Consecration of the Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart by Pope Leo XIII (Italy, 1881) - Saint Charbel Makhlouf (Lebanon, 1828-1898) An idea sprang up, inspired by the Virgin Mary Marie-Hélène Mathieu [...] Mathieu, founder of the Christian Foundation for Disabled People ( Office Chrétien des personnes handicapées , OCH) remembers Jean Vanier (Canadian, founder of the Catholic Community of L'Arche), who passed [...] co-founder with her of the international movement Faith and Light: "Faith and Light is the great work we were both called together to undertake. We hadn’t planned it. It was truly a work of God that still amazes
June 4 – Pentecost – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1503) - 1979 : First journey of John Paul II to Poland, to the Shrine of Czestochowa On Pentecost, Mary is waiting Mary's ardent prayer attracts the living [...] Mother, will bring us to glory. She invites us to enter into the mystery of the glory of Pentecost. On this day of Pentecost, Mary is waiting: as she did at the Annunciation, and at the Resurrection, she [...] Church. Mary leads to Jesus. She is also the one who brings us back to him. We need her, in order to live out and put into practice what we have discovered in the living presence of Jesus. Mary, our Mother
May 30 – Ascension of the Lord – Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar) – Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) Why did Mary stay on earth after the Ascension? This delay was a great consolation for Christ’s disciples. [...] by the Spirit, they still had to learn from the one who gave the world the Sun of righteousness and made the source of Wisdom spring forth for us from her immaculate womb, like a virginal meadow. Finally [...] to see his Mother and be consoled by this loving sight. St Amadeus of Lausanne, Cistercian Abbot (1110-1159) Homily 7 : The death of the Virgin and her Assumption
second half of the twentieth century, it could be said that at least half of the world fell to the iron grip of atheistic Communism. On Oct. 16, 1978, aware of the spread of Communism, the College of Cardinals [...] Patriarch: liturgical feast of the apparitions of Zeitoun - death of Pope Saint John Paul II (2005) Saint Pope John Paul II’s devotion to Mary Pope John Paul II’s devotion to Holy Mary cannot be understood without [...] anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish terrorist, shot the Pope from a distance of less than twenty feet. In great pain, the Holy Father kept repeating, “Mary, my Mother
century) - Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnam, 1798) - Our Lady of Soufanieh ( Syria, 1982) - Our Lady of Quinche (Ecuador) No grace is impossible to obtain if you ask Mary My story with Mary Undoer of Knots goes back [...] was amazed and delighted to see that it contained a statue of the Virgin Mary! I am sharing this story today to keep my promise to Mary, Undoer of Knots, because she granted me an urgent request that seemed [...] impossible to obtain! Our wonderful Mother Mary is always there to help, protect and guide us. I humbly thank her with all my heart. M. F. Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth on August 30, 2022
called to it - the religious consecration of her whole person is a privileged enhancement of her deepest being, of what she is, of what she represents in the whole of the Church and the world. Thus, holiness [...] (2)The author goes on to explain that the ordination of women would cause an obliteration, a forgetting of the vocation of Creation, of humanity and of the Church; something that John Paul II had mentioned [...] September 24 – Our Lady of Mercy – The first Marian shrine of Haiti (Cozumel, Haiti, 1518) – Our Lady of Walsingham (Walsingham, England) Mary's feminine "here I am" reveals the universal feminine "here
August 2 – Feast of Our Lady of the Porziuncola, “Our Lady of the Angels” (Italy) The day Mary arrived, a cease-fire was declared In his book The Fatima Century: How the Pilgrim Virgin is Changing Our [...] partitioned in 1947. This was not a Christian conflict, but nevertheless a group of the Blue Army of Mary brought a pilgrim statue of Fatima to that country. The very day it arrived, a cease-fire was declared [...] ry stories of graces received from God through Our Lady, in places where the famous pilgrim Virgin of Fatima has traveled in the last seventy years. For example, in the northwest region of India terrible
June 20 – Our Lady of Consolation, patron saint of the city of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) " All this time, the Virgin Mary has been watching over me!" "Do you know why, at age 92, I am still in such good [...] Brix (department of Manche, France), mischievously asked in March 2022. "It's because I was born on December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. All this time, the Virgin Mary has been watching [...] grandchildren. Maurice and Julienne ran their own farm with more than twenty dairy cows. After the death of his wife in 2019, Maurice continued to work on his own until his retirement two years ago. "And now
April 12 – Tuesday of Holy Week – Tre Fontane apparition of Our Lady of the Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola and his 3 children in 1947 (Rome, Italy; approved in 1956) In Medjugorje, Mary gives a message [...] message of Medjugorje (Bosnia Herzegovina) insists on the violence of the spiritual battle and the vigilance needed so as to respond to the call to holiness in the modern world. Sometimes in the form of a word [...] would like to repeat the words of Bishop Höser at his first press conference in April 2017: "Recourse to Our Lady of Peace is, in my opinion, essential. The specific role of Medjugorje is (...) extremely
not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh; but by assumption of the Manhood into God.” In other words, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, a new humanity has blossomed. In the womb of Mary, the Eternal Trinity [...] December 4 – Saint John of Damascus, Doctor of the Church (d. ca 749) – Our Lady of Sameiro (Portugal) In Mary’s womb a new humanity has blossomed In Mary’s womb a new humanity has blossomed. God did not [...] forth this new creation of a humanity so transparent to God that the true Face of God could at last be seen in it. Maurice Zundel In Marie, tendresse de Dieu (Mary, the tenderness of God)
