womb.” As a young man, a woman’s pregnancy was and still is a wonder and a mystery to me. I can never know exactly what it is like to nourish and grow a person within me, but I do know it is a miracle and [...] sacramentally at Mass was first nourished by Mary. I talked with a priest about this afterward, and he reminded me that Mary also received the Eucharist at Mass with the apostles and disciples of the early [...] Glory,” a book that was becoming popular with Catholic young people. I don’t know why, but I picked up a pamphlet and then decided to do it. I went through the consecration process poorly. I was at a point
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 [...] Presentation: "I have seen with my own eyes your Salvation, which you have prepared before all peoples: a light to enlighten the nations and the glory of your people." Mary helps us to keep "our eyes fixed [...] 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 temple, he became the New Temple
spirits of the people. However, before the eyes of the City, a miracle occurred. In the bay of the Golden Horn, filled with enemy ships, a tornado appeared. The ships were torn to pieces, and the remaining [...] Sergius of Constantinople, along with the clergy, took up an Icon of the Theotokos and began to march along the city walls, chanting and censing. They were not expecting a miracle, only hoping to bolster [...] April 9 – Byzantine Church: Holy Mary of the Spring – Holy Virgin Empress (Russia) The origin of the Akathist hymn to the Mother of God There are many varied stories as to the origins of the Standing Praises
and the Life said, "Where I am, there too will my servant be," how could his Mother, with stronger reason, not be with him? [...] Aug 15 - Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven The Holy Ark Enters the Temple of God Today, the Holy Ark, inhabited by the living God, who conceived within herself her Creator [...] by any earthly passion, but who, according to the divine plan did not return to dust, is placed, as a living heaven, in the heavenly dwellings. (...) Eve, who gave her assent to the serpent's suggestions
Marienfried apparitions of Mary the Great Mediatrix of Graces to Bärbel Ruess (Germany, 1946) "In Lourdes, Mary healed my daughter's heart" Veronika, a Polish woman, became paralyzed after a back operation at the [...] country house to look for a flat outside the city. Exhausted by a trying year, her husband agreed to let her come visit in the south of France for a month to rest and give her family a break. On this occasion [...] walk anymore. For her, so athletic, it was a nightmare. For her family too. A year later, she was still in denial. "I'm going to get better, I'm going to find a surgeon who can operate on me." Living on
8 - Act of Entrustment to Mary by Pope John Paul II We Entrust to You the New Millennium Today we wish to entrust to you the future that awaits us, and we ask you to be with us on our way. We are the men [...] ons. Humanity now has instruments of unprecedented power: we can turn this world into a garden, or reduce it to a pile of rubble. We have devised the astounding capacity to intervene in the very well-springs [...] to the short-sighted pride of a science which accepts no limits, but tramples on the respect due to every human being. Today as never before in the past, humanity stands at a crossroads. And once again,
times, Mary might have said: "Why me, and not another girl, maybe one from Jerusalem? Why now? I have a better plan, Gabriel: How about in a year's time when I am married to Joseph? Why propose such a dangerous [...] wedlock can be stoned to death with her child according to the Law. I have a better plan than this project of God! You understand, my friend Gabriel, don’t you?" But with the humble eyes of faith, hope [...] the first joyful mystery: the Annunciation, whose fruit is humility: Mary is about 14 years old. She is in Nazareth in the year 0, a period of Roman peace (Pax Romana). She pauses her work and thinks about
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 [...] 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 (.
November 25 – Mary Consoler of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) – St Seraphim of Sarov Mary, terror of demons Despite the fact that Satan seduced Eve, dragging Adam after her, God not only gave us a Redeemer who [...] of the Woman, the Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, who crushed in herself and in the whole human race the head of the serpent, he provided us with a tireless advocate before his Son and our God and [...] this reason that she is called "the terror of demons", for it is impossible for the demon to destroy a man as long as he himself perseveres in calling on the help of the Theotokos ( Mother of God ). Saint
to a Mother who had been granted, by a singular grace, to be immaculate from the first moment of her existence, and to a Child who was totally holy. However, it must be remembered that it was not a question [...] holy to the Lord'), and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, 'a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons'" (Lk 2:22-24). With this act, Mary and Joseph show their intention [...] temple in Jerusalem has the significance of a consecration to God in the place where he is present. Obliged by her poverty to offer turtledoves or pigeons, Mary in fact gives the true Lamb who would redeem
