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 it in the heart [...] 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 ordinary [...] all things!" She also wrote: "It is not important to do a lot of things. What matters is to do things well." All of her actions were in accord with this goal. 30 years before Sainte Therese of Lisieux,
pondered in her heart, within herself, with a conscious, thoughtful and intelligent attentiveness. The inner listening of Mary is a prolonged one, not a single moment. The Gospel phrase, “she kept all these [...] held together the opposites: a stable and “a multitude of angels,” a manger and a “kingdom which has no end.” Like her, like the shepherds and the Magi, let us be filled with wonder. At Christmas, the Word [...] January 4 – Our Lady of Roses (Italy, 1418) Mary’s First Christmas How did Mary experience the first Christmas? Mary had heard the words explaining the event that she herself saw and lived. Words and deeds
Virgin Mary is always near patients to fight for them.” A Maltese man fighting to recover from a serious injury has found himself on the receiving end of widespread public support after he asked for a miracle [...] went through a similar experience, but the Virgin Mary is always near patients to fight for them.” The Ta’ Pinu Basilica, in Għarb, Gozo, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Ta’ Pinu, with many religious [...] youth, with many from Malta and Gozo and even abroad sharing a prayer for Nicotra. Many people recounted their own physical injuries, and shared how prayer helped them overcome the scarier moments. “Stay
he is all flushed!" Mary said to the saints Father Jean Edouard Lamy was a French priest born in 1853, who died in 1931. The founder of the Community of Servants of Jesus and Mary, he had frequent mystical [...] He was known for his love of simplicity. One day, the Virgin Mary caught him by surprise, appearing to him at the most unexpected moment, in all simplicity, while he was cleaning his church, kneeling [...] to announce: "The Queen of Heaven is here!" Father Lamy was very embarrassed to find himself in such a position, which made the Virgin laugh! "I blushed, I did not know where to hide; I would have liked
of Mary The Blessed Virgin Mary is the only human actor in the history of Salvation. Mary saw it all and lived it all. The salvific mission of Christ cannot be complete without the mention of Mary. Hence [...] insecurity and terrorism ... Let us journey with Mary through the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. Mary is our defender and maternal protector against danger. She defended, with her life, the life of this God-man [...] wanted Him dead. She fled with Jesus and Joseph in the cold winter to Egypt. Here, we see, the heart of a loving mother who desperately wants to preserve the life of her child. Mary will do the same for us
and died without committing a single sin. This is the meaning of the Immaculate Conception. This declaration raised a lot of controversy. Many disagreed with the fact that Mary came into the world without [...] merit such a favor from God, a certain readiness was necessary: God filled Mary with his spiritual blessing in her Son Jesus, so that she would be immersed in love, holy, blameless, resplendent, without [...] key phrase, Mary gave to the world, through Bernadette, the confirmation of the pontifical dogmatic declaration, shutting at the same time the mouth of deniers. Mary is the "one filled with grace". To merit
Gabriel brought the message of the august Trinity to the Virgin Mother, the exchange of words he had with Mary did not accomplish much. But when the Virgin surrendered her own will to offer it to God, she i [...] mystic Johannes Tauler OP (†1361), are a collection of mystical texts of Rhenish or Flemish origin from the 14th century. They were hugely popular from the moment the Carthusian monastery of Cologne published [...] December 24 – Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord What made Mary the true Mother of the Eternal Word? Surely, what God asks of us above all else is that we offer our will to Him without reservation and let
fight to finally end such a long war with a decisive action. The inhabitants of Déols, frightened by the fierce battle that was about to begin, went to pray before the image of Mary and begged her to prevent [...] concluded! Such unexpected news caused a general shock; kings and lords, people and soldiers, all recognized a miracle in this sudden change of disposition at the very moment when tempers were at their peak and [...] Déols Bibliotheca Nova (1) Déols is a French town located in the department of Indre, in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. The Mother of God has been venerated in Déols in a special way since the year 917
and is not restored to His favor. (St Alphonsus Liguori - The Glories of Mary – Section II, Mary the Refuge of Sinners). The Marie de Nazareth editorial team [...] original sin" (Book VI, ch 4). Our Lady also revealed to her that at the moment of her conception, her soul, by sanctifying her body, spread a mysterious and inexpressible joy through her mother's entire being [...] July 23 - Saint Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373) "Revelations" of the Virgin Mary to Saint Bridget St Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373) received extraordinary "Revelations" from the Lord, who nevertheless told
“looked with favor on her loneliness” and “remembered his (covenant of) mercy,” a “mercy shown from generation to generation” to the poor and the downtrodden. For Mary, history is mercy… Mary is the Mother [...] January 18 – Second apparition in Banneux (Belgium, 1933) How is Mary “anticipated mercy”? Mary’s gaze is “integral,” all-embracing. It brings everything together: our past, our present and our future [...] future. It is not fragmented or partial: mercy can see things as a whole and grasp what is most necessary . At Cana, Mary “empathetically” foresaw what the lack of wine in the wedding feast would mean and she
