is More a Mother than a Queen (I) If I could have given just one sermon about her as a priest, that would have been enough for me to get across my ideas about her. In the first place, I would have shown [...] shown how little is actually known about Mary's life. Of course, I believe that we must not say incredible or made-up ideas about her; for example, I would have never said that she went to the Temple at the [...] the age of three, "to offer herself to God, filled with intense feelings of love and great enthusiasm", when the truth is that perhaps she only went there to obey her parents... Why do we say about Simeon's

feast days and is a great day of rejoicing for all of us. Mary’s birth was a miracle: her parents Joachim and Anne were already advanced in age, but they hadn’t given up their hope to have a child. However [...] However, God had different plans, and he announced them to Mary’s parents. Thus Mary was conceived with the view of being the Mother of God’s Son who was to redeem the world. Her birth brought consolation and [...] Nativity of the Virgin Mary The daughter of infertile parents, she became the fertile virgin Today, as every year on September 8 th , we celebrate the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast starts the

Saint Pius X A conversion obtained by a mother who recited the Rosary daily I was raised in a Catholic family in Portugal, but at the age of fifteen, I was apprenticed to a Freemason boss, and in a short time [...] to doubt the Church. Only a vague aspiration for the spiritual remained in me. Eventually, I became a Pentecostal Christian. At 39, I was employed in a Lisbon workshop, with a boss who was very different [...] to me to go with him on a pilgrimage to Fatima. I didn’t dare to say no, and with a sense of shame inside, I signed up for the pilgrimage. So we went. Among other things, I took part in a candlelight

The Marian shrine, he said, reflects a strong character of the Church of Kazakhstan, namely, a strong Eucharistic adoration and a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. The cross bears an inscription paying [...] received a much-needed boost with the visit of Pope John Paul II in September 2001. According to Archbishop Tomasz Peta of Astana, the visit showed the world a living Church in Kazakhstan, with some 40 [...] country’s official language, says Father Leopold Kropfreiter. The Austrian priest of the Servants of Jesus and Mary Congregation has been a missionary in the largest of the central Asian republic since 2008.

Faustina Mary revealed great mysteries to St. Faustina Mary, Mother of Mercy had a special place in the spirituality of St. Faustina, who was very attached to the Virgin Mary from her childhood. As a religious [...] visions of Mary in which the good Mother of God instructed, helped and assisted her in her prophetic mission of mercy, saying: "I am a Mother to you through the power of the Holy Spirit: I am a Mother to [...] grace; I have given the world the Savior, and you must speak to the world of His great mercy and prepare the world for the second coming of Him who will come not as a merciful Savior but as a just Judge

Today I am a Catholic priest and I see precisely how Mary taught me this obedience to the Church. I also see the same attitude in young people I have guided. Do all pilgrims to Medjugorje have the same [...] take young people to Medjugorje to give them a charismatic experience, or they highlight only certain messages. My desire as a priest is to see groups with a solid spiritual framework during and after the [...] March 27 – Blessed Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, French Carmelite friar (d. 1967) How does Mary lead the Church? I am convinced that Medjugorje is a gift for the Church. Personally, it was the source

of all flesh, a new Eve. But she is also our daughter. The ancient world of sorrow, the world before the access of grace, cradled her to its heavy heart for many centuries, dimly awaiting a virgo genitrix [...] of sin, cherished the wondrous girl-child whose name even was unknown. A little girl, the queen of the Angels! And she’s still a little girl, remember! Our Lady knew neither triumph nor miracle. Her Son [...] simplicity, in such deep ignorance of her own dignity, a dignity crowning her above angels. For she was born without sin—in what amazing isolation! A pool so clear, so pure, that even her own image— created

the voice of your heavenly Mother! Excerpt from To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons by Don Stefano Gobbi, an Italian priest (Messages from Mary received by interior locution), December 31, 1982 [...] amusement and dissipation, watch with Me, my beloved ones, in silence and more intense prayer. Prayer of thanksgiving—for all the graces which, in this period of time, have been granted to you by the Father [...] power of the merciful love of God, which wants to transform this poor world into a new creation. See how hatred and sin have burst all bounds. Today the majority of mankind no longer observe the Ten Commandments

will become a priest of Jesus Christ." He kept his word and became a priest, and a very good priest at that. Of course, in addition to his other prayers, he liked to recite the Rosary every day, using the [...] Suddenly, a flood of thoughts overwhelmed him; it seemed as though he could hear a voice speaking straight to his heart and clearly asking him, "Would you become a priest, my child? You have been unfaithful [...] of Consolation (near Honfleur, France) A Mother's Rosary (I) One day a student, who had lost the enthusiasm of his childhood and no longer prayed regularly, saw a rosary lying on the road. His first thought

and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It is in memory of this day of October 9th that every year the "Valencian glories" take place (las Glorias valencianas). On this day a special Te Deum is sung in the cathedral [...] October 9 – Blessed Virgin Efesina (Russia, 988) On a historical October 9th, Our Lady returned to her cathedral in Valencia On September 29, 1238, after 18 months of siege, the Muslims who occupied Valencia [...] cathedral. It is regrettable that for three years city officials have not attended for reasons of political secularism. For his part, in 2017, the archbishop of Valencia, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, presided