prince of all the heavenly court, is the most eager of all the angels to honour her and lead others to honour her. At all times he awaits the privilege of going at her word to the aid of one of her servants [...] wonderful things of Mary, the holy City of God, and, as they themselves admit, they were never more eloquent and more pleased than when they spoke of her. And yet they maintain that the height of her merits [...] the secrets of the king. Finally, we must say in the words of the apostle Paul, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has the heart of man understood" the beauty, the grandeur, the excellence of Mary, who
made of gold, holding her arms open in a gesture of farewell. Hence the name of Our Lady of Beauraing: the Virgin with the Golden Heart. This golden heart parallels the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima [...] "I am the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven." Approval The first medical examinations (skin and eye tests) were commenced. The report concluded: "Serious observation of the series of phenomena allows [...] covered with a long white veil flowing over her shoulders. It emitted fine rays of light, in the shape of a crown. Most of the time Mary smiled and held her hands joined in prayer. "Are you the Blessed
professor of theology who challenged the Catholic doctrine of salvation, the authority of the pope and the practice of indulgences. The publication of his Ninety-Five Theses (1517) marks the beginning of the [...] priesthood. His translation of the Bible into the vernacular German encouraged a wider use of the Sacred Scriptures and made them more accessible to the people. The strong anti-Semitism of his later years made [...] retract his writings. Luther opposed the notion that good deeds were necessary to attain salvation, which is to be received or accepted only as a free gift of God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ. He also
ages to give of their time each year. Bernadette was a sickly child since the age of 10. She contracted cholera and suffered severe asthma , and later tuberculosis, for the rest of her life. In the convent [...] she used to say: "I am good for nothing. My prayer is my only weapon. I can only pray and suffer.” Bernadette let God tenderly take care of her, and she became a privileged witness of his tenderness towards [...] care of in modern hospitals, by mostly volunteer staff: doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers, who even pay for their own trip, lodgings and expenses. Faith and compassion are what draws people of all ages
remained the heiress to the graces of innocence and the favors reserved for the children of Adam. If they had remained in the state of innocence, what a wealth of gifts they would have received! Such [...] without sin. We were called there—the father of the family sought us, but Mary has always been there. Oh! The beautiful worker! She is pure and unblemished. The good Lord could create a more beautiful world [...] If a very rich father and mother had a large number of children, and all these children were to die, and only one remained, the one who remained would inherit everything. Likewise, Adam, along with all
Friday of the month. - One day in the octave of the feast of the Blessed Sacrament (Corpus Christi) in 1675, Jesus asked for the institution of an annual feast of the Sacred Heart. [5] - One day in the year [...] prestige of France to their culminating point. After 1688, misfortunes started befalling the kingdom and the reign of Louis XIV has been the object of many criticisms. It was during the pivotal years of 1688-1690 [...] Anthony of Padua, St Bonaventure, and S. Clare of Assisi in the 12 th – 13th centuries, and in St Margaret Mary Alacoque’s own time, by Berulle (Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman, one of the most
carried out his pastoral ministry among the inhabitants of that city. But we think also with admiration of those men who climb the peaks of Everest or of the cosmonauts who set foot on the moon for the first [...] As can be seen from all this, the manifestations of the virtue of fortitude are numerous. Some of them are well known and enjoy a certain fame. Examples of lesser known virtue Fortitude, in fact, as we said [...] thinking, for example, of a woman, already mother of a large family, who is "advised" by so many to suppress a new life conceived in her womb, by undergoing "the operation" of interruption of pregnancy; and she
joyful Good News. However, it is not difficult to see in that beginning a particular heaviness of heart, linked with a sort of night of faith"- to use the words of St. John of the Cross - a kind of "veil" [...] obedience of faith " during the whole of her pilgrimage will show surprising similarities to the faith of Abraham. Just like the Patriarch of the People of God, so too Mary, during the pilgrimage of her filial [...] give to him the throne of his father David ," and that " he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there will be no end " (Lk 1:32- 33). The hope of the whole of Israel was directed
new forms of it. Nor does this exclude that they will have an effect even on the liturgy, as we see for instance in the feasts of Corpus Christi and of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. From one point of view, the [...] prophet speaks to the blindness of will and of reason, and declares the will of God as an indication and demand for the present time. In this case, prediction of the future is of secondary importance. What [...] the lips of children and of babes you have found praise", replies Jesus with a phrase of Psalm 8 (v. 3) to the criticism of the High Priests and elders, who had judged the children's cries of "hosanna"
care of the upbringing of her Son the incarnate Wisdom - during all of His childhood and youth – therefore in addition to the joys of child rearing, alongside her spouse Joseph , were the joys of daily [...] way that she experienced, like all mothers, the joy of giving birth, the happiness of watching her child grow in grace and wisdom, and the pleasure of receiving his unerring love and tenderness. She also [...] instance, wove the tunics her family wore with her own hands and took part in the activities of the women of Nazareth). Mary, like all mothers, felt distress for her child: remember, among others, those
