April 7 – 5th Sunday of Lent – Our Lady of Zyrovic (Lithunia, 1432) – 17th apparition in Lourdes I entrust you to Our Blessed Lady Pope Francis visited a home for disabled and HIV-infected youth in Panama [...] people and the staff of the home. Here is what he said before the prayer: “I entrust you to our Blessed Lady. We ask her, as a good Mother, full of tender love and closeness, to teach us to make an effort each [...] each day to discover who our neighbors are, and to help us go out quickly to meet them, to give them a home, an embrace, where care and fraternal love meet. This is a mission involving each and every one
29 - Our Lady of the Flowers (Bra, Italy, 1336) After my novenas, I saw no immediate results, but.. My testimonial is more like a humble and profound thank you to Our Blessed Mother, the Mother of Our Lord [...] personal development methods, but to no avail. I think it was Our Mother who came to me: one evening I ordered the novena booklet from Mary Undoer of Knots. I prayed several novenas in a row, always the same one [...] is a brief summary of my life: I was born outside of the European Union, after a divorce, I found myself on welfare two years ago, out of work with two children to raise. I tried to get back on my feet
Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa. I almost died from it. I turned to Our Lady for help, telling her: If you give me more time to live, I will never forget these nuns and poor people; I will devote my [...] the result of a call to stop devoting my life to building my own tower of Babel, in the logic of the secular corporate world. My call was to help build a different world, devoting my attention to those whom [...] June 2 – The Second Council of Constantinople confirms the title of “Theotokos” (553) I was close to dying and turned to Our Lady A successful general sales manager at Microsoft Corporation, Édouard Montier
and able to pray with us, sustaining those of us who had started sleeping. I remember how beautiful that was, to pray all together to Our Lady, Our Mother. To be in my mother’s arms and to be praying [...] October 25 – Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1741) It was beautiful to pray all together to Our Lady! Here is an excerpt of an interview that American professor Robert Moynihan had with Mgr Vigano (1) on July [...] bombardment of Milan during the Second World War. There was a little image of Our Lady there, with a light, and we started praying the Rosary, with all of my brothers. This deep, emotional memory of Mary left
4 - 1st visit of Pope Saint John Paul II to Poland and Czestochowa Shrine (1979) Pope Francis entrusted his journey to Iraq to Our Lady On the eve of his departure for a three-day trip to Iraq, Pope Francis [...] basilica to ask for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and protection on his journey. According to the Holy See press office, Pope Francis went to the Basilica of St Mary Major on March 4th “for a moment of prayer” [...] prayer” before the Byzantine icon of Salus Populi Romani , (Mary, Protection of the Romans). It has been Pope Francis’ custom to visit the icon before his international trips to ask for the Virgin Mary’s protection
the life of grace begun at Baptism can reach its fullness. With Our Lady, let us ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself to us and to increase in us charity and apostolic zeal. " Come, Spirit of truth, illuminate [...] Incarnation was accomplished. Our Creed teaches us that Jesus "was conceived of the Holy Spirit". In us, the Holy Spirit is like the soul of our soul, the principle of our spiritual life. It is actually [...] Beatification of Bartolo Longo, apostle of the Rosary, by John Paul II who quoted him five times in his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae With Our Lady, let us ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten us
“Simon, a man of great temperance and devotion to Mary, often prayed to the Virgin, glorious Mother of God, Patron of the Carmelite Order, humbly entreating her to accord a privilege to this Order which [...] known man, accord us your favors, Star of the Sea. One day, Our Lady appeared to him surrounded by a multitude of angels, holding a scapular in her hand. She said to him: Here is a sign for you and a privilege [...] the Brown Scapular Our Lady appeared to him, holding a scapular in her hand On July 16, 1251, in Cambridge, England, the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Simon Stock, an early Prior of the Carmelite religious
Peter's Square," Noriko was stunned. "If only I knew how to pray," she thought. But no one had ever taught her how to pray. She wanted to pray to Our Lady like Christians do. The next day she read my statement [...] apparition in Banneux (Belgium, 1933) She wanted to pray to Our Lady like Christians do Father Lothar, a missionary in Japan, told this story: It was the tragic day of May 13, 1981. That night Noriko Akagawa, [...] That is why I invite everyone to an hour of prayer, tomorrow evening, at the mission church." Noriko knew immediately what she would do. "I want to participate in this hour of prayer." This first encounter
January 3 – The bishop of Fatima asks Sister Lucia to write down the Third Secret of Fatima (1944) "Our Lady asked me to pray for priests!" "I believe that Our Lady is very eager to see many more people [...] weaknesses, except of course if they are criminal acts. Our Lady invites us to turn our recriminations into prayers and to offer her all priests ... because she is their Mother! She takes care of her children [...] lead us to eternal joy. The more priests are attached to the Virgin Mary, the more she can use them to lead us to holiness, by making them more and more holy. We can entrust priests to Our Lady during Mass
15 – Our Lady of the Underground (Chartres, France) – Our Lady of Fossolovara (Italy) Our Lady of Chartres, honored as “Our Lady of the Underground” In the city of Chartres, 55 miles southwest of Paris [...] statue carved of stone placed in it. So, Our Lady is still Our Lady of the Underground. And how fitting today that she has such a title; for so many of our people who suffer under many dictatorships must [...] crypt (underground) of the Cathedral of Chartres. In 1650, the grotto underground was walled up and, at that time, a small chapel was built close to the crypt, and the statue of Our Lady of the Underground
