will be with you always.” Oh Mary! Incredible Mary, who uses the little moments of our lives to help us understand the most important things: a piece of rope at that time of such great despair! But I understood [...] – Our Lady of the Annunciation (1470) Mary played a surprising joke on me! Each summer an important seaside pilgrimage takes place in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France). It begins with the blessing of the sea and [...] statue of the Madonna in a boat up to the cathedral. Last year my husband was part of the sailors’ team. Afterwards, he felt terribly tired, and a few days later he was diagnosed with a rare type of leukemia
Purification of Mary), then received an appointment to Perugia on July 16th (feast of Our Lady of Carmel); and today, I am celebrating this anniversary on the feast of the Virgin of Mercy." "Mary taught me [...] his episcopate "is under Mary’s protection." His remark came after the Mass in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination: "I express my gratitude to Mary because I was consecrated [...] on September 8th, (feast of the Nativity of Mary), I placed my episcopate under her protection on that same date, received an appointment to Arezzo on November 21st (feast of the Presentation at the Temple
were the words of Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, during the celebration of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on August 15 [...] the Church born of the blood of her Son, becoming herself a first and elected member, which means that, wherever there is a community of faith, like the first community of the Apostles, Mary is there, finds [...] 27 – Our Lady of Charity (Cuba) Why Mary has never left us alone “One wonders: why so many shrines in the world, why so much affection and devotion to Mary? In truth, from the moment Mary lost Jesus, she
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 day. But [...] 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 for the privileges granted to the Virgin Mary. Mechtilde was [...] during the last moments of your life, filling your soul with the light of faith and of true wisdom, so that the shadows of error and ignorance may not darken it. With the third, you will ask that, just as
Archdiocese of New York in 1951, later the Bishop of Rochester, and finally the Archbishop of the titular see of Newport, Wales. NCR [...] September 25 – Our Lady of Saint Peter (Italy, 1751) The world could recover Christ through Mary Bishop Sheen (1), former Auxiliary Bishop of New York (United States), wrote in 1951: “There is Hope and [...] It will be through the power of the woman that evil will be overcome.” … “If then we live in an evil hour, how shall we overcome the spirit of Satan except by the power of that Woman to whom Almighty God
September 21 – Our Lady of Graces (Trieste, Italy, 1486) - St Matthew Mary unfolded her plan for me, very slowly On a rocky hillside, above the small village of Medjugorje, two young girls, maintained [...] Gospa," (Croatian word for Blessed Mother). The next day, four of their friends joined them and also maintained the same story. Today millions of pilgrims from all over the world come, to visit "The Gospa [...] in the time of unrest, the war. Then, she unfolded her plan for me, very slowly. It was during the civil war, which started in1991 that Gospa invited me to visit her. There was a lot of opposition about
Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, France, 1854) It is in these moments that I would paint Mary The Madonna is pale and she looks at the Child. The way one should depict her should be with a sort of anxious [...] For Christ is her child, the flesh of her flesh and the fruit of her womb. She has carried him for nine months, she will nurse him, and her milk will become the blood of God. At times, the temptation is [...] thinks: "This God is my child, this divine flesh is my flesh, he is made of me, he has my eyes, and the shape of his mouth is the shape of my mouth. He is God and he is like me." And no woman has had her God
Assisi to ask for the intercession of Mary and Saint Francis on behalf of the Council. He then scheduled the session between the feasts of the Motherhood of Mary and of the Immaculate Conception. Pope from [...] September 26 – Our Lady of Graces (Ancona, Italy, 1836) – Saint John XXIII (d. 1963) Vatican II was overseen by Mary When he was still archbishop of Venice, Italy, Pope Saint John XXIII (1881-1963) had [...] . His spirituality was marked by the intense love of the Eucharist and a filial veneration of the Blessed Virgin. His motto was "To Jesus through Mary." After summoning the Second Vatican Council, the
out of ignorance, want to put a limit to the power and mercy of God by saying that the time of miracles is long gone. Saint John Bosco (1815-1888) Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the mountain of La [...] September 18 – Our Lady of Meritxell (Andorra) When Mary speaks to those who refuse miracles A wonderful and irrefutable fact, witnessed by thousands of people who can still testify of it today [editor's note: [...] the sake of France… and the whole world, to warn us that her Divine Son was angry, especially because of three sins: blasphemy, the profanation of Sundays and holy days, and the transgression of the laws
September 15 – Our Lady of Sorrows Mary was martyred in her soul The martyrdom of the Virgin is hinted at both in the prophecy of Simeon and in the narrative of the Lord’s Passion. "This child is here [...] here," said the saintly old man of the child Jesus, "as a sign of contradiction; and you"—he is now speaking to Mary—"a sword will pierce your own soul." Blessed Mother, it is very true that a sword pierced [...] brothers, if we say that Mary was martyred in her soul. He who is surprised by this forgets—since he has already heard it—that Paul counts lack of affection among the greatest crimes of the Gentiles. It was
