Our Lady of Lourdes (France) Lutheran theologians’ loyalty to Mary A group of Lutheran theologians from East Germany published a manifesto in 1971 that contains lines of moving loyalty to Mary: "At Lourdes [...] critic is faced with supernatural facts that intimately relate to the Virgin Mary, either because of the apparitions or because of the miraculous graces requested and obtained by her intercession. These facts [...] Catholic Church has only declared 44 of them as miraculous. For 30 years, 11,000 doctors, without distinction of religion or scientific opinion, had free access to the Bureau of Medical Findings. Consequently
February 9 – Our Lady of the Castle (Italy, 1558) A 66,500-mile pilgrimage for Mary He is known simply as "the pilgrim" and for a good reason! At the age of 67, José Antonio García, a native of Cadiz (Spain), [...] fulfill a promise he made to the Virgin Mary after surviving the sinking of a fishing boat. This tragedy occurred in 1999 off the coast of Norway. He was the only survivor of the whole crew. According to the [...] nearly a year, followed by five years of rehabilitation, alternating the use of crutches with a wheelchair. As soon as he was fully recovered in 2006, he began a series of pilgrimages (including one to the
exposed on the altar of the manger. They blessed and thanked God who gave us his Son out of his love for us. Nobody will ever be able to understand or explain what went on inside Mary at that time. [...] December 19 - Our Lady of Toledo (Spain, 657) What Did Joseph and Mary Do Near the Manger They looked at, contemplated and admired the Christ Child. That is all they did near the manger. They were deep
December 1st - Our Lady of Ratisbon (Bavaria, 1842) - Blessed Charles de Foucauld First through Mary, then through Joseph You have decided that the providential channels of your graces would be your saintly [...] saintly parents; that your benefits would habitually reach us, in the supernatural order, first through Mary, then through Joseph. And so, Lord, you gave us your own parents as our parents. You make us receive
Our Lady of the Remedies (Philippines) The Church Comes from Mary The mystery of the Virgin is the first after-effect of the Incarnation. The mystery of the Virgin is like the ripple effect of a stone thrown [...] causes all the others. This first concentric circle is the Virgin Mary in relation to the Incarnation. The waves will continue until the end of times, and they are the Church.
November 11 - Our Lady of the Portuguese (1546) - Saint Theodore the Studite (d. 826) Mary is the New World (II) Mary is the earth that was not accursed like the first, which was covered in thorns and [...] and her fruit is blessed, just as the divine oracle foretold. Now, in possession of blessed immortality, for the salvation of the world, she raises her hands that carried God... towards God. She is like a
disobedience, and he became, with all of his descendants, the prey of corruption. But he who is rich in mercy had pity on the work of his hands, and decided to create a new sky, a new earth and a new sea [...] the sun of justice, the earth that produces grains of life, the sea that carries the spiritual pearl... How wonderful is this world! How admirable is this creation, with its beautiful vegetation of virtues [...] her substantially, by the descent of the Holy Spirit. Mary is the earth in which the thorn of sin cannot grow. On the contrary, she produced the Child by whom sin was uprooted.
Lady of the Pillar, 40 A.D. (Saragossa, Spain) Mary, Show Us the Right Way Mary's message is one of hope for all the men and women of our day, whatever their country of origin. I like to invoke Mary as the [...] the Star of Hope (Spe Salvi, 50). On the paths of our lives, so often shrouded in darkness, she is a beacon of hope that enlightens us and gives direction to our journey. Through her "yes," through the [...] the generous gift of herself, she has opened up to God the gates of our world and our history. And she invites us to live like her in invincible hope, refusing to believe those who claim that we are trapped
September 28 - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, France, 1854) Prayer to Mary Holy Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world its true light, Jesus, your son--the Son of God. You abandoned yourself [...] wellspring of the goodness which flows forth from him. Show us the goodness of Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, so that we too can become capable of true love and be fountains of living [...] living water in the midst of a thirsty world.
October 4 - Saint Francis of Assisi A Greeting to the Virgin Mary Hail, O Lady, Mary, holy Mother of God: you are the Virgin made Church and the one chosen by the most holy Father in heaven whom he consecrated [...] most holy beloved Son and with the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, in whom there was and is the fullness of grace and every good. Hail his Palace! Hail his Tabernacle! Hail his Home! Hail his Robe! Hail his
