How essential the descent of the Holy Ghost is for our salvation is clearly taught by the Church scholars. St. Bonaventure, for example, says: “Without the action of the Holy Ghost in our hearts, who is the love of the Father and the Son and who brings us to theRead More →
It is difficult to grasp the true greatness of Mary. People often tend to consider her more in her smallness, in her charm as the Mother of the Child Jesus. However, this Virgin, so beautiful, so humble, is more immense than the whole universe. To understand a little of Mary’sRead More →
When Archbishop Lefebvre spoke of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he often liked to describe her as the “Mirror of Christ”. St. John Eudes explains this term very deeply, showing that Mary is first of all a living likeness of divine Love and of all the attributes of God. “The ImmaculateRead More →
Reflections of Jean-Jacques Olier on the Resurrection. She had given him a human body, a body that could endure suffering, a humanity that had the capacity to save all men, and now this Body returns to her but glorious, impassive, immortal.She discovers the glorious wounds of Its hands and feet andRead More →
The heart-breaking embrace of death, when the sorrowful Mother pressed the broken and lifeless Body of her Son against her sorrowful heart, is now succeeded by the sweetest embrace of life: the Virgin Mother clasps her Son, resplendent with a new and imperishable glory, against her heart. The terrible visionRead More →
In the Gospel account, the Blessed Virgin is not mentioned from the burial of Jesus to his Ascension. Is it conceivable that she would have been absent at the time of the revelations of the risen Christ? Is it possible that this silence is meant to be an implication thatRead More →
Of all the human creatures who have been inundated with the divine joys of Our Lord’s Resurrection, it is certain that none was more favoured than His own Mother, and none tasted them more unselfishly and more purely. The fact that the Gospels have left it to Tradition to relateRead More →
