March 3 - Fourteenth Apparition at Lourdes (France, 1858) Unconditional Commitment with Mary Bernadette Soubirous is the saint of Lourdes ... the saint of penance... the saint of poverty. Our Lady's child [...] commitment. "I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next"...The happiness that Mary promised to Bernadette was not only for life after death. It is the happiness experienced by all those
February 10 - Our Lady of the Dove (Bologna, Italy) Mystery of Mary's Virginity The Creator showed us a new creation when He appeared to us who came from Him. For He sprang from a seedless womb, and kept
28 - OUR LADY OF THE PEOPLE (Italy, 1771) At the School of Mary's Silence (II) Thanks to Mary, John's knowledge of Christ also increased. Mary, who had forgotten nothing of Christ's childhood, his familiar [...] deeply human facts that he learned from Mary rooted him in his faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the Incarnation eventually became for him, through Mary, a totally positive reality. [...] He wanted to owe his weakness and his fragility as a man, to a woman and a mother. Who better than Mary could testify? And yet, such was her testimony and such was she herself, that these human traits which
OF NASTURTIUMS (Italy, 1630) At the School of Mary's Silence (III) In the privileges of her motherhood, as much as in the sufferings that it occasioned, Mary was so often presented with the « inner side
writers of the Church called Mary "the Mother of the King" and "the Mother of the Lord," basing their stand on the words of St Gabriel the archangel, who foretold that the Son of Mary would reign forever, and [...] January 5 – OUR LADY OF THE TWELFTH NIGHT (4th Century) The Epiphany of Our Lord and the Queenship of Mary (I) From early times Christians have believed, and not without reason, that she of whom was born the
interpretations of Mary's name: "We should realize that Mary means Lady in the Syrian Language." After him St Chrysologus says the same thing more explicitly in these words: "The Hebrew word 'Mary' means 'Domina [...] January 6 – EPIPHANY The Epiphany of Our Lord and the Queenship of Mary (II) In one of the homilies attributed to Origen, Elizabeth calls Mary "the Mother of my Lord" and even addresses her as "Thou, my Lady [...] collecting the testimony of past ages, writes these words with evident devotion: "Because the Virgin Mary was raised to such a lofty dignity as to be the mother of the King of kings, it is deservedly and
of love for Jesus in his Holy Sacrament... for the love of Mary Immaculate and for the love of this neglected Heart, I ask you to become a 'Mary' of all abandoned tabernacles. [...] January 4 – OUR LADY OF TREVES (Germany, 1537), Blessed Manuel González García (1877-1940) Become a 'Mary' of Abandoned Tabernacles Allow me, since I have often sought your charity for poor children and for
October 13 - 7th apparition at Fatima: the Miracle of the Sun (Portugal, 1917) "Mary came to save us from a fundamental ideological error" On the occasion of Pope Francis' brief visit to the shrine of [...] the World Youth Days, author Bernard Balayn (1), who has worked extensively on the apparitions of Mary, revisited the relevance of the Fatima messages in today's global geopolitical context. Here's an [...] thirdly, she wanted to stem a plague that began in 1917, a few months after her first visit, because Mary sees everything from a heavenly perspective. She came to preserve us from a fundamental ideological
acknowledged how vital Mary had been in his rescue from Satanism and conversion to the truth. He was an active proponent of the definition of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, which was proclaimed in [...] Faustina From Satanist priest to a beatified, through the extraordinary assistance of the Blessed Virgin Mary Perhaps one of the most remarkable conversions in the history of the Church was that of Bartholomew [...] being a Satanist priest to a beatified, through the extraordinary assistance of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Born in 1841 to a practicing Catholic family, he was not an irreligious youth, but when he went to
Lady of Pontoise (France, 1484) - Death of Benoîte Rencurel of Le Laus (France, 1647) Cured by Mother Mary on December 28, 1975 One day, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Ho Ngoc Anh, a young resident of Saigon