September 10 – Holy Mary of Life (Italy, 1613) Mary helps us make sense of our times Mary has already entered her glory, and the time of trials in our world will come to an end. Here is what our beloved [...] evil, rises up against Mary and the Church, as the symbolism of the Old Testament has already indicated; red is the sign of war, slaughter and bloodshed; the "seven heads" with diadems mean immense power [...] refuge for only a limited period. The time of anguish, persecution and trial, then, is not indefinite: in the end liberation will come and the hour of glory. […] Let us fix our gaze, then, on Mary, the icon

Margaret Mary Alacoque (Paray-le-Monial, France, 1689) The Heart of Jesus in the apparitions of Mary In June 1675, during the octave of Corpus Christi, Jesus appeared to Sister Margaret Mary, a nun in the [...] 1850, 144 between 1851 and 1900, many of them in France. It was also a time when Marian spirituality was in full revival in France, with founders such as Guillaume Joseph Chaminade, founder of the Marianists [...] devotion to the "Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary, refuge of sinners" at Notre Dame des Victoires, Bishop Eugene de Mazenod, founder of the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate, etc. It was also the time of the

1105) The Virgin Mary in my life What does a young man of 20 think about? What are his dreams and hopes? In the whirlwind of my somewhat golden student days in Marseille, I knew that a moment of truth was [...] make liberating decisions. My companionship with Mary, nearly 20 years later, was enriched by the discovery of a powerful text by Father Doncoeur on the Virgin Mary in masculine lives 1 . The more I studied [...] down and considering what to do next. For a 20-year-old, the coming of adulthood is always a bit scary. And there is an unsettling question: what is my vocation? A spontaneous intuition sent me one afternoon

April 6 - Our Lady of the Conception (Douai, France) Mary's 15 Promises to Those Who Recite the Holy Rosary 1)Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive special graces [...] protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. 3)The Rosary shall be a powerful weapon against evil; it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. 4)The Rosary [...] be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. 7)Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church. 8)Those who are faithful

Light of the world, Mary is just a star. Jesus calms storms; Stella Maris just guides us through them. But in moments of fear and confusion, when God Himself seems distant, there is still a glimmer of light [...] beginning of my devotion to Mary, Star of the Sea. I began advocating the name Stella for babies, even calling my new car Stella Maris and buying her in a lovely Marian blue. I saw Mary as my guiding star when [...] Iverskaia (Russia) Ask Stella Maris to be your light in the darkness Some years ago, I was living alone in a foreign country. Feeling terribly lonely, my praying turned into something of a “pity” party. All I could

fills it with deep happiness. It evokes in my soul an Admirable Mother. A mother who leans over each one with care. A patient, tender mother, who turns to the Triune God to intercede for us, moment after [...] alone that, after this life here on earth, we will enter His gentle light. Constance, a reader of A Moment with Mary Poem sent in April 2021 (Translated from French) [...] after moment, throughout our day. Oh, how can we not be touched, when pronouncing this beloved Name, loved from all eternity! He, the Word, the Light, the God of gods, the Lord of Lords did not fear to become

voice her praises and make known her compassion! There is not a child who does not praise her by stuttering a Hail Mary. There is scarcely a sinner, however hardened, who does not possess some spark of [...] unceasingly call out to her, "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her millions and millions of times each day with the angelic greeting: "Hail Mary", while prostrating themselves before her [...] 1875)May 9 - Feast of Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (II)Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (III) Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heaven and

Promoter of Peace (Le Puy en Velay, France) Mary’s promise to every soul who faithfully prays the "Three Hail Marys" Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1241-1299), a Benedictine nun from the monastery of Helfta [...] since she is filled with the Holy Spirit. According to Saint Gertrude the Great (1256-1301), the Blessed Virgin Mary promised this: ''To every soul who faithfully prays the Three Hail Marys, I will present [...] received three visions of the Virgin Mary. Concerned for her eternal salvation, she begged the Virgin to be present at the hour of her death. During these apparitions, Mary reassured her and taught her how

Lourdes (France, 1858) Eve and Mary, Mary and the Eucharist Drawing from the parallel between Eve and Mary, St. Peter Damian describes the relationship between the Virgin Mary and the Eucharistic body of [...] readmitted to the joys of paradise itself. Eve ate a food on account of which she condemned us to the hunger of an eternity of fasting; on the contrary Mary made a food that opened the entrance to the banquet [...] of her Son: "Blessed are you among women! Through a woman the curse fell on the earth; through a woman on the earth the blessing was restored. From the hand of the first the cup of bitter death was offered;

Virgin Mary in a praying position still show how fundamental the life of prayer is, which comes as a message of hope from this Shrine. You know that in the apparition of Knock the Virgin does not say a word [...] families, over the course of almost a century and a half, have passed on the faith to their children and gathered their daily labours around the prayer of the Rosary with the image of Our Lady of Knock at [...] your arms always wide open in a sign of welcome to every pilgrim who reaches you from every part of the world, without asking him anything, only recognising him or her as a brother or sister who wishes