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Europe’s tallest Virgin Mary statue unveiled in Polish village

A giant statue of the Virgin Mary was consecrated in Poland on Saturday in a solemn church service,…
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https://www.europesays.com/europe/116513/

Polish village puts faith in Europe’s tallest Virgin Mary statue

A Polish billionaire is paying for a giant statue of the Virgin Mary that residents of the village…
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https://www.europesays.com/europe/103606/

Quote of the day, 23 December: Blessed Marie-Eugène

What we are going to do during these days is this: to make our faith, our affection, and our love more penetrating and greater. And with this loving gaze, we will go to the Virgin Mary, to Our Lady of Life who is there upon the altar, and we will tell her our joy: Prope est iam Dominus — “The Lord is near.”

We know, O Virgin, that in a few days you will give us Jesus. And so we already congratulate you—not only for your purity and your integrity, but for your motherhood.

We remain close to you in order to receive this Child Jesus, this Incarnate Word whom we dare to touch, whom we wish to receive in our arms as though He were our own: He is Emmanuel, God with us.

He became incarnate to be with us, so that we might touch Him, embrace Him, and that through this outward and tangible contact we might realize an interior contact of faith and love, still deeper and more effective for our souls.

Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus

Heureuse Celle qui a cru, Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (1960)

de l’Enfant-Jésus, M 2017, Heureuse Celle qui a Cru, edited by Institut Notre-Dame de Vie, Éditions du Carmel, Toulouse.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: AI-generated artwork in the style of Gari Melchers, created using Midjourney.

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Quote of the day, 16 January: Blessed Marie-Eugène

We perceive the attitude of the Blessed Virgin: an attitude of silence, an attitude of adoration before the mystery unfolding within her. From this mystery arise lights within her faculties, illuminating her entire soul. Surely, it is a gentle dawn, the dawn of which our Father, St. John of the Cross, speaks. What intimacy with the Word, who dwells in her womb and takes on human nature from the Virgin’s flesh under the action of the Holy Spirit!

Our Father, St. John of the Cross, speaks in his Living Flame of Love about the Word, who, though seemingly asleep in the soul, sometimes awakens. This is what the Virgin Mary experiences in the depths of her being under the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, under the power of the Most High. She lives profoundly this mystery—a mystery of light and darkness, a mystery that remains ever hidden.

We too must adore this incarnate Word, who is soon to be revealed and will become our brother. Let us adore this humanity of Christ, who is being formed in the Virgin’s womb and about to appear. Yes, we can adore—not the Virgin Mary herself, of course, but the Word who dwells within her.

In giving birth to the incarnate Word, Mary, in a certain sense, also gives birth to the Church, for the Church is nothing other than the fullness of Christ. During these days, let us also turn our gaze to St. Joseph. We can imagine the affectionate reverence with which he gazes on the Virgin Mary. We can also perceive his faith and his hope in the great things about to unfold.

The prophets contemplated this mystery from afar; Joseph contemplates it up close. Let us behold St. Joseph—the faith shining in his eyes, the hope filling his soul and faculties, all directed toward these imminent fulfillments. Let us also consider the profound and affectionate respect with which he gazes on the Virgin Mary. During these days, let us ask him to be our master of prayer, to lead, guide, and inspire us, instilling in our prayer the faith required to contemplate this doubly hidden mystery: hidden now, and hidden in the hearts of all the souls Christ came to save.

At the same time, may he place within us the hope of renewal and rebirth—for our souls and for the Church—and the love that orders everything: love not only for the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph but also for the incarnate Word, the Child Jesus who is about to appear.

Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus

Homily, 20 December 1964 (excerpt)

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: The Holy Family is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) created around 1910. It comes from the collections of the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan. Image credit: Muskegon Art Museum / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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