June 5 - Our Lady of Haut (Hainault, France, 1428) Mary, Our Loving Mother One evening I was on the sun deck getting ready to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Before beginning prayer, I like to take a few [...] God's Kingdom, about to thank Him for His love and His blessings. If I could just be like our Mother Mary... If I could pray like her and be like her. I wanted to be like her in her relationship with our [...] " I felt that we could discuss this together as mother and child. So, I turned to our dear Mother Mary, present in the Word within me, without whom nothing was made (cf. Jn 1:3). In my spirit, focusing
of Caravaggio (Italy, 1432) - St Philip Neri (d. 1594) Would you like to know if this is the Virgin Mary? Saint Philip Neri was often consulted by bishops to judge the authenticity of mystics. The practice [...] her obedience to her spiritual director! And Father Neri told her that that time it was the Virgin Mary.
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 [...] Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior; He has looked with favor on his lowly servant." That is Mary all over: in her awareness of her littleness expecting all from God with a boundless confidence. A [...] 'solemnize' rather than 'execute' for its deeper meaning, because the word is used for espousals. In fact Mary is the bride of the Holy Spirit. She wondered, however, how this would come about, to which the angel
Visitation - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Now Mary Said (II) Now Mary said: "You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said." A humble Mary is part of the new creation: "You see before [...] come from the "dead" womb of Elizabeth, of whom Sara, the wife of Abraham, was a previous figure. Mary believed unconditionally in the possibility of motherhood sprung from a virginal womb. And on Good
following solemn declaration: "It is certain that the Servant of God, Edel Mary Quinn, a secular virgin of the Legion of Mary, practiced to a heroic degree the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity [...] At the age of 20 she joined the Legion of Mary in Dublin. A few years later, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. In 1936, Edel was appointed Legion of Mary Envoy to Africa. She encountered great obstacles [...] May 14 - Our Lady Patroness of Bavaria (Munich, Germany, 1330) Edel Quinn's Limitless Trust in Mary's Maternal Care [On December 15, 1994, Pope John Paul II in a special assembly of the cardinals and other
May 3 - Our Lady of Kiev Consecration to Jesus through Mary (II) God endowed Mary with the privileges and prerogatives of: 1) The Divine Maternity, sharing with the Father the parenthood of Jesus, true [...] providentially governing Queen of Heaven and earth. In short, we consecrate ourselves to Jesus through Mary because, immaculate, humble, open, full of grace and in intimate union with her divine Son, she is
May 2 - Our Lady of Oviedo (Spain, 711) Consecration to Jesus through Mary (I) Through the centuries Christians seeking most fully to know, love and serve God--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--have done so [...] so by consecrating their lives to Jesus through the Blessed Virgin Mary. This consecration, made in love and devotion, rests solidly on the theological truths that: - God has created the world to show forth [...] and action with humans, created to this end in the divine image and likeness; - the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, through her spotless purity and total responsiveness to God's will was
April 25 - Our Lady of Good Counsel (Italy, Genazzano, 1476) Mary Our Mother of Love Needless to say, Our Lady is the mother of humankind and she particularly favors mothers and those who live and care [...] care for their families and children, as she lived in close union with her Son and husband. Mary's love is the love of a mother for us her children and the love of Jesus' mother for her Son. It's the pure
(1918) Mary is the Mediatrix of all Graces I would wish you each day, each moment, to draw ever closer to the Immaculate, to know her better and better, and to love her more and more. (...) Mary is the
Bernadette Soubirous (d. 1879) in Nevers (body in a state of 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 [...] salvation of Israel, can the angel visit her and call her to the 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 Mag [...] threads of the Holy Scriptures, threads drawn from the Word of God. Here we 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
