Christianity and Christians. She was the Dean of Students of Helmiet El-Zaitoun High School for girls, the largest school of its kind in Cairo, Egypt (about 4000 girls). The school is not far from the Basilica [...] mocking the image of Mary she wore as a medal, that Nahed saw the Blessed Virgin appear before her, dressed and veiled in blue. This vision was followed, another time, during a night of doubts and insomnia [...] July 18 - Consecration of Canada to the Holy Family (1666) Mary first, then Jesus, appear to a Muslim woman Nahed Mahmoud Metwalli comes from an influential Muslim family, fiercely hostile to Christianity
Adele Brise on the site of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, Wisconsin. Ever since its inception in 2013, the Walk to Mary has been changing the lives of its pilgrims by guiding [...] We start with St. Joseph (at the National Shrine of St. Joseph) and walk to Mary (at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help) to get to Jesus. This annual pilgrimage has impacted lives and filled hearts [...] July 14 - Our Lady Help of Christians ( Italy, 1723) The Walk to Mary pilgrimage in Wisconsin is celebrating its 10th anniversary The Walk to Mary has become a pilgrimage like no other in the world. We
the ruins of a Druidic temple, to lay the foundations of the church of Notre-Dame de Paris, which his son Childebert completed. Finally, Louis XIII consecrated the kingdom of France to Mary and ordered [...] Lady of Holy Languor - John Paul II at Le Bourget (France, 1980) The long love story between Mary and France The Virgin Mary has been honored in France since the first centuries. Very often, Mary has also [...] place of Mary in France, in his beautiful 1922 apostolic letter Galliam Ecclesiae filiam: "According to an ancient adage, there is no doubt that the kingdom of France has been called the "kingdom of Mary"
and accepting the word of God addressed by Jesus to people of all times. Following Mary's example, let us begin our exodus journey. Mary was docile to the voice of the Angel of the Lord; she knew that [...] can leave the slavery of sin and live in the Light of Christ. Source: Missionary Hospitaller Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of Sorrows (more commonly known as the Sisters of St. Frai). Article [...] immediate danger of death. Imagine the pain in her heart... she must leave her country with all the risks that this entailed...! Let us travel with Mary, Mother of Sorrows, on this journey of conversion which
made an official pronouncement on them, but the Servants of Mary distribute the writings of Maria Valtorta who is buried in a chapel in the Basilica of Florence. [...] Valtorta (1) about His Mother: “Mary has attracted millions of creatures to Herself with these gentle arms of hers. She evangelized before I did with her reserved silence and her indescribable smile. It was enough [...] nascent Church was consolidated by virtue of her silence and her smile, more eloquent than all words, for from it there showed through the face of God and the truth of her mission. I ask you only to look at
mother of God entirely holy and free from all stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature. Adorned from the first instant of her conception with the radiance of an entirely [...] devoted herself totally as a handmaid of the Lord to the person and work of her Son, under Him and with Him, by the grace of almighty God, serving the mystery of redemption. Dogmatic Constitution on the [...] holiness, the Virgin of Nazareth is greeted, on God's command, by an angel messenger as "full of grace"(Luke 1:28), and to the heavenly messenger she replies: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done
Marian consecration with laying the foundations of his own love for Mary, especially with the revelation that to love Jesus was to love Mary, and that Mary’s heart would always take one closer to Jesus. That [...] consistent and steadfast devotion to Mary throughout his life and papacy. He entrusted his entire ministry and safety to Mary with his motto: “Totus tuus.” Mentions of Marian entrustment are most noticeable [...] did she neglect the pope when he asked for her intercession. The day of his attempted assassination in 1981, a copy of Our Lady of Częstachowa was placed where he usually sat to give his audience as he
act of the Will of Our Celestial Father, which was also His. Moaning and sighing, He wailed, cried and called to everyone, saying in His loving moans: "Come all of you, children of mine; for love of you [...] December 25 - The Nativity of Jesus Mary talks about Jesus’ birth (II) In the following excerpt from Luisa Picarreta's book (1), the Virgin Mary recalls the moment of Jesus’ birth: Then I wrapped Him in [...] own. He was the little King of all; therefore, they had the right to make of Him a sweet pledge of love. And I, in order to fulfill the Supreme Volition, deprived Myself of my innocent joys, beginning
apparition of Our Lady at Guadalupe (Mexico) Mary in God's plan Some Christians believe that the Immaculate Conception is incompatible with the unique holiness of God and the redemptive power of Christ. Given [...] indicates that Mary deserved this honor, and that her holiness came from her own actions or from the mere fact of her existence. This is completely false and does not represent the teaching of the Catholic [...] are born with the stain of original sin (from which we are saved by faith and baptism into Christ), the Church teaches that Mary was sanctified by God's grace at the moment of her conception in her mother's
revelations of Our Lady of Fatima. Indeed, on December 10, 1925, the Virgin Mary appeared to Sister Lucia in the convent of Pontevedra, Spain. A few years earlier, Lucia had been one of the three seers of Our [...] this new private revelation that occurred eight years after the events of Fatima, Mary requested the establishment of the devotion of the first five consecutive Saturdays in reparation for the offenses done [...] faithful to her Son Jesus. Saturday is a "day of preparation", and Mary is the one who prepares us to harvest the fruit of our labor on Sunday, the day of the Resurrection. Adapted and translated from:
