Villanova (d. 1555) – Saint Mary of the Royal Court (Italy, 1575) She Exceeds All Thought and Intelligence I wondered why the Evangelists, after having spoken about John the Baptist and the Apostles in great [...] decorated the ministers and servants of His house with such gifts and virtues, what in your mind has He done for His Mother? What has He given that unique spouse, chosen among all women and loved above all? Therefore [...] great length, skimmed over the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, although she exceeds them ad infinitum by her excellence and her virtue. Why, I asked myself, have they told us nothing of her birth, her education
between Eve and Mary with a parallel between Eve and the Church: "As Abel and his descendants were formed from Adam and Eve, so from Christ and his Church the whole Christian people is formed. And as Eve is [...] - Feast of Mary Mediatrix (Maronite and Syriac liturgies) Victory over evil through the New Adam and the New Eve St. Bonaventure emphasized the traditional parallel between Eve and Mary, and explained how [...] how both Jesus and Mary repaired the sin of Adam and Eve: "As the fall happened through both sexes – the sin was initiated by the woman, and consumed by the man – so in the mystery of reparation, the woman
“he understood and intuited” not only what was happening in the Church and in global society 100 years ago, but also what is happening today, Santos said. “In my view, he intuited and understood the universal [...] ” he said, both for the Church and for humanity, and pointed to modern crises which parallel the global challenges present in 1917, such as persecution of the Church and what Pope Francis has called the [...] September 13 – 5th apparition in Fatima: Mary announces that Jesus will bless the world Pope Francis and the message of Fatima Among the Church’s newest cardinals is Antonio Augusto dos Santos Marto, who
priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who promised him he could enter the religious order when he was old enough. However, Sulprizio contracted bone cancer and had [...] December 17 – The first church dedicated to Mary (Rome, Italy) This new saint learned to love Jesus and Mary from his grandmother Blessed Nunzio Sulprizio, who died at the age of 19 from bone cancer, was [...] learned the faith from a priest at the local school he attended and from his maternal grandmother. He was orphaned before the age of six, and after the death of his grandmother three years later, went to
are Isaiah, John the Baptist, and the Virgin Mary. Isaiah, because he is the champion of hope and messianic joy; John the Baptist, because he designates the Messiah; and Mary, because she is the one in whom [...] established the Archconfraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Notre Dame des Victoires (Paris, France, 1838) Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a son With Advent, the curtain goes up on a new liturgical [...] flesh in this world, the one about whom Isaiah proclaimed, "Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and he will be called Emmanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Liturgie catholique
November 25 – Mary Consoler of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) The statue of Mary and a Tour de France cyclist Belgian cyclist Julien Vermote is a teammate of Marcel Kittel, the man who won five stages of [...] team. By the front door of Julien’s modest house in Flanders, Belgium, stands a statue of the Virgin Mary who discretely greets visitors. Not far is the neighborhood church, where Julien sometimes stops by [...] "I was raised in a Catholic family. We used to go to Mass on Sunday with my two sisters, my brother and my parents," he explains. "Now that I am a professional cyclist, it’s harder for me because I am hardly
November 14 – Our Lady of Pasenika or Mary’s Victory (Contantinople) - St Gregory Palamas The Logic of the Cross and the Heart of Mary Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who serves as the Major Penitentiary of the [...] Heart of Mary and the mystery of the Cross: "Whenever life puts us on a cross, whenever infirmity, lack of understanding, loneliness, exclusion or betrayal crucify us, we are held in the heart of Mary, because [...] Cross always finds its place there." "The Logic of the Cross" is "a logic of offering and sacrifice, expiation and death, to reach the glory of the resurrection. ... Christian morality is simply about
September 3 - Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) - Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) Haiti and Our Lady of Perpetual Help On June 27, 2018, Haiti celebrated the 75 th anniversary [...] of prayer and praise, followed by a Mass of thanksgiving. This event had a great significance for the people of Haiti, not only because it gave them an opportunity to give thanks to God and the Virgin [...] Virgin Mary who interceded for them when smallpox ravaged the island in 1882, but it also marked the closing of a jubilee year for Haiti. Bishop Sylvain Ducange, auxiliary bishop of Port-au-Prince, the capital
same kind of experience. They go home on weekends and the pastoral care is not as prominent as in the Swiss Guard. But more and more Swiss soldiers, and active servicemen in general, are going to Lourdes [...] July 31 – Ethiopian Church: Feast of the Densata (Mary’s Conception) - Saint Ignatius of Loyola More and more Swiss soldiers go to Lourdes each year In Switzerland, Bishop Alain de Raemy is the head of [...] between the Swiss Guard and the Swiss Army? -In the Guard, the soldier lives a unique experience, in the entourage of the Successor of Peter. He is forced to reflect on his faith. And his shifts are often
June 22 - Proclamation of the dogma of Mary Mother of God in Ephesus (431) A spiritual weapon and a rose given to Mary Brother Daniel Klimek, a Franciscan tertiary, during a lecture in Steubenville, Ohio [...] offers both effective spiritual protection against evil and a means of honoring the Virgin Mary by presenting her with spiritual roses. “Wars and bloody crimes have been stopped through the spiritual weapon [...] sword, said Klimek. He said that praying the Rosary is also an act of intimacy with the Virgin Mary; each Hail Mary prayed is like presenting her with a rose as a sign of our love for her. Adapted from an article
