During his long convalescence, he asked for books to read as a distraction. He was given a "Life of Jesus" and a "Life of the Saints". At first, he read distractedly, but soon he felt a deep emotion within [...] night, by the intervention of the Virgin Mary, Refuge of sinners, he solemnly dedicated himself to Jesus, and swore that he would be faithful to God for ever. So as to reassure him about the validity of [...] of his conversion, Mary appeared to him one night Surrounded by light and holding the Enfant Jesus in her arms, Mary also made herself visible on another occasion. Later, Ignatius made a general confession

Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the holy Spirit. Joseph her husband [...] holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had [...] took his wife into his home. He had no relations with her until she bore a son, and he named him Jesus. USCCB

goodness of the tree (Mt 7:20; 12:33; Lk 6:43). But there can be no better fruit than Jesus Himself. And as Jesus is the blessed fruit (Lk 1:42) from the womb of this extraordinary tree that is Mary, it [...] weigh them on a scale. But is that how God wants us to think? Scripture helps us to understand that Jesus spent 30 years with Mary, not counting her pregnancy and his years of public life (Lk 2:51). In two [...] seek to understand and to deepen, with the Church (Acts 8:31), the whole breadth of the Word of God. Jesus said, for example, that we must judge the tree by its fruit, and that the goodness of the fruit is

the Pope John Paul II summoned all believers to turn with him towards the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of the Church, in the conclusion of the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in [...] the Bishops have proclaimed her as Patroness of Oceania under the title of Our Lady of Peace . In Jesus Christ, whom she nurtured in her womb, there is born a new world where justice and mercy meet, a world [...] Christ's Cross and Resurrection, God has reconciled the world to himself, and he has made the Lord Jesus the Prince of Peace for every time and place. May Mary, Regina Pacis, help the peoples of Oceania

crucial moments in the life of he Son, Jesus, the Word of God. For this very reason, Catholic and Orthodox Christians are not alone in honoring the Mother of Jesus. All persons who recognize the Bible as [...] Mother and role model, and who leads all men women and children to encounter Jesus Christ. Filial piety toward Mary Mother of Jesus gives a Christian rise to make "the firm decision to imitate her virtues"

his bag representing Our Lady of Altagracia! The image shows the Virgin in prayer before the Baby Jesus, with Saint Joseph behind her. Nina’s father excitedly offered to buy it from the man, but the latter [...] event. Saint John Paul II visited the shrine in 1992. The image of Our Lady of Altagracia depicts Jesus’ birth in the manger of Bethlehem. It highlights Our Lady’s maternity. At the center of the painting [...] together. On her chest we notice a white triangular-shaped light, denoting the virginal birth of Jesus. Her head is covered with a dark blue veil that falls to her shoulders, and she wears a crown of pearls

enabled the greatest blessing known to mankind—the birth of God as Man, Jesus—to come about. The Catholic who embellishes his prayers to Jesus with references to Mary thus is doing the same thing as the Jew who [...] Commandments: "I am the LORD your God, You shall have no other gods before me;" (Exodus 20:2-3). Jesus Himself names this as the most important—the "first and greatest"—of the commandments in Matthew 22:38 [...] Heaven" The role of Abraham in Judaism provides a parallel which can shed some light. At the time of Jesus, the Jews called their "heaven" the "bosom of Abraham" (this was, in fact, not heaven proper but what

the two-piece cloth (the scapular) representing Jesus and Mary, which the postulant is given at the time of his investiture while promising to take on Jesus and Mary as role models. The scapular is worn [...] apostolic missions. We mustn’t forget to mention the art of devotional pictures and paintings of Jesus, Mary and the Saints. In Church tradition, these objects are innumerable. They are sometimes added

the Torah. At twelve, Jesus therefore went with his parents to Jerusalem. The evangelist Luke recalls this moment of the young Jesus' life (Lk 2: 41-52): after the festival, Jesus stayed in the Temple, [...] The spiritual climate of Jesus' childhood is found in the the Old Testament. The essential element of domestic or synagogal cult rests on the blessing, by which the believer thanks God each instant of [...] Everything starts at dinnertime on Friday, for the opening of the Sabbath. The head of the family, in Jesus' case, Joseph, holds a cup of wine in his hand, a symbol of life and joy. He blesses God for the gift

except receiving each day the holy Eucharist, "to follow Jesus in the desert," and to remember and meditate on the suffering of the passion of Jesus on Good Friday, when he also was hungry and thirsty. Anathalie [...] She didn't pretend either to have suffered as much as Jesus when he was in the desert; or to be the only one in the world to have suffered after Jesus. Finally, in the days following her fast, she didn't [...] time overwhelmed with sadness. Then, the Virgin asked Nathalie to get the book of the Imitation of Jesus Christ in the corner of the dormitory's small chapel, and read the page she would open randomly. She