daily. One thing I really like to do is to stand before an image of Our Lady and meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary. This prayer makes me feel the love and presence of Mary in my life. I feel that she [...] 18 – Our Lady of Meritxell (Andorra) My first prayer book I was born into a family that gathered every evening before going to bed, to pray the Rosary. My father was the one who led the meditation of the [...] with our mother, followed the prayer. When I became a teenager, I wanted to learn to meditate the mysteries of the Holy Rosary myself. My father wrote them down for me on a piece of paper used to wrap
field! So I started to say the prayer of Mary Undoer of Knots: on the second day of the novena I took my little booklet to read it and at that moment I received a call from the company to which I had applied [...] available! Whatever the cause of the "knots", the fact of presenting them to the Virgin Mary, our "Heavenly Mother", allows us to become aware of the difficult situation and pray to be healed or delivered from [...] May 14 – Saint Matthias, apostle – Germany: Our Lady, patroness of Bavaria Mary found me a job very quickly! Hello, today I want to thank Mary Undoer of Knots with all my heart. I had been unemployed since
02 - Our Lady of the Visitation (Bollezeele, France) This is the Heart The Church invites us to attentively consider the depth of the love manifested in the Passion of Jesus and the Compassion of Mary [...] who pass this way, look and see: is there any sorrow like the sorrow inflicted on me?" (Lm 1:12). At the time of the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, in June 1675, Jesus [...] itself nothing, to the point of becoming exhausted and consumed with love to bear witness for them. And as a reward I mainly receive only ingratitude." Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him in
June 20 - Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Our Lady of Consolation, Patroness of Luxembourg Victory will come through Mary In 1983, Pope Saint John Paul II returned to Poland four years after his [...] Speak to your Son! Speak to your Son about our difficult times! …In this difficult hour of history I entrust to you, O Mother, all Poles, because on each one of them depends the perseverance of renewal [...] renewal, of justice, of peace. Mother of our hearts! Let the strength of forgiveness spring forth from these words everywhere, for without forgiveness we cannot escape the chains of hatred. Hatred is a destructive
child and first girl of the family, developed an irresistible attraction to prayer while still very young. This came as a result of her pious mother who taught Gemma the truths of the Roman Catholic faith [...] five years old she was already reading the Office of Our Lady. Her beloved mother died while she was only a child and Gemma was sent by her father to a Catholic school run by a religious community. Later [...] April 10 - Our Lady of Virgins (Italy, 1584) I Will Be Your Mother (I) Gemma Galgani was born on March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Italy. The Galgani's were traditional Catholics who were blessed with eight
in Christ and the Most Holy Virgin Mary ... At Our Lady of Laus Shrine (France), I experienced the grace of perfumes. I smelled the delightful perfume of Mary near me. Then I saw my life pass before my [...] everywhere I went I discovered God’s love. While a flood of tears poured out of my soul, I remembered the words of Mary, which my mother had recited to me and that I had never understood: "If you knew how [...] delightful perfume of Mary near me We live in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray (Brittany, France). At the age of 17, after not practicing for a long time … I ended up receiving the sacrament of Confirmation in a wonderful
April 17 – Wednesday of Holy Week – Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) The Virgin Mary explained Christ's preference for the poor Louisa Piccarreta, born in Bari, Italy (1865-1947), was a great Italian [...] last years of his life, and until his death. Because the poor and the small are also the humblest, the least attached to their judgment, and consequently, the most favored, blessed and beloved of my Son. [...] pillars of his future Church. Father Pablo Martin Excerpt from Luisa Piccarreta, La reine du Ciel dans le royaume de la Volonté divine sur la terre , 26° jour (The Queen of Heaven in the Realm of Divine
the Basilica of Notre Dame de l'Épine (Our Lady of the Thorn), in the diocese of Chalons-en-Champagne (Eastern France). From one Burning Bush to another! There, on the night of the Annunciation in 1400 [...] the Mother of God still comes down amid thorns, because many of her children have abandoned Christ, the source of living water. In the night of our time, she calls shepherds to go in search of them and lead [...] lead them to the fountain of baptism. Monsignor François Touvet, Bishop of Chalons, wishes to make of l’Epine a welcoming place of prayer and worship for his diocese. We will be five Benedictine sisters
in the church dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. We hail you, O Mary Mother of God, venerable treasure of the entire world, inextinguishable lamp, crown of virginity, scepter of orthodoxy, imperishable [...] January 1 – Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God We hail you, O Mary Mother of God! I see the assembly of the saints, all zealously gathered together, invited by the holy Mother of God, Mary, Ever-Virgin. [...] put to flight, the tempter falls from Heaven, the fallen creation is brought back to Paradise, all creatures trapped in idolatry come to know of the truth. Through you, holy baptism and the oil of gladness
pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes and about ten to her shrine in Fatima. One of the first pilgrimages to Lourdes was while I was a university student at Louvain. I had just enough money to go to [...] May 5 - Our Lady Queen of the Apostles The Woman I Love (II) When I was ordained, I took a resolution to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist every Saturday to the Blessed Mother, renewing my feeble [...] enough to live on once I arrived. I asked my brother Tom if he had any money, but he was a typical university student too--no money. I said to him: "Well, if I have faith enough to go to Lourdes to celebrate
