What it means to devote oneself to Mary On the topic of the consecration to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort, in his Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, recommends "beginning, continuing [...] with Jesus Christ and for Jesus Christ our last end” (#115). And a little further (#120), he says: "Mary being the most conform to Jesus Christ of all creatures, it follows that of all the devotions, that [...] devotion to the Most Holy Virgin, his holy Mother, and that the more a soul will be consecrated to Mary, the more she will belong to Jesus Christ. That is why the perfect consecration to Jesus Christ is
June 3 – Our Lady of the Letter (Messina, Italy) Mary Queen of Peace, Patroness of Kazakhstan (I) Bishop José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, of the diocese of Holy Trinity in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was visiting Rome [...] there to commemorate that historical event, so I commissioned a painting that would commemorate it—not Mary giving them the fish herself, but it’s the Child Jesus in her arms who gives the fish to his Mother
who asked that it be dedicated to “Mary, Queen of Peace.” In 1995, the then-bishop of Kazakhstan and Central Asia consecrated the entire region to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, in a period “of great [...] explains why Mary, Queen of Peace, is the Patroness of Kazakhstan. When Saint John Paul II came to the country in 2001, he spoke at the National Shrine of Oziorno … And so the National Shrine of Mary Queen of [...] Graces (Italy, 1503) – Saint John Paul II’s first official visit to Poland, in Czestochowa (1979) Mary Queen of Peace, Patroness of Kazakhstan (II) In the 1980s, the faithful of the Almaty diocese, in
May 18 – Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Let us follow him with Mary Let us go to Mary, since she is our mother, the mother of each one of us! Let us go to her, since she is the universal mediatrix [...] to the aid of her child if he implores her aid with confidence and love. Let us follow Jesus, with Mary his incomparable mother: Jesus, the perfect model, the complete model, the model of all... Let us
House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) Mary is a Mother, like the Church Unique among women, Mary “is both mother and virgin, not only in the spirit but in the flesh as well. Mary is a mother in spirit, but it [...] believe in him. And all who believe in him are rightly called the children of the Bridegroom. But Mary is indeed our Mother in spirit, we who are his members, for she brought about, through her charity [...] virgin, to indicate that his members would be born, according to the Spirit, of the virgin Church. Thus Mary is, in spirit and flesh, mother and virgin: both the mother of Christ and a virgin of Christ.” St
apparition in Fatima, Portugal: “I am from Heaven” (1917) – Attempted assassination of John Paul II (1981) Mary protects her own! On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca fired a gun at the Holy Father, Pope John Paul [...] the Pope beatified Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the three children who had seen the Virgin Mary in Fatima during the apparitions of 1917 (Lucia was still alive in 2000). That same year he made public
30 – Ascension of the Lord – Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar) – Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) Why did Mary stay on earth after the Ascension? This delay was a great consolation for Christ’s disciples. It took
of Fatima at the Convent of Tuy (Spain, 1930) "Do not be afraid, my child, I am the Blessed Virgin Mary" In 1686, a news item shook the village of Celles (France): Four women had violently beaten a priest [...] fright and was about to run away when he heard, "Do not be afraid, my child, I am the Blessed Virgin Mary." He knelt, and so did the apparition. "Warn the people to change their lives and do eight processions
celebrated mass at Le Bourget Airport (Official visit to France, 1980) Saturday, the day consecrated to Mary Among the many spiritual privileges granted by the Church to those who wear the Brown Scapular, the [...] granted in 1317, after having been favored by a vision of the Blessed Queen of Carmel. The Virgin Mary promised the Holy Father to deliver from Purgatory, on the Saturday after their death, those who would
that it was Mary who touched the hearts of the people, and a process of spiritual renewal began in me. I have returned to Lourdes many times, and I have always received the same impression: Mary takes us [...] May 8 – Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 875) Mary touched their hearts It was at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France: I was a young priest, participating in a UNITALSI pilgrimage (an Italian [...] Dom Bernardino Marchió Bishop of Caruaru Testimony submitted by Thacio Siqueira for A Moment with Mary
