Holy Virgin Said Yes (belgian bishops) The Gospel shows us Mary as the mother of the Son of God. Jesus' entire childhood took place in the shadow of his mother. When God spoke to her, he awaited her "Yes"
every era. On Calvary, with the words: "Behold, your son!", "Behold, your mother!" (Jn 19:26-27), Jesus gave Mary in advance to all who would receive the Good News of salvation, and was thus laying the [...] Church's origins. The first two chapters of St Luke's Gospel seem to relate the particular attention to Jesus' Mother on the part of Jewish Christians, who expressed their appreciation of her and jealously guarded [...] of salvation and lays the foundation for the inseparability of Marian devotion from that shown to Jesus, which will endure down the Christian centuries. Marian devotion is first expressed in the invocation
Mary and the Church (St Irenaeus) By linking the virginal birth of Jesus and that of the Christians operated through faith and baptism, Saint Irenaeus introduced a close identity between the Mother of
Much of the population of Bolivia suffers from dire poverty. For many, the mother of Jesus is a source of comfort and hope. The Shrine of Copacabana shows how Marian beauty, this most tender side of C
tua suffragia, all may be ordered to the good according to the will of your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas to the Blessed Virgin , Compiled by Robert Anderson and
does this mean ? For many people, the “Immaculate Conception” means that Mary became the Mother of Jesus thanks to the Holy Spirit, without carnal relationship with Joseph. However, as the Christian faith [...] painters have often done. Even the Assumption of Mary can be imagined, by analogy, with the Ascension of Jesus. But the Immaculate Conception? We have no support for our prayer. Besides, there is no decade devoted [...] conception was, by singular grace and privilege of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the Human race, preserved from all stains of original sin”. Less than four years
public life of Jesus Mary appears prominently; at the very beginning when at the marriage feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought about by her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the Messiah [...] first place reverence the memory "of the glorious ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ."[2] 53. The Virgin Mary, who at the message of the angel received the Word of God in her heart [...] about death, so also a woman should contribute to life. This is preeminently true of the Mother of Jesus, who gave to the world the Life that renews all things, and who was enriched by God with gifts appropriate
is not in Scripture. This tradition has great symbolic value , because as she became the Mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary truly became the Temple of the Divine Presence, the new Tent of Meeting. This tradition
Mary and the Church (St Irenaeus) By linking the virginal birth of Jesus and that of the Christians operated through faith and baptism, Saint Irenaeus introduced a close identity between the Mother of
in the spirituality of the French School, which was inspired by the Incarnation and the union with Jesus living in the Blessed Virgin Mary. Canada's largest Marian shrine is the Shrine of Our Lady of the
