pure Virgin, I may love, adore, pray, atone, petition and suffer with more and more love. May my life be only a loving yes... May I be only a soul consecrated to Jesus." (March 7, 1930). Going further, Marthe [...] Marthe Robin was a French Catholic mystic and stigmatist, foundress of the Foyers de Charité. Her whole life and all her activities, including growing up on her farm, were permeated with Marian grace. This [...] This is what she wrote about her attachment to Mary: ''I really love to place everything, with blind trust, in the hands of this tender and beloved Mother, whose protection I feel more and more, I who am

Louis de Montfort, for which I carefully prepared myself with the Treatise on True Devotion to Mary. I have a great devotion to the Rosary. I wrote a "Meditated Rosary" using the method taught by Pope John [...] We should imagine Our Lady sitting next to us My experience with Mary began in childhood, on my mother's lap, where I learned the Hail Mary. When I was in the minor seminary, I dedicated my vocation to [...] Superior of the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney and titular Bishop of Cedamusa (Brazil) Exclusive interview with Thàcio Siqueira

mysteries each day. Isabelle Rolland. Marie qui défait les nœuds. D’un “miracle conjugal” à une dévotion universelle (Mary Undoer of Knots: From a "marital miracle" to a universal devotion). MDN 2022 [...] until you are clothed with power from on high" (Lk 24:49). On the tenth day Pentecost took place, and "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:4). The novenas to Mary Undoer of Knots are very [...] There are several reasons for the extraordinary power of this novena. The decision to make a novena is a recognition of one's own powerlessness without recourse to supernatural help: in this way, it represents

Guadalupe Delivered Me I had been a Catholic for about ten years--a very enthusiastic adult convert from a Jewish background--but I had never really warmed up to Mary. I believed all the right things and [...] seemed unreal. I envied cradle Catholics who had a loving relationship with her from childhood and really felt that they had a Mother in Heaven. For a while I fell under the influence of some Catholics [...] whole spiritual life revolved around the Blessed Virgin. They put a lot of pressure on me to join their group and make a consecration to Mary according to the way of Saint Louis de Montfort. I felt this path

wrote a poem in which he compared the beauty of Mary with that of May. In the 14th century, the Dominican friar Henri Suso (1295-1366) began a tradition of placing flower wreaths on statues of Mary on May [...] France), where there was a Marian apparition in 1871, explains the meaning of the month of Mary: It is difficult to say precisely why the month of May is associated with the Virgin Mary. May does not traditionally [...] blossom in their own Christian lives. The month of Mary is therefore, from the beginning, not only a beautiful devotion towards the Virgin Mary but also a commitment to grow in holiness each day. In the 17th

shrine in Sicily, with visitors coming from all over the world. It all began with a painted plaster plaque representing the Immaculate Heart of Mary crowned with thorns and surmounted with flames (just like [...] of the image. A large shrine was then built. If we look at the history of the Church leading up to this miracle in Syracuse, we can see a connection with the message of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal: [...] that he was "consecrating in a very special way all the peoples of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary." Russia was named in the text, but this was not accompanied by a public and solemn ceremony, and

streets with the statue of Mary, singing and praying the rosary, offering flowers and food to the soldiers. The power of the people was the power of Mary, and the victory was the victory of Mary. Thierry [...] Hail Mary well said, with devotion and modesty, is, according to the saints, the enemy of the devil, which puts him to flight, and the hammer that crushes him." We rarely associate devotion to Mary with [...] I believe that we are in a time of tremendous spiritual battle, and that we, the little ones, must take the rosary in hand to respond to the call of our Mother, the Virgin Mary, who never ceases to encourage

(II) How could Mary not have been quiet? A creature who lived for such a long time with the Creator could not speak much; her heart was full, her soul was reduced to silence. She lived with Jesus for twelve [...] long years relatively speaking, bringing up her Child, yet these years went by like holy ecstasy for Mary, full of painful love. She carried Jesus in her arms. She watched over Jesus while He slept. She fed [...] revealed His heart to her. She learned how to understand Him. All God’s similarities passed through Mary’s heart. We know to what extent God is quiet.

(II) How could Mary not have been quiet? A creature who lived for such a long time with the Creator could not speak much; her heart was full, her soul was reduced to silence. She lived with Jesus for twelve [...] long years relatively speaking, bringing up her Child, yet these years went by like holy ecstasy for Mary, full of painful love. She carried Jesus in her arms. She watched over Jesus while He slept. She fed [...] revealed His heart to her. She learned how to understand Him. All God's similarities passed through Mary's heart. We know to what extent God is quiet.

Joseph was pointing to a large rock nearby, a rock that Ricard knew he couldn’t lift by himself. Yet, he tried, and somehow he was able to lift the rock with ease. Underneath he found a cool spring. Overjoyed [...] became associated with countless miracles, both physical and spiritual, and a shrine was built at the location. The spring of St Joseph in Cotignac has been a pilgrimage site ever since, and a nearby shrine [...] shrine was eventually combined with a separate apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph that occurred in 1519 under the title of Our Lady of Graces. Adapted from Aleteia