Lady of Life (France, 1891) - Birth of Cardinal Charles Journet So that Mary’s Mystery is not Reduced Down to Our Size We should tremble at the idea of touching the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This [...] a person who lacks the necessary to approach her - which is the case of each one among us, because of the resistance and heaviness of our hearts - will only draw her down and deform the Holy Mother into

Lady of the Pillar (Spain) - Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil) I met the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje In the summer of 2015, I was in Spain enjoying a drink on the beach at sunset with some friends. Two of them [...] present and from being happy. At the top of Podbordo, Apparition Hill, I met the Virgin Mary. Kneeling at her feet, I felt an incredible warmth of maternal love: Mary was taking me in her arms. I was there [...] I met two key persons who helped me on my journey. One of them is a Dominican priest who told me: "Above all, do not let go of the hand of Mary your Mother." The Virgin is at my side every day. She leads

supporting part of the upper floor. The beam remained in place and protected her from the mass of rubble that fell at the time of the crash. Anther powerful sign: An image of the Virgin Mary hanging on the [...] October 26 - Beatification of Bartolo Longo, Apostle of the Rosary, by Pope Saint John Paul II, who quoted him five times in his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae Saved by Mary from certain death During [...] During the week of August 15, 2020, in Luneville, France, a truck accidentally crashed into the house of an elderly woman. It took responders several hours to clear the rubble from the collapsed house. The

5 - Our Lady of Pedancino (Italy) - Charles Péguy (French poet, essayist, and editor, d. 1914) - Saint Teresa of Calcutta (d. 1997) Charles Péguy spent the night bringing flowers to Mary On August 15, [...] weeks fresh in the army, he spent the night laying flowers at the foot of the statue of the Blessed Virgin in the chapel on the hill of Montmélian. On September 5, he died in combat, shot in the forehead [...] soul of this staunch and idealistic socialist like a flooding river. He gave up his support for the Socialist Party... This change of heart was not a resignation; his Catholicism was never a form of capitulation

members of Christ; you also are the body of Christ. You, to whom I am speaking, are the members of Christ. Of whom were you born? "Of Mother Church," I hear the reply of your hearts. You became sons of this [...] birth then as members of Christ… This holy, honored Mother, like Mary, gives birth and still is a virgin... Keep virginity in your hearts; the virginity of the spirit is the integrity of the Catholic faith [...] August 28 - Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church (d. 430) - Our Lady of Tears (Syracuse, Italy, 1953) Mary more blessed in her discipleship than in her motherhood Stretching out His hand over His disciples

Institute of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, a school dedicated to the Heart of Jesus, and there she also showed us her Heart. Finally, the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary are in the loving Heart of the Father [...] Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. Perhaps through these titles she invites us to rediscover a somewhat hidden dimension of our lives? We are from this earth of course, and we are aware of all its [...] what is essential, to the heart of our faith, and to put ourselves back into the Heart of God. Father Joël Rochette, Vicar General of the Diocese of Namur and Rector of the Beauraing Shrine Excerpt from

well as affection, is one of those people. The Heart of Mary is the intelligent heart that King Solomon had asked of the Most High. Like her Son, she accepted the Cross out of love for Jesus’ brothers and [...] for the human race, of this sign of contradiction—without prejudice to her faith (she still had to act in darkness)—and to her merit of accepting God's will at such a time. Mary is therefore able to initiate [...] initiate us into the secrets of the Wisdom of the Cross, which are not given to the lukewarm or the curious or the amateurish. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is such because it knows the difference between

On June 2nd, a horse-drawn carriage carrying a tall statue of Mary received the blessing of Bishop Ribadeau Dumas in front of the grotto of Lourdes, before setting off. A similar team left La Salette [...] Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) An M-shaped pilgrimage to entrust France to Mary From June 2, 2020, until September 13, 2020, the Confraternity Our Lady of France [...] th century, over a period of just 46 years: Paris (Chapel of the Miraculous Medal), La Salette, Lourdes, Pontmain, and Pellevoisin. This long pilgrimage, known as “The M of Mary”(1), criss-crosses France

- Icon of the Pure Bearer of God "Hodigitria" (Smolensk, Russia) Mary is interceding for us in these challenging times I have been thinking a lot these days of Saint Pope John Paul II… As many of you know [...] the Mother of God, the Mother of the Church, and the mother of every one of us. Mary was the first person to consecrate herself to Jesus Christ, the first to offer her whole heart to do His will, to serve [...] example of the "new evangelization" that he called for, bringing Jesus Christ to the people of our time with a new sense of urgency and apostolic conviction. Saint John Paul often invoked Mary our Blessed

unseen presence of God himself, its Creator, it sees him openly, working and making it holy. These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb. Through the fullness of the grace that was [...] April 21 - Saint Anselm, bishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church (d.1109) Thanks to Mary, the universe rejoices with indefinable loveliness Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and ni [...] dead, as it were, useless for men or for the praise of God, who made them. The world, contrary to its true destiny, was corrupted and tainted by the acts of men who served idols. Now all creation has been