Aylesford in England, Our Lady appeared to Saint Simon Stock, a Carmelite. She handed him a brown wool scapular and said, “This shall be a privilege for you and all Carmelites, that anyone dying in this [...] True devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary consists in three things: veneration, confidence, and love. By simply wearing the Scapular, we can tell her every moment of the day that we venerate her, love [...] purgatory if they should pass from this world still owing some debt of punishment. This promise is found in a Bull of Pope John XXII. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and, speaking of those who wear the Brown
dedicated a book to her called “The World’s First Love, Mary, Mother of God.” He also spoke much about her in public. In a talk titled “The Woman I Love,” Archbishop Sheen indicated how Mary and the church [...] 21st century are experiencing a massive decline of love of the church. The country is experiencing a massive decline of love of the church. The country is experiencing a rise in the religiously unaffiliated [...] was the privileged instrument for their daily discourse with the Lord. The rosary led them to an ever more profound intimacy with Christ and with the Blessed Virgin.” Gretchen R. Crowe, June 30, 2023 www
that looks at the sea and makes a gesture of blessing the waves. For centuries, a “pardon” procession has taken place every year in September to the chapel that stands a few steps away. And for centuries [...] grandmother, a native of Brittany, France, and an oral witness of this story, told it to me many times. It is both simple and striking. Just above the beach of Penhors in Finistère, is a granite statue [...] Believing it was a practical joke, the Germans took the head and threw it even farther into the sea. By the second morning the sea had again brought the head to the same place. With exasperation, they
grace enhances our human nature and glory adds a still greater perfection to grace, it is certain that our Lord remains in heaven just as much the Son of Mary as he was on earth. Consequently, he has retained [...] people. How much greater, then, will be the prayer of the humble Virgin Mary, worthy Mother of God, which is more powerful with the King of heaven than the prayers and intercession of all the angels and [...] care, however, not to consider this dependence as an abasement or imperfection in Jesus Christ. For Mary, infinitely inferior to her Son, who is God, does not command him in the same way as an earthly mother
of Christ except the Virgin I think that we can say with certainty that no one has fully penetrated the mystery of Christ except for the Virgin Mary. St. Paul often speaks of the "understanding" that was [...] pen can translate it. This Mother of grace is going to form my soul, so that her little child will be a living, striking image of her first-born, the Son of the Lord, the one who was the perfect praise of [...] Father. Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906). Canonized by Pope Francis on October 16, 2016 In Mary, Model of Interior Souls. Spiritual Life, 1928.
1185) An immediate response obtained by praying the Rosary I was on a three-day business trip for a work conference in Barcelona, Spain, a city I had never been to before. On Wednesday evening, we had two [...] decade of my Rosary, I found myself in front of a church. I went in: it was 7:35 pm, and a Mass was starting! So I quietly joined the congregation! Mary was waiting for me there: she heard the prayer I [...] showing me that she hears us when we pray the Rosary. I had felt a little disoriented in a foreign city where I didn't speak the language, with work and travel worries on my mind. I had prayed that this trip
Our Lady of Rejoicing (France) Fatima fulfils Paray-le-Monial The notion of Mary Mediatrix is still debated today. Yet it has a strong tradition to support it. Leo XIII, in his Octobri Mense encyclical of [...] sole dispenser of all his gifts. But after his crucifixion, he was pleased to entrust his Mother with a wonderful power, that of dispensing to his children on earth all the graces necessary to convert [...] of September 22, 1891, declared: " It may be affirmed that, by the will of God, Mary is the intermediary through whom is distributed unto us this immense treasure of mercies gathered by God, for mercy
without forcing anyone. To this new Christian Empire, which was to last a thousand years, he decided to give a new capital. Inspired by a divine sign, the pious emperor chose the small city of Byzantium, situated [...] Eastern Christians, the Eastern emperor Constantine raised a powerful army, placed it under the sign of the victorious Cross, and took advantage of a military campaign against the barbarians in Pannonia ( [...] the name of Christ and the Truth, offered the reunified Roman Empire to the King of kings, and like a new Apostle he proclaimed to the ends of the Empire, from Mesopotamia to Great Britain, the faith in
assault On the evening of December 29, 1336, a young expecting mother was walking through the town of Bra in Italy. As she passed by an image of the Madonna painted on a column on the outskirts of the town, she [...] she was attacked by two men hiding in bushes, waiting for a victim. Her name was Egidia Mathis. When she realized that these men intended to sexually assault her despite her advanced condition, she threw [...] the Madonna depicted on the column, clinging desperately to it and crying out to her for help. Then a flash of light came out from the image, blinding the two men who fled, terrified. The Madonna herself
France), he found a very poor village where most of the men were out of work. He decided to create jobs, and to do this he got a brilliant idea. As he explained: "I wanted to kill two birds with one stone: 1) [...] Father Buguet built a strikingly beautiful basilica in a large open field. He also expanded the printing shop, and bought houses for the employees. Its publishing operation has had a worldwide outreach [...] of the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary , Mary appeared in the church to the priest and his congregation, humbly dressed and in prayer. The hermitage of the Basilica has a year-round guesthouse and functions
