again in reverse order the loops of the knots. Thus, the knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience, for what Eve had tied by her lack of faith the Virgin Mary untied with her great faith. [...] July 01 - Our Lady of Happy Deliverance (Paris, France) Mary, the New Eve When Mary said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to thy word," she was found to be obedient. Eve [...] disobedience, became the cause of death for herself and the entire human race; so also did Mary, betrothed to man but nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself
June 26 - Our Lady of Consolation (Rome, Italy, 1470) Joseph and Mary: The Holy Married Couple We see that at the beginning of the New Testament, as at the beginning of the Old, there is a married couple [...] Adam and Eve were the source of evil which was unleashed on the world, Joseph and Mary are the summit from which holiness spreads all over the earth. The Savior began the work of salvation by this virginal [...] wherein is manifested his all-powerful will to purify and sanctify the family - that sanctuary of love and cradle of life.
June 5 - Our Lady of Haut (Hainault, France, 1428) Mary, Our Loving Mother One evening I was on the sun deck getting ready to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Before beginning prayer, I like to take a few [...] look at creation around me, seeing the wonder and beauty of it all, realizing that all of this was made for me. And here I am in my little corner of God's Kingdom, about to thank Him for His love and His [...] the darkness of the night?" she asked. "From the sun," I replied. "If you wish to be like me, remember that you are dust and in the dark night of this world, your Light comes from the Son of God," she said
Our Lady of Caravaggio (Italy, 1432) - St Philip Neri (d. 1594) Would you like to know if this is the Virgin Mary? Saint Philip Neri was often consulted by bishops to judge the authenticity of mystics. [...] the apparition spoke to her of God, but remembering the promise she had made to her spiritual director she spat in her face. The apparition immediately disappeared in a cloud of sulphur smoke: it was the [...] same night, she awoke in the room full of light with a new apparition that smiled at her. This time the figure was not sitting on her bed, she standing in a corner of the room. The seer went over to spit
May 30 - Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar) Now Mary Said (I) Now Mary said: "You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said." The inner calm of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, proceeds [...] miracle of the incarnation of His Son in her virginal womb. I use the word 'solemnize' rather than 'execute' for its deeper meaning, because the word is used for espousals. In fact Mary is the bride of the [...] "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior; He has looked with favor on his lowly servant." That is Mary all over: in her awareness of her littleness expecting all from
Congregation for the Causes of the Saints made the following solemn declaration: "It is certain that the Servant of God, Edel Mary Quinn, a secular virgin of the Legion of Mary, practiced to a heroic degree [...] September 14, 1907. At the age of 20 she joined the Legion of Mary in Dublin. A few years later, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. In 1936, Edel was appointed Legion of Mary Envoy to Africa. She encountered [...] hundreds of Legion branches and she mobilized thousands of Africans in the service of the Church. After eight years of heroic labor, Edel died in Nairobi on May 14th, 1944, at the young age of 36. The process
May 3 - Our Lady of Kiev Consecration to Jesus through Mary (II) God endowed Mary with the privileges and prerogatives of: 1) The Divine Maternity, sharing with the Father the parenthood of Jesus, true God [...] loving mother of all humans and the Church; merciful human advocate and intercessor with the Father; universal mediatrix and distributrix to the world of the divine grace, light, wisdom and power of the Holy [...] Spirit; and providentially governing Queen of Heaven and earth. In short, we consecrate ourselves to Jesus through Mary because, immaculate, humble, open, full of grace and in intimate union with her divine
likeness; - the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, through her spotless purity and total responsiveness to God's will was and is most capable of all humans of receiving and sharing in the divine [...] wisdom and power; - God--for the fullest accomplishment of the purpose of Creation in human persons, and in the world--has deigned to fill Mary with grace and to call her, with her assent, to a total human [...] May 2 - Our Lady of Oviedo (Spain, 711) Consecration to Jesus through Mary (I) Through the centuries Christians seeking most fully to know, love and serve God--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--have done so
April 17 - Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (III) Finally, Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills [...] be Jesus' true hour (cf. Jn 2:4; 13:1). When the disciples flee, Mary remains beneath the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25-27); later, at the hour of Pentecost, it will be they who gather around her as they wait for [...] the infancy narratives in the Gospel. We see it in the delicacy with which she recognizes the need of the spouses at Cana and makes it known to Jesus. We see it in the humility with which she recedes into
the visit to the city of Ephesus. When I saw it, it was a wilderness; when St Paul saw it, it was called the "Treasure House of Asia." He looked out on the great glory of the temple of Diana as she was called [...] Greek--one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was 425 feet long, 220 feet wide and 60 feet wide. The altar itself had been carved by Praxiteles, the greatest of all the Greek sculptors. Each of the 127 [...] chief victim of the decline of idol worship began to protest against Paul. His name was Demetrius; he had built a considerable business in the manufacture of little silver shrines and images of Diana which
