Totus Tuus - Totus 2us

FRANCE - LA FRANCE

Blessed John Paul II was a pilgrim to France in 1980, 1983 (his 1st pilgrimage to Lourdes), 1986, 1988, 1996, 1997 for World Youth Day Paris, and in 2004 back to Lourdes (his last pilgrim trip abroad).

Pope Benedict XVI has visited France in 2008, and was a pilgrim to Lourdes for the 150th anniversary of Our Lady's apparitions to St Bernadette.

_{France is known as the 'eldest daughter of the Church' and Totus2us has mp3 recordings on the French saints St Catherine Labouré (of the miraculous medal), St Francis de Sales (Doctor of the Church & Patron Saint of writers & journalists), St Jean Marie Vianney (affectionately known as the Curé d'Ars and the Patron Saint of Priests), St Louis Marie Gignion de Montfort (whose Treatise on Mary led to Karol Wojtyla taking Totus Tuus as his apostolic motto on becoming bishop .. and later Pope), St Margaret-Mary Alacoque (to whom Jesus revealed His Sacred Heart) and St Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (of Lisieux, the' Little Flower', who was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by John Paul II in 1997).}

Prières en français sur Totus2us

Le Chapelet et la Neuvaine à la Miséricorde Divine       ♦

Le Saint Rosaire avec Soeur Hyacinthe Defos du Rau OP et Frère Charles Mary. La musique est chantée par Anna Johnstone. 

Alice       ♦

_{Alice's Word on the Street: Psalm 46 - Be still and know that I am the Lord
"I think there is so much truth in it and if we only stop and listen, God will speak to us."}

Bertrand       ♦

_{"Mary will give you a lot of comfort especially when you are in trouble."}

Bruno

_{"For me Mary is the one who has taught me how to pray through the rosary and how to meditate different mysteries of Christ's life. ..}

_{Pour moi Marie, c'est celle qui m'a appris à prier à travers le rosaire parce qu'en méditant le rosaire on découvre différents mystères de la vie du Christ."     ♦}

_{Bruno's favourite bit in the Bible is The Parable of the Rich Young Man: Matthew 19: 16-26: Jesus said to him, "If you wilt be perfect, go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven: and then come, follow me. -}

_{"It is part of my vocational story - when I heard this passage I just felt I don't want to become sad and I want a happy life so I probably have to follow Jesus and become a priest."       ♦
& in French   ♦}

Charlotte       ♦

_{"Mary, I call her my mother because she is someone I choose to become my mother, because she's my real mother and she's always been here everytime I need her, and for me I have to come to see her every Saturday and I love her.}  

_{Pour moi, la Vierge Marie représente tout. Je peux pas parler de Notre Dame sans parler de Jésus parce que, pour moi, être avec Jesus c'est être avec Maman Marie, et la prier c'est prier Jésus en meme temps. Donc c'est vraiment l'amour pour moi, c'est reconnaître l'amour de Jésus quand je prie Marie."}

Daniel       ♦

_{"Mary is the mother of God and the path to go to Jesus and I think she is full of tenderness.}

_{Marie est pour moi la mère de Dieu, elle est le chemin qui me mène à Jésus et elle est pleine de tendresse pour tout son peuple et pour toute notre famille."}

Elizabeth       ♦

_{"I came to thank Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, because good things have happened to me in life, after having gone through difficult times and I just wanted to thank her for being there at difficult times and at good times."}

_{Elizabeth gives her quelque chose de Marie in English & French.}

Elodie       ♦

_{"The Virgin Mary is the charm of God and she's the expression of the maternal love of God."}

_{Elodie gives her quelque chose de Marie in English & French.}

Fabienne       ♦

_{"Mary is the one who made me realise that God is there for everybody and when I mean everybody it's me as well."}

Soeur Hyacinthe     

_{"Our Lady is my model of faith, of hope and of charity.  Looking at her life I get so encouraged because she is fully human and she is full of grace."       ♦}

