important reason the rosary needs to be a regular devotion in every man’s prayer arsenal. […] Yes, all men, women and children need Mary to get to know Jesus better. A man especially needs her intercession [...] n through the rosary to assist him in being a better man and spiritual father — in a contemplative, yet active manner. Imagine the example Mary was to St. Joseph as he worked to provide, protect and lead [...] being more diligent in our prayer lives. His leadership asks us to do this in faith, with hope and love. We aspire with much love in our prayer devotion as spiritual fathers to lift our hearts and raise

Grotto, a beautiful shrine and sanctuary to the Virgin Mary carved out of a cliff side. The National Shrine of our Sorrowful Mother, known as The Grotto, can be found in northeast Portland. A ministry [...] Friars of Mary, it covers over 60 acres set at the foot and atop of a 110 feet tall basalt cliff. The Grotto was founded by Father Ambrose Mayer, a member of the Servite Order from Ontario. As a child, he [...] it perfect to fulfill his promise. With a down payment of $3,000 and funding the rest from a national campaign, he purchased the land and began his project to build a natural cathedral. Pope Pius XI formally

seminary director had a passion for Mary. This priest, now passed away, had a deep influence on me. His name was Otho Fernandes Loures. He strongly encouraged us in our devotion to Mary, prompting us to use [...] canticles of Mary and to make a vow of submission to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Around the time that I was appointed bishop, he was on his hospital bed and said, "I have learned that you will be made a bishop [...] Paulo, Current Archbishop of Uberaba, a Brazilian city in the western state of Minas Gerais Exclusive Interview for One Minute with Mary Interviewer: Thácio Siqueira

Lourdes—working with people at a hospital.” Lori had discovered her calling from Our Lady of Lourdes. ”Nursing seems like a natural extension of being a wife and a mother—it’s an extension with love,” she said [...] always had a great devotion to Saint Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes and at one time even considered becoming a nun. In addition to being a wife, a mother of five home-schooled children, and a missionary [...] missionary volunteer, Lori is also a surgical nurse with a master’s degree. Lori attended New York University majoring in French language and international politics. NYU had a study-abroad program, and during

mark this anniversary with solemnity, and thus express the love of the Lebanese people for the Virgin Mary. The Maronite Patriarch Elias Hoyek, the Apostolic Nuncio Charles Duval and a Swiss Jesuit, Lucien [...] date in 1908. The basilica is an architectural combination of a Lebanese cedar and a Phoenician ship, which gives it plenty of light, with huge bay windows symbolizing the ship's sails. At 115 meters long [...] mother of all Lebanese people In Lebanon, on a rocky hill in Harissa overlooking the town of Jounieh and the Mediterranean Sea, the shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon is a place of pilgrimage visited by the entire

signs of the times are with us and they are multifarious. A few take time to pause and contemplate the messages of Heaven as being given to credible Catholic mystics, but most remain in a struggle to survive [...] Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Mary Help of Christians. This is significant, as it would seem to imply a serious emergency as if all spiritual medications have been [...] survive and assert hope that, given the vaccines, a return to old ways will eventually come.(…) Why would the Blessed Mother identify herself recently as Our Lady of the End Times? Wouldn't this be more than

to early 1500s, when a Genoese family settled in this city, bringing with them an image of the Virgin to whom they were devoted. To protect the picture, a small chapel was built on a hill called "the Boot" [...] always protected by Mary, who was invoked with faith, and whose image, in times of danger, was brought from her hermitage to the city. In 1577, the sacred image of Mary spoke to a humble friar to announce [...] Boot", guarded by a Franciscan tertiary. After the arrival of the Capuchins in Reggio, the chapel was entrusted to them. In 1569, the first church was built on the Hermitage hill and the veneration spread

Poland, a strange atmospheric phenomenon, recorded by a number of witnesses, gave victory to John Sobieski, who had come to the aid of the city besieged by a Turkish army of overwhelming numbers. With three [...] to give way, the sky was suddenly covered in thick clouds, and a terrible thunder and lightning storm was unleashed on the enemy with such a deluge of rain and violent wind that, in panic, the Turks turned [...] on their heels as they were routed, shouting "Long live Jesus Christ! Long live the Blessed Virgin Mary!" This was on the 25th of August - the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

by flames, and, in the other hand, a scapular made of green fabric. On one side of this scapular was the image of Mary and, on the other side, a heart inflamed with rays, brighter than the sun and transparent [...] transparent as crystal. This heart, pierced by a sword, was surrounded by an oval inscription surmounted by a gold cross, with the words: "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death [...] Virgin appeared to a Daughters of Charity novice during her first spiritual retreat at the Mother House, at 140, rue du Bac, in Paris. The young Sister, Justine Bisqueyburu, was praying in a room above the

Avars looked up at the walls of the city while his fleet was being destroyed and saw a woman in shining garments with a face full of light – this was undoubtedly the Theotokos. The Avars and Persians were [...] 1556) Origin of the Akathist Hymn The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem, which sings the praises of the Holy Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary. It is one of the most beloved services in the Orthodox [...] Phocas had recently been overthrown by a young general, Heraclius, and the empire had been invaded by both the Persians to the East and the Avars to the West. Wars with the Persians in the East had been ongoing