answers to novenas can come in unexpected ways. That’s what happened to Father Patrick Stoffer, a Franciscan friar stationed at Marytown in Libertyville, Ill. He acquired a devotion to Our Lady of Confidence [...] promote devotion to Our Lady of Confidence. He promotes it in the parish and even hands a copy of the prayer (1)to those who come to him for confession. As a result, he’s seen petitions answered time and again [...] Mary is doing something with this prayer,” he said. (1) The annual novena to Our Lady of Confidence starts on May 6. Marge Fenelon Our Sunday Visitor , April 30, 2014
and the opportunity to enroll in the Brown Scapular (consecration to Our Lady) and to be conferred in the Miraculous Medal if one wishes to do so. The DWM wants to respond to Our Lady’s request at Fatima: [...] December 2 – Our Lady of Consolation and of Providence (1749) - Fraternity of the Heart of Mary at Our Lady of Victories Church in Paris (France, 1836) In the UK, "A Day with Mary" "A Day with Mary" (DWM) [...] me to adorn His throne” (Fatima, June 1917). It strives to bring about the triumph of Her Immaculate Heart; to call sinners to conversion through prayer and sacrifice, and to be faithful witness to the
8 August – Saint Dominic, founder of Order of Preachers (d. 1221 ) – Our Lady of Laeken (Belgium) – Feast of Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnam) "I have already answered your prayers!" An oral tradition says [...] the site of the apparition, and in 1901, a larger church was built and blessed in the presence of 12,000 pilgrims! On this occasion, Our Lady of La Vang was declared patroness of the Catholics of Vietnam [...] Vietnam, the Virgin Mary, surrounded by two angels, appeared to a group of Christians hiding in a forest to escape persecution. According to a witness, she was dressed “in a beautiful oriental-style cloak
October 24 – Our Lady Consoler of the Afflicted – Our Lady of the Rule of Saint Augustine (Virgin of La Regla, Cuba) He opened his eyes during the "Salve Regina" People come to the small town of Saint Martin [...] region of France, to pray to Our Lady of Pity, in memory of the resurrection of a small child. On October 24, 1879, a lifeless child was brought to Saint Martin’s Church and placed on the first step of the [...] the altar of Our Lady of Pity. Praying in front of the small body, the grieving yet trusting faithful fell to their knees and fervently sang the "Salve Regina." Suddenly the child came back to life: Color
- Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy, 1875)May 9 - Feast of Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (II)Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (III) Every day, from one end of the earth [...] eager of all the angels to honor her and lead others to honor her, although he is the prince of all the heavenly court. At all times he awaits the privilege of going at her word to the aid of one of her [...] the force of truth, willingly or unwillingly, to call her blessed. According to St Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her, "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They
June 18 – The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) – Our Lady of Prada (Italy, 1747) - Apparition of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Garabandal from 1961-1965 (examination ongoing) This most [...] On the feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, our joyful thanks go to the Father, who gave us the Divine Word, the Living Bread from heaven, and also to the Virgin, who offered to the Lord the [...] virginal and maternal life of Mary, her overflowing experience of God, and her journey of faith and love, which through the work of the Holy Spirit made of her flesh a temple and of her heart an altar: for
March 28 - Our Lady of Bocciola (Italy, 1543) - Pilgrimage of the Great Return of Our Lady of Boulogne (France, 1938) The Rosary freed Austria from Communist rule in 1955 For three years, Catholic Austria [...] on May 13, 1955, the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, the atheistic Russian regime, in a completely unprecedented move, signed the agreement to leave Austria. Not one person was [...] crusade and 70,000 people pledged to say the rosary daily for the intention of Austria becoming free from Russian rule. Although Austria was valuable to the Soviets because of its strategic location and rich
August 2 - Feast of Our Lady of the Porziuncola, also known as Our Lady of the Angels (Italy) Let us not be “fair-weather disciples!” When the Angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that God had chosen [...] rough and tumble of daily life, we can easily compromise our “yes” to God. In the face of setbacks, anger and disappointment can get the better of us. Instead of opening our hearts to God’s will, we can [...] chosen her to be the Mother of his Son, the Messiah, her “yes” to God was total and ongoing. Her response to the Angel stands forever as the model for our response to God’s initiatives in our lives: “Be
apparition of Our Lady of the Poor in Banneux (Belgium, 1933) - Our Lady of Seeds (Chaldean rite) Mary’s promise in Banneux Long before the apparitions of Lourdes, someone had said that if Mary wanted to appear [...] distance, the inhabitants of the small village of Banneux gathered in the church and solemnly promised to dedicate their village to Mary and add the name of Our Lady (Notre Dame) to Banneux if they were spared [...] belonged to her! The same is true of the Belgian village that was renamed “Banneux Notre Dame” in 1914. During the tragic days of the German invasion, at the beginning of WWI, all the populated areas of the
September 24 – Our Lady of Mercy – The first Marian shrine of Haiti (Cozumel, Haiti, 1518) – Our Lady of Walsingham (Walsingham, England) Mary's feminine "here I am" reveals the universal feminine "here [...] provided she is called to it - the religious consecration of her whole person is a privileged enhancement of her deepest being, of what she is, of what she represents in the whole of the Church and the world [...] Paris 2003. (2)The author goes on to explain that the ordination of women would cause an obliteration, a forgetting of the vocation of Creation, of humanity and of the Church; something that John Paul
