Smelling roses & Mary's presence

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I also have been blessed with this beautiful fragrance of heaven about 7 times, I believed it to be the presence of our lord Jesus, he smells better than just roses alone, the rose sent is
mixed with a slight sent of incence, there is no smell like it in the world,
I thank god for the catholic forum to find that I am not the only one to have this experience
I also thank god for the Catholic church
Stephen Cerutti
 
I was watching the JESUS film and it smelt very strongly like roses.
 
In 1992, my parents took my brother and I to Conyers, GA. At the time, a woman named Nancy Fowler was visited every so often by the Virgin Mary, who would give her prophecy, blessings, etc.

It was the middle of July and absolutely pouring heavy rainfall at this woman’s farm. I mean it was a gullywasher ( for those who have ever heard of that term!).

My parents and I were standing around waiting for the Rosary to begin when all of a sudden we were hit with this strongest scent of roses that I have ever smelled in my life. I mean it was like 10 dozen roses were under my nose. My parents and I were stunned. It was raining so hard and here we were smelling roses! This lasted all of around 20-30 seconds, and then it was gone. Totally gone.

I have relayed this story to people over the years when they ask me about believing in God or experiencing anything divine. I’m telling you, if you ever smell the roses, their is nothing like it on this Earth.
 
Today, a visionary of Garabandal visited my house for the Christmas holidays. As we began to pray the rosary, the smell of roses immediately hit me! It was so powerful I was tempted to ask the lady in front of me if she had just sprayed on a rose perfume (impossible that it was a lingering smell because it was QUITE STRONG). I thought briefly that maybe it was candles/incense, but I was on the opposite side of the room and a smell so strong wouldn’t reach my senses so keenly. It was like someone held out a bouquet of roses right under my nose.

I am also in the middle of saying a novena. It is not St. Therese’s novena, but could it be possible that this is a sign that my prayer will be granted anyways? I certainly hope so…

I am truly touched this evening, my friends :extrahappy:
 
I smelled them in church - St. Therese of Lisieux Church! I wasn’t making a novena or anything, just at Mass. I do, however, often say her chaplet of the Glory Be’s. 🙂
 
I personally believe that when we are lucky enough to smell the roses mixed with a tinge of a wonderfull smell of incence we are doing something at the time that pleases our lord or the virgin mother, I’ve been lucky enough to have smelled them three times, it’s just another thing that proves to me that god / Jesus and all the saints are in the Roman catholic church.
 
Not long after my mom’s funeral, a week or two, I was praying about her fate. My wife was on the way home from the grocery store. When she got home, I was helping bring things in when I kept walking in and out of a 10ft. circle of scent on the deck. After the third or fourth time, I looked at my wife and she said, “do you smell that…it smells like flowers”. It was an intense smell just in that area between the house and deck steps. It smelled like walking into a flourist. It was very comforting. Samson
 
This is an old thread but I´ll like to revive it.

I did smell roses yesterday on my way back from church but there were roses around 😃 But the funny thing about the whole incident was that I had already passed the flower when the scent caught my attention. I turned back, cut a rose and smelled but it didnt really ooz a smell. I said to myself maybe the scent is comming from the collection of roses and just one rose cannot produce such a fragance.

I continued on my journey but didnt make any connection between Mary and roses. I´m currently doing a 54 day novena and I also did a St Theresia novena. I was thinking instead, maybe it could be a sign from St Theresia or was I just paranoid?😃 I´ve just completed another rosary and I stumbled on someone on the net talking about how she got the scent of roses while praying the rosary.(I wasnt aware this was a sign of Mary until a few minutes ago) I know saying the rosary is offering roses to our lady but somehow I couldnt still make the connection.

Well, maybe it was just a coincidence that I was passing by, when the roses were blooming and gave out such a scent. But I´ld be very greatful if it´s indeed from our lady.🙂
 
tbmeg - Thanks for resurrecting this thread! It’s AWESOME to read all of these stories!!!:amen:
 
:thumbsup:Reading these stories has truly brought me to tears I hope that one day I may be blessed enough to receive this gift form our holy mother
 
I go to Texas A&M and we have a very active student ministry at St. Mary’s Catholic Center. One evening our former associate pastor and vocations director of our diocese was praying the rosary with some students in a grotto in front of a statue of Mary and there came a sudden and very, very strong fragrance of roses. After the rosary was over the students looked around and didn’t see any roses except those in front of the statue. Fr. picked up the roses and smelled them, only to find that they were fake roses made of fabric, like the ones you get in a craft store. There wasn’t any apparent explanation for this phenomenon, it must have been Mary’s presence.
 
