The Gift of Mary in You

In a Catholic Bible (which inside is composed of books), and in the Book of St. John (which in textbooks appears with the acronym "Jn"), in its Chapter 19, if we look for the phrase (that in the Bible the phrases are called verses) with the number 26 it says:

"26 When Jesus saw his mother 11 and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your Son." 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your Mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home."

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PXR.HTM

Christ leaves st. John to his Mother, 

What a responsibility, 

what a gift/Spiritual gift!

And this is the Spiritual Gift of having Mary as well as your Mother

Welcoming her

talking about it

the be and deal with Her

😀 Hallelujah 😀

To learn more about the Devotion to the Holy Virgin Mary, any Catholic Priest will be happy to assist you, and you can ask him:

What do I have to do to welcome Mary?

😀 Surely you get some "accounts" answers 😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

2679 Mary is the perfect Orans (prayer), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus' Mother into our homes,39 for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her. the prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary and united with it in hope.40

Image of Saint John and Holy Mary front Cross: 

http://paraelsacerdocioreal.blogspot.com/2011/04/cinco-preguntas-y-respuestas-sobre-la.html

Vatican Holy Bible: 

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

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The Official International Association of Exorcists

The Official International Association of Exorcists was founded in 1994 by Father Gabriele Amorth and Father René Laurentin

https://www.aieinternational.it/

The task is not easy. The Apostles themselves, in their first journeys, already claim to JesusChrist, in the Gospels, not having been able to cast out demons.

And Jesus Christ replies that for some demons "Fasting and Prayer" is necessary. And it is that Jesus Christ knows them well because as a shepherd he knows his sheep, and the most wayward also

In fact, one could even say that a Gospel in itself is an Exorcism. Because it reflects us and constantly helps and teaches us how to turn away from evil and abide in JesusChrist who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Full are the Gospels of exorcisms and that is that Evil exists. And this is the propagation of the Gospel: that they know You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

2 So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." 4 Strengthened by this mission, the apostles "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it."5

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Purification of the Holy Virgin Mary

Sometimes when praying the Holy Rosary one is surprised when one prays the mystery where the Virgin Mary had to go to the Temple to Purify herself.

Like the Baptism that Jesus Christ receives in the Jordan River from John the Baptist

And it is that God by infusing his People with a behavior that becomes a word, the Word, by inhabiting the Earth, realizes His Word

And the full of Grace, His Holy Mother too

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

144 To obey (from the Latin ob-audire, to "hear or listen to") in faith is to submit freely to the word that has been heard, because its truth is guaranteed by God, who is Truth itself. Abraham is the model of such obedience offered us by Sacred Scripture. The Virgin Mary is its most perfect embodiment.

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And he was going for something else

Alphonse was traveling

And the afternoon before his return, he had to pay a visit to a family friend and tried to excuse himself by leaving a note. But there was "something" that held him back

During the visit he began a Religious conversation with the friend of the Family who was Catholic and who told him about the Holy Virgin Mary and also gave him a medallion of "La Milagrosa" and a prayer. Alphonsus, a non-believer in the Holy Virgin Mary, took both objects to imply that this had no reason to exist. The fact is that, "something" made him take them

The next day with the trip completed and with the intention of leaving, his friend asks him to accompany him to a Church to ask for a responsory for a person he knew, and so he could appreciate the Art of the church. 

Alphonse was visiting the church... and in the little chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary..., this happens to Alphonse that he himself narrates:

"The whole building disappeared from my sight, I saw a great glow and in the midst of that glow on the altar appeared to me upright, splendid, full of majesty and sweetness the Virgin Mary as it is painted on the medal and smiled at me, she did not say anything to me, but I understood everything"

This is how our friend Alphonse became St. Marie Alphonse Ratisbonne

A beautiful story that you can read in this link:

https://www.isfcc.org/the-conversion-of-alphonse-ratisbonne/

😀 and is that when Mary is in the Middle

everything starts well, mediates well and never ends 😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

644 Even when faced with the reality of the risen Jesus the disciples are still doubtful, so impossible did the thing seem: they thought they were seeing a ghost. "In their joy they were still disbelieving and still wondering."506 Thomas will also experience the test of doubt and St. Matthew relates that during the risen Lord's last appearance in Galilee "some doubted."507 Therefore the hypothesis that the Resurrection was produced by the apostles' faith (or credulity) will not hold up. On the contrary their faith in the Resurrection was born, under the action of divine grace, from their direct experience of the reality of the risen Jesus.

