Italy: Our Lady of Saint Luke (Italy, 1857) Mary is the Universal Mother I have a Protestant friend who now begins her prayer by addressing the Blessed Virgin. She has come to understand that Mary is the Universal [...] This sign has filled us with gratitude, and we continue to love and entrust many intentions to Mary, Mother of Mercy, for so many people around us. Madame L. A. (France) Published in Lettre aux Associés de
Divine Word becomes the matrix of life." The Word of God becomes the matrix of a new way of thinking, of praying, of speaking and of acting. Br. Manuel Rivero O.P. Cathedral of Saint-Denis (Reunion Island) [...] Life and Mission of the Church, "urges scholars to deepen as much as possible the relationship between Mariology and the theology of the Word. Mary, "Mother of the Word of God" and "Mother of Faith" appears [...] “model of docile acceptance of God’s word.” At the Annunciation, Mary listens with all her heart to the announcement of the angel Gabriel. The book of Deuteronomy presents listening to the Word of God as
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and on establishing a feast in honor of the Most Chaste Heart of Joseph on the Wednesday following the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The messages [...] May 7 – Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) This devotion to Saint Joseph was willed by Jesus and Mary The Virgin Mary has been appearing in Itapiranga, Brazil (state of Amazonas) since 1994, to seers [...] importance of prayer, the Rosary, Divine Mercy, the existence of the devil and hell, and the grave sins of occult practices, magic, and abortion; the need to practice chastity and to respect the laws of marriage
renowned Shoubra doctor, cured of a 3-year hernia; and Mahmoud Shoukry Ibrahim, 45, cured of his paraplegia. 1) Read part I in A Moment with Mary of April 2, 2020 The Marie de Nazareth team [...] apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and gave me a complete description of them. Sister Paula de Mofalo, a Roman Catholic nun well known for her uprightness and common sense, assured me of the authenticity [...] decision of Coptic Pope Cyril VI in 1969, the Coptic Orthodox Church added to its liturgical calendar a feast of the Transfiguration of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, celebrated annually on 24 barmahat (April
April 10 – Good Friday – Our Lady of Laval (France) Mary’s temptations at Calvary If Mary was tempted, as even Jesus was in the desert, this took place above all beneath the cross. And the temptation was [...] later found him in the Temple (Luke 2:48). Mary was silent. "She lovingly consented to the immolation of this Victim which she herself had brought forth," a text of Vatican Council II tells us. She celebrated [...] believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God; she knew that if Jesus had appealed to the Father, he would have sent him “more than twelve legions of angels” (Matt 12 :53). But she saw that Jesus
April 15 – Our Lady of the Wound (Italy, 1490) The greatest grace the Virgin Mary obtained for Saint Faustina During Holy Mass, before Communion, we had the renewal of vows. When we had left our kneelers [...] I later understood that this was one of the greatest graces which the Most Holy Virgin Mary had obtained for me, as for many years I had been asking this grace of Her. Since that time I have experienced [...] experienced an increasing devotion to the Mother of God. She has taught me how to love God interiorly and also how to carry out His holy will in all things, O Mary, You are joy, because through You God descended
to Mary— totus tuus— that we welcome the mystery of the incarnation into us. The mystery of the consecration to Jesus through Mary, which we shorten by “consecration to Mary,” is this total gift of ourselves [...] in the image of the total gift that the Word of God made to the Virgin Mary by becoming man. God became man so that man could become God. Since God became man in Mary, it is also in Mary that we can become [...] Sinaxis of the Archangel Gabriel God surrendered himself completely to Mary How did God become a man? By totally surrendering himself to a woman, by taking flesh from the flesh of the Virgin Mary, God gave
apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) – Our Lady of Walsingham Mary’s only plan is to let God act "In the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth." Let us try to understand [...] that Nazareth represents in the great mystery of God's plan. God's messenger was sent to Nazareth: Salvation began in a village. One of the greatest secrets of God’s heart, at least the one that he most [...] the reality of God, because we wait for it or seek it in the extraordinary, somewhere out of space, in a world disconnected from everyday life and it is we ourselves who create the feeling of God’s absence
modesty of Joseph was neither shame—an expression of self-loathing—nor prudery. Joseph’s modesty was the guarantee of the mystery blooming in him, that of his own election. It was the transformation of the [...] March 20 – Our Lady of Abundance (Italy, 1603) Jesus and Mary found a safe refuge in Joseph’s modesty Joseph is a model of modesty. His modesty was made of silence, natural reserve and meditation. He preserved [...] humbly step back. Where both the freedom of God who has called and the freedom of those who have answered reside—Jesus’ Amen and Mary’s fiat . Both Jesus and Mary found a safe refuge in Joseph's modesty
completely rid of this great calamity, so that from that day, with the help of God, it was never again afflicted by this disease. The popular shrine of the Madonna of Monte Berico is now one of the most important [...] March 7 – Apparition of the Madonna di Monte Berico (Italy, 1426) How Mary stopped the plague on Monte Berico (II) (Continued from A Moment with Mary, March 6th) Two years later, on 1August 1428, the Virgin [...] in Europe: "On the first Sunday of the month we hear about 22,000 confessions on average, until 10 pm sometimes,” say the Servite priests whose order has been in charge of the shrine since 1435. Adapted
