April 17 - Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (III) Finally, Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills [...] come only with the Cross, which will be Jesus' true hour (cf. Jn 2:4; 13:1). When the disciples flee, Mary remains beneath the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25-27); later, at the hour of Pentecost, it will be they who
April 13 - Our Lady of Tears Mary and Diana (I) In 1922 the servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, then a young priest and scholar, was offered to accompany a distinguished French novelist, Emile Baumann [...] Baumann's book was eventually published in more than 100 editions. Here is an interesting excerpt showing Mary's early role in the Church: "One other moment in the voyage among countless ones that affected me
of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the Council of Ephesus was held. As the gods of Athens were yearnings for a god among men, so it happened that Diana, the Moon Goddess, found her fulfillment in Mary, who is [...] April 14 - Our Lady of Guam (1825) Mary and Diana (II) A mob was quickly organized which ran over those large stones heading for the amphitheater. Paul had never said anything against Diana. On the contrary
April 15 - Our Lady of Keiff (Russia, 1010) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (I) Outstanding among the saints is Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. In the Gospel of Luke we find her engaged [...] is encountered both in prayer and in service of neighbor--only then does goodness enter the world. Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. She is lowly: her only
April 6 - Our Lady of the Conception (Douai, France) Mary's 15 Promises to Those Who Recite the Holy Rosary 1)Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive special graces
Experienced by Mary (I) The Virgin Mary helped me understand something that, as of yet, I had not understood in depth. Apparently, during the Passion, the Holy Spirit was incarnated in Mary. Through Him [...] Him the Father and Mary were intimately joined together and became one. The Passion of Jesus was also the Passion of the Father and the Passion of Father was experienced by Mary. The Father borrowed her heart [...] singular fusion of love. The Passion of the Father and the Passion of Mary became a one and only human Passion, experienced by Mary with infinite love and intensity -- the Passion of the Father Himself
Friday The Passion of the Father was Experienced by Mary (II) There was also the invisible presence of Saint Joseph, who shared everything with Mary. Mary said with Jesus, in a low voice: "I am thirsty." [...] only that atrocious, physical thirst in his bruised body, drained of blood and burning with fever. Mary certainly tried to relieve that thirst. But how strongly she must have felt with Jesus that spiritual [...] spiritual thirst that thirst for all of us who He wanted to save by His death. What Jesus went through, Mary went through with him. In her motherhood that knew its most intense fullness, she brought her children
Virgin Mary, and Patron of the universal Church, Joseph was placed alongside Mary like the seraph watching over the Tabernacle. Jesus said "yes" at the Incarnation, in the spirit of Psalm 39, and Mary said [...] March 11 - Our Lady of the Forests (Great Britain, 1419) To Jesus through Mary, with Joseph Hail Joseph, blessed with Divine Grace, the Savior rested in your arms and grew before your eyes. Blessed are [...] righteous, had given his life to God, and he was waiting for the Messiah. He gladly accepted to "take Mary home" as soon as he understood God's plan.
March 07 - Apparition of the Madonna Del Monte Berico (Italy, 1426) Mary Stopped the Plague in Monte Berico (I) A precious manuscript, kept in the Bertoliana Vicenza Library of Veneto (#1430), tells in [...] felt weak and fell to the ground. Then, the beautiful lady lifted her up and said, "I am the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ who died on the Cross for the salvation of mankind. I ask you on my behalf to
March 08 - Our Lady of the Lily (Melun, France) Mary Stopped the Plague in Monte Berico (II) Two years later, the Virgin appeared again to Vincenza Parisi, on August 1, 1428. The city was in dire straits [...] disease. " The busy shrine of Our Lady of Berico has now become one of largest shrines dedicated to Mary in Europe. "On the first Sunday of the month we have an average of twenty-two thousand confessions [...] Sometimes we stay until ten o'clock p.m. in the confessional," stated a member of the Servites of Mary, the congregation which has watched over this beautiful site and its magnificent panorama since 1435
