Magnificat May 2025

May 2025

24 pages

Magnificat! – Sermon by Father Maximin de Jésus-Marie, O.D.M.  …Page 103

– Mary’s Canticle

The Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays – Centennial of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Lucia of Fatima (Pontevedra, Spain – December 10, 1925) …108

A request from Mary – The Child Jesus comes to clarify – A devotion with distant origins – Four conditions – The spirit of reparative devotion – A secret of Mercy

Saint Therese of the Child Jesus teaches how to forget yourself  …116

– Centennial of her Canonization (May 17, 1925)

From conversion to cloister – The spiritual combat – Sacrifices of the heart – Like a grain of sand – “His face was as if hidden...” – Novice until death – The triumph of the «little grain of sand»

Our cover:

The Blessed Virgin with Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and Saint Joan of Arc  (Patron Saints of France)

O my Beloved! I will not fight on the battlefield... My sword is Love! With it I will drive the stranger out of the kingdom, I will have You proclaimed King in souls. [...]. Joan, Your virginal and valiant bride, said: “Men must fight so that God may give the victory.” O my Jesus, I will therefore fight for Your Love till the evening of my life. Since You did not want to enjoy rest on earth, I want to follow Your example; and then this promise, fallen from Your divine lips, will be fulfilled for me:  “If anyone follows Me, where I am, there also shall he be; and My Father will honor him” (Cf. St. John 12:26).

Excerpts of a prayer composed by Saint Therese of the Child Jesus