sketches out the face of Mary in a veiled and symbolic way: Ark of the Covenant, Noah’s Ark, Burning Bush, Tabernacle of the Most High, Temple of God, Daughter of Zion, the Virgin of the Book of Isaiah, the Beloved [...] (Acts 8:31) the whole significance of the Word of God. Jesus said that we must judge a tree by its fruit and that the goodness of the fruit is a measure of the goodness of the tree (Mt 7:20, 12:33; Lk 6:43) [...] 1:42) of the womb of the extraordinary tree which is Mary. Therefore, it is only in looking at Christ Himself that we can have an idea of the grandeur and goodness of the Mother of God. Hugh of St. Victor
invites us to entrust the fate of Iraqi Christians to Mary, Queen of Martyrs. The tragedy of persecuted Christians of Iraq: After the attack on the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Baghdad, many [...] (near Mosul): The monastery of Our Lady of the Seeds. (1) This title of the Virgin comes from the Chaldean liturgy, which celebrates Our Lady of Seeds on January 15th. The liturgy of the feast compares Mary [...] people of good will, Christians and non-Christians, in the spirit of Vatican II. (1) Baghdad : Our Lady of Perpetual Help cathedral. On October 31, 2010, an al-Qaida commando stormed the Cathedral of Our
with all the bishops of the world, consecrated all individuals and peoples of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In remembrance of the ‘fiat’ pronounced by Mary at the time of the Annunciation, and [...] with the love of the Mother and Handmaid of the Lord, this human world of ours, which we entrust and consecrate to you, for we are full of concern for the earthly and eternal destiny of individuals and [...] on, from every kind of war, deliver us. From sins against the life of man from its very beginning, deliver us. From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us. From
hour of glorification, the Crucified crushed the head of the old serpent. And since the first woman had been associated with the work of death, the mother of Jesus is an associate to the work of Life. [...] - " Can something good come out of Nazareth? " – Mary's horizon soon extended beyond Nazareth. A few kilometers away was Sephoris, the Roman city of Galilee Sephoris, the capital of Galilee, was only a [...] prominent place. Jerusalem, the site of three annual pilgrimages At the age of twelve, Jesus went to the Temple of Jerusalem to make his bar mitzva, to become the "son of the commandment," like every young
the sea of history, often dark and stormy, a voyage in which we watch for the stars that indicate the route. The true stars of our life are the people who have lived good lives. They are lights of hope. [...] sacred scriptures of Israel which spoke of hope, of the promise made to Abraham and his descendants (cf. Lk 1:55). In this way we can appreciate the holy fear that overcame you when the angel of the Lord appeared [...] dark sayings of the prophets about the suffering of the servant of God in this world. Shining over his birth in the stable at Bethlehem, there were angels in splendour who brought the good news to the shepherds
insisted several times on these two requests of prayer and penance. Knowing that Satan’s greatest victory is to make man lose the sense of good and evil, therefore of his own responsibility, we can see the reason [...] all marks of respect towards her, believing that they were misplaced. "Don’t I know that if the Virgin chose me, it was because I am the most ignorant of all!" We are strongly reminded of Joan of Arc’s words [...] socks, she heard a rush of wind coming from the cave. Looking up, she saw a young and beautiful lady, aged maybe fifteen or sixteen, in a niche of the rock. The lady made the sign of the cross, and smiled
root with the arrival of the fathers of the Holy Spirit (1889), the Mill Hill fathers (1894) and the missionaries of the Consolata of Turin (1902). Relying on the natural love of the natives for their [...] 1971, is dedicated to the Consolata. Giali (Meru) The Shrine of Our Lady of Liberty was blessed in 1967. Thomson's Falls The Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima dates from 1975. In addition, there are 250 chapels [...] Joseph’s example of a good father and husband when he took Mary and Jesus into exile. Nairobi The Consolata Shrine in Nairobi was built in 1968-1971 to fulfill a vow made during the persecution of Mau Mau. In
Immaculate Conception Majunga: The Immaculate Heart of Mary Antsirabe: Our Lady of La Salette Tsiroanomandidy: Our Lady of the Good Remedy Morondava: Our Lady of La Salette Regional Shrines: Ambatolampy Antananarivo [...] It was only in 1642, with the French occupation of Antongil Bay, that a regular evangelization began, under the auspices of Mary. A small island south of the bay was dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 1642 [...] directory stated that December 8 was the feast of the Immaculate Conception, patron saint of Madagascar. [1] The "tsangam-bato" dedicated to Mary Images of Mary are found in private houses and out in the
feelings of affection she has towards God, inspired by the gift of piety, at all the moments of her most holy life. The Gift of Fortitude The gift of fortitude is the perfection of the virtue of courage [...] gift of fear of the Lord is the perfection of both the virtue of hope and the virtue of temperance: the virtue of hope, by making us fear to displease God and to be separated from him; the virtue of temperance [...] one has had a finer "sense of who Christ was." The Gift of Wisdom The most perfect of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of wisdom. It is the perfection of the virtue of charity, and resides at the
the abundance of all heavenly gifts poured from the treasury of his divinity that this mother, ever absolutely free of all stain of sin, all fair and perfect, would possess that fullness of holy innocence [...] lamentable wretchedness of the entire human race which would result from the sin of Adam, decreed, by a plan hidden from the centuries, to complete the first work of his goodness by a mystery yet more [...] sublime through the Incarnation of the Word. This he decreed in order that man who, contrary to the plan of Divine Mercy had been led into sin by the cunning malice of Satan, should not perish; and in