Feast of Our Lady of Los Reyes (Seville, Spain) Victorious football players present their trophy to Mary Following their victory in the Champions League on May 26, 2018, Zinedine Zidane and his players from [...] Cathedral of Santa María La Real in La Almudena, in Madrid, to present their trophy to the Blessed Virgin Mary. What would be more natural than presenting one’s trophy to the Blessed Virgin, when you have just

August 6 - Transfiguration of the Lord – Our Lady of Mercy (Italy) The Virgin Mary protected the seminarian Karol Wojtyla August 6th, the liturgical feast of the Transfiguration, was “Black Sunday” in

August 9 – Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) Pray the Virgin Mary to give us the gift of tears On May 25, 2018, Pope Francis celebrated mass in the presence of the reliquary of Our Lady of Tears of [...] of Tears is preserved in the shrine of Syracuse, in Sicily. It represents the Immaculate Heart of Mary and has been the object of many weepings, the first of which occurred between August 29th and the

in your cell!” This was the image of the Virgin Mary, before whom the hermit prayed. From that day, the good hermit prayed with increased fervor to Mary in front of her image! The demon, discouraged, left [...] (Cotignac, France, 1519) – Our Lady of Mercy All because the hermit prayed before the image of the Virgin Mary In the late 17 th century, a good hermit in the north of France was assailed by temptations. The demon

pray to Mary, we lose our identity Since the recent war against Isis, more and more women in Syria—grandmothers, young mothers, and girls—have been wearing a piece of clothing known as “Mary’s dress” during [...] children in eastern families. This is even truer when the mother is the Virgin Mary. If we forget to pray, we lose our identity." "Mary suffered too as a mother. She accepted to lose her son, Christ, by embracing [...] must receive the blessing of a priest. For Maha, a 45-year-old mother who lost her son at the front, Mary is the obedient and patient mother: "She stands half way between heaven and earth. She understands

July 29 – Pope Callixtus III instituted the ringing of the Angelus (1456) Like Mary, the Church is wife and mother Without its feminine dimension, the Catholic Church risks to become an old boy’s club [...] her children, the pope said in his homily May 21st during a morning Mass commemorating the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church. “When we forget this, it becomes a masculine Church; without this dimension [...] pope reflected on the need for the Church to maintain its feminine nature as wife and mother, like Mary. Without this dimension, “the Church loses its true identity and becomes a charitable organization

July 28 – Hodegetria Icon: Our Lady of the Way The exorcist brought a statue of Mary Immaculate In Illfurt, a town in Alsace (France), in 1865, a child had been possessed by a demon for four years. They [...] arrived, with a diocesan delegation, to do exorcisms on the child. He had brought with him a statue of Mary Immaculate. And it happened! As soon as the monk appeared, the devil, through the mouth of the possessed

to consecrate our diocese to the Virgin Mary "After praying about it, I have decided to consecrate our diocese of Séez (northwestern France) to the Virgin Mary, especially to ask for more vocations," Bishop [...] episcopal ordination. The bishop is very open about it: his own spiritual life is permeated by a love of Mary, "a special grace that helped him in his ministry." This solemn Marian consecration took place on [...] May 13, 2018, at 3 pm, in the Cathedral of Sées (1). As Pope Francis recently said: "We supplicate Mary so that, through her maternal prayer, she will help us to make the Church a home for many, a mother

July 25 – Our Lady of the Castle The Virgin Mary remains young forever Mary was young—probably just a teenager—when the Angel spoke to her, upsetting her simple plans, in order to make her part of God's

Nicaragua was consecrated to the Virgin Mary! Marian devotion was introduced in Nicaragua in 1522 by the explorer Gil Gonzalez de Avila, who had a great love for the Virgin Mary and liked to promote that devotion [...] strong opposition and protests. Nevertheless the country gradually moved towards peace. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared between May 8 and October 13, 1980 to a peasant of Cuapa, delivering a message