The truth of an apparition of the Virgin Mary does not affect the dogma of faith by which the faithful are bound. Everyone knows that the Mother of God can appear and help her children. The practical question [...] the judgment of the Church in such matters is not concerned with the divinely revealed faith. It is rather a pastoral pronouncement, for the good of the faithful, with a varying degree of certainty. The [...] number of sites whose status is less clear. Among them are quite a few ancient shrines where popular devotion has established its uncontested grounds, without incurring the official judgment of the Church
leads it to torture and kill absolute Truth, Goodness and Innocence. Christ's Victory is that He glorified God in the face of this unleashing of hatred of the world, showing who God is: Love, Forgiveness [...] We hear in the Easter liturgy: "By the power of the cross, the judgment of the world and the victory of the Crucified One appear in full light." French writer and philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj, quoted in [...] the light of Truth when it illuminates the world, but when it sheds light on our sins we find it unbearable and we try to get rid of it; 4°/ Truth acknowledges that death exists. We are afraid of death because
Sermon of the Twelve Stars, § 10 [2] Saint Bridget, Revelationes, II, 23 ________________________________________ St Alphonsus of Liguori, Discourse on the Virtues of Mary, in "The Glories of Mary" (Ed [...] others The first act of humility in one's heart is to hold oneself in low esteem. For her part, the Holy Virgin always had such a low opinion of herself that, even while being more full of grace than all men [...] lowliness of his servant. Mary loved to serve others Furthermore, let's say that proper of humility finds pleasure in serving others. That is why the Virgin hastened to visit her cousin Elizabeth to be of service
paintings of great importance today to understand the history of early Christianity. Symbols and frescos on the walls of the catacombs offer a pictorial Gospel. For example, the fish is the symbol of Christ [...] “Jesus, the Christ , Son of God, Savior”). The Good Shepherd holding a lamb is another symbol of Christ carrying his faithful disciples. After the great Roman persecutions of Christians under the Emperors [...] devotion to the Virgin: The catacombs of Priscilla, for example, show the Madonna and Child with Balaam who points to a star with his hand, symbol of the famous prophecy of Balaam (cf. Nb 22-31). These rep
four centuries of the Christian era slipped away, which mark so to speak the "coming of age" of the Church. Indeed, during medieval times, temporal society, in the West and a good share of the East was true [...] point of the Middle Ages. It is the century of such brilliant Doctors of the Church as St Albert the Great, St Bonaventura, St Thomas Aquinas. It was also the century of mystics like St Mechtilda of Hackeborn [...] (St Louis of France), St Elizabeth of Portugal, St Bridget of Sweden... At this point we reach the 14th century, the century of St Nicholas Cabasilas, a great theologian and Orthodox monk, and of St Catherine
Having this evangelical sense of justice before our eyes, we must consider it at the same time a fundamental dimension of man's life on earth: the life of man, of society, of humanity. This is the ethical [...] principle of the existence and the coexistence of men, as well as of human communities, societies and peoples. International and social relations Furthermore, justice is the principle of the existence of the [...] the Church, as the People of God, and the principle of coexistence of the Church and the various social structures; in particular of the state, as well as of international organizations. In this wide and
action that would make him one of the major Marian figures of the Church of the 20th century. The Life of Frank Duff Born in Dublin on June 7, 1889, Frank Duff was the eldest of seven children to John Duff [...] Witness and teacher of Marian spirituality, Frank Duff was the founder of a lay apostolic organization at the service of the Church, now spread over five continents: the Legion of Mary. Witness and teacher [...] exposed to the real poverty of Dublin of that time. Many who lived in tenement squalor were forced to attend soup kitchens for sustenance and some of the natural consequences of abject poverty, alcoholism
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 in [...] 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 [...] the best of friends. Pray like the sons and daughters of the King that you are! _________________________________________________________________________________ Bishop Jean Ntagwarara, Bishop of Bubanza
Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas (13th c.) O most blessed and sweet Virgin Mary, Mother of God, filled with all tenderness, Daughter of the most high King, Lady of the Angels, Mother of all the faithful, On [...] 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 Johann Moser [...] On this day and all the days of my life, I entrust to your merciful heart my body and my soul, all my acts, thoughts, choices, desires, words, deeds, my entire life and death, So that, per tua suffragia
arise various types of images of the Virgin Mary, such as the Virgin of humility, of wisdom, of prayer, etc. Moreover, the link uniting Christ and the Virgin Mary is at the heart of Marian artistic rep [...] simply another way of honoring the incarnation of Christ and the divine motherhood of Mary through countless types of images: Madonna and Child, figuring the infancy of Christ and the role of Mary, with some [...] salvific power is at the heart of the question of art. Dostoyevsky reflects on the “enigma of beauty” by asking whether beauty saves or is in need of being saved? The Representation of the Virgin Mary Since the
