World Day of the Poor. The motto this year is “Love not in word, but in deed.” Lots of these people that are going to come to the free clinic were praying on the street for the former clinic to go away,” [...] March 24 – Our Lady of the Thorn (Châlons-sur-Marne, France, 1400) A former abortion clinic converted into the Mother of Mercy Free Clinic For 27 years, the pro-lifers who faithfully prayed outside the [...] clinic were forced to keep their distance… On the World Day of the Poor, Nov. 19, 2017, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed the building as the new Mother of Mercy Free Clinic, dedicating it to the Virgin Mary
they hastened to serve Him with gifts, and to cry to her who is blessed: Rejoice, Mother of the Unsetting Star: Rejoice, dawn of the mystic day! Rejoice, thou who didst extinguish the furnace of error: Rejoice [...] the works of mire! Rejoice, thou who didst quench the worship of fire: Rejoice, thou who rescuest from the flame of the passions! Rejoice, guide of the faithful to chastity: Rejoice, gladness of all generations [...] rejoiced, shouting to Him: Alleluia! The sons of the Chaldees saw in the hands of the Virgin Him Who with His hand made man. And knowing Him to be the Master, even though He had taken the form of a servant, they
October 18 - Our Lady of Peace (Italy, 1482) - Saint Luke The Icons of Saint Luke According to tradition, St Luke was the first person to complete three pictures of the holy Mother of God carrying the [...] continued to practise medicine. Many years later (on March 3, 357), Emperor Constantius, son of the great Constantine, ordered St Artemios, Duke of Egypt, to take the relics of the Saint to Constantinople [...] pictures of the Holy Apostles and bestowed upon the Church this pious and holy tradition of venerating the icons of Christ and his Saints." St Luke came from the city of Antioch the Great. Of noble birth
May 7 – Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) Mary is the "Good Mother" of all "Go and tell the priests to build a chapel here and to come in procession." These words from the Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette [...] Bernadette of Lourdes resonate with me. One year, when I was between jobs and got a breather, I decided to share one of the gifts I possessed. I began to volunteer my time with the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality [...] Lady of Lourdes Robert Leblanc Married and father of 5, engineer, former president of the Ethics Committee of Médef and EDC (French Association of Christian Entrepreneurs and Managers), vice-president of the
March 16 - Our Lady of the Fountain (Constantinople, A.D. 460) - Palm Sunday The Sanctity and the Dignity of the Blessed Virgin I conceive it impossible... for those who believe the Church to be one vast [...] creature of God had its place, and of which prayer is the life, when once they recognize the sanctity and dignity of the Blessed Virgin, not to perceive immediately, that her office above is one of perpetual [...] perpetual intercession for the faithful militant, and that our very relation to her must be that of clients to a patron, and that, in the eternal enmity which exists between the woman and the serpent, while
they continued to question her: - "Tell us, do you trust in the determination of the Church? " - "I defer to Our Lord who sent me, to Our Lady and to all the blessed men and women saints of Paradise. And [...] May 30 - Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar, Spain) - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) Saint Joan of Arc: "I have come from God and the Virgin Mary" - "Do you know how to be in the grace of God?" someone asked Joan [...] you wish to refer to the Church militant, namely that which is thus declared?" - "I came to the King of France in God's name, and in the names of the Blessed Virgin and of all the Blessed Saints of Paradise
First apparition of Our Lady of the Poor in Banneux (Belgium, 1933) I am the Virgin of the Poor The Shrine of Our Lady of Banneux, Belgium, where Mary introduced herself as "Our Lady of the Poor," is a [...] out to the road where the Lady called her. On the way to Mary, Mariette went down on her knees twice. A third time, she knelt near a ditch, in front of a puddle of water from the spring. The Lady spoke [...] her knees on the path. The Lady appeared to her. Mariette asked her, “Who are you, beautiful Lady?” Mary replied, “I am the Virgin of the Poor.” The Virgin led the child to the spring. Mariette questioned
all regions of France met at the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Pontmain in north-western France. They represented all the bishops of the country invited to gather around the Virgin of Pontmain to pray for [...] "We are men of prayer, missionary disciples. We need to strengthen our collegiality as bishops so that our friendship can support our ministry. Be sure to meet often: the forces of Satan will thus be overthrown [...] entrusted his diocese to the Virgin. In his homily, Bishop Yves Le Saux of Le Mans recalled the essence of the episcopal mission, by referring to Saint Ignatius of Antioch in his letter to the Ephesians: "We
response to this vocation as a gift of our self, in order to serve, just like the Virgin Mary did. The vocation leads to a commitment for every missionary to go out on the journey, in service to God and [...] remember that the image of Mary at the foot of the Cross proves her absolute fidelity. My diocese is the bearer of this fidelity, just as Our Lady of Recouvrance ("Finding again") is our patroness. With the [...] point of holiness! Why is our Marian spirit so important? First of all because for a missionary, the Blessed Virgin is a symbol of this surrender to the will of God. The Virgin was totally offered, abandoned
April 23 - Our Lady of la Penha (Brazil) "Brazil was born in the arms of the Holy Virgin" As John Paul II said on the centenary of the coronation of Our Lady of Aparecida in 2004, Brazil is the largest [...] the name of Our Lady of Hope, who was the first to set foot on Brazilian soil, thanks to Pedro Alvares Cabral, who had the first mass celebrated in this new land in the presence of the statue of the Virgin [...] dedicated to the Virgin! The first known large Marian shrine erected in Brazil was that of Our Lady of Graces, in Bahia (or Baia), following an apparition of Mary to a young Indian girl married to a Portuguese
