standing. What does this mean? It means you love God and His Will far beyond your desires, inclinations and the sufferings you experience. You want only God and His Will. It means you loved God immensely long [...] your Son Jesus was conceived and born. From your earliest childhood, your love flourished and grew every day because every day you sought to be small. You sought to be smaller and smaller with each passing [...] Precious Mary, Mother of God, please help and guide me this day to be small so that I can be found standing at the foot of the cross. Composed by Matthew Dhillon, a reader of A Moment with Mary , 2020
discerned it in the events of her life, and contemplated it by reflecting on what she had experienced (Lk 2:19 and 2:51). She lived with great vigilance of heart and mind. We too are invited to do God’s will [...] that wants to reach every man. Mary is vigilant. She invites sinners to convert and turn to her Son. Let us pray that—throughout this year—she may communicate her vigilance and make us night watchmen! Happy [...] January 1 – Mary, Mother of God Entering the new year with Our Lady (II) "Our Lady invites us to enter the new year with trust and vigilance. She does not pay lip service. She is the servant of the Lord
things were, and could not believe their eyes: At the end of the rope, our thief was alive and well, and he greeted them with these words: " Madame Saint Mary is holding me up by my feet and she has her [...] of the Virgin Mary’s Miracles (Soissons, France) - Estelle Faguette of Pellevoisin (d. 1929) "Madame Saint Mary is holding me up by my feet ..." There once was a thief of great skill and repute. He venerated [...] Eventually, he was caught in the act and sentenced to be hanged. We can imagine that he did not fail at this supreme hour to pray to the one whom he loved so much. And Our Lady, who never abandons her children
(5th century). It celebrates Mary as Spiritual Paradise of the "Second Adam," Temple of Divinity, Bridge Between Earth and Heaven, Ladder by which God comes down to Earth and man goes up to Heaven, Mother-of-God [...] became worthier than the Cherubim, the Seraphim and all the other forces of Heaven; she became "vaster than Heaven" by sheltering Christ in her womb, and therefore becoming the Throne of God. Because of [...] been raised higher than the Angels and the body shines with Divine glory. The human spirit becomes giddy faced with such a mystery, preferring to bow down faithfully and prostrate in silence, "because where
pilgrimage there. With the look of a tourist and a deep tan, sunglasses and a camera, I finally reached my destination after a long drive through Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. Welcome to Medjugorje, with its [...] November 25 – Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) Now I know that Mary is there! In July 2010, I went to Medjugorje (Bosnia-Herzegovina) at the spur of the moment, while vacationing in the Balkans [...] much the same. People pray the Rosary, climb the hill of apparitions, hold adoration and praise services, etc. And of course, conversions happen! Although I was already a practicing Catholic, I had only
of evil and terrorism, war and violence. We are plagued by broken families, abounding distractions and a general lack of drive for holiness. But the rosary can help. And we know this because Mary herself [...] actually pray them. And that’s really too bad, because a devotion to the rosary can be the answer to so many struggles in our 21st-century world. Our society today faces growing secularism and the disappearance [...] obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.” Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest Fatima seer whom the church just declared “venerable,” emphasized the message of Mary, who introduced herself to
to turn against the Virgin Mary perfectly apply to her, and actually proclaim that she is blessed first of all for having listened to the Word of God and observed it? Did Mary not listen to the Word of [...] of Trent declares that Mary is free of all sin (1547) – Our Wounded Lady (Cambrai, France) Mary, the one who kept all these things in her heart here is a point about the Virgin Mary in a Gospel passage where [...] the meaning of the verse: "And it came to pass, as he spoke, that a woman raised her voice from the midst of the crowd and said to him, 'Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you.'
in history that the Virgin Mary asked for a dogma. She specified that she "brings no new doctrine" (April 4, 1954) and warned that this dogma will be the object of a "hard and painful fight" (October 5 [...] November 18 – Mary of Chinquinquira (Venezuela) 56 apparitions of Mary to invoke the Holy Spirit in a new way (II) The Lady of All Nations asked, during an apparition in Amsterdam on February 11, 1951 [...] that her image and prayer (1) be distributed throughout the world, an effort which she called the "Great Global Action.” (October 11, 1953) The Virgin said: "It is a work of redemption and peace" (April
July 17 – Feast of Mary’s Humility Mary proclaimed herself the handmaid of God while she became His Mother "The Virgin Mary passed her life in obscurity, in a humble town, in a home humbler still, the [...] wonders at the sublime dignity and gives thanks to the power and mercy of God, the more does she, conscious of no merit in herself, grow in humility, promptly proclaiming and consecrating herself the handmaid [...] the more content with her retirement and the poverty of her home because they left her freer to lift up her heart to God and to cling to Him closely as the supreme Goodness for which her heart yearned (.
be answered. The repetition of the Hail Mary moves Mary's Heart, which is the Heart of our Mother. And above all, this prayer appeals to the intercession of Mary who is all powerful over the Heart of her [...] Victory of Mary (Constantinople) What makes the Rosary so powerful? The Rosary is not only a contemplative prayer that promotes union with God and our identification with Christ through Mary. It is a prayer [...] with the Almighty. Mary has been called "the all-powerful supplicant." Saint Louis de Montfort used to say: "My predestined ones, slaves of Jesus in Mary, you should know that the Hail Mary is the most beautiful
