to the Virgin Mary. In 1914, when the Great War broke out, Foch called upon Our Lady daily and before every battle. Indeed, he strongly believed in the power of prayer. In the last weeks of the war, he attended [...] recited the Rosary before going to work. "I owe my faith in Mary to my mother. I have prayed my Rosary every day of my life." - "Even in days of hard fighting?" – "All the more so on those days! Many times [...] October 31 – Pius XII consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1942) She has always saved us! Marshal Foch, a general in the French army, was born in Tarbes, near Lourdes, in 1851. As a child
and women of an extraordinary time, exhilarating yet full of contradictions. Humanity now has instruments of unprecedented power: we can turn this world into a garden, or reduce it to a pile of rubble. We [...] to intervene in the very well-springs of life: man can use this power for good, within the bounds of the moral law, or he can succumb to the short-sighted pride of a science which accepts no limits, but [...] October 8 - Act of Entrustment to Mary by Pope John Paul II We Entrust to You the New Millennium Today we wish to entrust to you the future that awaits us, and we ask you to be with us on our way. We are
October 2 - Mary, Queen of the Angels Regina Angelorum Reign, O Mother and Queen, by showing us the paths of holiness and by guiding and assisting us that we may never stray from it. In the heights of heaven [...] heaven you exercise your primacy over the choirs of angels who acclaim you as their Sovereign, and over the legions of saints who delight in beholding your dazzling beauty. So, too, reign over the entire human [...] path of faith to those who do not yet know your Divine Son. Reign over the Church, which acknowledges and extols your gentle dominion and has recourse to you as a safe refuge amid the calamities of our
City of Luxembourg Takes Mary for Her Patroness (1666) Her Mercy Fills the Whole Earth Let us never speak again of your mercy, Blessed Virgin, if anyone can recall having invoked you in times of trouble [...] forcefully drew by its prayers salvation for all men. Of course, Mary is concerned for the human race. She is the one to whom it was said, "Do not fear, O Mary, you found grace, precisely that grace you were
September 12 - The Holy Name of Mary (Austria, 1683) I Am Your Mother, My Little One (I) On September 12, 1948, around 5 o'clock PM, Teresita Castillo, a novice at the Carmel of Lipa (Philippines), was walking [...] auxiliary bishop of Lipa and the chaplain of the Carmel came to bless the place. Teresita saw the Virgin again with open arms. "Kiss the ground and eat a little grass. Take a piece of paper and a pencil [...] a rain of rose petals fell and was seen by all the people present. Toward the end of the afternoon, the Virgin appeared again: "I want you to put my statue in this garden and tidy up this part of the garden
Roland Gosselin, bishop of the dioceses, gave official approval of the Pious Union of Worshippers of the Sacred Heart and made it possible to print the image of "Mary Queen of France" as well as the prayer [...] Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The French Still Love You On September 8, 1914, the feast of the Nativity of Mary, 23 year-old Marcelle Lanchon claimed to have had her first apparition of the Blessed [...] in the Our Lady of the Armies Chapel, on the very same day that the Virgin also stopped the Germans on the Marne, at the gates of Paris. The visionary, who later took the name of Marie-France when she
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
2011 – Mary, the Mother of God Mary Walks with Her Son’s Priests One of my earliest memories is of my mother teaching me the Hail Mary and explaining a picture of the Blessed Mother in a book of prayers [...] stayed with me. The sense of Mary's presence in my life that began in that moment has stayed with me as well. As a child, I did not know or fully appreciate that Mary, the mother of Jesus, would be a steady [...] sanctorum and Mary's privileged place in that great communion. I can clearly say that she has walked with me as my faith has unfolded. She has been a most extraordinary companion in the course of my priestly