_{Béni Jean Paul II, nous vous aimons! - One of the things Sr Hyacinthe loves most about JPII was his fearlessness, giving the subject of her Masters Degree in History as an example - his role in building a church in Nova Hota. Another reason is because of his teaching, philosophical and theological, particularly about the human person.       ♦}

_{John Paul II - "The human person is a good towards which the only proper attitude is love."}

_{Sr Hyacinthe Defos du Rau OP, a Dominican Sister of St Joseph, is 1 of the Totus2us team. You can pray the rosary with her in French and English and you can listen to her beautiful insights into the Catholic Catechism here.}

Isabelle       ♦

_{"I cherish the image of the Visitation in the Rosary - it is my favourite one. When I see Mary so young and so full of joy, and expressing her joy to Elizabeth.  And I receive that personally, like Mary coming to me, comforting me and sending all her graces."}

Jean Frédéric       ♦

_{"Mary is the symbol of a perfect love.  The one to whom you can confide and say everything that is on your heart and she will always be there for you."}

Jessie       ♦

_{"Mary is the perfect example. She sacrifices herself for her children."}

Laetitia       ♦

^{"Our Lady is my mum. She has been my mother for a long time and she is replacing the not very good relationship I had with my mother but I have a very good relationship with Our Lady. I pray to her and she very often gives me an answer and she is always on my side ...}

^{La Vierge Marie est vraiment ma mère, elle est toujours à ma côté, je la prie souvent, si c'est pas tous les jours. Elle est dans mon coeur et elle a fait beaucoup pour moi, elle a souvent répondu à mes prières très concrètement."}

Marie       ♦

^{"I discovered Mary more last year during a year I spent in a school of mission in Rome where we really learned how to live with Mary and how to deepen our faith with her. She is the one who really leads us to Jesus - that is why in some of the mysteries of the rosary we meditate to Jesus through Mary and I am quite conscious of this: Mary is really the way to Jesus, who is the way to the Father. So Mary for me is very important; I pray to her through the rosary, I ask her for her help especially in times of difficulty for prayer, in difficulties. She is also a great help for purity, purity of heart, for humility and she is my model of how to grow in faith, how to grow in acceptance of the will of God for me in my life."}

_{Marie gives her quelque chose de Marie in English & French.}

Marie       ♦

_{"The Virgin Mary is giving me love and comfort freely. She's there to love all of us and brings all our prayers to her son Jesus."}

Marie       ♦

_{"Mary is there the whole time. We have so much need of a mother, that it is beautiful and a beautiful grace to have Mary in our life...} 

_{Marie a toujours été présent dans ma vie comme mère, comme une maman vraiment."}

Marien       ♦

_{"I try to pray the rosary at least every day and it’s a true help and a true feeling of being loved by Christ through his mother, Mary."}

_{Marien gives her quelque chose de Marie in English & French.}

Father Martin CSJ 

_{In Man for Others Père Martin Sabathé, a brother of the Community of St John, talks about the priests who, by their prayer, helped in his vocation, the Jesuit priests who educated him and his brother priests in the Community of St John, in particular the founder Père Marie-Dominique Philippe OP and his novice master Père Philippe-Marie CSJ:}

_{"There is something very special when you have a very, very good friend who is also a priest. The friendship is not exactly the same, and I think it is very important for a vocation and for a priest, especially as a member of a religious community, to be able to be supported by friends who are priests. So I thank the Lord for this gift of priesthood, men who are so deeply connected to Him, and who are able to give so much. They are poor instruments in themselves but God is really, really giving so much through them and in them. So, thank you, Lord."     ♦}

_{3 2us on Christ the King: "Jesus is King in serving us for our good and the good of all His Church… Jesus is King by washing the feet of his disciples, in this very humble service by which he says to his disciples "Do you accept that I wash your feet."     ♦}

