Smelling roses & Mary's presence

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This happened to me just yesterday. I have added additional prayer to my daily routine for Lent. Out of the blue in the middle of my 3rd rosary for the day, I distinctly smelled flowers-roses. I came upon this thread by “googling” it and am happy to see that it is something good as I thought it was a little odd.
 
I was praying the day before and crying for the holy spirit to descend upon me. My prayer was to Mary and God. I also asked Mary to teach me to love and respect a woman and a wife now that I am 22 years old. Before this prayer, I was stressed out that women peers have been identifying me as a “sexist/patriarchal” over a question on social media about portraying quality for both men and women. A long story short, a few people took offense to a question of mine.
On the next day, which was Easter, in mass for a baptism, I prayed again with openness and to the Virgin Mary asking for her help and intervention. During my prayer, I got a strong sent of roses. I knew it was a miracle.
The day after Easter I was walking from a conference for my cousin’s confirmation and as I was telling him the miracle, suddenly, we both smelled a strong cent of roses. We looked around for a rose bush or bushes… nothing. I work in landscaping and have not got a smell of roses so strong and beautiful. The smell was as if roses were right under my nose. It was beautiful. My cousin Ivan said, “It is the virgin Mary, she is with us.” I believe this stressful experience with my women peers has made me close with the Holy Mary. I am thankful for two miracles in the span of two days and for the fact my cousin experienced it too.
God Bless all of people
 
A Friend and I were talking after a weekly Cursillo meeting. I smelled something and asked her to come into the room where I was and asked if she smelled anything (I didn’t say what I was smelling). She said she smelled Lilies. There were NO lilies around anywhere. She went home and then called me and told me what she’d read. This is what she and I found that night:

Blessed Mother and Lily

Roses and lilies became Mary’s flowers. The Virgin Mary is often pictured as receiving white lilies. The Angel Gabriel brought them to her when he told her she would bear the Christ Child. Various saints are also shown bringing them to Mary and the baby Jesus.

The upright leaf of the lily represents the omnipotence of God the Father, and the two leaves which bent down, the wisdom and love of the Son and the Holy Spirit, to which the Virgin approaches so nearly.

The lily of the valley was a symbol of the Virgin Mary because of its pure white flowers, sweet smell and humble appearance. It symbolized Mary’s Immaculate Conception and represented the purity of body and soul by which Mary found favor with God.

Then the Blessed Virgin made known to her that if anyone salutes Her devoutly as the white lily of the Trinity and vermilion rose of Heaven, She will show how She prevails by the omnipotence of the Father, how skillful She is in procuring the salvation of men by the wisdom of the Son, and with what exceeding love her heart is filled by the charity of the Holy Ghost. The Blessed Virgin added these words: “I will appear at the hour of death to those who salute me thus in such glory, that they will anticipate the very joys of Heaven.” From this time the Saint frequently saluted the Holy Virgin or her images with the below words:

“Hail white lily of the ever peaceful and glorious Trinity!
Hail, effulgent rose, the delight of Heaven,
Of whom the King of Heaven was born and by whose milk He was nourished! Nourish our souls by the effusions of thy Divine influences.”

The faithful saw Mary’s attributes in the herbs and flowers growing around them and named many plants after her. Legends about the flowers developed as people sought to connect them with events from Mary’s life.

Mary was associated with this passage from the Song of Songs: “I am the Rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.” (2:1)

Roses and lilies became Mary’s flowers. A legend from the second century says that when Mary’s tomb was opened to show Thomas that her body had been assumed into heaven, it was filled with these flowers. The Venerable Bede (673-735) compared Our Lady to the lily… the white petals signifying her bodily purity, the golden anthers the glowing light of her soul…

Then Jesus came for her and her sould went forth out of her body and flew upward in the arms of her Son. As Mary rose, she was surrounded with red roses and white lilies. Three days later, her body came forth from the tomb and was assumed into heaven, accompanied by a chorus of angels.

