Kolbe founds the Militia of the Immaculata in Rome (1917) - Saint Andrew of Crete (d. 761) I have entrusted your order to my Mother Sister Cecilia, a Roman nun and a contemporary of Saint Dominic, recounted [...] Order of Preachers. One night, after staying to pray longer than the rest of the community in the deserted church, St Dominic continued his prayers in the Brothers' dormitory. There, three ladies approached [...] each evening, when you say, "O thou, our Advocate" (prayer of the Hail Holy Queen). Each time you do, I prostrate myself before my Son to ask for the preservation of this Order." Then Dominic saw the Virgin

witnessing to the value of human life and our faith, but an encounter proved us right. During the event, we had to kindly ask a group of young people to turn off their loud music – they had speakers playing [...] happened to pass by joined our Rosary. Praying is a natural act because human beings have a spiritual dimension—there is therefore no reason to confine prayer only to churches! It is through the birth of his [...] January 22 – Our Lady of Ceignac (France, 1516) – Death of Venerable Claire de Castelbajac (1975) Marches and Rosaries for Life Here is a follow-up on the Rosary for Life held on November 3, 2018, in

definition of love, you’ll have a better appreciation for it. St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, “To love is to will the good of the other.” […] MCGREGOR: We’re called to learn this from Our Lady because she [...] ourselves to these horrific, damaging images and videos, and we don’t think much about it. We have to take custody of our eyes and ears. We need to eliminate these obstacles, close the doors to evil and [...] will, and it’s how we use it that’s going to direct our life, our spiritual life. […] Jesus gave us Mary as a bridge to him, to help us get closer to him, and we need all the help we can get. Mary is a powerful

thanks to your prayers." Our Lady asked the faithful to build a chapel on the place of her apparition, with a statue of the Immaculate Conception. She promised to bless a spring at the edge of the forest [...] Gietrzwald dates back to1352, and the Gothic church to 1500. In 1568, the latter was dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. The high point in the history of Gietrzwald is an apparition of the Virgin Mary [...] the girls and the content of the message, and everything was found to be normal and in line with the faith. In 1945, the shrine was entrusted to the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran. On September

dead, he went to see our Lady, because she was in great need of him: the pain she was experiencing was consuming and piercing her, and she was not yet able to re-enter her inner self to experience this [...] will be part of the first group of people gathered in the Cenacle. But where is she at Easter? In his Spiritual Exercises, when he comes to the mystery of the Resurrection, St. Ignatius of Loyola recommends [...] Resurrection of the Lord - Byzantine Church: Saint Mary of the Source - Holy Virgin Empress (Russia) Mary, "the first person to whom the risen Jesus appeared" The Easter season gives us many accounts of the a

spiritual note to this WYD and brought participants to the center of the faith, with the example of Mary and with a sense of her presence. It was a perfect choice for Latin America, because Our Lady has been [...] miraculous rescue of the Shroud (Italy, 1997) The Marian accent gave a very beautiful spiritual note to this WYD Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and President of the Pontifical [...] bringing unity to this continent. Finally, it is one of the WYDs with the highest motivation level we have seen, in the sense that young participants had to overcome many challenges. Some had to turn back because

and then to the grotto of the apparitions, but nothing worked. I needed to be hospitalized again, but I kept an image of Our Lady with me. One day, to my amazement, I was healed. It was on March 25th (feast [...] lived in a type of hell that is hard to describe. I had to be hospitalized. My depression lasted for two and a half years. Then someone took me to Lourdes. I could not pray there. I went to the baths and [...] (feast of the Annunciation to Mary). Since then, I have never fallen into depression again. Little by little, the Lord has restored me, putting people into my life who have helped me. I returned to church

We want to rebuild our bond with God. We want to fight for our faith and for holiness. We want to pray to God to pour the Holy Spirit over us, the Polish people, so that we can regain the power to fight [...] November 22 – Our Lady of Soufanieh (Syria, 1982) The Virgin invites us under her Son’s Cross On the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, celebrated in the Catholic Church on September 14th, a large [...] organized the "Great Day of Penance," during which we asked God’s forgiveness for the sins of the Polish nation, and a Rosary was prayed by people along all the borders of our country. We are convinced

authenticity of the Zeitoun apparitions. She was still visibly moved when she told me that she was not the only one to have seen her, but that thousand others had seen Our Lady at the same time as she." By decision [...] decision of Coptic Pope Cyril VI in 1969, the Coptic Orthodox Church added to its liturgical calendar a feast of the Transfiguration of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, celebrated annually on 24 barmahat (April [...] Fathma Zahi Reda, a devout Muslim, healed of an incurable condition of the thyroid gland; another Muslim, Madiha Mohammed Saïd, 20, cured of nervous disorders that led to blindness and aphasia; William Nashed

September 25 - Our Lady of Saint Peter (Italy, 1751) Founder of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary The son of a Jewish rabbi, Jacob Libermann embraced Catholicism in 1826, and became a priest [...] transmitted his devotion to Our Lady: "Our congregation must be characterized by a strong attachment to Mary's Immaculate Heart, a homage paid with filial tenderness to the love of Mary for her Son and for [...] fruitful ministry, in particular by founding the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1841. This congregation merged in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost in 1848, "Mary's Immaculate Heart" being