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"The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God."
Luke 1:35
"Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear."
Luke 1:42
“For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.”
1 Corinthians 10:17
"The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe."
John 19:2
"I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You."
Kowalska, 327
"And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold this Child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted; and thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed."
Luke II: 34-35
"Dearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of Holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness and strength."
Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mary Undoer of Knots, pray for me.
"Consider how, after Our Lord had died, He was taken down from the cross by two of His disciples and placed in the arms of His afflicted Mother. She received Him with unutterable tenderness and pressed Him close to her heart."
The Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Luke 1:41
"If the winds of temptation arise; If you are driven upon the rocks of tribulation look to the star, call on Mary; If you are tossed upon the waves of pride, of ambition, of envy, of rivalry, look to the star, call on Mary. Should anger, or avarice, or fleshly desire violently assail the frail vessel of your soul, look at the star, call upon Mary."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
"Consider the compassion of the holy woman, Veronica. Seeing Jesus in such distress, His face bathed in sweat and blood, she presented Him with her veil. Jesus wiped His face, and left upon the cloth the image of his sacred countenance."
The Sixth Station: Veronica Offers Her Veil to Jesus