Thomas, however, was not present and when he arrived refused to believe that this had happened. He asked that her tomb be opened and when it was opened it contained only lilies and roses.

Roses and lilies have been symbols of Mary since earliest times. The rose, emblematic of her purity, glory and sorrow, was her attribute as Queen of Heaven and a symbol of her love for God and for Christ, her son. The lily represented her immaculate purity, her innocence and virginity.
 
My rcia instructor told me about this experience she had! Amazing i found it on here, too!
 
I can’t believe how common this is! I thought it was just a thing that happened to my rcia instructor while praying the rosary! Amazing!
 
When I was running around in sin, for some reason I felt compelled to get a tattoo of a rosary wrapped around a rose. I had never seen anyone with the same tattoo before, so I was surprised when I came across this thread.

Now that I think about it, I know Our Mother was with me even through my struggles of serious sin.
 
I am in the middle of a 33 Day Marian Consecration by Father Gaitley.

Last Sunday, Memorial Day, my son, 6 years old, and I went to a mass and the priest told some details about a number of Catholics and Priests who died in Vietnam and Iraq. After mass my son said that he wanted to pray a rosary today for everyone who has given their life for our country.

I reminded him about this during the day and as we got ready for bed he said dad, I want to pray the rosary instead of reading books because I promised, I have to do it. Now my son has set up a prayer table in his room and about 4 to 5 nights a week the kids and I will sit there, read a bible story, pray and say a decade of the rosary. Tonight my wife was lying with our daughter who was a little sick, and my son and I were praying at his table. I typically use a simple ordinary red rosary that he got from the Jesus box in his classroom, items that kids get for doing something special. As we were praying, about the second decade, I got a strong smell of roses, very distinctly, just like the rosaries made of crushed rose pedals that my brother brought back from visiting Our Lady of Guadalupe. I stopped right in the middle of my prayer and said, smell this rosary, he smelled it also and it continued until we were done. After we finished we brought the rosary into my wife to have her smell it and she definitely smelled them as well. As I finished putting him to bed I continued to receive the occasional unmistakable smell of roses.

What a gift from our blessed mother, my son and I are extremely moved by this. I am so unworthly and humbled by this experience. A Thousand Thank Yous My Dear Mother!
 
In 2008, I made a pilgrimage to Caritas, near Birmingham, Alabama, where the Medjugorje visionary Marija visits each year during the first week of July. I was searching for something. God was calling me, and I was really trying to listen to Him. He did this through the Blessed Virgin Mary. During the first apparition at which I was present, I briefly smelled roses, as though one had been passed under my nose. It was fleeting, and by the next morning, I had talked myself out of it. Well, during the very next apparition, I was on my knees praying during Our Lady’s appearance, and all of the sudden, I was engulfed in the smell of roses! I am so thankful that She blessed me with such a miracle. It resulted in my complete conversion. I have 100% faith. I think about it every day of my life and am eternally grateful. I don’t know if I will ever smell them again, but I pray that I will. God bless!
 
In my early 20’s, I assisted the Pastor at Mass. Right afterwards, as I was stepping down from the alter area, I got the strongest smell of roses. There were no roses in the Church and I knew it was Our Lady.

She has continued to help me throughout my life: I have obtained mercy because of Her.
 
BearingMyCross said:
In 2008, I made a pilgrimage to Caritas, near Birmingham, Alabama, where the Medjugorje visionary Marija visits each year during the first week of July. I was searching for something. God was calling me, and I was really trying to listen to Him. He did this through the Blessed Virgin Mary. During the first apparition at which I was present, I briefly smelled roses, as though one had been passed under my nose. It was fleeting, and by the next morning, I had talked myself out of it. Well, during the very next apparition, I was on my knees praying during Our Lady’s appearance, and all of the sudden, I was engulfed in the smell of roses! I am so thankful that She blessed me with such a miracle. It resulted in my complete conversion. I have 100% faith. I think about it every day of my life and am eternally grateful. I don’t know if I will ever smell them again, but I pray that I will. God bless!
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stephen_cerutti:
when I smelled our lady I wasn’t even going to any church I was broken hearted and reading the bible to myself, I was confermed a Catholic at 8 yrs. old and drifted away at age 15

To make a long story short, she directed me back to her sons church " the Catholic church "an since I’ve been back steady I haven’t smelled the roses,

possibly someone in heaven is praying for us ? it is a great mistery, all I know for sure is that I am back where I belong
 
This is an interesting tread. The subject is a bit surpising to me mainly because I was not aware that the “fragrance of Sharon” was attributed to Mary.

