him that she would come if he prayed a lot of Rosaries. He prayed nine a day and made "heroic sacrifices" to avoid sins. And when he had no strength to recite them, his mother consoled him by saying: "If [...] July 1st – Armenian Church: Transfer of Mary’s Veil "If you can’t recite the Rosary with your lips, say it with your heart" One day two ladies talked to Francisco, one of the young seers of Our Lady of [...] don’t want to be a priest." "So what do you want to be?" "I do not want to be anything! I want to die, and go to Heaven!" On the last night, before he expired, Francisco said to his mother: "Look at this beautiful
Council intended to tell us this: Mary is so interwoven in the great mystery of the Church that she and the Church are inseparable, just as she and Christ are inseparable. Mary mirrors the Church, anticipates [...] November 11 – Paul VI proclaims Mary “Mother of the Church” (1964) "In Mary, the Immaculate, we find the essence of the Church" At the close of the Second Vatican Council, on December 8, 1965, Pope Paul [...] Paul VI made this solemn declaration: that the Most Holy Virgin Mary is the Mother of the Church. In his homily of December 8, 2005, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI highlighted the 40 th anniversary of this
February 17 – The seven founding saints of the Servants of Mary – Father Maximilian Kolbe is arrested by the Nazis (1941) Haiti places itself under Mary’s protection This year, the feast of the Immaculate Conception [...] Help. Once again, the Church has entrusted the country to God and reiterated its call for change, to fight against unpunished crime, poverty and the corruption that plague the institutions. All ten bishops [...] struggles. As in 1882, the bishops, in communion with the priests, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, implored mercy for Haiti. According to the Catholic Church, the country is in a deeper crisis than
Kouassi, this 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 [...] 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
17 - Feast of Mary's Humility Let us leave all our concerns to Mary Mary remained standing beside the Cross. The compassion that opened her heart reveals the depths of our own hearts and moves from them [...] but simply revealing our hearts to her. Let us pray to her with boldness and confidence, sure that we will be heard, understood and even anticipated. Let us tell her often how much we love her. Let us never [...] because very often these things are only small in appearance. When offered to Mary, little things become the work of the Spirit. Mary finds joy in granting prayers even beyond our wishes. No aspect of our lives
depth of His Mercy. In 1688, Sister Margaret Mary had a final vision in which the Lord, through the Virgin Mary, entrusted the Sisters of the Visitation and the Fathers of the Society of Jesus with the [...] June 17 – Message from the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (France, 1689) Mary, Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Wherever there is pain, wherever there is suffering, wherever [...] "pierced heart of Jesus" in the Gospel of John, to the revelations to St Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17th century and the subsequent devotion of the Sacred Heart in the 19th century, as well as the messages
November 25 - Mary Comforter of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) - St Seraphim of Sarov Terror of Demons Despite the fact that Satan seduced Eve and lured Adam into the same sin, God not only gave us a Redeemer [...] who by dying defeated death, but in the person of the Woman, the Mother of God, Mary ever-Virgin, who crushed in herself and the whole human race the head of the serpent, he lent us an indefatigable advocate
Cross, Doctor of the Church (d. 1591) –Last apparition of Mary at L'Île-Bouchard (France, 1947) Saint John of the Cross, a great lover of Mary A young John de Yepes y Álvarez, aged 4, had fallen in a pond [...] or wasn't hurt. John said he was under the protection of the Virgin Mary. He chose the order of the Carmelites, out of love for Mary. The Carmelite brothers helped him to attend the University of Salamanca [...] most Blessed Mother.” Chosen by Saint Teresa of Avila and sent by the apostolic vicar, John of the Cross became the confessor of the Carmel of Avila and the reformer of the order. After that he founded several
(Spain) – Feast of the Expectation of the Delivery of the Virgin Mary (654) 25 years of peace. Without any wars? At the time when the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, all armed conflicts had ceased on earth [...] prophecy of the 70 septenaries), and this Messiah was expected to be the Prince of Peace. The Talmud explained that he would come when the world had ceased fighting. And this did happen, at the time of
in confession: “My children, if you want to obtain the gift of perseverance, love Mary, serve Mary! Because we fall and we get lost only when we neglect to call on her for help.” From Le Rosaire des Enfants [...] French settlement of Ville-Marie (today’s Montreal, Canada) founded in 1642 by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve (d. 1676) "If you want to obtain the gift of perseverance, love Mary" As the Spanish Jesuit Saint [...] devotion to the Blessed Virgin. He notified the master of novices, begging him to keep an eye on them and to remain attentive to their progress. But soon what the Jesuit saint feared came to pass: all those