_{3 2us on the Resurrection: "The Holy Spirit guided John so that he could see beyond the visible, so that he could see the invisible. That is the mystery of Jesus, the Son of God, the Word of God. And the risen Jesus is in a way the Son of God fully expressed in his humanity and to reach the Son of God, the mystery of the Word of God made flesh, John needed the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gave him this light, so that he could see, and helped him to believe. And that is for us. We need the Holy Spirit to make this act of faith in the risen Christ. To meet Jesus in our faith, we do have to call on the Holy Spirit - please, Holy Spirit, come. Come into my heart, pour your light and your love into my heart so that I am able to make an act of faith which is to discern the presence of Jesus, whereas I do not see him.'     ♦}

Matthieu       ♦

_{"By working for Mary, she was really in the centre of our family, in the centre of our prayer. Now, with detachment, I can tell how Our Lady worked for us, through the beauty of our family, the love of my parents and the relationship that I have with my brothers and sisters.}

_{Par ce travail que mes parents faisaient pour Marie, elle était vraiment toujours au centre de notre famille, spécialement au centre de notre prière. Maintenant, apres 15 ou 16 ans, avec le recul, je peux vraiment me rendre compte qu'elle a énormement travaillé dans notre famille, quand je vois la beauté justement de ma famille, l'amour de mes parents et cette relation que j'ai avec mes frères et sœurs."}

Michel       ♦

_{"Mary is crucial to me.  She's the mother of God."}

_{Michel gives his quelque chose de Marie in English & French.}

Monique       ♦

_{"Mary is my mother in love. Marie, c'est l'amour."}

Nicolas

_{"I really felt that Mary was there like a nurse assisting Jesus, who was doing the healing operation."   ♦} 

_{Nicolas is a seminarian from the diocese of Annecy, studying in the provincial seminary of Lyon. He chose Lazarist Father Vincent as his Man for Others:}

_{"I remember him praying so that I could love confession as a sign of the merciful love of God. I felt very impressed by the kindess and humillity of this old man."}

_{(you can listen in English ♦ or French ♦).}

_{Vous pouvez prier la neuvaine à la Miséricorde Divine avec Nicolas ici.}

Rodolphe       ♦

_{"For a long time I didn't know who Mary was. I mean, I had a personal relationship with Jesus, and the Father and the Holy Spirit. Then 2 years ago I went on a pilgrimage in Bosnia and I really experienced the love of Mary as a mother. And it was really new to me and it really changed my relationship with Mary and helped me pray the rosary every day.}

_{Pendant longtemps je connais pas vraiment qui était Marie. J'ai eu une relation personelle avec Jésus, avec le Père et l'Esprit Saint. J'ai fait un pèlerinage marial en Bosnie et là j'ai pris conscience de l'amour de Marie comme Mère de Dieu et Mère de tous les hommes et le chaplet a pris un autre sens pour moi et j'ai pu le prier tous les jours."}

Sabine       ♦

_{"Mary for me is the mother of everyone .. She is someone on whom you can rely on when you have difficulties.}

_{Marie est pour moi la mère de tout le monde … Elle est là pour nous aider .. pour nous donner la force d'aller beaucoup plus loin dans les choses, et également quelqu'un en qui on peut compter sur."}

Samuel       ♦

^{"Mary is really the one I can trust when I am facing difficulties and I am struggling. She is the one I can call for help and she will answer...} 

^{Marie est la personne en qui je peux avoir totale confiance et au moment je rencontre des difficultés c'est à elle que je fais appel et elle répond."}

Soraya       ♦

_{"Mary is the one I want to tell everything because she is the one who will give me everything without harm."}

Sylvie       ♦

_{"Thank you, heavenly Father, for choosing the perfect mother, now our mother, for your only Son, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I thank you, Mother of God, for the priceless yes to the Angel Gabriel which changed human history. The 'yes' gave birth to the ultimate victory for the children of God through Jesus Christ."}