and intercedes for us with her divine Son. Mary is very present in my prayer, with her appeal to Jesus at the Wedding in Cana: "They have no wine." Only He could turn water into wine, but she asked Him
promote devotion towards our Mother Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church, and to go to Jesus our Savior through her, we have chosen to establish a daily calendar that is essentially Marian. There
Mary “empathetically” foresaw what the lack of wine in the wedding feast would mean and she asked Jesus to resolve the problem, without anyone noticing. We can see our entire priestly life as somehow “foreseen”
Blessed Virgin from whom the Son of God would come certainly did not know about this oracle, but Jesus, born under the rule of the Emperor Augustus indeed transformed the iron of oppression into love that
offering to the Eternal Father a sufficient atonement for the nameless, boundless crime through which Jesus obtained the redemption of the world? When Saint Monica wept for the misdemeanors of the future doctor
august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and
16, and in a very clear manner, since he heard a heavenly voice tell him to enter the Society of Jesus. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga wore the Jesuit habit for only six years, but in this short time he raised
become the virgin and unblemished Mother. She is the most loving and beloved soul of the Father after Jesus—and therefore the most magnificently filled with divine favors. Next to her, all the angels and all
Mary’s protection, may we be for our world sentinels of the dawn, contemplating the true face of Jesus the Savior….and rediscover the young and beautiful face of the Church, which shines forth when she
singer did not cost him the victory, quite the contrary. Knowing the happiness and the luck that Jesus and Mary would bring him, he kept those religious signs on him, wrapped around the hand that held
