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 joy to the world [...] the liturgical cycle of saints 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 [...] would become the fertile virgin. In her will be made the union of divinity and humanity, of impassibility and suffering, of life and death, so that in everything, what was evil may be defeated by what is best
enter into her Heart and be formed in the image of Jesus. In our consecration to Mary, let us ask her to direct our desires, thoughts, words, and actions to the Sacred Heart. When Mary brought Jesus to the [...] " Through our consecration, Mary takes our thoughts, words and actions and makes them pleasing to Jesus. She purifies them in her love, embellishes them with her merits and presents them to the Eucharistic [...] Our Lady of Alcazar (Toledo, Spain) - Luxembourg takes Mary as patroness (1666) Jesus wants us to love Mary as he loves her Jesus wants us to love Mary as he loves her, because she is our Mother. Her Immaculate
Spanish. On spotting the priest, the child exclaimed: “A priest!” and all the others immediately turned their heads. The missionary approached and asked the child, who looked about ten years old, to take him [...] shipwrecked on this island, and some people took me in. Remembering my mother's advice to say the Rosary every day, I began to recite it. As I didn't have a statue of the Blessed Virgin and didn't know how to make [...] be a long time; for the time seemed long to me, away from mom and dad.” The child led the priest to the house where he had been welcomed, and these good people received him with great respect. The next day
Special Adviser and is now his literary executor. He is part of the Oasis Scientific Committee and of the Observatory for Faith and Culture of the Episcopal Conference of France, and directs the Catholic [...] August 15 - Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Devotion to the Virgin Mary is not an option The Assumption not only tells us that Mary ascended "into Heaven", but also that she does not remain [...] devotion to the Virgin Mary is not an option or marginal tradition. It is not a devotion among a thousand others, but the means we have been given to fully understand who we are and our vocation as human
heart the journey and the blessing that the Virgin wanted to give to me and to the Church in those days." "Never be afraid," the Pope also said, "God is better than all our misery and he loves us very much [...] December 19 – Holy Mary of Remedies (Portugal) Never leave the Mother’s side "Never go away from the Mother," and "never abandon the Rosary": these are the exhortations of Pope Francis at the closing of [...] shown to pilgrims gathered at "Cova da Iria" and reported by L'Osservatore Romano the following day, the Pope recalled his visit to the Marian shrine on May 12th and 13th, for the centenary of the first apparition:
make up the life of the individual, the family, the nation, the Church and mankind. Personal matters and those of one's neighbor, and particularly of those who are closest to us, who are dearest to us. Thus [...] of the Blessed Virgin Mary - John Paul II becomes Pope (1978) The Rosary Beats the Time of Life The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and in its depth. In this [...] this prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth. The whole Church joins in these words. (...) In fact, against the background of
man does, and even as many proud scholars do, as minor and of little consequence; it is really great, sublime and divine. It was given to us by heaven, to convert the most hardened sinners and the most [...] Assumption of Mary into heaven (2 Kings 2: 11; Tradition; LG 59): the grace of a happy death; 5th Mystery : the Coronation of Mary in heaven (Rev 12: 1; Tradition; LG 59 and 68): a greater devotion to the Virgin [...] Virgin Mary. Thus the contemplation and meditation of the mysteries of Jesus' life, through the prayer of the Rosary, constitute a path of conversion for the mind and the heart. Let us head Father de Montfort’s
happy time and that age of Mary, when many souls chosen and obtained from the Most High by Mary, losing themselves in the abyss of her interior, will become living copies of Mary, to love and glorify Jesus [...] to the uniqueness and salvific universality of Jesus Christ. The Church awaits the glorious coming of Jesus at the end of time. Like Mary and with Mary, the saints are in the Church and for the Church, to [...] Jesus Christ? " (TD 217) This " Age of Mary " is a time when, on the one hand, Mary will have made herself known (she bursts forth in mercy, strength and grace) and on the other hand, a certain number of
Consecration of Luxembourg to Mary, consoler of the Afflicted (1666) I always had Mary’s chain in my hands In 1948, in the "Wooden Bridge," a suburb of Tokyo, Japan, a thousand old men and homeless people lived [...] her for three years, and she became a Catholic at the age of 17. "I received the Holy Water and the Bread of God," she told me. But then she obeyed the family’s choice of a husband, and married a Buddhist [...] looked at me with astonishment and pulled out her right hand from under the blanket. She was holding a rosary and I heard this answer: "During all those years, every day and several times a day, without
about the Blessed Virgin Mary Jesus says: "The Eucharist is my Blood and my Body. But have you ever thought that this Blood and this Body were formed with the blood and milk of Mary? ... If it weren't for [...] its limit, and the punishment is ready. But Mary is there who protects you with her mantle, and if I can, with a single glance, make Heaven bow down and the stars tremble, I can do nothing against my Mother [...] newborn and the last sleep of death, and of this heart I know all the secrets. So I know that punishing you would cause a piercing pain to the Mother of the human race, who is your real Mother, and who continues
