November 3 – Holy Mary of Petition (Italy) – Our Lady of Coromoto (Venezuela) One of the most beautiful expressions of the spirituality of the Council The place of Mary in the mystery of the Church is the [...] time of promulgation of Lumen Gentium , when he solemnly gave Mary the title of Mother of the Church . Ten years later, in Marialis Cultus , the same Paul VI gave one of the finest expressions of the [...] consequence of her fundamental place in the mystery of Christ, as Theotokos, Mother of God. Based on Scripture and the great Tradition of the Church Fathers and the Saints, the Vatican II Council brought to light
December 23 – Our Lady of the Oak Mary and Joseph's painful trial before their marriage (1/2) In Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me (1), the Blessed Virgin recalls how she and Joseph [...] several days, exactly as it had happened to Jesus and to Me. Neither was it less painful for his soul. And only because of the holiness of My just spouse, it was contained in such a dignified and secret form [...] was not aware of it when I saw that he was respectful to Me as usual. If he had known that I bore in Me the Word of God, he would have adored that Word enclosed in My womb, with the acts of veneration which
heard the message of the Angel, she lifted up her heart in a song of praise and thanksgiving to God, saying: “My soul magnifies the Lord…” Let us ask our Lady to help us recognize that everything is God’s [...] us good – if we are prepared to accept God’s gifts, or prefer instead to shut ourselves up within our forms of material security, intellectual security, the security of our plans. Pope Francis Homily for [...] (Russia, 1492) Are we ready to receive God’s gifts? It is easy to approach the Lord to ask for something, but to return and give thanks is another matter. That is why Jesus points to the nine ungrateful lepers
school. Devoted to Our Lady from a young age, Carlo made the effort to recite the Rosary daily and, after his first Communion at age seven, also strove to receive the Eucharist daily and to receive the sacrament [...] dedicated to Mary (Rome, Italy) Carlo Acutis, the first Millennial to be declared blessed! Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who died of leukaemia, used his passion for computers to evangelize [...] news, a powerful proclamation that a youth of our times, someone like many of us, has been conquered by Christ and has become a radiant light for those who want to know him and follow his example.” While
March 5 – Our Lady of the Miracle (Italy, 1440) "The Virgin Mary touched my soul" "Our family comes from a town near Fatima, Portugal. My great-grandparents were witnesses of the 1917 apparitions. The [...] Virgin Mary came to me and touched my soul. She made me understand that Christ has opened the way to eternal life for us and that life here on earth is only a stage given to our freedom to choose God. At [...] given the gift to listen to the Scriptures in a new way. I felt the desire to help others, and a longing for prayer, peace and the love that comes from God." Today, Oliver witnesses to his faith around
midst of the general collapse brought on by hatred, the Undying One appeared to our young hearts... We decided to love one another, to repay his love ... Striving to be in perfect unity became our life [...] February 9 – Our Lady of the Castle (Italy, 1558) Have you heard of "The Work of Mary"? It all started in 1943, in Trento, Italy, during WWII’s heavy bombings. During the long stays in the bomb shelters [...] shelters, some young women of Catholic Action began to read the Gospel together, in order to live it out in service of the poor, once the alert had passed. The leader of the group was a 23-year-old philosophy
August 26 – Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland) The soul of my Mother has always been thought of by God In this excerpt (348.9 /12) of “The Gospel as Revealed to Me” by Maria Valtorta, Jesus speaks to the Apostles [...] Apostles and to some disciples, men and women, gathered in the garden of the house of Nazareth: "I wanted you to be here to meet Mary. Many of you know Mary as the "mother"—some as "the spouse." But no one [...] It is the thought of God that creates it. The soul of my Mother has always been thought of by God. Because of this, it is eternal in its beauty, to which God has given all perfection, to derive delight and
April 29 – Our Lady of la Ghiara (Italy, 1596) – Saint Catherine of Siena, mystic and doctor of the Church When Mary said YES, she made a commitment on behalf of all of us In you, O Mary, our human strength [...] revealed, for after the deliberation of such and so great a council, the angel was sent to you to announce to you the mystery of the divine counsel, and to seek to know your will, and God's Son did not [...] the door of your will for you to open to him; for he wanted to come into you, but he would never have entered unless you had opened to him, saying, "Here I am, God's servant; let it be done to me as you
are mindful of the crucified Christ, imploring him at all times to accept suffering rather than to cause suffering; to die rather than to kill; to welcome others rather than to reject them; to love always [...] November 14 – Our Lady of Pasenika or Mary’s Victory (Contantinople) - St Gregory Palamas The Logic of the Cross and the Heart of Mary Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who serves as the Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic [...] " "The Logic of the Cross" is "a logic of offering and sacrifice, expiation and death, to reach the glory of the resurrection. ... Christian morality is simply about remaining faithful to the Cross! It
26 - Our Lady of Tikhvin (Russia) – The Third Secret of Fatima is revealed (2000) Icon of the Mother of God saves her people Tradition holds that the icon of the Mother of God of Tikhvin is one of several [...] icons of the Virgin Mary that was painted by St Luke the Evangelist. It was moved from Jerusalem to Constantinople in the 5 th century, to the Basilica of St Mary of Blachernae especially built to enshrine [...] principality of Novgorod, Russia. Then it moved to Tikhvin where a monastery was eventually founded in honor of the Virgin of Tikhvin. At first, a wooden church was built on the site of the appearance of the icon
