- Our Lady of Miracles (Lucca, Italy, 1588) Mary’s Tears (II) Tears are a legacy of the Mother of Sorrows, such an awesome legacy that it cannot be frittered away in the vain affections of the world without [...] blood of His human form. If Saint Ambrose, recalling Monica, refers to Augustine as “the son of so many tears”, how much more so are we sons of the tears of that special creature who, as the Mother of God [...] wept for the misdemeanors of the future doctor of grace, her tears ran like a river of glory bearing her incredulous son in her tirelessly outstretched arms to the Author of Grace. Yet tears were all she
February 7 - Our Lady of the Bowed Head (Rome, 1610) Mary Did Her Part (III) There is very little unusual about the outward life of the Blessed Virgin, or at least the Gospels do not record it. They show [...] persecution of Herod drove her from Nazareth, but she returned and lived there with Jesus and Joseph, who worked to earn their daily bread. But what was the bread that nourished the faith of Mary and Joseph [...] s, disclosed that God was accomplishing very great things. O bread of the angels, heavenly manna, pearl of the Gospels, sacrament of the present moment! You give God under such lowly forms as the stable
February 2 - Purification of Our Lady (First celebrated in 544) This is the Time When Mary, Virgin and Queen, Came to the Temple with Her Son It was the day of the Purification of the Virgin. I was in Foligno [...] Foligno, in the church of the Minor Brothers. I heard a voice speaking to me, "This is the time when Mary, Virgin and Queen, came to the temple with her Son." I listened with great love in my soul. And having [...] gestures were so beautiful, her attitude was so marvellous, her entire person so noble and the sight of her was so sublime that my eyes could not remain fixed on Jesus alone, and were forced to look at His
that what was demanded of Mary at this great moment was something most glorious, but all this splendor would have meant nothing to her unless she had wanted to yield to the will of God. It was this will [...] February 6 - Our Lady of Louvain (Belgium, 1444) Mary Did Her Part (II) “Let it happen to me as you have said” (Lk 1:38). We should note that these words are in perfect agreement with those our Lord wants [...] sometimes obscurely, the activity of the Almighty and were an opportunity for her to praise God. Filled with joy, she regarded everything she had to do or suffer at any moment of her life as a gift from Him
Lady of Chatillon sur Seine (France, 1130) Charlemagne, Mary’s Son (II) In 778, Charlemagne was ready to surrender, wearied by the obstinate resistance of the Saracen Lord Mirat in the citadel of Mirambel [...] sovereign, but to the Queen of Heaven. The proposal actually pleased the Moor chief who laid down his weapons at the feet of the Black Madonna of the Puy and asked to be baptized. The day of his baptism, Mirat [...] Mirambel (the current site of Lourdes). He was on the very point of raising the siege, when his companion Bishop Turpin, bishop of Puy-en-Velay, had an inspiration and obtained the authorization to go negotiate
a statue of the Virgin upon his heart. After his death, the Council of Mainz imposed the feast of the Assumption on the whole of the Frankish Empire. The reign of Charlemagne marked the end of feudality [...] dedicated to the Mother of God. He kept a relic of the Blessed Virgin’s belt, a gift from the Empress of Constantinople, as a treasured possession, and he wore a medal of Mary on a golden chain around his neck [...] feudality and the beginning of the unification of Europe, born at the same time as Christendom, under the protection of the Mother of God.
21 - Our Lady of Altagracia (Dominican Republic, 1650) Mary Has Given the World its True Light Holy Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world its true light, Jesus, your Son - the Son of God. You abandoned [...] became a wellspring of the goodness which flows forth from him. Show us Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, so that we too can become capable of true love and be fountains of living water in [...] in the midst of a thirsting world.
statue was solemnly placed it in the convent chapel. Homage and veneration to Mary under the title of Our Lady of Prompt Succor has been constant since then, and the Blessed Virgin has interceded for those [...] “Our Lady of Prompt Succor, we are lost unless you hasten to our help.” Immediately the wind changed the direction of the flames, the convent and the properties around it were relieved of danger the fire [...] January 9 - Our Lady of Beyond the Tiber (Rome) Homage and Veneration to Mary in New Orleans (II) On Mother Saint Michael’s and several postulants’ arrival in New Orleans on December 30, 1810, the statue
attain the vision of Thy glorious majesty. Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee-Jesus Christ born of the Virgin Mary. And the Gentiles [...] January 6 - Epiphany of Our Lord Thy Light is Come from the Virgin Mary O God, who by the guidance of a star didst on this day manifest Thine only-begotten Son to the Gentiles, mercifully grant that we [...] Gentiles shall walk in thy light and kings in the splendor of thy rising, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee.
symbol of a reverse circuit to describe how the evil contracted in the origins was overcome: Christ assumed the figure of Adam, the cross stood for the tree of the fall, and Mary assumed the figure of Eve [...] Each of the elements that were corrupted by the fall were renewed from their roots. In the 12th century, the title of "New Eve" was attached to Mary's spiritual motherhood because of this notion of "re [...] 9 – Dedication of the St John Lateran Basilica Why is Mary called the New Eve? As Pope Saint John Paul II often pointed out, "the comparison Eve-Mary constantly recurs in the course of reflection on the
