Portaitissa “Holy Guardian of the Gate” (Mount Athos, Greece) – Saint Basil and Saint Gregory of Nazianzen Mary, the most beautiful gift we can give to Jesus Jesus, who came to us risking suffering and death, deserves [...] live among us with gladness? The answer is simple: the greatest gift that men can give to Jesus is Mary! Indeed, only the Immaculate is worthy of the mystery of the Incarnation. A liturgical hymn of the

January 3 – The Bishop of Fatima asks Sister Lucia to write the third secret of Fatima (1944) Mary can relieve loneliness and breakdown of our social life In today’s fragmented world, where we risk losing [...] Elizabeth; she comes to the aid of the newlyweds in Cana; she encourages the disciples in the Upper Room… Mary is a cure for solitude and dispersion. She is the Mother of con-solation: she stands “with” those [...] we call her “our life”. This may seem exaggerated, for Christ himself is “life” (cf. Jn 14:6), yet Mary is so closely united to him, and so close to us, that we can do no better than to put our hands in

December 24 – Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord Mary and Joseph's painful trial before their marriage (2/2) In Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me (1), the Blessed Virgin recalls how she [...] 20th-century visionary and victim soul, a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who wrote thousands of handwritten pages, without modification, recording events throughout Christ’s

December 23 – Our Lady of the Oak Mary and Joseph's painful trial before their marriage (1/2) In Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me (1), the Blessed Virgin recalls how she and Joseph [...] 20th -century visionary and victim soul, a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who wrote thousands of handwritten pages, without modification, recording events throughout Christ’s

Evangelist In Ephesus, the Apostle John and Mary inaugurated the contemplative Christian life After the Ascension of Jesus, the Apostle John stayed with Mary for about twenty years. From 30 to 36 A.D, after [...] the end of 36, forced the Apostles to flee. Around the year 37, John left Palestine with the Virgin Mary to settle in Ephesus, Turkey, as a solid local tradition testifies, evoked in 431 by the official [...] letter that the Fathers of the Council of Ephesus sent to Nestorius. But curiously, it was not John and Mary who founded the Church in Ephesus: it was the apostle Paul who was to do so, 17 years later, when

ire/ [Lost link] />mariedenazareth.com/<wbr />encyclopedie-mariale/prier-<wbr />marie-prier-avec-la-vierge-<wbr />marie/ [...] December 20 – Our Lady of Folgoët The Virgin Mary refined my heart and healed my wounds Manuel Capetillo, a former Mexican actor and bullfighter, was one of the most popular TV performers of the 1980s [...] of happiness; I was reborn," he confided. Manuel Capetillo attributes this conversion to the Virgin Mary, whose call he heard in moments of prayer and adoration before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. "She

the Virgin’s Childbirth (654) established at the Council of Toledo in 656 In the time of the Virgin Mary, this conjunction of planets occurred three times The Babylonian astrologers had calculated with

December 13 –Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr (Syracuse, Italy, 283–304) The Virgin Mary wept in Syracuse in 1953 The shrine of Our Lady of Tears in Syracuse is the most recent shrine in Sicily and one of [...] most visited, attracting international visitors. A painted plaster plaque representing the Virgin Mary and her Immaculate Heart crowned with thorns and ablaze (just like in Fatima) was hung on the wall [...] Italian couple, Antonina and Angelo Lannuso. From August 29, 1953 to September 1, 1953, the Virgin Mary represented on this plaque wept real tears, which were analyzed in a lab. The Sicilian Episcopate

Virgin at Guadalupe The Virgin Mary is linked in a special way to the birth of the Church in America How can we fail to emphasize the role which belongs to the Virgin Mary in relation to the pilgrim Church [...] “ the Gospel was proclaimed by presenting the Virgin Mary as its highest realization. From the beginning — invoked as Our Lady of Guadalupe — Mary, by her motherly and merciful figure, was a great sign [...] conscious of the role of the Virgin Mary in the evangelization of America. In the prayer composed for the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops, Holy Mary of Guadalupe is invoked as “Patroness

Ambrose, Doctor of the Church (d. 397) – Vigil of the Immaculate Conception The conception of the Virgin Mary " There is no doubt that in this necessary conception, a vivifying and incandescent spirit filled