theological virtues—faith, hope and charity—are like three sisters: two grown-ups and one still a child. They walk together on the street holding hands, the two big ones on the sides and the little girl in the [...] apparition in Lourdes (France) Hoping against all hope with Mary at the foot of the Cross One of the texts of Vatican Council II mentions Mary’s hope at the foot of the Cross as a determining factor of her [...] cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope and burning charity in the work of the Savior .” Let us turn to the Church, that is, to ourselves. … The Church, like Mary, lives the Resurrection “in hope.” For
When Bernadette confided in the Virgin Mary Bernadette's religious vocation was sparked in an extraordinary way, but her whole life before and after the apparitions, and in the convent as a nun, remained very [...] herself and barely ever talked about herself. However, we can find a few notes in her small diary that show she was a mystic, such as this prayer to the Virgin Mary: " O my Mother, take my heart and place [...] through blind faith, taking refuge in Mary's embrace, resting on Jesus’ Heart, no matter what effort it cost her and asking for the grace to remain faithful. The Marie de Nazareth editorial team
them, pray them and give them away.” Visitors flocked to the website rosaryarmy.com to request rosaries and learn how to make them. Greg made his first rosary after going to confession and seeing a priest [...] regularly and giving them away to family and friends. “That’s why the idea of Rosary Army is so beautiful. I started to have this realization, after Saint John Paul II declared the Year of the Rosary and added [...] becoming guardians of Mary’s army that we were trying to build. She knew she needed guardians on earth to manage it and I think that’s who we are and what we have been humbled to be able to do for her,” Jennifer
It is said: Each one naturally loves his native land, and since the native land of Jesus is the Virgin of Virgins and since Jesus was born by His will of a Lily, He loves to find Himself in virgin hearts [...] be beautiful, sublime, since the purest and most intelligent of all creatures thought it better to remain a virgin than to become the Mother of a God . . . And this is the grace that Jesus grants us, He [...] promises us that we may be His mother and His sisters for He says so in His gospel: For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, He is my mother, my brother and my sister. Yes, one who loves Jesus is
Fossolovara (Italy) In Chartres, Mary was venerated before the birth of Jesus! In Notre Dame of Chartres Cathedral, 55 miles southwest of Paris, a statue of the Madonna and Child is venerated in an intimate [...] had an altar in a grotto dedicated to the “virgin who would bear a son” and placed a prophetic statue depicting a pagan virgin, and called it the Virgini Pariturae (virgin who would bear a son). The Druids [...] Britain and Ireland. As one old story goes, in the year 50 B.C., the Druids heard of Isaiah’s prophecy: Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son…
limitations and personal sins, Divine Mercy always has the last word. Jesus chose to have a mother, and he gave her to us from the cross. It would be a mistake to deprive ourselves of such a gift! Mary is the [...] Son. And here’s another thing: she is the one who crushed the head of the Serpent ... and married couples know how much the evil one can be on the prowl! So let us seek refuge under her cloak and put our [...] (Amiens, France) Mary heals married couples Guillaume d'Alançon, director of the Institute for the Family in Europe ( l’Institut pour la Famille en Europe ), explains what the "Mary who heals married
June 18 – Our Lady of Prada (Italy, 1747) Mary as a role model Dr. Carrie Gress, a young American philosopher, is the author of a new book called The Anti-Mary Exposed (TAN Books 2019). In an interview [...] Vatican II, there seemed to be a lessening of Mary’s role in the devotional lives of many Catholics. We, of course, also saw this among our Protestant brothers and sisters over the past five centuries. Do you [...] religious orders were eradicated, as was Mary as a role model, so there wasn’t any place for women to understand their role. As a result, men were put on a pedestal; and women are responding to this. … If we
"I was born by the martyrdom of Mary" The author of the book Cum clamore valido (1) has Jesus say these words about Mary: "To become the Mother of the children of God, Mary had to suffer all the pains of [...] every Christian soul can say: I was born by the martyrdom of Mary! And of the voluntary martyrdom of Mary! For, silent as her Fiat of acquiescence was, you cannot doubt its deep, intimate reality, full [...] an immense vision of tenderness, I created in Mary a true motherly heart for each member of this family, while I created each soul as a true child of Mary, a child of her co-redemptive pains. So that every
April 23 – Our Lady of Penha (Brazil) The Virgin Mary knew the hour of the Resurrection No doubt the encounter between Mary and Jesus, in the early morning of the Sunday following the burial, was too intimate [...] the Father to his Son, says: "Awake, my glory, awake my harp and my zither." And the Son answered, "I will awake at dawn..." When the Virgin Mary discovered the hour of the Resurrection, you can only imagine [...] Saint Vincent Ferrer, who traced a maybe simplified description of Mary's attitude—an unwavering confidence in the words of her Son, and the understanding of the mystery of Jesus in the light of Scripture:
turn to Mary and say: "O Mary, we turn to you because we need your help. Every day, we struggle to find the way to grow in our love. Humbly and on our knees, we come to you with empty hands: come and fill [...] couples (Mary Who Rebuilds Couples). This little book contains a novena to Mary, some litanies and practical exercises. It helps us to entrust the struggles we face to the Virgin. The novena to "Mary who Rebuilds [...] Countess of Fusco in 1885 Mary rebuilds couples The Institute for the Family in Europe (LIFE) helps couples and individuals who encounter difficulties of all kinds. Through the Louis and Zélie Martin Programs