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Probably to the Third will go the defeated

¡Europe¡

¡Europe¡

¡Europe¡

This could well be the beginning of Shakespeare's Play: "Macbeth"

For many years Europe has been dancing in fashions; and fashions that are transient move away from the roots

Europe sprouts from your roots now that you still can because like Macbeth called by Bruges, the call is not belonging!

take care of yourself and your roots Europe; that probably to the Third will go the defeated

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. The world began when God's word drew it out of nothingness; all existent beings, all of nature, and all human history are rooted in this primordial event, the very genesis by which the world was constituted and time begun.²⁰⁷

Royal Compay Shakespeare: https://www.rsc.org.uk/

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The Star of Bethlehem is Annual

If Christ is the Head of the Church

Mary is the Star who, in the manner of Bethlehem, also today tells us and announces to us: "Here is the Lord and the Savior"

And it is that only "The Greatest Star" is the only one that can announce / point us to where Jesus of Nazareth, the Risen Christ, is

😀 the Star of Bethlehem is also Annual 😀

Hallelujah !

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

525 Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family.202 Simple shepherds were the first witnesses to this event. In this poverty heaven's glory was made manifest.203 The Church never tires of singing the glory of this night:

The Virgin today brings into the world the Eternal

and the earth offers a cave to the Inaccessible.

The angels and shepherds praise him

and the magi advance with the star,

For you are born for us,

Little Child, God eternal!204

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This is the Pack

Christmas condensed into 2 weeks is an enriching Experience in every way 😀

And especially keeping this pack of 2 weeks where we celebrate that the Savior has come to the World

And expanding on this First Fact, at Christmas we celebrate:

Christmas Eve

Christmas

the Day of the Holy Innocents

New Year's Eve

New Year's Day

the day of the Three Kings

Any reason not to celebrate Christmas at a time when the Good is more than welcome? 😀

Let's keep this 2-week Christmas format that is always very Enriching, it gives for everything 

😀 Merry Christmas 😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

526 To become a child in relation to God is the condition for entering the kingdom.205 For this, we must humble ourselves and become little. Even more: to become "children of God" we must be "born from above" or "born of God".206 Only when Christ is formed in us will the mystery of Christmas be fulfilled in us.207 Christmas is the mystery of this "marvellous exchange":

O marvellous exchange! Man's Creator has become man, born of the Virgin. We have been made sharers in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share our humanity.208

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Again The Virtual Chapel of Lourdes: Holy Rosary OnLine

Well it turns out that visiting again the Virtual Chapel of Lourdes you find wonderful options such as being able to perform the Holy Rosary, too 😀

Fabulous option because sometimes you find that you are going to pray the Holy Rosary alone (traveling in a means of transport for example), and it is not the same as accompanied. And in this link you can find it:

https://youtu.be/w3Ym8s4bWeE?list=PL2fBaIU3WZ21g6sADpLlYm17EAGBDGPrV

Well, as in the previous publication: Imagine, a weekend in the countryside, a prayer is organized, and on a tablet of adequate dimensions you connect directly with the Little Chapel of Lourdes 😀 and... the Holy Rosary is prayed OnLine also in a group 

😀 looks great 😀

It also has a channel "On Demand": https://www.lourdes-france.org/en/tv-lourdes-replay/

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

2696 The most appropriate places for prayer are personal or family oratories, monasteries, places of pilgrimage, and above all the church, which is the proper place for liturgical prayer for the parish community and the privileged place for Eucharistic adoration.

Sanctuary of Lourdes: https://www.lourdes-france.org/en/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/

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A mobile cap

How Wonderful to be able to carry a mobile Capillita on your phone permanently 😀

Connecting OnLine and on YouTube with the Sanctuary of Lourdes on your mobile and you take your private little Cap wherever you are: Traveling in a means of transport, making an excursion, or walk, or weekend in the countryside, etc ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUCmOZcUkU

In addition to contemplating this mobile chapel allows you to pray with those who are there at that moment that you can also see them, and also pray for those who ask you for prayers for something in particular

Imagine, a weekend in the countryside, a prayer is organized, and on a tablet of appropriate dimensions you connect directly with the Little Chapel of Lourdes 😀 and... the prayer is done in a group 

😀 looks great 😀

The Web of the Sanctuary of Lourdes is https://www.lourdes-france.org/es/

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

2696 The most appropriate places for prayer are personal or family oratories, monasteries, places of pilgrimage, and above all the church, which is the proper place for liturgical prayer for the parish community and the privileged place for Eucharistic adoration.

