Something About The Virgin Mary, Mother Of Perpetual Help

Fr John Egan, a Pallotine priest from Ireland - "The Church’s stance on Mary envisages our Blessed Mother as that great model for humanity, that great model primarily of faith. She was that young woman who offered her 'yes' to the voice of the angel Gabriel and she was open, docile to that presence of God, and Mary gives us that key really to what an encounter with heavenly realities is. It's about openness, and it was a place of quiet and of silence. .. I just thank our Blessed Mother for Medjugorje, it has been key, I can't but mention it. I was very blessed, at a time in my life when I really needed I suppose help. I was lost in the grief of my older brother who had died of cancer a year previous to that at 23 years of age. I was 21 and I was wild in the world, very lost in so many ways and thinking the world might satisfy my loneliness. And yet Medjugorje just gave me the embrace of our Blessed Mother. And when one knows how special one is, when one experiences being loved in such a spiritual deep way, s