they are experiencing, and offer it up. It is the summit of the Christian experience ... to be like Jesus on the Cross." The message of Lourdes, he added, is "the message of closeness to the person who suffers":
eternal Father made her a partaker of his divine paternity, so he gives priests to form this same Jesus in the Eucharist and in the hearts of the faithful. As the Son made her his cooperatrix in the work
be loved and revered above all things, after the supreme Trinity and its most holy Child Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose divine mystery no language can begin to express... St Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Admission is free The "Cave of the Milk" is a religious shrine believed to be a place where Mary nursed Jesus, according to various traditions in ancient and modern Palestine. The limestone rock of the cave is
” The Virgin Mary in whom the Son of God would descend probably wasn’t aware of this oracle, but Jesus, who was indeed born under the reign of Emperor Augustus, did transform the iron of oppression into
back in panic, while the Hussars, propelled on by the storm, chased after them shouting: "Long live Jesus! Long live Mary!" This happened on the vigil of the feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa, celebrated on
St. Bonaventure emphasized the traditional parallel between Eve and Mary, and explained how both Jesus and Mary repaired the sin of Adam and Eve: "As the fall happened through both sexes – the sin was
14) Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are all my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. 15) Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. Promises Our Lady made to Saint
(Spain, 1075) What the Rosary contains In the prayer of the Rosary, one contemplates the person of Jesus and his life, not directly and in themselves—like actually seeing the Way of the Cross—but through
have to go out?” Mother de Changy exclaimed: “Oh! Holy Mother of God, pray for us! Mary, Mother of Jesus, help us!” At these words, Satan increased his frightful screams, shouting, "Mary! I have no Virgin
