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 →

According to Archbishop Lefebvre, Dom Marmion was one of the greatest masters of the spiritual life of our time. He often encouraged priests, seminarians and the faithful to draw from his works and his spirituality, which can be summed up in the fundamental truth that all our perfection consists inRead More →

Jesus solemnly exercised the power to forgive sins for the first time on the paralytic of Capharnaum (Mt 9, 1 – 8). To testify to His divine power (for only God can forgive sins), Jesus performed the great miracle of healing this man who had been sick. Since He thusRead More →

In Mary’s feelings towards Jesus, a double aspect must be taken into account. That is, all that they implied affectionately, towards the divine Son, either as her only Son, or as Son of God and Redeemer. In the first aspect, her most tender heart tended to hold her beloved JesusRead More →

Mary’s love for God is at the same time a love of daughter, mother and spouse: three loves of three different species, which have never found each other and will never find each other again, elsewhere. The Eternal Father, having chosen the Blessed Virgin to communicate His divine paternity toRead More →