the Pope, departing for a moment from his prepared text. Mary is "Our Lady of Prompt Succor, who, after conceiving in her immaculate womb the Word of life, goes out to visit and assist her cousin Elizabeth [...] June 14 – Our Lady of the Road (Rome, Italy) – Apparitions to Françoise-Romaine Macuys in Skiemoniai, devotion encouraged by Bishop Preikas (Lithuania, 1962) Without Mary, we cannot move forward in our [...] our priesthood! In the homily of the Holy Chrism Mass he celebrated in Saint Peter's Basilica on April 13, 2017, on the morning of Holy Thursday, Pope Francis addressed priests: "Everything that Jesus Christ
Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar) – 4th apparition in Tre Fontane (Italy) As if we were sitting at the table with Mary The Rosary is a living prayer. It is as if we were sitting at table with Mary, talking [...] also knows how tremendously important it is to stay aware of the divine presence in our lives. The Rosary is the hand of Mary who guides us and shows us how to engrave Christ in our hearts. Through this [...] e the life of Christ, and above all, we experience all these moments in our heart. As you pray the rosary with all your heart, try to welcome with a fervent love each mystery of the life of Christ, as
raised a corner of the veil on ways to battle against wizards and mystical practices. The topic was addressed at the end of the 7th International Symposium of the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan (Ivory [...] use of witchcraft in Africa had hard-to-measure and devastating effects on the continent's communities. Bishop Dominique Guigbile, Bishop of Dapaong, Togo, made proposals based on the experiences of Jesus [...] June 22 – Our Lady of the Cape (Canada) Let's fight witchcraft by praying to the Virgin Mary! There are divine weapons to fight witchcraft—a social and existential phenomenon in African communities. The
May 22 – Our Lady of Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) What it means to devote oneself to Mary On the topic of the consecration to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort, in his Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed [...] our last end” (#115). And a little further (#120), he says: "Mary being the most conform to Jesus Christ of all creatures, it follows that of all the devotions, that which consecrates and most conforms [...] will be consecrated to Mary, the more she will belong to Jesus Christ. That is why the perfect consecration to Jesus Christ is nothing but a perfect and complete consecration of oneself to the Most Holy
May 18 – Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Let us follow him with Mary Let us go to Mary, since she is our mother, the mother of each one of us! Let us go to her, since she is the universal mediatrix [...] queen, would teach us: on the profit of humility, on the demands of charity, on the wisdom of obedience, on the sweetness of abandonment to God, and on the joys of trust. She is a mother, and as a mother [...] fly to the aid of her child if he implores her aid with confidence and love. Let us follow Jesus, with Mary his incomparable mother: Jesus, the perfect model, the complete model, the model of all... Let us
Sister Lucia's vision of the martyrdom of "a bishop clothed in white" surrounded by other Catholics. In 2002, Pope John Paul II added the feast of Our Lady of Fatima to the calendar of the Catholic Church [...] Jacinta Marto, two of the three children who had seen the Virgin Mary in Fatima during the apparitions of 1917 (Lucia was still alive in 2000). That same year he made public the "Third Secret" of Fatima: Sister [...] First apparition in Fatima, Portugal: “I am from Heaven” (1917) – Attempted assassination of John Paul II (1981) Mary protects her own! On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca fired a gun at the Holy Father, Pope
1950. St John of the Cross, while close to death, happily recalled "how the Mother of God of Carmel, on Saturday, came with her help and favor to Purgatory, and how she delivered the souls of religious or [...] Bull" that Pope John XXII granted in 1317, after having been favored by a vision of the Blessed Queen of Carmel. The Virgin Mary promised the Holy Father to deliver from Purgatory, on the Saturday after their [...] promise: the observance of chastity according to one’s state in life (complete in celibacy, conjugal in marriage) and the recitation of the canonical hours (the Little Office of Our Blessed Mother). Some
by the climate of protest of the time. On the second day, the organizers of the pilgrimage sent me to hear confessions in the chapel: after 5 hours of forgiving sins, but especially of witnessing the wonders [...] wonders of conversion of many people, I understood that it was Mary who touched the hearts of the people, and a process of spiritual renewal began in me. I have returned to Lourdes many times, and I have [...] May 8 – Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 875) Mary touched their hearts It was at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France: I was a young priest, participating in a UNITALSI pilgrimage (an Italian
her instead of to Christ or the Father? Absolutely not! Instead, it is to help us see the mysteries of the life of Jesus, and through them to see the mystery of the Triune God, with Mary’s own eyes; so [...] May 9 – Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) We need to look through Mary’s spectacles The Rosary has always been an important element of Marian apparitions. In some of them, the Virgin was seen moving [...] can take its source within her memory of those events. Our vision is blurred. Forgive me this image, but in order to see clearly, we need to look through Mary’s spectacles. The words "He suffered for
April 14 – Palm Sunday – Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) Mary, God’s first collaborator The Virgin Mary is more than the mother of a prophet of salvation. With Jesus, salvation is not just a promise [...] " (Jn 6:29) By making her heroic acts of faith, at the Annunciation and throughout the public ministry of her Son, up until she stood at the foot of the Cross, Mary is the first collaborator in the Savior's [...] alone supports the universe unaware of its sacrilegious action. Her involvement goes well beyond giving birth and educating Jesus. Her faith is part of the Redemption of the world. Jean Michel Castaing French
