France) In Mary’s womb, Jesus was already suffering for us In the following excerpt from Luisa Picarreta's book(1), the Virgin Mary recalls the nine months during which she carried Jesus in her womb: My child [...] child, the little Humanity of Jesus continued to grow, united hypostatically with the Divinity. My maternal womb was very narrow – dark; there was not a glimmer of light, and I saw Him in my maternal womb [...] womb, immobile, enwrapped in a deep night. …And so my dear Jesus, in order to put to flight the darkness of such a deep night, in which man had made himself the prisoner of his own tenebrous will - to the
and love, we are able to say: "Lord Jesus, I do not understand your plans, but I trust you, because I know that you love me; Jesus, I accept your plans for me. Jesus, I accept to learn from your mother [...] October 10 - Consecration of Luxembourg to Mary, consoler of the afflicted (1666) Jesus, I accept to learn from your Mother Today is Monday, the day of the joyful mysteries. Let us therefore meditate on [...] Mary understands that she will become pregnant, but not by Joseph, and that the child's name will be Jesus. She responds to the archangel's announcement by accepting to change her personal plans, so that God's
order to know Jesus better: Through the Virgin, and through her more than through any other means, we have been offered a way of reaching the knowledge of Jesus Christ (...) with her alone Jesus was for thirty [...] of Knock (Ireland, 1879) – The Virgin with the Golden Heart (Beauraing, Belgium, 1932-33) To know Jesus better, we must entrust ourselves to Mary Saint Pius X (pope from 1903-1914, canonized on May 29,
us offer our day to Jesus, through Mary’s Immaculate Heart When I was a child, my family prayed the rosary daily, but during June, the month when we honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we prayed the “Sacred [...] “Sacred Heart Rosary.” This version substitutes, “Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine,” for the Lord’s Prayer, and “Sweet Heart of Jesus, Be Thou, my Love,” for the Hail Mary. While [...] school each morning, my parents had us recite the “Morning Offering,” which includes the words, “O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer Thee my prayers works, joys and sufferings of this
Church: Feast of the "Densata" (Conception of Mary) “May Mary continue to watch over the Society of Jesus” On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Francis Xavier and Blessed (now Saint) [...] extraordinary men of God. The pope recalled that the consecration of the first members of the Society of Jesus, assembled by St. Ignatius of Loyola, took place in Rome under the watch of the Mother of God: “Today [...] Mary in the Basilica of St Paul Outside-the-Walls. May Mary continue to watch over the Society of Jesus so that every member may carry in his person the "image" of the Crucified Christ, in order to share
July 23 – Saint Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373) Revelations from the Heart of Jesus and Mary to Saint Bridget St. Bridget heard the Mother of God explain to her: "I can therefore boldly say that his pain was [...] give up the world and her cares." (Sermo angelicus, I, 1, c 35, ed. Eklund, p. 56) She also heard Jesus say: "I tell you that my Mother and I have saved man as with one heart; I with the pain in my heart
July 14 - Our Lady Help of Christians (Italy, 1723) Jesus and Mary protected me in my fall I would like to share about an unexplained fall that happened to me in the church of Azieu, parish of Genas, in [...] exploding in front of the children and traumatizing them. That was my immediate thought, thanking Jesus and Mary for protecting us. I was lying in front of the tabernacle where the Hosts are kept and I
– Feast of the Sacred Heart – The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist Who can describe the love of Jesus’ Heart for his divine Mother? As God, he loved her as the purest, most perfect of all creatures; he [...] her in Nazareth! In the course of his public life, it was often at the prayer of his Mother that Jesus performed his miracles, as at Cana in Galilee, so that the women of Israel, undoubtedly jealous of [...] the Son is adored, the Mother also be honored: Invenerunt puerum cum Maria. If we want to please Jesus, let us love and respect Mary. Let us love her as good children love their mother; she has the same
Mary Alacoque (Paray-le-Monial, France, 1689) The Heart of Jesus in the apparitions of Mary In June 1675, during the octave of Corpus Christi, Jesus appeared to Sister Margaret Mary, a nun in the convent of [...] appeals from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary through the apparitions of the 19th century and St Therese of Lisieux. Even though Church officials did not respond, the faithful took Jesus’ call seriously: many [...] consecrate France to the Virgin Mary in 1638, would now consecrate France to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We do not know if the king was made aware of the message, but we know that he never responded. Neither
Pope Leo XIII consecrates the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, "one" with the Heart of Mary (1899) From the beginning, the Hearts of Jesus and Mary have been united Until our time, it was customary [...] in 2000. Jesus and Mary are inseparable. That is why we consecrate and entrust ourselves to the two Hearts at the same time. In the Litany of the Sacred Heart we pray: "Sacred Heart of Jesus, formed by [...] action of the Holy Spirit, Jesus became man, with a human heart. From the beginning, the two hearts were united in an adorable way. Mary’s heart was the first heart to venerate Jesus’ Heart and to understand
