March 9 - Saint Frances of Rome (Italy, +1440) - Saint Dominic Savio (Italy, +1857) The Adventurer of the Blessed Virgin (II) Another day, after taking possession of rich spoils, the captain ordered John [...] word. He gave up his life of soldiering and went in search of God’s will. He later became the great Saint John of God.

November 11 - Saint Martin, Bishop of Tours (d. 397) – Saint Paul VI declares Mary "Mother of the Church" (1964) The heart of the Church is Mary’s unique place By decision of Pope Francis, the Roman Rite [...] memory of the "Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church" on the Monday after Pentecost. In 1964, Saint Pope Paul VI gave the Virgin Mary the venerable title of "Mother of the Church" in his speech approving [...] has two natures since He is also truly her Son born of her substance." (Father M.J. Lagrange O.P.) Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church, wrote that the body of Jesus is united to the Church, thus forming

October 16 - Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (d. 1690) - Election of Pope Saint John Paul II (October 16, 1978) The great Pope of Totus Tuus was prophesied to the Polish nation When on October 16, 1978, Karol [...] poem persisted in popular memory, and planted a seed of hope for a Polish Pope. One would think that Saint John Paul II actually applied himself to following the "program" traced by the famous Polish poet

August 27 - Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine (d. 387) – Our Lady of Quézac (France) Mary’s heart, our model in future tribulations One might think that a third millennium-Christian, through the

August 11 - Saint Clare of Assisi (d. 1253) - Death of Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890) The most extensive synthesis of Marian doctrine ever elaborated By a decree signed on February 11, 2018—the 160th [...] sense of the Church and of true Marian devotion. The term "Mater Ecclesiae" had already been used by Saint Paul VI on November 21, 1964, when he promulgated the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium

July 26 - Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary The limits imposed by Covid-19 have transformed families While the continuing coronavirus pandemic has forced the public to spend much [...] it is the hour that recalls Jesus’ death on the cross and the hour that God, in His revelations to Saint Faustina, asked for a special prayer and meditation on His Passion each afternoon. “… Immerse yourself [...] reciting the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary (prescribed for Fridays), concluding with the “Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel,” and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. “I like doing this. (I know) God hears me,”

4 June – Saint John Paul II’s first visit to Poland to the Marian shrine of Czestochowa (1979) - Saint Clotilde, Queen of France Our Lady will save the world In 1936, Marthe Robin, the mystic and stigmatist

April 29 – Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin, Dominican tertiary, doctor of the Church, patron saint of Europe The Rosary is the solution! A church in Greenwich, Connecticut has invited its faithful to

December 30 - Saint Mary of Saint Celse (Milan, Italy, 1485) Families and the example of the Christian home in Nazareth The Holy Family refers to the family formed by Jesus of Nazareth and his parents

June 24 – Our Lady of Miracles (Saint Maur-des-Fossés, France) - Saint John the Baptist You see God in everything after praying the Rosary Since October 2018, every morning at 6:45 a.m. central time, 200