days of happiness, because our hearts are then free and available to God and to others, as fresh clay in the creative hands of the Holy Spirit. We experience the poverty of Easter when Jesus comes to fill [...] June 18 - Apparition of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Garabandal from 1961-1965 (Spain, investigation ongoing) What takes place during the paradoxal prayer of the Rosary? Sometimes we hear people say, in [...] Christ. What happens in this paradoxical prayer of the Rosary, where the words help focus our sight, and give rhythm to our memory, like an ostinato* upon which our hearts can improvise? It is simply a filial
December 15 - Our Lady of the Armed Forces Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (VI) "I shall be a father to him and he a son to me" (2 Sam 7:14) The Blessed Virgin, just as all Israel, questioned the [...] 110:1-5). A true son of God: "I shall be a father to him and he a son to me" (2 Sam 7:14). "You are my son, today have I fathered you" (Ps 2:7). A man raised to the level of God: "I saw in the night visions [...] came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him" (Dan 7:9-14), or a very particular presence of God himself through other
May 17 - Our Lady of the Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Praying the Rosary every day for victims of paedophilia Anaïs Janssens, a 27-year-old mother from the Var region of France, participated in the Rosary [...] world to pray the Rosary every day for the victims of paedophilia. Without wishing to reveal too much about the subject, Anaïs confided that she felt concerned. "In our family, we carry a lot of baggage [...] baggage related to this," she says. "Our grandmother was raised in a Catholic family where people didn't say anything." In her next rosary, the young woman plans to offer her prayers for the victims: that they
March 9 - Our Lady of Savigny (France, 1112) - Saint Dominic Savio (d. 1857) The Consecration of Saint Dominic Savio Dominic Savio made his First Communion at the age of seven in 1849, and wrote down these [...] Dominic. He was "amazed to discover how the work of Divine Grace had already been accomplished in a boy so young." On December 8, 1854, when Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Dominic [...] permits me. 2) I want to sanctify holy days. 3) My friends will be Jesus and Mary. 4) Death rather than sin. Don Bosco was traveling through the region in October 1854, and people spoke to him about Dominic
December 15 - Our Lady of the Armed Forces Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (VI) "I shall be a father to him and he a son to me" (2 Sam 7:14) The Blessed Virgin, just as all Israel, questioned the [...] 110:1-5). A true son of God: "I shall be a father to him and he a son to me" (2 Sam 7:14). "You are my son, today have I fathered you" (Ps 2:7). A man raised to the level of God: "I saw in the night visions [...] came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him" (Dan 7:9-14), or a very particular presence of God himself through other
August 4 - Our Lady of Dordrecht (Holland) - Saint John Vianney, Cure d’Ars (d. 1859) Twin Fountains of Fruitfulness Blessed Virgin, pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His [...] es of Christ the Good Shepherd. May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance; be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the [...] the Word of God; zealous dispensers of God's grace in the Sacraments. May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to you, Mary, His mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry
August 4 - Our Lady of Dordrecht (Holland) - Saint John Vianney, Cure d’Ars (d. 1859) Twin Fountains of Fruitfulness Blessed Virgin, pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His [...] es of Christ the Good Shepherd. May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance; be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the [...] the Word of God; zealous dispensers of God's grace in the Sacraments. May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to you, Mary, His mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry
July 9 - Our Lady of Chiquinquirá (Colombia) The Virgin of the Rosary (I) In the mid-sixteenth century the Spanish painter Alonso de Narvaez created a portrait of the Virgin of the Rosary. He painted on [...] from the soil and herbs of the region. The image of Mary is about a meter high. She has a sweet smile, both her face and the Child's are light colored, and she seems to be about to take a step. She wears [...] the little finger of her left hand, and she holds a scepter in her right. She holds the Christ Child craddled in her left arm, and looks toward Him. Christ has a little bird tied to his thumb, and a small
February 4 - Our Lady of Fire (Italy, 1428) - Saint Joan of France, foundress of the Order of the Virgin Mary known as the Annonciade (d. 1505) The Order of the Virgin Mary The Order of the Virgin Mary [...] her. The former Queen Joan of France was then given the title of Duchess of Berry. The "Good Duchess," who was to die young, founded the Order of the Annonciade with the help of her Franciscan confessor [...] At the school of Mary, the life of the Annonciades is built on a deep love of the Word of God, centered on the mystery of the Eucharist and nourished by the meditation on the Passion of Christ. Adapted
May 12 – Our Lady of Mercy (Rimini, Italy, 1850) An apparition of Mary in China in 1995 Every year in May since 1996, thousands of soldiers are sent to the small village of Donglu, a few hours’ drive from [...] Beijing, China, to close off access to the village and prevent any "illegal gathering." The reason for this goes back to the year 1900, when the Virgin Mary appeared under the title of Our Lady of China, during [...] place of national pilgrimage, it became one of the most famous centers of Marian devotion on mainland China and attracts tens of thousands of faithful each year. Although, since the ratification of the
