May 16 - Saint Simon Stock (The Brown Scapular) He who dies in this scapular will not suffer eternal fire The Brown Scapular is a Marian devotion which originated at about the same time as the Rosary, [...] "This will be for you and for all Carmelites the privilege, that he who dies in this will not suffer eternal fire." The Scapular promise is based on the two elements of Mary's spiritual maternity and her mediation

December 24 – Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord What made Mary the true Mother of the Eternal Word? Surely, what God asks of us above all else is that we offer our will to Him without reservation and let [...] Virgin surrendered her own will to offer it to God, she immediately became the true Mother of the Eternal Word of God. Her fiat allowed her to conceive the Son of God and thus gained her the merit of having

October 23 – Our Lady of Frassino (Lake Guardia, Italy) In the Assumption of Mary, our eternal destiny is revealed to us The Assumption of Mary shows us that death is not the end of life, but the boundary [...] between Heaven and Earth is obliterated. In the Virgin Mother, received in Heaven, is revealed the eternal destiny that awaits us beyond the mystery of death—a destiny of complete happiness in the divine [...] John Paul II wrote, "was received in Heaven to serve. She is still ‘the handmaid of the Lord’ in eternal glory. She helps prepare the final Kingdom of the Son, and serves it. ‘The glory of serving’ continues

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Bologna, Italy) Mary, Mother of the Church, dominates the eternal city The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, located on the top of the Esquiline Hill, is one of the [...] is the highest in Rome. May Mary, the all-humble and all-faithful Mother of the Church, guard the eternal city and watch over it with her absolute and tender purity. The Marie de Nazareth Team Source: Vatican

January 23 – OUR LADY’S ESPOUSALS Saint Joseph: Image of the Eternal Father’s Purity Saint Joseph is for the Most Blessed Virgin an image of the Eternal Father's purity, who was meant to be the guardian, security [...] an idea of his own perfections; if he made visible in him what was hidden in his essence from all eternity; if he chose him to make him an image of his own holiness, what idea of Saint Joseph must we form

children so that they may obtain eternal life? ’ I answered them: ‘I will give you a catechism and a New Testament. If you give them to your children, they will obtain eternal life. ’ Unfortunately, 15 years [...] rosary have to do with our question: what can we pass on to our children so that they may obtain eternal life? ’ I showed them the cross hanging from the rosary: ‘ This is where we recite the Creed, the

wrote this about Mary, on August 15, 1988: "At the beginning of the New Covenant, which is to be eternal and irrevocable, there is a woman: the Virgin of Nazareth." And he wrote this about Joseph, on August [...] himself the entire heritage of the Old Covenant, was also brought into the ‘beginning’ of the New and Eternal Covenant in Jesus Christ. " Thanks to the "yes" of a woman (Mary) and the "yes" of a man (Joseph)

Virgin Mary came to me and touched my soul. She made me understand that Christ has opened the way to eternal life for us and that life here on earth is only a stage given to our freedom to choose God. At the

us to stand under her Son’s Cross. Right now, when so many people turn away from Christ, when the eternal life of so many people is at risk, when our eyes are looking more and more at earthly things, we

impossible to imitate ?” She is “ a sweet and caring mother … who gave a human face to the Son of the Eternal Father. " When people pray the Rosary, " the Gospel enters anew into the life of individuals, families