August 22 - Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mary's sovereign presence fills heaven and earth "By her immaculate purity, she is the Queen chosen by God himself, the Queen loved by the Angels, who from [...] universe of souls and worlds. By her title of "Mother of God", she is the Queen of Doctors. By her fortitude, she is the Queen of martyrs. By her justice and love, she is the Queen of all saints and predestined [...] life-giving light of the Word, and fully alert in her ardent faith, her pure, loving virgin soul enters with a gaze infinitely deeper and more divine than that of the Cherubim and Seraphim into the unfathomable

Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Jesuit novice (d. 1591) Former atheist and occultist converted by Mary (II) Former atheist and occultist William Toro is a Catholic apologist [...] the faith with theological and philosophical arguments. One day, while he was still an atheist, his girlfriend - who is now his wife - asked that he attend a spiritual retreat and, with some distrust of his [...] She was up front and she said to me, ‘Son, we’ve been waiting for you.’” As a “good” atheist, after this mystical experience, he began looking for reasons to conclude that what he saw and heard was not real

if we do our part by living a life of Grace under the protection of Mary and her mantle (scapular), God will grant us salvation and uphold the promise. The best part is that by wearing the scapular, we [...] encouraged throughout the centuries, and affirmed by heaven on October 13th, 1917, in Fatima. On that day during the miracle of the sun, Mary appeared as Our Lady of the Rosary and handed the children a rosary [...] May 16 - Saint Simon Stock receives the brown scapular from Mary's hands (1164-1265) These two Marian devotion were given and affirmed by Heaven! By the mid-1200s, the monks of Mt. Carmel moved to land

January 13 - The Council of Trent declares Mary to be free of any sin by a special grace (1547) - Saint Hilary of Poitiers In Mary, God "dwelt on earth and made his imprint on it" Michael Psellos (1018-1078 [...] a truly splendid ascetic and virginal image of Mary in her luminous path of ascent to God. "The Virgin was truly a virgin, she kept the thoughts of her spirit wholly pure, and remained in her body like [...] it, and communicated to it her own radiance. Her spirit was truly filled with God, although she was not divine, and her body was so united to her spirit that she was completely enclosed in God. And God

November 25 - Mary Consoler of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) The theme of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, is “Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39) After the Annunciation, Mary could have focused [...] focused on herself and her own worries and fears about her new condition. Instead, she entrusted herself completely to God. Her thoughts turned to Elizabeth. (...) Within herself, Mary already bore the Lamb [...] Lamb that was slain and yet lives. She arises and sets out, for she is certain that God’s plan is the best plan for her life. Mary becomes a temple of God, an image of the pilgrim Church, a Church that

France, in 1891, and killed by tuberculosis in 1933 in the Community of Pieuse-Union, Marcelle Lanchon (in religion Sister Marie-France) received several apparitions (1) of Jesus and Mary during the First [...] of the Nativity of Mary - Marcelle was praying in the chapel of Our Lady of the Armies in Versailles when Virgin Mary appeared to her, accompanied by St. Michael and St. Therese, and gave her the following [...] September 8 - Nativity of the Virgin Mary - Our Lady of the Kneeling Woman (France, 1550) Mary came to the help of France during WWI and told visionary Marcelle Lanchon: "See how I cherish your beloved

teaches, “With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary, the faithful [...] January 27 - Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Coptic Marian Feast of the Dormition St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Most Holy Rosary This year marks the 20th anniversary of the apostolic [...] Through this devotion, many have gained interior peace and strength to carry the crosses in daily life. [...] The importance of the Rosary was seen and practiced by many saints. One such saint is the founder

people gathered to sing the rosary and pray the litanies. Upon invoking the Virgin Mary, many received special graces. Pilgrimages began, bringing pilgrims from near and far. In July 1930, by decree of Pope [...] 1295) – Foundation of the Legion of Mary in Dublin (Ireland, 1921) – Apparition of Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil, September 1717) Our Lady of Aparecida, Queen of workers and patron saint of Brazil The 36 cm-tall [...] João Alves and Domingos Garcia, who were fishing in the Paraíba River, very close to the city of Guaratinguetá, São Paulo State, Brazil. The men first discovered the body of the statue and, moments later

of Auschwitz and the many other Nazi camps where the human body had been so severely demeaned and desacralized. “The dogma of the Assumption of Mary proclaims the supernatural destiny and dignity of the [...] August 15 – The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Solemnity for the universal Church) The dogma of the Assumption of Mary and All Saints' Day On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII issued the Apostolic Constitution [...] Constitution "Munificentissimus Deus"[1] proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. This happened on All Saints' Day (November 1), which gave great significance to the destiny of all the elect

interceding for the world and kept them captivated, children and adults, for more than 30 minutes! The Rosary concluded with a crowning of the image of Mary as we sang “Immaculate Mary.” People left with a [...] children of Mary dressed in white (1947) A Living Rosary and a May crowning I teach the first-year confirmation class in a local parish. For the last class, I decided that a Living Rosary and a May crowning [...] the statue of Mary would speak more directly to them than anything I say about the power of Mary in their lives. In a Living Rosary, each person stands in the place of a bead of the rosary and leads the prayer