Sanctuary of Lourdes: https://www.lourdes-france.org/es/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/

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The Trinity in Mary

Mary is:

The Saint,

and The Virgin,

and The Immaculate Womb for Being Herself Conceived without Original Sin

These characteristic "Three-Easy" make Mary the Mirror, the Reflection of the Trinity, in which:

the Trinity was announced, 

the Trinity lived and was "conceived", 

and from where the Trinity left by its own foot the World; and forever 😀😀

And all this 😀😀

 😀 Amen 😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

1024 This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity - this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed - is called "heaven". Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.

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Reign of Mary and Our Lady of the Encounter

Well, what a joy to find on the Internet something so beautiful with the name of "Reign of Mary" and that it is also a Mass Media 😀😀

"Reign of Mary" is a modest congregation with modest means, but beware!! on the backs with the greatest invaluable help you can have that of 😀 the Virgin Mary 😀 and this makes them full of content, They and their web pages and here are a couple of examples

Web page:

https://reinadodemaria.org/videos/categoria-video/devociones/

The means of Communication is NSE (Our Lady of The Encounter) with which they have Radio, and Television, and YouTube channel, let's go that they do not lack anything 😀

https://www.youtube.com/user/nsetvradio/videos

As always; the Gaze of Mary who is Merciful, bears so many fruits

Amen

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

104 In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God".67 "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them."68

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Mariah's Pop a Musical Group for the Virgin Mary

In its firm commitment to the Virgin Mary, the group Musical Mariah's Pop continues to evangelize the world with its voice 😀😀

With songs full of Love for the Mother of Christ they impregnate their lyrics with ideas that are full of content.

And Color

Here is a good example of this in his song "Mayonnaise" that with the subtlety of the lyrics and the care of the image launch an accurate message to all those who already follow them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAFA_RLQ_rU&list=RDDAFA_RLQ_rU&start_radio=1

Good line this one of the songs of lyrics with content, care of the Image with Colorful Spaces, and even that touch of humor that emanates from the Creativity with Rhythm

They have Youtube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT8HXNlvx7u1irAW7GFX_aQ

And Official Web Page with Shop https://mariahspop.com/

Needless to say and with their permission, their 2 Mothers of Heaven are very proud 😀😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

1162 "The beauty of the images moves me to contemplation, as a meadow delights the eyes and subtly infuses the soul with the glory of God."32 Similarly, the contemplation of sacred icons, united with meditation on the Word of God and the singing of liturgical hymns, enters into the harmony of the signs of celebration so that the mystery celebrated is imprinted in the heart's memory and is then expressed in the new life of the faithful.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT8HXNlvx7u1irAW7GFX_aQ

Mariah's Pop Web: https://mariahspop.com/

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Between concept and meaning

This week I was passing by a bookstore I saw a book about the Holy Virgin Mary, and taking a look at it and wanting to know if they had more, I got into an interesting conversation with the clerk who is Evangelist

I explain that the Evangelist Brothers understand that only the One True God must be worshipped, with which they fully agree. And that then, they do not understand why the Virgin Mary is worshipped so much in the Catholic Church

In the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language on the word "worship" there are the following meanings:

worship 

From lat. adorāre.

1. tr. To reverence or worship a being who considers himself to be of a divine nature.

2. tr. Said of a cardinal: Prostrate oneself before the pope after having chosen him as a sign of recognizing him as the rightful successor of Saint Peter.

3. tr. Love with end.

4. tr. Like something extremely.

5. intr. pray (‖ address a divinity).

6. intr. Have esteem or veneration placed on a person or thing. Worship SOMEONE, AT something.

With regard to the first meaning 1. Tr. To reverence or worship a being who considers himself to be of a divine nature. The Holy Bible notes in the gospel book according to St. Matthew Chapter 4 Verse 10 (in textbooks it usually comes as (Mt 4:10)):

"It is written: To the Lord your God you will worship, you will worship him alone" (Mt 4:10).

And with respect to the third meaning 3. Tr. Love with end. What son does not "adore" his Mother by wanting her, what Mother does not "adore" her children by wanting them

Well, this is the attitude of the Catholic: In Concept to God We Worship him as the Only True God and the Virgin Mary we "Worship" in its 3rd meaning of the Spanish Language that has the means of Loving in Extreme 

😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

2069 The Decalogue forms a coherent whole. Each "word" refers to each of the others and to all of them; they reciprocally condition one another. the two tables shed light on one another; they form an organic unity.

