May 26 - Feast of Our Lady of Caravaggio (Italy, 1432) May We Grow in God’s Love with Mary (II) O Mary, with you I wish to learn how to love all people as my brothers and sisters because they are all yours [...] live and those with whom I work. Mary I would like to be the bearer of the Holy Spirit with you. Let my heart be obedient to His inspirations, as was yours. Mother of Peace, let my words be irrevocable
May 25 - Feast of Our Lady of the New Jerusalem (530) May We Grow in God’s Love with Mary (I) Blessed Virgin Mary, I am asking for the grace of growing in God’s love with you. Please obtain it from God [...] against sin and sinful habits. Mary, Mother of goodness and love, Mother of God’s Word, be with me and with every one of your children. Drive away every evil and every influence of evil from me and from all [...] up unrest and hatred, obstructed the coming of His reign, and destroyed joy, love and hope in others around me. Mother Mary, help me understand the depth of your Son’s suffering which you witnessed. Grant
May 24 - Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians (Europe, 1815) Like Mary, the Virgin Martyr, Known Only by Him Alone (II) I know Jesus only and I only want to know Jesus! My entire ideal of perfection - my [...] identified with the sacrifice of Jesus my Redeemer and to be stigmatized by His Love, but remain, like Mary, the Virgin martyr, known only by Him alone. I love this narrow path made up of suffering and love, and [...] Christ”. I find in my beloved Mother, as I find in Jesus, the most perfect as well as the most imitable of models.
May 20 - Saint Bernardino of Siena (1340-1444) - Our Lady of Graces (Cuneo, Italy, 1537) Mary’s Greatness and Holiness Saint Bernardino of Siena was a popular preacher, attentive and sensitive to the mentality [...] the predestination of Christ. Her fullness of grace and her role in the mystery of the incarnate Word, as well as her compassion on Calvary and her Assumption into Heaven make Mary the human being nearest [...] religiosity of his listeners. (…) He preached that God wanted the Virgin to be so great and perfect because He had predestined her to become the Mother of the incarnate Word. Thus, the mystery of her divine
Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy, 1875) Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (II) Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heaven and in the lowest abyss, all things speak of and proclaim [...] holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her millions and millions of times each day with the angelic greeting: "Hail Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, and begging her the favor of honoring [...] the wondrous Virgin Mary. The nine choirs of angels, men and women of every age, rank and religion, both good and evil, even wicked demons themselves, are all compelled by the force of truth, willingly or
May 9 - Feast of Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (III) The whole world is filled with her glory, and this is especially true of Christian peoples, who have chosen her [...] are the members of sodalities and religious of all congregations who voice her praises and make known her compassion! There is not a child who does not praise her by stuttering a Hail Mary. There is scarcely [...] protectress of kingdoms, provinces, dioceses, and towns. Many cathedrals are consecrated to God in her name. There is no church without an altar dedicated to her, no land or region without at least one of her
May 7 - Feast of Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (I) Saints have said wonderful things about Mary, the Holy City of God. As they themselves have admitted, they were never [...] spoke of her. However, they maintain that the height of her merits in God’s glory cannot be perceived; the breadth of her love, which is wider than the earth cannot be measured; the greatness of the power [...] power, which she wields over even God Himself cannot be conceived; and the depths of her profound humility and all her virtues and graces, which are like an abyss cannot be probed. O incomprehensible height
Mother of the Son of the Most High. She is the Ark of the Covenant who carries in her womb the Son of God (Lk 1: 26-38). Mary’s exemplary experience of hearing God’s Word in the Spirit at the time of the [...] March 23 - Our Lady of Victory of Lepanto (Hungary, 1716) Mary and the Holy Spirit At the Annunciation, Mary who was already full of grace, became the residence of the Holy Spirit in a very special way: [...] Annunciation reminds us of the Pentecost, such as Luke tells us in Acts. Just as the Spirit was at the origin of the formation of the body and the heart of the Son of God in Mary, in the same way the Spirit
compassion for Our Lady of Sorrows, were on earth a mirror of innocence and an example of every virtue; we turn to you full of confidence to implore your aid. Oh! How many evil things and afflictions, [...] doubt the efficaciousness of your patronage! Confident of your help, we pray, O Sweet Saint, to obtain this particular grace for the greater glory of God and for the good of souls (here mention your request) [...] February 27 - Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Passionist (1838-1862) Special Devotion to Mary the Afflicted Mother O angelic young Gabriel, who, by your ardent love for Jesus Crucified and your
February 5 - Dedication of First Church of Our Lady by Saint Peter (Tortosa, Italy) Mary Did Her Part (I) The holiness of the Old Testament saints, and indeed that of St Joseph and the Blessed Virgin, [...] theology of her ancestors. This, then as now, meant the most direct and wholehearted surrender to God’s will, however it revealed itself. This noble and exalted frame of mind was the basis of Mary’s spiritual [...] God’s will. […] This was the hidden motive behind Mary’s behavior. She was the simplest of humans and the one who made the most complete surrender of herself to God. Her laconic reply to the angel - “Let
