moments of salvation history are relived. The various steps of Christ's mission are traced. 5. With Mary the heart is oriented towards the mystery of Jesus. Christ is put at the center of our life, of our [...] our time, of our city, through the contemplation and meditation of His holy mysteries of joy, light, sorrow and glory. 6. May Mary help us to welcome within ourselves the grace emanating from these mysteries [...] October 23 – Our Lady of Frassino (Lake Garda, Italy) Why should I pray the Rosary? Every day, millions of people meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary. Everywhere this beautiful prayer, in which the

November 3 – Our Lady of the Suffrage (Italy) I never thought that the Rosary had such power! Few years before the Genocide in Rwanda, Our Lady of Kibeho told the young visionaries that if those who prayed [...] another. It was one of the worse things that can ever happen to anyone. The first time I found out about the power of the prayer of the Rosary, I was finishing primary school and I was trying to get a scholarship [...] scholarship to go to a good high school. I passed the exams but didn’t receive a scholarship. So I went to another private school and it was hard for my parents to pay the school fees. However, two years later

Thursday – Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) "The more we pierced her Heart, the more it was alive" An exorcist once realized, to his great surprise, that God was humiliating the devil by forcing him to praise [...] Heart of Mary, the devil spoke of the thorns that are embedded in it [they represent the sins of humanity] and of those who make reparation for offenses against that Heart: "Men have helped me to thrust [...] because so many souls have dedicated themselves to atone for them; and each soul pulls out a thorn, and each thorn that is removed drives a post of fire into our brain. They are hit, beaten, burned, scratched

sufferings at the foot of the cross and her offering in union with her Son to the Father, out of love for us. While he was saying all these things, the devil went on to say, to the amazement of the exorcist who [...] Good Friday – Our Lady of the Wound (Italy, 1490) When Satan confesses: "She always walks by your side" On Good Friday of the year 2006, while an exorcist was reading from the Gospel of John the words [...] that the devil was obviously forced to say, against his will, things that he would never have wanted to say, continued to read the words of the Gospel: "And from that hour the disciple took her into his home

gone to Lourdes to ask for the grace to find me. I asked him: "When did you go to Lourdes?" He answered: "In June 1980." It was in the exact same year, month, and place, that I had given my life to Jesus [...] front of me by firing a bullet into his heart. I became a violent teenager after that with no sense of direction. On March 19, 1980, a Christian woman called Marie-Do, took me to Montpellier to listen [...] listen to the testimony of Nicky Cruz , an American gang leader turned pastor. That evening, I opened my heart to Jesus and I began a new life. In June 1980, Marie-Do took me to Lourdes on my first pilgrimage

under the monogram of the name of Mary, the Holy Hearts of Jesus and of His Mother; the first surrounded by a crown of thorns and the second transpierced by a sword. I was anxious to know what words must [...] 1876) - Our Lady of Kibeho (1981) Mary appears at the Rue du Bac Convent in Paris (II) There now formed around the Blessed Virgin a frame rather oval in shape on which were written in letters of gold these [...] the protection of the Mother of God. Graces will be abundantly bestowed upon those who have confidence.” At the same instant, the oval frame seemed to turn around. Then I saw on the back of it the letter

opportunity to change and to prepare a healthier future. With our gaze fixed on Jesus and contemplating the luminous, sorrowful, joyful, and glorious mysteries of His life, we can embrace the hope of the Kingdom [...] person who had lost a family member to COVID-19: “In the present tragic situation, when the whole world is prey to suffering and anxiety, we fly to you, Mother of God and our Mother, and seek refuge under your [...] “This new Rosary can help many people in these moments of crisis because Mary, our Mother, is a powerful ally to look up to with hope at the times to come.” Adapted from Aleteia

origin dates back to the 13th century, and is connected to Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn, a German Benedictine nun, to whom Our Lady revealed a way of lifting up a prayer of thanksgiving to the Holy Trinity [...] October 6 – Our Lady of the People (Italy) Where does the Three Hail Marys devotion come from? Among the devotions to Our Lady, there is one that is very special: that of praying three Hail Marys every [...] heard Our Lady say to her: “Yes, I will; but I want you, on your part, to pray three Hail Marys to me each day. With the first, you will ask that, just as God the Father raised me up to a throne of glory

June 25 – Our Lady of Graces (Forli, Italy, 1548) We are here for you like Mary! This year, the commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows, which in Malta we traditionally celebrate with great devotion on the [...] best gift you can give a person who is suffering is to give him or her some of your time, to give your presence and, when possible, your helping hand. To be sick with cancer in hospital during this pandemic [...] heart of the Good Samaritan who, in the words of Pope Francis in his recent encyclical Fratelli Tutti , “stopped, approached the man and cared for him personally, even spending his own money to provide

lost to the faithful of Sajópálfala, who had made an annual pilgrimage to Eger on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. In 1969, they located the original weeping image in a church in the diocese of Pécs, [...] Turkish occupation of the late 1600s, the town of Sajópálfala in northeastern Hungary was destroyed and deserted. Not long after Rusyn Greek Catholics resettled the area, the painting of the Madonna and Child [...] Weeping Madonna returned to the Church of the Visitation in Sajópálfala, where the main pilgrimage days are now Pentecost Sunday and the third Sunday in October. Erika Papp Faber In Our Mother's Tears : Ten