More than a decade ago I was attending a charismatic service at a non denominaitonal church when the visiting pastor said at what I suppose now was midway in the service, " Some of you are now experiencing the a very strong fragrance. Please stand up. I had been smelling the fragrance for sometime by then and expected that everyone was smelling it as well and we would all stand up. I therefore stood up. To my surpise only 5 or six people stood up with me in a congragation of perhaps 150 souls or so. I was the only male, all others were female. He briefly explained to us that this was the fragrance of Sharon and I assumed it was associatied with the Holy Spirit and indeed Jesus.

Now the fragrace was strong! and I mean strong! It was somehow intoxicatingly strong. And the fragrance i was with me for exaclty 7 days 24 hrs per day. It was everywhere I was, it surrounded me, on my pillow, in my car, it was everywhere I was and it was extremely strong…! But no one else could detect it.

Next sunday evening I returned to the same non-denominaitonal church and the frangrance was still very much with me. When it came time to give testimony, a custom at that church, I did not give testimony being unfamiliar with this item of their service. And when people finished and testimony finished-- the fragrance went away instantly.

It is seven days of my life that I cherish and sometimes to this day I get a short mist of the fragrance. It never lasts long and might just bea near fragrances in my surrounding close to the fragrance of the Rose of Sharon.

I never associated it with Mary until reading this tread. I have done some minor research on fragrance and the Holy Spirit and the Flower of Sharon and what I found is that the Flower and the fragrance is from the land God tented on and walked on… and that is good, very very good in fact. 🙂 GBU
 
zeno_1 said:
This is an interesting tread. The subject is a bit surpising to me mainly because I was not aware that the “fragrance of Sharon” was attributed to Mary.

More than a decade ago I was attending a charismatic service at a non denominaitonal church when the visiting pastor said at what I suppose now was midway in the service, " Some of you are now experiencing the a very strong fragrance. Please stand up. I had been smelling the fragrance for sometime by then and expected that everyone was smelling it as well and we would all stand up. I therefore stood up. To my surpise only 5 or six people stood up with me in a congragation of perhaps 150 souls or so. I was the only male, all others were female. He briefly explained to us that this was the fragrance of Sharon and I assumed it was associatied with the Holy Spirit and indeed Jesus.

Now the fragrace was strong! and I mean strong! It was somehow intoxicatingly strong. And the fragrance i was with me for exaclty 7 days 24 hrs per day. It was everywhere I was, it surrounded me, on my pillow, in my car, it was everywhere I was and it was extremely strong…! But no one else could detect it.

Next sunday evening I returned to the same non-denominaitonal church and the frangrance was still very much with me. When it came time to give testimony, a custom at that church, I did not give testimony being unfamiliar with this item of their service. And when people finished and testimony finished-- the fragrance went away instantly.

It is seven days of my life that I cherish and sometimes to this day I get a short mist of the fragrance. It never lasts long and might just bea near fragrances in my surrounding close to the fragrance of the Rose of Sharon.

