"hidden years" at Nazareth is an example to many other mothers and to all who strive to grow in faith, hope and love. Our lives too are "hid with Christ in God" (Col 3: 3), and Mary shows us how a life which [...] Although the Gospels say little about Jesus' childhood and youth, this must have been a time of special closeness between Mother and Son as they sought each day to do God's will. St Luke wrote that: "And

to spare Rome and withdraw behind the Danube. To thank heaven, Leo ordered a statue of St Peter to be made with the bronze from a statue of Jupiter. Later, Leo opposed the sack of Rome by the Vandals, but [...] patriarch of Constantinople, in a celebrated dogmatic letter, "the Tome to Flavian," which was to form the basis for the definition of the Christological Council of Chalcedon (451) a few years later: that Jesus [...] the Church, Leo I, was born in Tuscany, in 406. His feast is celebrated on November 10. His time was a troubled one: while the Roman Empire was beginning to disintegrate under the blows of foreign invasions

makes, O marvellous ! New Nazareths in us, Where she shall yet conceive Him, morning, noon, and eve ; New Bethlems, and he born There, evening, noon, and morn - Bethlems, or Nazareth, Men here may draw like [...] and ail the rest But mothers each new grace That does now reach our race - Mary Immaculate, Merely a woman, yet Whose presence, power is Great as no goddess's Was deemèd, dreamèd ; who This one work has [...] stand Where you can lift your hand Skywards : rich, rich it laps Round the four fingergaps. Yet such a sapphire-shot, Charged, sleepèd sky will not Stain light. Yea, mark you this : It does no prejudice

Lady of Algiers in Algeria - to cite only a few - it is no exaggeration to say that Mary is absolutely everywhere on this earth. To get a better idea of this, take a look at our website and browse themes 9 [...] consider simple rural chapels or famous basilicas - such as the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, or Santa Maria Magiorre of Rome - places of apparitions known world-wide, such as Our Lady of Guadalupe [...] 9 and 10 ("Mary Fills the World" and "A Mother's Pleas").

tension. During a visit to Zimbabwe, Pope Saint John Paul II entrusted the country to Mary Immaculate, in Harare, on September 11, 1988. On that day, he said: “Blessed Virgin of Nazareth, O Woman of faith [...] 11:52). We are a people who believe that He is the Prince of Peace.” Saint John Paul II, Angelus of September 11, 1988, in Harare The Marian movement of Schoenstatt, formed in 1975, established a Marian shrine [...] shrine there. The community "Mother of Peace" built a shrine in Mutemwa. In the city of Musami, the church dedicated to the martyrs of peace and charity, is a place of pilgrimage and important gathering. Zimbabwe

Jesus. For it was not a mince feat to be able to discuss Jesus or the popular expectation of the universal Messiah, without people suspecting anything. Joseph, a man of difficult tasks A man of difficult tasks [...] especially for keeping a secret - for over thirty years - about the most enormous reality ever to be concealed! Do we need to eliminate the possibility of the "origins of Jesus" as a conversation topic at [...] It seems to me that Jesus, Mary and Joseph spoke between themselves - and quite a lot probably - but what about? In my opinion their conversations must have centered on the only topic that really interested

The Franciscans built a church in 1881 at Cana, a Galilean town five miles northwest of Nazareth, between Sepphoris and Tiberias, in the small village now known as Kefr Kanna. This shrine commemorates [...] miracle, the healing of the servant of a Roman centurion (Jn 4: 46-54), so that these two signs given in Cana would announce the formation of a new nation of believers, a people descended from Judaism with [...] he did on the Cross); and then once again, John calls her "the mother of Jesus." Mary's mediation is a maternal mediation. Her mediation consists in speaking to Jesus on behalf of others: "They have no wine

The analogy of God as spouse Virginity is a mystery of love, a quality of the marriage of God and humanity. The entire Old Testament taught the Hebrews to live a virginal love with the Lord (free from the [...] Baals). Christ is a virgin because in him God marries humanity, virginally. The risen Christ espouses the Church virginally, through his death and resurrection, in his pierced side. As a virgin, Mary is [...] is not only a sign or proof of the Incarnation, but also the fulfilment of the Covenant. As a virgin, Mary is the star of evangelisation by virtue of her quality of heart; she is like the light by which

all the self-sacrifice required on a daily basis to raise a little boy to manhood. Don’t we know that Jesus shared the life of the Holy Family for thirty years in Nazareth? As the mother of men and mother [...] mother of the Church, Mary exerts a spiritual motherhood over all those who accept to enter into the Covenant with her Son through Christian baptism. Finally, when we contemplate the life of Mary and Joseph [...] even though their loved was expressed through perfect chastity, they were true spouses; theirs was a marriage of the heart and the soul. And yet, how many very trying obstacles, humanly speaking, which

freshness... You are beautiful like a coffee field at dawn, a scented coffee field in bloom... You are beautiful and fascinating like a forest of palm trees undulating under a clear blue sky. You are beautiful [...] beautiful and enchanting like a pure spring running between rocks. You are beautiful and graceful like the moon moving in a sky washed by the tornado. You are beautiful and splendid like a majestic flame rising [...] A Poem to Mary (after the abolition of slavery) Loving Mother... the night has been long and hard... Your black people arrived late. They are in a hurry and full of zeal to take their place in the concert