I thought I would share my experience…

One day me and my girlfriend were sitting around watching TV when suddenly there was an overpowering smell of death and the feeling of dread. We were both pretty freaked out and were about to run out of the trailer we were living in when the the feeling of dread left and the smell of death was replaced with the strong smell of roses. It was an experience I will never forget.
 
A few weeks ago I was blessed to go to Cursillo. First off, I’d only been a Catholic for 5½ months and you’re supposed to be a Catholic for 2 years before you’re allowed to go. So, that was the first blessing.

We had just had Palunca when I returned to the conference room and all of a sudden, I couldn’t breathe. The scent of roses, Lavendar and Hyacinth was SO strong. I was asked what was wrong because some of the women could tell I was about to panic. I asked if anyone could smell the flowers. No one else in the room could smell them. I ended up going outside for fresh air. When I returned, I was told they’d tell me on break about the Roses.

I was told that the scent of Roses meant that the Virgin Mary had visited me and blessed me, but no one knew anything about the lavendar and Hyacinth.

When I got home, I did some research and found this:

This herb is reputed to be one of the plants most loved by the Virgin Mary, for as it does now, in ancient times it represented purity, cleanliness and virtue. Churches were decorated with lavender on Saint Barnabas Day. .(This is found in the 8th paragraph)

souledout.org/healing/secretgarden/lavender/lavender.html

While Saint Hyacinth was at Kiev the Tartars sacked the town, but it was only as he finished Mass that the Saint heard of the danger. Without waiting to unvest, he took the ciborium in his hands, and was leaving the church. Then occurred the most famous of his countless prodigies. As he passed by a statue of Mary a voice said: “Hyacinth, My son, why do you leave Me behind? Take Me with you…” The statue was of heavy alabaster, but when Hyacinth took it in his arms it was light as a reed. With the Blessed Sacrament and the statue he walked to the Dnieper river, and crossed dry-shod over the surface of the waters to the far bank. (This is found in the 3rd paragraph)

magnificat.ca/cal/en/saints/saint_hyacinth.html

So, needless to say, I’m a VERY firm believer in the scent of roses!!
God Bless
 
I was on pilgrimage to the Holy Land in September 2012. While in the queue to visit the shrine containing the stone slab where Our Lady was laid by the Apostles when she finally “fell asleep” I spotted a mother with a little baby girl in her arms. The crush at the entrance to the shrine was immense as any of you who have visited will know.

I placed my arm out and behind the back of the mother and baby and gently ushered them in front of me so that I could shield them from the crush. The little girl was facing me over her mum’s shoulder and we smiled at each other. I told the mum how beautiful her little girl was. She thanked me and said she was six months old and her name was MARIA.

With that we suddenly were squeezed theough the door of the shrine by the pressure of the crowd behind us. We popped right through the door like a cork out of a bottle. I was standing right next to mum and baby MARIA when the mum turned to me and said “do you smell the lovely scent of roses”? I DID. It was the most beautiful, fragrant scent. There were no roses or flowers of any kind inside the shrine. The mum was not wearing perfume as I wsould have noticed it beforehand had she been and there was just us three inside the shrine for those few brief moments. While delicate, the aroma was very obvious.

I asked some of my fellow pilgrims whether they had noticed the same smell of roses in the shrine and none did.

I just gave thanks to Our Blessed Mother for Her most gracious gift which I shall never forget.

May Almighty God, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin Mary be always glorified and praised.🙂
 
I also experienced the fragrance of roses after my mother passed away.I was in her house when it happened. There were no roses in the house. It is something I will never forget. It gave me a sense of inner peace.
 
Wow thank you all for all your stories. They gave me goose bumps. How I wish the blessed Mother can bless me with the scent of roses. Amen:)
 
The Most Blessed Virgin Mary is so holy, pure and spotless, perfect in every virtue and I am so unworthy to receive anything from Her. I was frankly amazed that she had blessed *me *with such a gift. We are extremely blessed to have such a Mother as She who never ceases to pray, bless, guard and intercede for us.

A thousand thank yous to Our Blessed Mother, Queen of Heaven.
 
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