"Prayer is often dictated by difficult situations, personal problems that lead us to turn to the Lord for light, comfort and help. Mary invites us to open up the dimensions of our prayer", said Benedict XVI Wednesday, beginning a new series of general audience catechesis. The stages of Mary's journey, from the house of Nazareth to Jerusalem, through the Cross", in fact " are marked by the ability to maintain a persistent atmosphere of meditation on each event in the silence of her heart before God". In this way, the Virgin has watched over all the stages of Jesus' earthly life and has witnessed the first steps of the nascent Church. "If there is no Church without Pentecost - the Pope said - there is n ...
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