necessity of following the Virgin Mary: “If I love Mary, I am sure of my perseverance and I will obtain from God all that I want.” That is why this holy young man kept repeating: “I want to love Mary, I want [...] May 24 – Mary Auxiliatrix, Help of Christians (1815) How to ensure our final perseverance? As Saint John Bosco was dying, some asked him: “What would you like to leave to these poor children that you have [...] raised so carefully and are about to leave?” The holy man answered without hesitation: “Devotion to Mary and frequent communion,” (feeling certain that those two means would be enough to ensure their final
Savior will play at the end times of the Church. The reign of Christ the Lord will then come in the same way as his first coming—with Mary and through Mary—in the company of Angels like in Bethlehem. In these [...] Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) Those times are not too far off Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort and Marthe Robin have both stressed the increasingly important role that the Mother of the [...] ives of the invisible Angels will be what Saint Louis-Marie called the great saints of the end times, in other words men and women fully penetrated by a Marian spirit, obedient to the motions of the Holy
February 6 – Mary, Mother of Piety (Italy) – French mystic Marthe Robin (d. 1981) "I increasingly depend on Our Good Mother" Marthe Robin left us the following thoughts: "The whole program of my life consists [...] consists of remaining united to Mary, my Mother, under the dependence of the Interior Master who directs me, in allowing myself to be invaded, devoured, consumed by God. "I entrust all things to my Beloved [...] with me, so that I may be able to say at every moment, in union with You. I am the little handmaid of the Lord... let it be done to me according to His Good Pleasure. "I rely increasingly on Our Good Mother
Rosary Teams or the Legion of Mary testify. As a First Communion or Confirmation gift, why not offer a beautiful rosary to children that will stay with them for the rest of their life? In Japan, Christian [...] curriculum. Instead, they promote methods of esoteric meditation for children to help calm them down. By contrast, the prayer of the Rosary offers a different kind of peace—Peace that comes from Jesus. Faith [...] always amazed by the pedagogical and spiritual power of the Rosary in times of illness and mourning. I remind the sick and those who are in jail of their mission to pray for the Church and for the world
all that there is of ourselves to fill us only with all that is of Him, so that we may be pleasing to Him! May He be the support of our impotence, the force of our weakness, the joy of all our sadness! [...] October 16 - Our Lady of Purity - Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (d. 1690) O Our Sweet Hope O our sweet hope let us feel your power over the loveable Heart of Jesus, and use your credit so as to make a place
August 11 - Mary Refuge of Sinners - Saint Claire (d. 1253) - John Henry Cardinal Newman (d. 1890) Prayer to the Blessed Virgin It is the time for your Visitation. Arise Mary, and go forth in your strength [...] own, and take possession of a land which knows you not. Arise, Mother of God, and with your thrilling voice, speak to those who labor with child, and are in pain, till the babe of grace leaps within them
June 12 - Mary Queen of China (Shanghai, 1924) Let Us Make Reparation (II) Pope John Paul II's also spoke of offering reparation or consoling the Divine Heart at the beatification of Blessed Jacinta and [...] this earth to visit the privileged children of the Father. She speaks to them with a mother's voice and heart: she asks them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying that she was ready to lead [...] Francisco had a great desire to atone for the offences of sinners by striving to be good and by offering his sacrifices and prayers. The life of Jacinta, his younger sister by almost two years, was motivated
November 21 - The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple Mary is the Trinity’s most cherished friend The Presentation of Mary in the Temple gives us several insights about what Marian devotion is [...] the perfect incarnation of Zion, that is to say, the helper that God chose for himself to accomplish his plan of redemption. Because before becoming the Mother of the Messiah, Mary was the Trinity’s most [...] . The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple shows us that we lose nothing by placing God first! The second teaching concerns the nature of Marian devotion. Our love for Mary should not be dictated
January 1 - Mary, Mother of God Ave Maria Stella Hail, O Star of the ocean, God's own Mother blest, ever sinless Virgin, gate of heav'nly rest. Taking that sweet Ave, which from Gabriel came, peace confirm [...] Word divine born for us thine Infant hear our prayers through thine. Virgin all excelling, mildest of the mild, free from guilt preserve us meek and undefiled. Keep our life all spotless, make our way
consecration to Mary "calls for a deeper personal commitment to Christ" and will allow, thanks to Mary, "the birth of a new dynamism in the heart of each one of us and in the hearts of Ivorians." The [...] November 14 – Our Lady of Pasenika, or Mary’s Victory (Constantinople) A second city in Ivory Coast consecrated to Mary The town of Grand-Bassam, in the southeastern part of Ivory Coast, was consecrated [...] consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Sunday, August 30, 2020. Father Jean Bonzo Kouassi, Vicar General of the Diocese of Grand-Bassam and representative of the local Ordinary, Bishop Raymond Ahoua, presided
