du Bac Convent in Paris (II) There now formed around the Blessed Virgin a frame rather oval in shape on which were written in letters of gold these words: O Mary conceived [...] by a sword. I was anxious to know what words must be placed on the reverse side of the medal and after many prayers, one day in meditation I seemed to hear a voice which said to me: The 'M' with the Cross

of roses pierced with a sword. And there was this inscription: I called to Mary from the depths of my despair. She pleaded with her Son for me and gained my complete recovery . The Marie de Nazareth team [...] saw in a vision what my ex-voto should look like, but this time the plate was no longer simply white. At the four corners were golden rosebuds; in the middle there was a burning heart of gold with a wreath [...] 1876) I called to Mary from the depths of my despair The Virgin had asked Estelle Faguette, the seer of Pellevoisin (France), to have a keepsake of her miraculous recovery made, showing her a white marble ex-voto