To transgress one commandment is to infringe all the others.30 One cannot honor another person without blessing God his Creator. One cannot adore God without loving all men, his creatures. the Decalogue brings man's religious and social life into unity. The Decalogue ant the natural law

The Passion of Christ of Mel Gibson: 

https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-passion-of-the-christ

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You are Poetry

If Love is what moves the World; Poetry is the tachograph of its throbbing

This week reading San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross) you are amazed at how someone can put exalted words to a feeling and make it revive by evoking it the reader

That's because the Heart flows through the arm, reaches the hand and guides the pen

Below are some fragments of texts by San Juan de la Cruz Saint John of the Cross since S. XVI:

From "The Living Flame of Love":

1. Oh, living flame of love

That tenderly woundest my soul in its deepest centre,

Since thou art no longer oppressive, perfect me now if it be thy will,

Break the web of this sweet encounter

From Spiritual Canticle (from The Bridge to The The Bridgegroom)

Let us rejoice, O my Beloved!

Let us go forth to see ourselves in Your beauty,

To the mountain and the hill,

Where the pure water flows:

Let us enter into the heart of the thicket.

Yes, we can find ourselves in these lines because previously we have been loved, and giving ourselves to Light, we can love 😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

1335 The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist.156 The sign of water turned into wine at Cana already announces the Hour of Jesus' glorification. It makes manifest the fulfillment of the wedding feast in the Father's kingdom, where the faithful will drink the new wine that has become the Blood of Christ.157

San Juan de la Cruz Biografy:

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/san_juan_de_la_cruz/autor_biografia/

Spiritual Canticle: https://ccel.org/ccel/john_cross/canticle/canticle.iv.html

The Living Flame of Love:

https://www.summitlighthouse.org/living-flame-of-love-saint-john-cross/

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www.catholicmom.com

I find it beautiful to have found this Catholic portal dedicated to Mothers and also to publish it in Mary's Month

It has many sections:

It is a portal open to the World of Women and the Catholic Mother on the Internet where you can find: Friendships, Events, Culture and other connections with other Catholic Mothers

They also have a channel on Youtube and other social networks

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug/videos

It's only in English and translating is easy with the digital tools available on the Internet

Well, for feminine and Catholic sensibility a new reference in the digital world

God was so right!! and there is nothing greater created by God than The Woman

There is nothing human greater than Mary 😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

488 "God sent forth his Son", but to prepare a body for him,125 he wanted the free co-operation of a creature. For this, from all eternity God chose for the Mother of his Son a daughter of Israel, a young Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee, "a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary":126

The Father of mercies willed that the Incarnation should be preceded by assent on the part of the predestined mother, so that just as a woman had a share in the coming of death, so also should a woman contribute to the coming of life.127

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Two steps... and Blessed

These dates seeing the Virgin of Guadalupe in her Basilica of Mexico OnLine appears a beautiful initiative

https://virgendeguadalupe.org.mx/

People of the sixteenth century venerating the Blessed Virgin (now Mexico City)

Being able to obtain a Certificate of Blessing from "Guadalupana" herself

And with two simple steps you get:

1) The first step is to watch the video where it explains what the blessing is:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/FG6NCEj0ILE

2) And the second step is to apply for the Certificate:

https://tiendaoficialinbg.com/products/bendicion-guadalupana?fbclid=IwAR2CAM004mNftkbcTqQnUjWzQ8fbiWgircNb3pPZ4O86Fm6SQ02H7-0l6bM

Well, for those of us who have a very special devotion to the "Guadalupana", a blessing and with 2 steps 😀😀

Guadalupana always grants to Humanity

what does us good and leads us to You

The lucky Juan Diego who had the "Guadalupana" appeared

amen!

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

1078 Blessing is a divine and life-giving action, the source of which is the Father; his blessing is both word and gift.4 When applied to man, the word "blessing" means adoration and surrender to his Creator in thanksgiving.

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe: 

https://virgendeguadalupe.org.mx/en/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/

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The Smile of Jesus

Yes, definitely Jesus when Resurrected smiled

There is no doubt: Mission Accomplished. Hope of Eternal Life bestowed on Humanity. And Death Overcome

As I would also smile when resting in Bethany for example or when walking with the Apostoles (I imagine some Roman joke would make 😀😀)

Can there be anything more divine than making someone smile?

