December 3 – 1st Sunday of Advent – Our Lady of Victories (Paris, France, 1836) Bring Mary to Adoration with you "Do not be afraid to come and worship the Lord, the Almighty, who, in his great mercy, wished [...] when you worship, do not be afraid to take Mary with you—she is the new Ark of the Covenant, who bore the One who bears the universe. Her mission, since the day of the Visitation, has been to come to you [...] you, to give you to Jesus, to bring you to the life of her Son. So, when you are before the Blessed Sacrament, do not be afraid to ask Mary to exercise her maternal grace—her fertile grace—to unite you to
chapel there. On September 14th, feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, while digging the foundations of the church, the workers discovered in the ground large quantities of bones, nails, ivory boxes and a crystal [...] August 10 – Our Lady of Graces (Cotignac, France, 1519) – Our Lady of Thanks “I am the Virgin Mary” On August 10, 1519, a woodcutter named Jean (John) de la Baume climbed Mount Verdaille (France), where [...] exuded from of the grave and several sick people who were present on that day were cured. It was the beginning of the great graces which have since been pouring out at Cotignac, as the Virgin Mary had promised
July 12 – Apparitions of Myriam, the Immaculate Mother of Jesus to Sebastian Fausto de Faria in Natividade, Brazil, in 1968 (Approved apparition) Like Mary, accepting Christ in our lives Everyone is asked [...] asked the question of the birth of God in us. At every moment the Angel calls us, observes that the Lord is with us and that he loves us as we are, whatever we have done in the past. But it does not stop [...] blesses the fruits of our womb, our productions, our creations. The most extraordinary thing in the world is that man participates in divine creation. The greatest blasphemy and cause of misfortune is to
into one of these mysteries. As one bead follows the next, the Rosary takes us through scenes of Christ’s life - the Annunciation of the Angel to Mary, the birth of the child Jesus, the baptism of Jesus in [...] Blessed Virgin: "Mary, show me your Son." Mary is the mother of all of us, and she knows her own Son better than anyone else. Let her take your hand, and reveal to your heart the whole Mystery of Christ. Contrary [...] assume, the Rosary is not a prayer of praise to Mary, but a path to Christ. Each decade is a meditation on a different mystery of the life of Christ. While the ten "Hail Mary" beads slide through our fingers
rooted in the mystery of the Trinity and in the truth of the Incarnation of the Word of God. My way of understanding the worship of the Virgin evolved. I was already convinced that Mary leads us to Christ [...] February 16 – Our Lady of the Pact of Mercy (Former Abyssinian Empire) “I don’t know where to put Mary!” Sometimes we might be afraid to welcome the Virgin Mary into our lives. The root of this fear is the place [...] devotion to Mary, believing that, if it became too great, it might end up compromising the supremacy of the worship owed to Christ. At that time, I was greatly helped by a book by Saint Louis Marie Grignion
pilgrimage of the copy of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Czestochowa. Under divine inspiration, pro-life leaders from 18 countries made an "Act of Entrusting to Mary the Protection of the Civilization [...] February 15 - Apparition of the Child Jesus to Sister Lucia of Fatima (Pontevedra, Portugal, 1926) The Virgin Mary travels from Ocean to Ocean (II) The Prior of the Shrine of Jasna Gora (Poland), which [...] houses the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, launched the pilgrimage 'Ocean to Ocean' in an official letter: Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am writing to you from the Monastery of Mary, Mother of God at Jasna
First apparition of Our Lady of the Poor in Banneux (Belgium, 1933) Now this village is truly Mary’s home Long before the apparitions of Lourdes, someone ventured to say that if Mary ever wished to appear [...] distance, the population of the small town of Banneux gathered in the church and vowed to consider their territory as "Mary’s land" and add the name of “Notre-Dame” to that of Banneux if it was spared [...] be said of the Belgian village which officially changed its name to Banneux-Notre-Dame in 1914. During the tragic days of the German invasion, at the beginning of WWI, all the populated areas of the region
death of Christ on the Cross. Do you think you have exhausted the depths of that mystery? Then say to yourself, "How would Mary have seen her Son on the cross?" And then ask Mary, "Give me a little of your [...] December 27 - Institution of the Knights of Our Lady (1370) Mary's Own Understanding I am convinced that when the shepherds arrived at the grotto, they did not go straight to the Christ Child. They must [...] at the Blessed Virgin Mary, looked in her eyes; she would have shown them her Child, and then they would have looked at Jesus with her eyes. Try to meditate upon the mysteries of the Gospel with the Virgin's
- Feast of the Visitation - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Now Mary Said (II) Now Mary said: "You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said." A humble Mary is part of the new [...] life that would come from the "dead" womb of Elizabeth, of whom Sara, the wife of Abraham, was a previous figure. Mary believed unconditionally in the possibility of motherhood sprung from a virginal womb [...] advances proceeds from this new creation in Jesus, who is the source of all wisdom and science. But still this is just a shadow of the unlimited possibilities, which God has laid down in His creation.
April 16 - Our Lady of the Vines (Genoa, Italy, 1816) - Bernadette Soubirous (d. 1879) in Nevers (body in a state of perfect preservation) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (II) Mary is a woman of hope: only because [...] portrait, so to speak, of her soul--is entirely woven from threads of the Holy Scriptures, threads drawn from the Word of God. Here we see how completely at home Mary is with the Word of God, with ease she [...] and out of it. She speaks and thinks with the Word of God; the Word of God becomes her word, and her word issues from the Word of God. Here we see how her thoughts are attuned to the thoughts of God, how
