Treille (Lille, France) Veneration of Mary True Marian devotion never obscures or diminishes faith and love for Jesus Christ Our Savior, the one Mediator between God and humankind. On the contrary, entrustment

come through Mary." Today, more than ever, the Virgin Mary calls her eldest daughter, but also all her daughters, the nations, to wake up and convert, to bring about her victory. The Marie de Nazareth Team [...] starting in 1830, the Virgin Mary has multiplied her visits and calls for conversion, especially on the soil of the "eldest Daughter of the Church" (i.e. France)! In that year, Mary appeared to Saint Catherine [...] May 15 – Our Lady of Light (Mexico) The Virgin Mary calls the eldest Daughter of the Church to wake up! In this month of Mary, in the context of anti-Christian legislations promulgated by several Christian

of Laval (France) Mary’s temptations at Calvary If Mary was tempted, as even Jesus was in the desert, this took place above all beneath the cross. And the temptation was very deep and painful because the [...] would also free her from this dreadful sorrow, but he didn’t do it. Yet Mary didn’t cry out, “Come down from the cross; save yourself and me!” Nor did she cry, “My son, you have saved others, why don’t you [...] you now save yourself too?” Even though it isn’t difficult to understand that similar thoughts and wishes must have spontaneously come to her mother’s heart. She no longer even asked Jesus, "Son, why have

holiday. There has always been a special link between the Philippines and the Virgin Mary, and in September 1942 Pope Pius XII declared Mary as the principal patroness of the nation. One of the oldest Marian [...] feast days on the Catholic liturgical calendar, the Nativity of Mary commemorates Mary’s birth. Though scripture itself does not speak of Mary’s birth, the oldest account is believed to come from a 2nd century [...] Nativity of Mary is now a national holiday in the Philippines On August 14th, the president of the Philippines signed a bill declaring the September 8th Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary a “national

see clearly, we need to look through Mary’s spectacles. The words "He suffered for us" can only take on their full meaning if we imagine what Mary felt in her mind and heart during the Passion. It is not [...] Instead, it is to help us see the mysteries of the life of Jesus, and through them to see the mystery of the Triune God, with Mary’s own eyes; so that our contemplation can take its source within her [...] He is for Mary. It is through her that we must seek to penetrate the mystery of Redemption. Hans Urs von Balthasar Quoted from the article Le chapelet et les apparitions mariales (The Rosary and Marian

image of Christ, the Church and the Kingdom of heaven more visible. Holiness and virginity are embraced in the feminine heart of Mary, the keystone of the heavenly city. Mary's holiness, a treasure of charity [...] charity towards God and neighbor, is associated with her virginity, the exclusive gift of self for the Incarnation of the Word. Our Lady unites the two prerogatives to an "eminent and singular" degree (Second [...] April 15 - Our Lady of Kiev (Ukraine) Mary's feminine heart, keystone of the heavenly city The redeeming love of Christ sustains the fidelity of those who have received, like the sovereign Virgin, the

the Cross (Italy, 1490) The Virgin Mary is with me as I pray on my rehab bike I love reading your daily email (Editor's note: A Moment with Mary) about the Virgin Mary. Thanks to this letter, I went to [...] to say them. And since then, I can't get on my exercise bike without a feeling of joy at the idea of praying the rosary while pedaling. Now, when I'm on my bike, Our Lady accompanies me and doesn't leave [...] I am not saying it's a miracle (I didn't pray for one), but I feel much better now and little by little my leg and hand, which I thought were past healing by now, are becoming more mobile. A faithful

believes her son was being watched over by the Virgin Mary. “We’re a religious family ... I always say that the Virgin Mary and all the saints and the angels are with my kids every day,” Kelly Elfalak [...] an online video, News Corp reports. “The Virgin Mary is always with us and I knew she was always with AJ. Ms Elfalak went on to say that she had prayed and taken holy communion the morning her son was found [...] (Italy, 1556) A mother whose autistic toddler went missing believes he was kept safe by the Virgin Mary Anthony "AJ" Elfalak, who is non-verbal, went missing from his family's remote rural property in Putty

Natalino Scarpa (Pellestrina, Italy, 1716) Where did Mary live after the Resurrection? After Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven, where did Mary go to live? Although the Scriptures do not give an [...] "Woman, behold your son," and to St. John, "Behold your mother," the Gospel adds that "from that hour the disciple took her into his home" (Jn 19:27). One tradition has it that Mary followed him to the city [...] took place and not in Jerusalem, as another tradition reports. This version is supported by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich: the 19th-century German mystic received the private revelation that Mary's home

Buenos Aires, Argentina and the whole of southern Latin America. The devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots was based on the ancient invocation of Maria Auxilium Christianorum (Mary Help of Christians) already [...] featuring Mary Undoer of Knots. This Marian devotion is very dear to Pope Francis, who first heard of it in 1986 as a theology student in Germany, when he visited St. Peter's Church in Augsburg and discovered [...] grandparents Wolfgang and Sophie. As the couple were going through a deep crisis, every time they quarreled, Sophie tied a knot in the nuptial ribbon, so that once it was full of knots and separation was almost