And with his Holy Mother he would smile too. She would not make Mary smile at her Child, a thousand times, and as a teenager too, and as an adult it would be He who makes her smile

Good Prayer to Visualize Jesus Smiling for the Resurrection

because it smiles at us

hallelujah!

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

736 By this power of the Spirit, God's children can bear much fruit. He who has grafted us onto the true vine will make us bear "the fruit of the Spirit: . . . love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. "129 "We live by the Spirit"; the more we renounce ourselves, the more we "walk by the Spirit."130

Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God "Father" and to share in Christ's grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory.131

The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson: 

https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-passion-of-the-christ

The Blue Lady

Listening to Radio Maria, there is a program that presents a Nun with Extraordinary Virtues

They call her "The Blue Lady", and her name is Sister Mary of Agreda

Great Marian Mystic who wrote a Book about the Virgin Mary and which is called "The Mystic City of God":

The Mystic City of God, the history or life of Our Lady, begins to deal with Mary's presence in the divine plan of creation, predestined together with Christ Jesus, her Son, Firstborn of every creature, to be her Mother. So from the first moment of his Conception in the divine mind, Pure, Immaculate, free from all sin was created. It was required by her unique dignity to be the worthy Mother of God.

A book that must be beautiful

In addition this Nun had the Gift of Bilocation:

1. prnl. One person's saying: To be in two different places at once.

Spain Royal Language Academy

And nothing less than that located in Soria was also bilocated in North America during the seventeenth century

And many more things are known about this Nun than is at the height of San Alfonso María de Ligorio, no less

To learn more about Sister Maria de Agreda there is a very interesting and complete website:

https://mariadeagreda.org/en/the-great-marian-mystic/

How many Wonders 😀😀 have in Our Catholic Church!

All together a Way that leads us to God

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

46 When he [the person] listens to the message of creation and to the voice of conscience, man can arrive at certainty about the existence of God, the cause and the end of everything.

Sister Mary of Agreda Web: https://mariadeagreda.org/la-gran-mistica-mariana/

Spain Royal Language Academy: https://www.rae.es/

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When Catechesis Is a Song

When catechesis is a song, the feeling is special

Your mind and ear are recreated in the joy of listening in wonder how another person passionately lives, conceives and transmits their faith

And this Catechesis-Song about Mary is an example of this:

To activate the subtitles in English it is easy on the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsCjPNt_0I&list=RDfHsCjPNt_0I&start_radio=1&t=3

The song is by "Los Ascoy" a Catholic music group and a Family that have decided to Evangelize using their Faith and voice 😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

1157 Song and music fulfill their function as signs in a manner all the more significant when they are "more closely connected . . . with the liturgical action,"22 according to three principal criteria: beauty expressive of prayer, the unanimous participation of the assembly at the designated moments, and the solemn character of the celebration. In this way they participate in the purpose of the liturgical words and actions: the glory of God and the sanctification of the faithful:23

How I wept, deeply moved by your hymns, songs, and the voices that echoed through your Church! What emotion I experienced in them! Those sounds flowed into my ears distilling the truth in my heart. A feeling of devotion surged within me, and tears streamed down my face - tears that did me good.24

"The Ascoy": https://www.youtube.com/c/LuisEnriqueAscoyOficial/videos

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com

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First paint in the Art of the Holy Virgin Mary

A very unknown image becomes more famous

It fills me with satisfaction to be able to bring to this Blog the first known representation of the Holy Virgin Mary

First performance in the Art of the Holy Virgin Mary (Second Century)

The depiction is drawing water from a well, and it is that it is seen when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to him, She was with this task

According to the website https://www.primeroscristianos.com/ :

"In the written descriptions of the Annunciation found in biographies of Mary of the 2nd century, Gabriel approaches him when he is drawing water from a well, as shown in the image"

Physically the image is found in a Church of Syria called "domus ecclesiae" in the ancient city of "Dura Europos"

For more details on this image here you have this interesting link:

https://www.primeroscristianos.com/las-9-imagenes-mas-antiguas-la-virgen-maria/

Well, really a Jewel of Art and a Satisfaction to be able to publish this 😀😀

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

1160 Christian iconography expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words. Image and word illuminate each other:

We declare that we preserve intact all the written and unwritten traditions of the Church which have been entrusted to us. One of these traditions consists in the production of representational artwork, which accords with the history of the preaching of the Gospel. For it confirms that the incarnation of the Word of God was real and not imaginary, and to our benefit as well, for realities that illustrate each other undoubtedly reflect each other's meaning.28

Web "First Christians": https://www.primeroscristianos.com/

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