August 15 - Assumption of the Virgin Mary (solemnity) We have a Mother in Heaven The Feast of the Assumption is a day of joy. God has won. Love has won. It has won life. Love has shown that it is stronger [...] close to each one of us. While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is close to us, actually, "within" all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God. Being in [...] us, and being Mother of the Son, participates in the power of the Son and in his goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother, who is not far from any one of us. On this feast day
who from the heights of Heaven reigns over the whole 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 [...] August 22 – Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary How French Mystic Marthe Robin saw the Virgin Mary "By her justice and her love, she is the Queen of all the saints. By her immaculate purity, she is the [...] divine than that of the Cherubim and Seraphim into the unfathomable mystery of Christ of whom she was to become the virginal and spotless Mother. She is the most loving and beloved soul of the Father after
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Before Mary, we are family As a young seminarian on a summer internship at the Shrine of Lourdes, I helped with the preparation of the evening of prayer under the rotunda [...] In that month of August, there were a great number of pilgrims from many countries. We had the idea of providing the Hail Mary in all the languages spoken by the pilgrims. I was in charge of collecting as [...] She kept writing for ten minutes before she finally gave me back my sheets of paper, filled with something other than the Hail Mary in Italian, I knew that. What had she written? I found out later, when an
dignity of the human person. We must also be “awakeners” of hope, sentinels who know that after the night dawn will break. We must be witnesses of God’s mercy that wants to reach every man. Mary is vigilant [...] January 1 – Mary, Mother of God Entering the new year with Our Lady (II) "Our Lady invites us to enter the new year with trust and vigilance. She does not pay lip service. She is the servant of the Lord. [...] always sought the will of God, discerned it in the events of her life, and contemplated it by reflecting on what she had experienced (Lk 2:19 and 2:51). She lived with great vigilance of heart and mind. We
with the fire of charity. At the heart of this great mystery, of this divine alchemy that the Creator performs at every moment, Mary’s Immaculate Conception plays a special role. Mary’s Immaculate Conception [...] is immaculate by nature. Mary’s Immaculate Conception is a grace for the Church, who sees its mirrored image in Mary, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, who is without blemish. Mary’s Immaculate Conception is [...] June 9 - Mary Mother of Grace (France) - Saint Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and doctor Can mud be turned into gold? The Immaculate is, from the moment of her conception, what we all hope to become in the
May 25 – Our Lady of the Sea (Aix-en-Provence, France) – St Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Carmelite nun and mystic Everything connects through Mary! Mary! My first encounter with her was in 1980, when I was [...] place, that I had given my life to Jesus through Mary... Everything connects through Mary! Father René-Luc , founder of CapMissio, the diocesan mission school of Montpellier and a preacher in France and abroad [...] my yard right in front of me by firing a bullet into his heart. I became a violent teenager after that with no sense of direction. On March 19, 1980, a Christian woman called Marie-Do, took me to Montpellier
February 10 – King Louis XIII of France consecrated his kingdom to Mary (1638) Mary was the Church’s first missionary Created in 1997, the Carmel of The Virgin Mary, Missionary is evangelizing both through [...] the founding priest of the Carmel explains. In everyday life and since its founding, the Carmel of The Virgin Mary, Missionary draws its inspiration from the dual role of the Mother of Christ. The current [...] heart of the Drôme department of France since 1999—2,600 ft above sea level in a preserved natural setting—this unique community is rooted in the tradition and the rule of Carmel “in the spirit of Saint
flower wreath to the statue of the Immaculate near the Spanish Steps of Rome on December 8th, solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, on his behalf and that of the sick of Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza [...] January 27 – Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) A worldwide prayer chain in tribute to Mary On December 8, 2018, the feast day of the Immaculate Conception, the Lourdes Shrine hosted the [...] the Family of Our Lady of Lourdes. Father André Cabes, the shrine’s rector, reminded listeners that the Virgin Mary appeared there with two yellow roses, one on each foot, matching the color of her rosary
the IFE has commissioned a statue to "Mary who heals couples." At the end of 2017, the statue will be installed at the parish church of Solesmes, a few yards from the well-known French Benedictine abbey [...] important place of prayer, and now it will become an important formation center for married couples as well. This new place of prayer for marital spirituality is intended to support the novena to "Mary who restores [...] restores married couples," which is also an initiative of the Institute for the Family in Europe. The Mary of Nazareth Team Source: Karol Wojtyla Institute
19 – Feast of Mary Seyom (Ethiopian Church) The Rosary: The prayer that Our Lady recommended most often In a letter to a nephew priest, dated April 4, 1970, Sister Lucia, one of the seers of Our Lady at [...] Lord’s presence. It is not true to say that it is not liturgical, because all the prayers of the Rosary are part of the holy liturgy; and if they do not displease God when we recite them in celebrating the [...] at Fatima, Portugal, sent this piece of advice to help his ministry: "We have to recite the Rosary every day. It is the prayer that Our Lady recommended most often! The devil knows that we will be saved
