November 23 - Our Lady of the Assumption (Italy, 1624) "I am alive thanks to God and the Virgin Mary" The BBC reports that Argentina's vice president and former president Cristina Fernández De Kirchner [...] Kirchner spoke at a meeting with priests and nuns and declared: "I am alive thanks to God and the Virgin Mary." The attack took place as Ms. De Kirchner was mingling with supporters gathered outside her home: [...] mysterious reason, no bullet went off, although the gun was loaded and fired! The Argentine Ministry of Security confirmed the weapon used in the incident was a .380 firearm with bullets inside. In a televised
November 1st - Feast of All Saints French comedian Gad Elmaleh reveals his attraction to the Virgin Mary Everyone in France is familiar with the Jewish Moroccan comedian and actor Gad Elmaleh, known for [...] discovers the real reason for her son's return when she cleans his room and finds a statue of the Virgin Mary in his suitcase. But while in the film Gad is preparing for baptism, in real life, this decision [...] for his astute and benevolent sense of humor. His second film will be released in movie theaters on November 16, 2022. Called "Stay a while", this very personal film is based on the author's own life and
because it brings us closer to Jesus and Mary. We never have to ask whether or not we are loved by Jesus and Mary with each petal of prayer, bead by bead- the love of the Son and His Mother are palpable as [...] intercession of Mary, leading us to celestial glory. As Sheen said, “It is the same sun that rises each morning, but it makes a new day.” [...] Mary is there for it all, comforting us every step of the way [...] November 2 - The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day) “When I let Mary enfold me in her maternal presence, the anxiety blurring my vision was cleared away” Like being in a sunlit
Honor Guard of the Sacred Heart Note: Formed as an Association of the Faithful, the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart began on March 13th, 1863, at the Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary at Bourg-en-Bresse [...] France. The result of much hard work on the part of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, the Guard of Honor quickly spread throughout the whole world. It focuses on the Hour of Watch, which consists [...] ones, the anxieties of our spirit, the tears of our heart, and even the infirmities of our body. Let us tell him, with simplicity and confidence, how much we are suffering. The Heart of Jesus is not insensitive
Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) "Why I love you, O Mary" From Easter 1896 until her death a year and a half later, Therese lived through a night of faith in which she felt alienated from the certainty of Heaven [...] wall as tall as the skies". But she saw in Mary, who herself was "plunged into an anguish of the heart", the model of the soul that seeks the Lord "in the night of faith": "For me the Blessed Virgin will [...] difficult period of her illness. This poem is the fruit of Therese's meditations - she read "mostly the Gospel" to discover Mary "in her real life". In June 1897, she continued writing the story of her life,
September 6 - Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1553) Mary urges a young Hindu to become a Christian One day, in India, a young man who was a follower of the god Shiva, came to ask Father Collin, an Oblate missionary [...] mason when a splash of lime burned my eyes and I became blind. In my distress, I prayed to all our Hindu gods, but with no result. Then a beautiful lady appeared before the eyes of my soul and told me: [...] that cooking someone's rice meant living together as if you were married, he would never have approved of it. Leave this woman as soon as possible and live as a good Christian. Otherwise, the Blessed Virgin
Our Lady of Nettles (Germany, 1441) Saturday is Mary's day (II) (Continued from September 1) Humbert of Romans, a French Dominican friar who served as the fifth Master General of the Order of Preachers [...] Saturday to the Virgin Mary: 5 - Just as Saturday is the day between Friday, the day of sorrow, and Sunday, the day of joy, without which we cannot pass from sorrow to glory, so Mary is situated between us [...] themselves "for fear of the Jews" (Jn 20:19), so the Church's faith was concentrated entirely in Mary; 7 - The Mother of Jesus herself showed her preference for this day, in the church of Blacherne in Con
me in that moment of prayer was the wonder and fact of Mary’s pregnancy, how she even more wondrously gave life to Christ. She received the body of Christ first in her womb; the body of Christ that we receive [...] through Mary” and learned more about Mary devotion. All in all, my life — not just spiritually but in every respect — greatly improved that summer, and all of it seemed to have happened because of my poorly [...] Mass was first nourished by Mary. I talked with a priest about this afterward, and he reminded me that Mary also received the Eucharist at Mass with the apostles and disciples of the early church. She never
in Jesus, through Mary, in the Trinity! Jesus is the soul of my life, the life of my soul, and it is in union and love in perfect communion of existence with Him that I can love everything, suffer everything [...] souls... of the inexpressible joy of being, through Mary, the Virgin Most Pure, truly united with the divine Trinity?" (April 16, 1932). "When, in my never crucified enough nature, I feel a shudder of fear [...] snuggle into the tenderly maternal arms of the Blessed Virgin, and there on her Heart, I gently make an act of love and abandonment to the three Divine Persons of the Holy Trinity." (January 1, 1930) Excerpts
Feast of all the Churches in the Holy Land (Ethiopia) Mary’s role as co-operator with the One Redeemer The Church’s teaching makes a clear distinction between the Mother and the Son in the work of salvation [...] endeavor to spread by prayer and sacrifice. Mary, instead, co-operated during the event itself and in the role of mother; thus her co-operation embraces the whole of Christ’s saving work. She alone was associated [...] co-operated ... in the work of the Saviour'' (Lumen gentium, n. 61). Although God’s call to co-operate in the work of salvation concerns every human being, the participation of the Saviour's Mother in humanity’s