I never associated it with Mary until reading this tread. I have done some minor research on fragrance and the Holy Spirit and the Flower of Sharon and what I found is that the Flower and the fragrance is from the land God tented on and walked on… and that is good, very very good in fact. 🙂 GBU
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I went out on my porch last night to let my dog out b4 bed. When I stepped outside, there was an overwhelming smell of roses…there was no breeze, and first thought that came to mind, was that a friend of mine must be praying for me, and who is here? - I have been going through some hard times, and I have a friend that has been praying for me…and I called her this morning, she had been praying for the Blessed Mother Mary and also her mother/ the grandmother of Jesus to watch over me, etc. - I assumed that either someone had dumped rose perfume around my house, or else there was some saint or Holy apparition watching over my home…has to be one or the other.-- The smell was so strong, it was curious that it did NOT hang on my clothes, or on my dogs fur, etc…as when I came back inside, I smelled nothing…but my first impression was " who is she praying to, that smells like roses, and is watching over my home?" There are NO smelly flowers close to my house or porch that could have made this odor…and no breeze…all was still…
 
OK…I went outside last night, and smelled a very pungent, enveloping, and overwhelming smell of roses…now and I have said some silent prayers to Mary, Jesus, God, and anyone else who could maybe hear these, plus I have a friend who has been praying for me. – But it put a whole new meaning on the phrase " stop and smell the roses"…all I can say
 
stephen_cerutti said:
when I smelled our lady I wasn’t even going to any church I was broken hearted and reading the bible to myself, I was confermed a Catholic at 8 yrs. old and drifted away at age 15

To make a long story short, she directed me back to her sons church " the Catholic church "an since I’ve been back steady I haven’t smelled the roses,

possibly someone in heaven is praying for us ? it is a great mistery, all I know for sure is that I am back where I belong
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Welcome back Stephen!!! The Blessed Mother is always “gathering her children” and bringing them back to the fold of her mantle…in her Son’s Church. She is totally awesome eh?
 
A miracle happened to me on August 8th. I sing in the choir at Our Lady Queen of Heaven church. I am a newcomer and have been there for 2 months… Our choir sits directly in front of the altar to Our Lady Queen of Heaven. The altar has always had 4 vases of plastic artificial roses.

On Sunday August 3 I took my usual place in my chair in front of the altar. When I sat down, I smelled an overpowering fragrance of roses. No one in the choir had rosé perfume on. I automatically looked back to the altar, thinking someone had replaced the artificial roses with real ones. But the altar was bare of roses.

Someone had taken down the 4 vases of plastic artificial roses from the altar, and placed them on the floor behind my chair. I bent down to smell them, and the beautiful fragrance of roses was coming from the plastic ones! How could this be?

I took it as a sign from Our Lady that she wanted real freaks roses. So I bought light pink and beige roses and placed them on her altar yesterday on Sunday. I was amazed that they exactly matched the light pink beige roses that were on the main altar!
 
I made a typo on my post. I meant to say " real fresh roses", not “freaks”. Lol
 
Last year my nephew was battling Non-Hodgkins T-cell lymphoma stage 4.
Tyler was just twenty years old but looked eighteen. My wife and I raised Tyler, he was our only child. My father had seen and felt our suffering and gave me a cross, this was a very special cross. My father’s priest/friend had visited a place called Medjugorje where the children had seen the Virgin Mary. She had told them to make this cross and to pray on the seven wounds of Jesus (two hands, crown of thorns, stab in his side, two feet, and a broken nose that was from the Romans during capture). She told them to say the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Holy Mary on each stage.
Tyler had been in the hospital for several moths due to complications from chemo treatment and the cancer. I prayed on that cross every night for a week. One night I was awakened by a strong smell of roses. The smell was so powerful it woke me up. I looked at Tyler and he was sleeping so peacefully so I didn’t wake him. I searched for the sorce of the smell, it was so constant, had the same level of heaviness even in the bathroom wich was closed. I looked outside the hallway and couldn’t see anyone, just a dark hallway. I couldn’t believe how strong and beautiful that smell was. Yet, just as sudden as it came, it left. In just a few minutes there was nothing left, not a trace.
Within a month after the roses, Ty was released. The doctors decided to let him come home to pass. Ty passed so peaceful at home surrounded by family. I’m still dealing with the pain of such a loss. I’m incredibly greatful for the way he had passed, I didn’t want him to suffer.
I do believe Ty and I were visited by the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit. Ty’s attitude and outlook were very different after that night. He seemed at pease.
 
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