authenticity and of the kept Word. She is all in God by election and by grace, yet she remains one of us by her nature and by her race, and by her local color. Rev. Fr. Bruckberger (1) In Marie, Mère de [...] June 22 - Proclamation of the Dogma of Mary Mother of God at Ephesus (431) When we think of Mary, God becomes all together concrete When we think of Mary, the Mother of God, God becomes all together concrete [...] incredibly familiar, and accessible. Through this woman, the Incarnation of God, the Cross, the forgiveness of sins, the hope of eternal life for you and me, everything becomes credible and desirable. Without
September 22 - Saint Mary of the Royal Court (Italy, 1575) It's Always the Time of Miracles A fact, true and wonderful, which thousands of people can attest and certify even today, is the apparition of [...] France, (...) and of the whole world. All this to warn them that the wrath of her divine Son was ablaze against men, especially on account of three sins: blasphemy, the profanation of Sunday and holy days [...] days, and the transgression of the laws of abstinence. Prodigious facts have come to confirm this apparition, found in public records or attested by people whose sincerity and faith rule out any doubt. These
place of Mary in the history of salvation. The first two Marian dogmas (Mary Mother of God and Mary's perpetual virginity) are common to the different Christian faiths: Mary was declared Theotokos ("Mother [...] motherhood. The Council wished to say that Mary is not the only mother and virgin, but that the Church is also mother and virgin, and that the maternity of Mary is the figure of the maternity of the Church [...] ip between Mary and Christ, but also an intimate relationship between Mary and the Church, extending the meaning of divine maternity to the widest area of all salvation history. Adapted and translated
alone, and what wonders must have been revealed to her! And how she must have brooded and wept over His cradle, understanding that one day He must leave her and bring the holy tidings to mankind, and that [...] mothers tenderly babble, as infants listen with delight and trust. She cooked His meat and His fish; she made His bread. She milked the goats for Him, and gathered the fruit. She attended to the needs of His [...] December 8 - Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary A Newly Converted Saul is Confounded by the Greatness of Mary (II) It was then that a sad coldness spread over the faces of his guests
Hearts, and famously said: "If only I could put into the hearts of all the people the fire which I have in my chest and which burns me and makes me love the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary so much [...] Assisi, and in the 17th century, to Berulle and St John Eudes, who also emphasized how closely the Hearts of Mary and Jesus are united. In the middle of the 17th century, we find depictions of Jesus pointing [...] Margaret Mary Alacoque brought a deeper focus to the pierced Heart of Christ and the depth of his love. St John Eudes (1601-1680) wrote extensively about the mystery of the United Hearts, and after him
destination. When Mary and Elizabeth met, Elizabeth's baby leaped in her womb, and she herself, seized by a prophetic spirit, exclaimed as she embraced Mary: “You are blessed among all women and blessed is the [...] Visitation of the Virgin Mary When Mary visits Elizabeth After announcing to Mary the mystery of the Incarnation, the Archangel Gabriel told her that her cousin Elizabeth, older and so far unable to conceive [...] intervention of God. Mary was soon on her way to congratulate the happy mother. This trip did not have a human motive. Having Jesus in her womb, Mary possessed all the riches and all the joys of Heaven
the Servants of Mary - 1941: Saint Maximilien Kolbe is arrested The Virgin presented two crowns Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a 20th-century Polish priest and martyr, was born into a modest and deeply religious [...] with the Virgin Mary. He later told his mother: "I often prayed to Our Lady and asked her to tell me what would become of me. Then she appeared to me holding two crowns, one white and the other red. She [...] arrested Father Maximilien Kolbe and four other brothers and took them first to Pawiak prison in Warsaw. Fr. Kolbe was violently beaten for being both a religious and a priest. He wrote to his Franciscan
only come out a word of sovereign and sovereignly divine love and zeal. It is the fact of a mistress and a wise lady to utter words that are few in number, but solid and full of meaning. Thus, we find in [...] November 5 - Mary Seat of Wisdom (Cologne, Germany, 1280) The seven words of Mary recorded in the Gospel Can we conceive of anyone, among ordinary men, who was better than this one, who deserved to become [...] himself in her Heart and in her womb? What treasure is better than this divine love itself, of which the Heart of the Virgin was the ardent furnace? Just as from a vessel full of a superior and excellent wine
house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed [...] our lives, and letting him enter into our time and our activity: ultimately this is the essence of true prayer. Where God is made great, men and women are not made small: there too men and women become [...] Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary - Saint Louis Gonzaga, Jesuit novice (d. 1591) The Magnificat is the essence of true prayer “During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste
prudence and wisdom of the Virgin Mary in the year 32, when the persecution of the fledgling Church began. As the apostles were ready to offer their lives as martyrs in imitation of Stephen, Mary gave her [...] ones among the people present, that is Lazarus and Nicodemus, point out to Peter and to James of Alphaeus that the Church has only few priests of the Christ, and that if the more important ones of them were [...] that is Peter the Pontiff and James the Bishop of Jerusalem, the Church would survive with difficulty. And they conlude saying: “You ought to scatter as well through Judaea and Samaria. Get proselytes there
