month of May had many events organized to give thanks ... Mary was present in the challenges I had to face ... As a bishop, I make petitions to Mary every day. I entrusted to her the diocese of Saint Louis [...] April 24 – Our Lady of Lujan (Argentina) I entrusted my dioceses to her My experience with Mary began the day I was born! My mother had already lost three children during pregnancy. She almost lost me [...] priestly ordination. Devotion to Mary and the daily Rosary have always been very important to us. I entered the seminary at the age of eleven. There, the devotion to Mary was strong: daily Rosary, first
Our Lady of Guadalupe was dedicated. She stands a top an angel and a cloud with saintly radiance surrounding her made of metal. The surface is decorated with thousands of vibrantly colored mosaic tiles creating [...] stunning to look at but the tallest in the world! The statue began with Deacon Ed Heinz of the Servants of Mary Center of Peace, who purchased a farm for the sole purpose of its construction. After much prayer [...] creating an intricate display. Surrounding the east-ward facing statue is a pond, itself surrounded by whites bead of the Rosary and a Crucifix that are lit at night. Adapted from an article by Billy Ryan
Greeting is sometimes a sign of resignation. Waiting is always a sign of hope. For this reason, make us ministers of waiting. When the Lord comes, O Virgin of Advent, let him find us, with your maternal complicity [...] the Raft (Italy, 1117) Welcoming without resignation and waiting in hope Holy Mary, Virgin of waiting, give us the soul of a watchman. Now that we have arrived at the threshold of the third millennium, [...] awaken in our hearts the passion to bring fresh news to a world that already feels old. Bring us at last the harp and the zither, so that with you, lover of the morning, we may awaken the dawn. Facing
namely how intense is the flame of affectionate and active charity which glows in Mary, in her who is truly our mother not in a human way but through Christ. Nobody knows and comprehends so well as she everything [...] Accordingly, let us approach Mary confidently, wholeheartedly beseeching her by the bonds of her motherhood which unite her so closely to Jesus and at the same time to us. Let us with deepest devotion invoke [...] the prayer which she herself has indicated and which is most acceptable to her. Then with good reason shall we rest with an easy and joyous mind under the protection of the best of mothers.
Virgin Mary as a crown, the rose being a Marian symbol. In the 15th century, the Carthusian Dominic of Prussia invented and taught the faithful a form of Marian psalter with only 50 Hail Marys, each followed [...] Virgin Mary in several apparitions, as a gift to help convert sinners. He thus asked his brothers religious to wear a rosary on their belts. Numerous artistic representations depict the Virgin Mary entrusting [...] followed by a "clausule". The clausulae are small additions to the Hail Mary prayer, which follow the name of Jesus and help with the meditation of the mystery being contemplated. In this way, the two-fold
the marks of an ancient holy site: a Black Madonna in a cathedral built on top of a pre-Christian temple, a second Black Madonna at a well, a sacred mountain with a cave (la Grotte du Mont Mimat) to which [...] was celebrated with a solemn coronation in 1894 on August 15th, the feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, a national holiday in France. Fifty years later World War II was raging. A notice on the [...] 50th anniversary of her coronation with all the pomp and circumstance it deserved as soon as it would be safe to do so. Two days later the city was intact and not a single German was left in it. After
never in recorded Marian history has Our Lady appeared daily for so long a period of time, to so many chosen seers, with such a profound impact worldwide. For more than 25 years, the "Gospa" has appeared [...] in June 1981. It continues to this day, with one overriding objective: to bring the world back to God. The messages are poignant and elevated in urgency as Mary reveals that these will be her final apparitions [...] Bosnia-Herzegovina (I) In the history of the Roman Catholic Church, many apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary have been recorded throughout the ages. The most famous being Guadalupe (Mexico), La Salette, and
the humiliation for Mary, as it seems to be for us, since at that time in Nazareth peasants also built their homes in natural caves. But birth represents a major event for a mother: with it, the past is history [...] history and a life story begins. And in the case Mary and Jesus, what a past! What a life story! [...] – OUR LADY OF SICHEM (The Netherlands, 1306) This Birth Perfectly Reflects the Messiah's Condition Mary did not know how her child would be born, but she must have sensed that this birth would reflect the
Calvary. Mary is so closely united to Jesus because she received from him the knowledge of the heart, the knowledge of faith, nourished by her experience as a mother and by her close relationship with her Son [...] and give you peace” (Num 6:24-26). In celebrating the Solemnity of Mary Most Holy, the Holy Mother of God, the Church reminds us that Mary, more than anyone else, received this blessing. In her the blessing [...] blessing finds fulfillment, for no other creature has ever seen God’s face shine upon it as did Mary. She gave a human face to the eternal Word, so that all of us can contemplate him. In addition to contemplating
Bonaria. Some of its monks found the crate, which contained a large wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, with the Child Jesus on one arm, and a burning candle in the other. They named her Our Lady of Bonaria [...] crate hit the water, the storm calmed down On March 25, 1370, a ship from Catalonia (Spain) was in trouble off Cagliari, Sardinia, caught in a sudden storm. To avoid sinking, the crew had to lighten the [...] spread very quickly across Sardinia and among Spanish sailors. Her shrine became a spiritual destination for pilgrims and a symbol of identity for the Sardinians. She is the protectress of navigators, and
