Totus Tuus - Totus 2us

Gebete in deutscher Sprache auf Totus2us

Der Rosenkranz zur Barmherzigkeit Gottes       ♦

Below are responses by Germans to Totus2us's podcasts, plus there are reflections on Blessed Rupert Mayer & Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) - you can download the free mp3s individually by right clicking where you see this diamond ♦

Alex       ♦

_{"No-one has ever gone to Holy Mary, Mother of God, and asked her for something and in some way hasn't been granted her help .. So if you ask for her help, she will give you her help. Amen."}

_{Alex gives his Verrückt nach Maria in English & German.}

Angelika       ♦

_{"Mary to me is a very special person because she stayed with Christ under the Cross."}

_{Angelika is 1 of the Totus2us Team.}

Bernwadt       ♦

_{"Mary will never leave us, will never leave me and so I can rely on her and on her help, her guidance, her intercession."}

Caecilia       ♦

_{"The Eucharist gives me strength for my life and the Holy Mass is the biggest gift in my life, because Jesus is really present in the Eucharist, and you can bring in the Eucharist all the things that have happened in your life, all that you have in your heart, and it's a very nice relationship with Jesus because He is really present. I learned to love the Church so much at the World Youth Day in 2000. I learned to see the fullness from the Church and the joy from the Church .. On the World Youth Day I understood Jesus is really present in the Eucharist."}

Christiane       ♦

^{"Mary has pathed the way for me to be with God."}

Christina       ♦

^{"Mary, the mother of God, the mother of Jesus, became my heavenly mother 9 years ago. I went to Amsterdam, to the Lady of All Nations, and she let me know that I am her child, I am the child of Mary."}

^{Christina gives her Verrückt nach Maria in English and German.}

Mother Francesca PCC      ♦

_{"As Poor Clares we call on Our Lady as bride of the Holy Spirit because, as St Luke tells us, when the angel declared unto Mary it was through the Holy Spirit that she conceived Our Lord. And in the Franciscan Order it has always been held that she was venerated as the bride of the Holy Spirit. All new life begins with Mary."}

_{Mother Francesca is Abbess emerita of the Poor Clare Sisters in enclosed community at Ty Mam Duw. She comes from near Gelnhausen.}

Gabi       ♦

_{"Our Lady is a great gift for me because she is my heavenly Mother and I know that she's always caring for me, even if I'm not caring for her, and she's always loving me, even if I don't think of her. And she's always holding her hand towards me so that I can take her hand and she's carrying me towards heaven. And I know that she's carrying me personally in her heart. And, because she's got a heart without sin, I know that I'm really in the core of her heart and this is a secure place for me and for my personal life. I really want to love Mary - I'm on my way, I'm a very little child and I'm continuing to walk along life - but I really want to love Mary and to be like her image; to be like her and I especially like her love and her humility. She's always standing in the background, but she was taking a very important role: as she was standing in the background, Jesus could do his apostolic life and that's what I especially admire in her life."}

_{Gabi works with Jugend 2000.}

Markus

_{"Mary for me means a relationship, to a woman who is my mother and who is able to talk to me and tell me little things."       ♦}

_{"St Nikolaus is important to me because of all the works he did and the wonders he worked. He was the bishop of Myra, and he was famous for helping the poor and giving in a very secret way .. Thinking about St Nikolaus is about this saint who did something very secretly, with lots of love and was happy that the honour for what was done was given to God."  ♦ & in German ♦}

Milona       ♦

_{"In Medjugorje I met Our Lady in a new way. I knew her in my early life through Fatima and  there was always a little corner of paradise that stayed in my heart after a day in Fatima. But here I met her as who she really is and she was just simply for me the beginning of a new life. Because what I met was a woman that is so close to us and so motherly, and motherly in the most securing way that .. I didn't know this was possible. A mother that never wants us to worry; she always makes me understand 'Do not worry. I am the Queen. I am there. There will be a way out.  Pray, pray and trust and be at peace.' She has taught me that there is not one moment of the day that I'm not being looked after, that I'm not being looked at. And I went through some very, very difficult moments, where I felt I was in absolute pits of darkness and nearly despair. But yet there came the moment when I couldn't anymore, there came a light and I could breathe again. So she for me she is like the breath of fresh air every day that brings me a God that she knows, the living God who is close, close, close. So she for me is a wonderful bridge between us humans, because she's like us and she's also the fruit of what her son did for us like in advance. And so she knows it all, she knows the strength of decision, she gives us all the secrets, all the mysteries of her relationship with the Lord, she gives it to us. And this is what I just love about her, because she's totally unselfish - she would be, wouldn't she - but she says it's all out of dear love for the Lord and  for you, my children. So she gives everything to us that He has given her ... She for me is the deepest joy and a sign of hope and she gives me strength every single day and I just praise the Lord for having such a mother and for having her to us."}

_{Milona lives in Medjugorje.}

Monika       ♦

_{Monika's choice for Word on the Street is Ecclesiastes 3: 11 - Finally I considered the task God gave to the humans: he made everything fitting in its time, but he also set eternity in their hearts, although man is not able to embrace the work of God from the beginning to the end.}

_{"This passage is really a calling to trust in God and in His plan for us; and also to humble ourselves in recognising that He is the creator and we the creation, and that we cannot always know or understand His will. But trying to follow His plan makes us free from sin and from the false ideologies of our time, as well as freeing us from the desire to be our own god, but opens our selves to His love for us and to receive His Spirit in order to build His community here on earth."}

Patrick       ♦

_{"If you want to get to know Jesus really, then you should focus on Mary who is very close to us, and just give yourself to her and ask her for guidance and that she may lead us and you to her son, who is Our Lord Jesus Christ."}

_{Patrick gives his response in English & German.}