about his vision, and from that time they had but one heart and one soul in God. And they recommended to their sons that it be the same between them, always, in all love and reverence, and this simple gesture [...] of the Visitation of Mary The two servants of Mary (II) Then the mother of God presented Blessed Dominic to Our Lord. “I accept him,” said the Son of God, “he will do very well and zealously all that you [...] Francis to him, and the Savior approved of him too. Now blessed Dominic, considering attentively in this vision that companion whom he did not yet know, met him the next day in a church and recognized him
Heaven is open, Heaven has a heart. (…) Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of Heaven and earth. And is she really so remote from us? The contrary [...] stronger than death, that God possesses the true strength and that his strength is goodness and love. Mary was taken up body and soul into Heaven: there is even room in God for the body. Heaven is no longer [...] We have a mother in Heaven. And the Mother of God, the Mother of the Son of God, is our Mother. He himself has said so. He made her our Mother when he said to the disciple and to all of us: "Behold, your
Heart of Mary Mary, a mediatrix to the Mediator God has seen our unworthiness and inability to approach Him, for our heart is so corrupted that in order to please Him, all our labors, undertakings, and plans [...] Him directly and by ourselves? Is He not God, in all things equal to His Father? St. Bernard shows us the sure and firm way. He tells us that "it is through Mary that Jesus came to us, and it is through [...] confidence and perseverance, and was turned away." She is so powerful that she has never been refused in her requests; she only has to go to her Son to pray to Him: He receives and He grants at once; and He is
pale, Her eyes are wide open and thus She arouses pity more than any outburst of tears and cries. She is no longer tired or hungry. And yet the journey was a long one and She has not taken any food for [...] 1961) was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ . Maria [...] preparing and the food which was ready to be handed out. And She goes back. It is night, it is dark. It does not matter… Then, after three days, the symbol of three other days of future anguish, Mary, exhausted
caught by the lure of false and deceptive pleasure, and was condemned to pain and sorrow, and to bear children in suffering. With Adam she received the sentence of death, and was placed in the recesses [...] David, her forefather, rejoices. Angels and Archangels are in jubilation, Powers exult, Principalities and Dominations, Virtues and Thrones are in gladness: Cherubim and Seraphim magnify God. Not the least [...] true paradise, in which sin is remitted and the tree of life growl, and our nakedness is covered. Today the spotless Virgin, untouched by earthly affections, and all heavenly in her thoughts, was not dissolved
his Ascension, and then the First Pentecost. The Twelve and the first disciples began to meet in the Upper Room, and then in each other's homes in Jerusalem, and Mary prayed with them and supported their [...] model of faith, hope and charity. "As she is the dawn that precedes and reveals the Sun of Justice, who is Jesus Christ, she must be known and seen, so that Jesus Christ may be known and seen," Saint Louis [...] 31 - Saint Mary Odigitria (“Who leads the Way) - Saint Catherine Labouré (d. 1876) The closer we get to the end of time, the more Mary becomes present Father René Laurentin (1) wrote, "Mary is present
has always invited believers to seek and to find in the Saints, and above all in the Virgin Mother of God "full of grace" and "all-holy," the model, the strength and the joy needed to live a life in accordance [...] Pius XII establishes the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1944) To live a life of holiness The new evangelization will show its authenticity and unleash all its missionary force when it is carried out [...] holiness which is resplendent in so many members of the People of God, humble and often unseen, constitutes the simplest and most attractive way to perceive at once the beauty of truth. … For this reason
abusive power that rages in history. Good and evil thus confront each other. Mary, her Son and the Church represent the apparent weakness and smallness of love, truth and justice. Against them is unleashed the [...] September 10 – Holy Mary of Life (Italy, 1613) Mary helps us make sense of our times Mary has already entered her glory, and the time of trials in our world will come to an end. Here is what our beloved [...] dragon, which evokes Satan and evil, rises up against Mary and the Church, as the symbolism of the Old Testament has already indicated; red is the sign of war, slaughter and bloodshed; the "seven heads"
sad and lonely, it's not hard to be tiny, because we need help and really need a mother by our side. Who doesn’t experience suffering? Who doesn’t need to be consoled and forgiven, to be loved and to be [...] her and she’ll tell us that our only obligation as a Christian is to be like Jesus. There is—and there has always been—only one way to be like Jesus: we need to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow [...] November 1 – All Saints Day – Mary, Queen of All Angels – First apparition in Heede, Germany (1937 - 1940) When we suffer, we really need a mother by our side Mary’s beautiful mission is to bring to Jesus
an instant and then Elizabeth detaches herself exclaiming: “Ah!”, an exclamation of mingled joy and sorrow and she places her hands on her enlarged abdomen. She bows her face and turns red and pale alternately [...] notwithstanding her wide and loose dress. She looks down, shading her eyes with her hand. As soon as she recognizes Mary she raises her arms to the sky and utters an « Oh! » of joy and surprise. She then rushes [...] fast as she can, towards Mary. Also Mary, who always moves very quietly, now runs, as swift as a little deer, and reaches the foot of the staircase at the same time as Elizabeth. And She embraces with great
