December 12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) A Miracle of Light on the cloak of Tepeyac moments after Mexico City legalized abortion On April 24, 2007, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in [...] Millions of potentially beautiful lives are cut short each day in their mothers’ wombs. The Miracle of Light is a message from Our Lady of Guadalupe who is so worried by the expanding legalization of abortion [...] Municipal Council of Mexico City had just legalized abortion, the Miracle of Light occurred. At the end of the mass offered for the unborn children, while many of the faithful took photographs of the tilma or
February 8 - Our Lady of Casimir (Poland, 1411) The Role of the Blessed Mother in the Economy of Salvation The Sacred Scriptures of both the Old and the New Testament, as well as ancient Tradition show [...] show the role of the Mother of the Savior in the economy of salvation in an ever-clearer light and draw attention to it. The books of the Old Testament describe the history of salvation, by which the coming [...] coming of Christ into the world was slowly prepared. These earliest documents, as they are read in the Church and understood in the light of a further and full revelation, bring the figure of the woman, Mother
May 15 – Our Lady of Light (Mexico) Does the icon of the Black Madonna have an effect of deliverance? The Black Madonna has already covered 40,000 miles through Russia and Europe, and fittingly she wasted [...] report below comes to us from Ellen Castellano, one of the regular prayer warriors of Germantown: Today, there were 3 saves between 8 a.m. and noon! (…) A woman on the second day of her 3 day abortion [...] post abortion Bible Study, said with all sincerity, ‘Yeah, I really need that! Give it to me.’ She grabbed it out of our hands, and told us more about her situation and agreed that she needed help getting
Nativity of the Virgin Mary - Our Lady of the Kneeling (France, 1550) The Magnificat is the song of the most holy Heart of Mary I call the Magnificat the true Canticle of the most holy Heart of the Blessed [...] that is to say, the divine Child who was hidden in her blessed womb and dwelling in her Heart, the soul of her soul, the spirit of her spirit and the Heart of her Heart, is the primary author of this canticle [...] Magnificat is the canticle of the Heart of the Mother of uncreated love, that is, the canticle of the Holy Spirit, Who is the spirit and the Heart of the Eternal Father and the Divine Son. The Holy Spirit
March 28 - Our Lady of Castelbruedo (Catalonia, Spain) The Hymn of the Virgin at the Foot of the Cross Fruit of my womb, You march Towards a wicked death; And You bear this trial alone, Abandoned by Peter [...] the others, too, Friends and followers, Judges of the twelve tribes, Where are they now? Not one of them is here; but alone, Deserted, You go for mankind to your death! Yet it is You who saved them all,
March 28 - Our Lady of Castelbruedo (Catalonia, Spain) The Hymn of the Virgin at the Foot of the Cross Fruit of my womb, You march Towards a wicked death; And You bear this trial alone, Abandoned by Peter [...] the others, too, Friends and followers, Judges of the twelve tribes, Where are they now? Not one of them is here; but alone, Deserted, You go for mankind to your death! Yet it is You who saved them all,
February 28 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1522) - 11th apparition in Lourdes "Of her we do not speak, of her we sing" Of her we do not speak, of her we sing. Of her we do not think, but we call upon her [...] her and love her. She is not the subject of study, but of poetry. The greatest geniuses of the world have put brush and pen at her service. If Jesus incarnates the Word, the Logos, the Light, Reason, Mary [...] Mary personifies Art, Beauty, Love. Masterpiece of the Creator, Mary, on whom the Holy Spirit delighted to bestow all he invented, and poured out so many of his inspirations. Beautiful Mary! About her we
contained to this month alone, but every day, of every month, every year, for the rest of our lives. Mary is an excellent teacher. Many saints have looked to her to teach them the virtues and how to live the [...] asking her to teach us about her son Jesus. With October being dedicated to the Rosary and the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary celebrated on Oct. 7th, we find ourselves again in her school — hopefully not [...] approval was granted on Dec. 8, 2010, thousands upon thousands of pilgrims each year have the opportunity to sit in the school of Our Lady and learn the lessons she taught at the National Shrine in Champion
second part was added to it. This second part (“Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death”) is believed by many to have been added during the plague to ask for the Blessed [...] Dominic, Founder of the Friars Preachers (d. 1221) - Our Lady of Laeken (Belgium) How was the "Hail Mary" written? The “Hail Mary” that Catholics have been praying for centuries is composed of two main parts [...] decisive moments of life: “now” and “at the hour of our death,” it suggests the spontaneous outcry of people in a great calamity. The Black Death, which ravaged all Europe and wiped out one-third of its population
in the Shrine of Our Lady of Rocamadour, a complex of religious structures centered around a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary and the tomb of a saint from long ago. Tourists come to Rocamadour for [...] conversions at the shrine. Then, as today, 216 steps lead to the top of the rocky plateau on which the Chapel of Our Lady is located. As an act of penance, pilgrims would regularly make the entire climb [...] became a place of pilgrimage. Some claim the town was named for the hermit, a "lover of rock" ( roc amator ). Zaccheus is said to have brought a statue of the Black Madonna with him to Rocamadour, though
