and Jesus practiced prayer from the heart in a continuous manner. This is to say that the family atmosphere in the home of the Holy Family was a prayerful one. A new way to communicate with God The spiritual [...] religious feast days). They also prayed in private, in the quiet of their home in Nazareth. The family prayed together on a daily basis, but each individual member also found time for personal prayer in the [...] pilgrimage three times a year. Although the calendars of the feast days specified that men alone come on pilgrimage, the practice of the pilgrimage in the first century had become for many a family matter. Little
A Marian shrine A man of this village was cured during a pilgrimage to the Italian shrine of Our Lady of Loreto (where the holy house of Nazareth is preserved). Upon his return, he built an oratory in [...] which later was transformed into a church, and was destroyed in 1915. The hill of Loreto is therefore a Marian shrine first, and it attracts an increasing number of pilgrims. A shrine for peace During WWI, [...] order of re-inhumation, with generals next to the simple soldiers. This site has become a memorial for all wars, and a place of prayer for peace. Principal feast days: September 8 (Nativity of Mary); August
her Son in a stable and " laid him in a manger " (cf. Lk 2: 7). A just and God-fearing man, called Simeon, appears at this beginning of Mary's "journey" of faith. Simeon's words seem like a "second An [...] have to remain in Egypt (cf. Mt 2: 15). The hidden life in Nazareth: a time of Mary's life hid through faith When the Holy Family returns to Nazareth after Herod's death, there begins the long period of the [...] 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" through which one has to draw
Monastery of the Sisters of Nazareth, not far from the Basilica of the Annunciation. In the town of Nazareth, beside the Grotto of the Annunciation (which was uncovered during a dig in 1955), archaeologists [...] Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. A field of tombs from the 1st Century which show how the dead were buried at the time of Jesus were found at Sephoris in Galilee, near Nazareth. The site of the famous “Wedding [...] in the Holy Land, particularly since the middle of the 19th Century. Nowadays the Israeli state has a national excavation program, but numerous international teams have already discovered ancient remains
story began 2000 years ago in Nazareth of Galilee, a small town in the Holy Land where Mary received a visit from the Archangel Gabriel at the time of the Annunciation. Today a large basilica rests on the [...] become the Mother of the Messiah announced to the nations, Jesus Christ Our Lord. Nazareth is the first Marian shrine--it has a universal significance. ___________________
feast may come from the consecration of a church dedicated to Mary, by Bishop Juvenal, in Kathisma (a stopping place where Mary may have rested between Nazareth and Bethlehem). However, it most likely [...] Blessed Virgin is a unique participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians... ____________________________________ Marie de Nazareth Team Equipe de MDN
prayer!) Pay attention to the signs of the times: for example, the Pope launched a year of the Rosary, a year of Saint Paul, a year for priests, etc. Pray for the intentions of Mary, and, by welcoming them [...] little for them! It is not a matter of what we say, but of experiencing an encounter: Pray the Rosary. Pray the Liturgy of the Hours, pray the psalms as the Holy Family of Nazareth did. But try to banish [...] Pick a good posture that won’t give you cramps! Mary meditated on events (read Lk 2, 19, 51): We should come to prayer with the events we’ve experienced – which might prompt expressions of thanksgiving
the one whom God caused to be born for such a great purpose, and to render such a great service to his own person, that is to say, to clothe him one day with a new nature. And this very God who wants to [...] give birth to it, give Life, Salvation and Light to the universe, and produce there an Eastern Sun, a rising Sun, of which the one that enlightens us is only the shadow and figure. The earth, which ignores [...] is towards this humble Virgin whom the world does not know." Source: - Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle, Vie de Jésus , ch. 5, Paris: Grasset 1961, p. 54-55. L'équipe de MDN.
Heaven. For nine days, we offer portraits of Father de Monfort, followed by a Gospel reading, his writings, a brief meditation, a few verses from his hymns and an oration; you may also choose to pray the [...] of a slave to set me free from the cruel slavery of the evil one. I praise and glorify you for having willingly chosen to obey Mary, your holy Mother, in all things, so that through her I may be a faithful [...] novena to Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort was prepared in collaboration with the Marie de Nazareth organization by Father Paulin RAMANANDRAIBE, Montfortian, rector of the Basilica of Saint Louis-Marie
God Incarnate "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin's name was Mary [...] by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of a young woman from Galilee, the Virgin Mary, who had been betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter in Nazareth, "when time was fulfilled" (Ga 4: 4) gave birth to [...] 'Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God's favor. Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord
