several Tunisian cities, including Sfax, Tabarka and Hammam-Lif. The feast marked the end of the bathing season and announced the arrival of autumn. Muslims and Jews celebrated it with the same fervor as Christians [...] Tunis, with Christians of different nationalities, Tunisians of Muslim and Jewish denominations, amid cheers, applause, shouts, and religious hymns. Mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Tunis, in the [...] January 5 – Our Lady of Good Counsel (Bergamo, Italy) After a 57-year absence, Mary is welcomed again During the first half of the 20 th century, the Christian faithful used to hold a procession of the

Almudena (Madrid, Spain) Mary is the New World (I) Before creating the first man, God prepared a splendid palace for him. Placed in paradise, man was driven out by his own disobedience, and he became, with all [...] of corruption. But he who is rich in mercy had pity on the work of his hands, and decided to create a new sky, a new earth and a new sea to be used as a home for the Incomprehensible, so eager was he to [...] its beautiful vegetation of virtues and the odorous flowers of virginity! What could be purer, what could be more irreprehensible than the Virgin? God, sovereign and immaculate Light, found her so charming

perfect preservation) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (II) Mary is a woman of hope: only because she believes in God's promises and awaits the salvation of Israel, can the angel visit her and call her to the decisive [...] see how completely at home Mary is with the Word of God, with ease she moves in 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 [...] decisive service of these promises. Mary is a woman of faith: "Blessed are you who believed", Elizabeth says to her (cf. Lk 1:45). The Magnificat--a portrait, so to speak, of her soul--is entirely woven

loudly: "Hail Mary, full of grace..." then stopped, exhausted. Her mother continued the prayer. At the end of every Hail Mary, Claire murmured, "and then... and then..." to make the Rosary continue. The [...] praise and I'm there already!" On January 17th, unconscious, she received the Sacrament of the Sick. On Sunday the 19th, while she seemed to be sleeping, all of a sudden she said, very clearly and very loudly: [...] sank more and more into a deep coma. On Wednesday, January 22, 1975, at about five o'clock in the afternoon, she entered into the eternity to which God was calling her. She was 21 years and three months

the Virgin Mary and saying the Rosary. When I woke up, I felt fine. In the morning I received a text message from one of my friends quoting the hymn to Mary: "Look at the star, call upon Mary, if you follow [...] 1854) Mary was with me in the doctor’s office I was treated for heart disease for years. My chest pains were getting more frequent and worse. About 3 weeks ago I had a more serious attack and thought [...] improved. I am starting to live normally again. Mary was with me in the doctor’s office and inspired him to stop this medication that was slowly poisoning me! Mary has been with me for many years, more like

goes through Mary to reveal himself and walk with us, we must go through Mary, our mother in heaven, to go to our Father who loves us so much. It is thanks to Saint Louis de Montfort and to his Treatise [...] particularly aware of the important place occupied by Mary. "Christ will win through Mary," he writes. Clarisse, for Le Grand AIME de Marie (Mary’s great LOVE or Big "M") To participate in the pilgrimage [...] Saint Luke (Italy, 1857) Mary’s Big "M" ("AIME" = LOVE in French) Cycling Tour From July 14th (France’s National Holiday) to August 15, 2018 (former French National Holiday and Feast of the Assumption)

of His Passion and Resurrection that I allow to be made fruitful for my own salvation and sanctification. Every drop of water is transformed into delicious wine, a symbol of festivity and joy! Thus everything [...] delicious wine. My “water” is everything that makes up my life, with its qualities and its defects. That’s what interests God! Mary is my Mother. Jesus allowed that through her, the miracle of the transformation [...] “water” of our lives) would be able to take place. Mary is the teacher that Jesus gave me to become like Him. She tells me: "Do whatever he tells you." And by obeying, by bringing my “water,” which Jesus

cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called [...] Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar) Now Mary Said (I) Now Mary said: "You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said." The inner calm of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, proceeds from [...] for espousals. In fact Mary is the bride of the Holy Spirit. She wondered, however, how this would come about, to which the angel answered: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most

East, speaks of the role of Mary in similar occurrences of contact with the divine glory, and in divinization. Palamas affirms that our divinization is possible, and real, and that while we remain created [...] August 6 – The Transfiguration of the Lord Mary imparts contact with the divine life The Gospel of the Transfiguration does not mention Mary’s specific role in salvation, but the Church tradition, especially [...] through the divine Power. Mary was the first to achieve this, through grace. Furthermore, considering the mystery of the Church as a communion of deification, Palamas explains that Mary imparts to us the contact

Being muted and silenced because of his childhood, She enters into a new silence and is transformed in it, Following the example of the incarnate Word, Who is her Son, her God, her only Love. And so her life [...] Bérulle (d. 1629), founder of the French school of spirituality Mary’s life passed from silence to silence Our Lady's lot is to be silent and to listen. This is her state, this is her way, this is her life