spouses to strengthen their marriages, or to repair or even resuscitate their love. These sessions, only 24 hours long, are led by priests who aim to give a supernatural impetus to families. Despite our wounds [...] has the last word. Jesus chose to have a mother, and he gave her to us from the cross. It would be a mistake to deprive ourselves of such a gift! Mary is the most wonderful of mothers. Did she not worry about [...] the age of 12? She cares for us in the very same way. As the creature who is closest to him, she is our best ambassador to her Son. And here’s another thing: she is the one who crushed the head of the Serpent
experience this return to a very simple routine, stripped of the multiple activities of student life? I listened to him attentively, but I didn’t know the answer. When I returned to the monastery, I was [...] April 15 – Our Lady of Kiev (Ukraine) Mary gave me the strength I didn’t have alone I had just spent three years studying in Rome. In the car taking me back to my monastery in France, Father Abbot expressed [...] appointed as cook and sent to work in the cheese store. One fine morning—I still remember it as if it were yesterday—I was walking in the chestnut tree-lined path leading to a replica of the Lourdes Grotto, when
We went through some stressful periods and we knew that Our Lady would also take care of us — and she did. There were times when we couldn’t pay our mortgage or we didn’t know how we would get through a [...] June 24 – Our Lady of Miracles (Saint Maur-des-Fossés, France) - Saint John the Baptist You see God in everything after praying the Rosary Since October 2018, every morning at 6:45 a.m. central time, 200 [...] Schlegel asked Kristin, leader of this prayer effort and a mother of seven, business executive, and blogger at One Hail Mary at a Time , about how this practice came to be and where she sees it heading
2 - Our Lady of Nettles (Germany, 1441) Saturday is Mary's day (II) (Continued from September 1) Humbert of Romans, a French Dominican friar who served as the fifth Master General of the Order of Preachers [...] Preachers from 1254 to 1263, gives 3 further reasons for dedicating Saturday to the Virgin Mary: 5 - Just as Saturday is the day between Friday, the day of sorrow, and Sunday, the day of joy, without which [...] which we cannot pass from sorrow to glory, so Mary is situated between us, who live in the land of exile, and Christ, already glorious in heaven. There is thus an awareness of Mary's mediating function. 6
January 21 - Our Lady of Consolation (Rome, 1471) The Memorare Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your [...] Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your
Aug 31 - Our Lady of Founders (Constantinople) The Memorare Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine in [...] Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in
the least of their Praise is it to refer praise to the Mother of glory… Today the Eden of the New Adam receives the true paradise, in which sin is remitted and the tree of life growl, and our nakedness [...] 15 – Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Mary, Paradise of the New Adam Today the holy Virgin of Virgins is presented in the heavenly temple. Virginity in her was so strong as to be a consuming [...] the Mother of the living God, she goes through death to Him. Eve listened to the serpent, adopted his suggestion, was caught by the lure of false and deceptive pleasure, and was condemned to pain and sorrow
December 6 - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Our Lady of Sées (France) - Our Lady of the Vow (Siena, Italy) Mary is the greatest protectress identified by the Church Michel is a devout Catholic from southwestern [...] priest says, "is to take the time to listen to people. They need to tell their stories, to free themselves of their burdens. In this particular case, we were dealing with the cleansing of a place, a workspace [...] inside, he called a priest to ask him to "entrust the place to the Lord!" and have it exorcised. During the summer of 2020, Michel called the diocese of Perpignan—most dioceses of France have their own e
November 7 – Our Lady of the Pond (Dijon, France) Why we must find Mary Saint Louis de Montfort (1) explains that there are many ways to use the grace that God gives us for each day to produce fruits of holiness [...] necessary to every person who wants to become holy. These means are found in the Gospel and the lives of all the saints: "Humility of heart, continual prayer, mortification in all things, surrender to Divine [...] Providence, and conformity to the will of God." While we can all agree that this is the way to sainthood, we might also worry and think: "How am I ever going to get there?" The answer, of course, is that it will
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 [...] swept the city, rounding up young men to forestall a reprise of the Warsaw Uprising. Archbishop Sapieha immediately called in his underground seminarians, intending to hide them in his residence. … When he [...] Catholic priest and theologian (2) Future Pope Saint John Paul II George Weigel Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II (HarperCollins Publishers, 1999)
