currently the home of Vietnamese Cistercian monks. Cistercian monks follow the rule of Saint Benedict, reformed by Saint Bernard. Every evening at complies, the monks sing the beautiful hymn "Salve Regina" (also

understanding of the mystery of Mary's spiritual motherhood, going even further than his predecessor Saint Bernard in his reasoning: « Through Mary, we have a much better birth than the one we received from Eve [...] Mediation and Spiritual Motherhood Mary's mediation Saint Aelred of Rievaulx († 1167) clearly explains Mary's mediation. He compares the Virgin to a boat that helps us cross the stormy ocean of this world

rhetorical exasperations, it is the thought that Saint Bernard expresses with great emphasis in his famous sermon In laudibus Virginis Matris IV, 8. [1] Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica III q30 a1 Excerpts [...] Word and the spousal "yes" of Mary, pronounced in the name of all mankind. This is the thought of Saint Thomas. To illustrate the appropriate fashion of Christ's conception being announced to the Virgin

Annunciation in the Bible Learn more about the Annunciation in the Bible Mary and the Incarnation (Saint Bernard) [...] s archaeologically to the first Jewish-Christian synagogue-church. During the following century, Saint Jerome (4th century) wrote that the Grotto was a place of pilgrimage. His testimony was confirmed

Great Marian Witnesses Advocata Madonna of Monte Mario “One can never say enough of Mary”, as St. Bernard of Clairvaux famously stated (De Maria numquam satis). She is the pinnacle of creation, overflowing [...] always leads us to Jesus and vice versa Christ wants His mother to be loved. Mary, Our Mother His saints therefore deeply cherish and venerate the Mother of God. They pray to her, glorify her in their writings [...] century. Up to Modern Times Over the span of centuries, the Blessed Mother stood at the center of saints’ lives. To mention just a few: St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort who wrote the True Devotion to

the Melodist. In the West, the Benedictines of Cluny and Saint Anselm of Canterbury (born in Aosta), the Cistercian movement (with St Bernard’s eloquent but not particularly original writings), the Franciscans

general level (for instance the Marian catechesis of John Paul II). The invaluable experience of the saints, Fathers and Doctors of the Church, is another important element when seeking the Truth, since the [...] passed down to us by the Fathers, or the opportunity of improving our Marian knowledge thanks to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Dominic, St. Louis de Montfort, etc.). The mystics, prophets - or other persons [...] Sienna, St. Brigid of Sweden). Apparitions or messages of Christ , the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints, constitute other sources of meditation and discovery of the Church (ex. the messages of Lourdes

the gift doesn't reach its destination, and it isn't fulfilled. Light on the question from Saint Matthew Saint Matthew gives an excellent light on this question of the gift, in the parable of the dishonest [...] willing!" (Mt 23:37). Saint Augustine would say later on: "He who made you without you will not save you without you." Mary in the Plan of God and in the Communion of the Saints, by Alain Blancy and Maurice [...] theme of the gift. "Passivity is never total." Mary in the Plan of God and in the Communion of the Saints , Alain Blancy and Maurice Jourjon, and the Dombes Group, Paulist Press 2002 Let's use a concrete

Doctor of the Church (today named co-patron of Europe, by Pope Saint John Paul II). In the 15th century, Catherine of Genoa, another great saint known for her mystical writings, witnessed the discovery of [...] gave the Church some of its greatest Marian Doctors: St Peter Damian, St Anselm of Canterbury, St Bernard of Claivaux... The time of a greater doctrinal maturity In the 12th century, Marian devotion took [...] Church in the West. Never before, never since, has the number and scope of Christian thinkers, both saints and other people of great ability, been as influential as in that culminating point of the Middle

of Abidjan’s archbishop, his Eminence cardinal Bernard Yago. In May 1980, at the end of his first missionary journey to the African continent, Pope Saint John Paul II encouraged this project, while he