January 7 - Our Lady of Charity (Rumilly, France) - Feast of St. John the Baptist in the Maronite and Byzantine rites Carfin Grotto named Scotland’s National Marian Shrine Carfin Grotto in North Lanarkshire [...] September and 1 October as part of the 2022 tour of the relics in Britain. At a “National Mass” commemorating the site’s centenary, celebrating the visit of the relics to Carfin and marking the grotto’s [...] Shrine, the Bishops of Scotland concelebrated a Mass outdoors attended by hundreds of pilgrims. Joseph Toal, Bishop of Motherwell and the grotto’s ordinary, paid tribute in his homily to Canon Thomas Nimmo
present at the foot of the Cross given by Christ as his Mother to the disciple by the words: "Woman, behold, your Son." Each one of us is called to become a member of Christ, and to participate with him [...] August 17- Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland (1879) In Knock, the Virgin appeared with Saint Joseph and Saint John On the rainy Thursday evening of August 21, 1879, at about 9 o'clock in the evening [...] 29, saw a vision of the Virgin at the south gable of Knock Parish Church. Surprised, the women alerted several others in the village. Sixteen more people ran to the place and all of them saw the Virgin
May 24 - Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians (Europe, 1815) Like Mary, the Virgin Martyr, Known Only by Him Alone (II) I know Jesus only and I only want to know Jesus! My entire ideal of perfection - my [...] is to be identified with the sacrifice of Jesus my Redeemer and to be stigmatized by His Love, but remain, like Mary, the Virgin martyr, known only by Him alone. I love this narrow path made up of suffering [...] Christ”. I find in my beloved Mother, as I find in Jesus, the most perfect as well as the most imitable of models.
15 - Byzantine Church: Our Lady of Piety - Saint Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church (1200-1280) When will we see sweet Mary? Sweet is the name of Mary, which makes the Church of the faithful melt in [...] are full of her sweet memory? These are the sweet fruits of the palm tree! The dates that Mary spreads on the land of the dying! Then can you imagine the quality of those that she distributes to the citizens [...] citizens of above in the land of the living, where we will see her, no longer in her images of gold or ivory, but face to face, in her most holy body. There our own eyes will see her face, that on this earth
23 - Our Lady of Victory of Valois (France, 1328) Let Us Respond in a Generous Spirit We express the trust that the Christian people will respond in a generous spirit to this exhortation of ours so as [...] never cease to assist each and every one of her children and will never withdraw from the entire Church of Christ her heavenly patronage, as a pledge of divine favors and as a sign of our benevolence, [...] as to demonstrate towards the Virgin Mother of God a more ardent piety and a firmer confidence. In the mean time while we are comforted by the certainty that the glorious Queen of Heaven and our most sweet
23 - Our Lady of Victory of Valois (France, 1328) Let Us Respond in a Generous Spirit We express the trust that the Christian people will respond in a generous spirit to this exhortation of ours so as [...] never cease to assist each and every one of her children and will never withdraw from the entire Church of Christ her heavenly patronage, as a pledge of divine favors and as a sign of our benevolence, [...] as to demonstrate towards the Virgin Mother of God a more ardent piety and a firmer confidence. In the mean time while we are comforted by the certainty that the glorious Queen of Heaven and our most sweet
name of the country) to his Mother as the tithe of the universe. In a special sense every Abyssinian feels that he is a child of Mary. On account of this tradition, after the defeat of Adoua (city of northern [...] June 27 – Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1866) - Saint Cyril of Alexandria "When my mother has said so, I cannot say no anymore" Ethopian Christians believe that Christ once gave the Negus's empire of Abyssinia [...] not Menelick who liberated me, but Our Lady Mary.’ You see, Mary is really my mother, and when my mother has said so, I cannot say no anymore. Go, and may Our Lady protect you!" Encyclopédie Maria , volume
January 12 – Our Lady of Vetrana (Italy) - Saint Aelred of Rielvaulx This prayer is a gold mine! Millions of Catholics recite the Hail Mary every day, sometimes in a hurry, without thinking about the words [...] Silesia, Poland). Thousands of similar stories exist: a priest visits a man dying in despair because of his sins and lack of faith. The man refuses to confess. The priest manages to have him pray at least one [...] refuses to hear the prayers of her children. Why do we ever refuse the love and consolation that the sweet Mother of God offers us? Hugh Lammer was a Christian strong in his faith who used to preach violently
July 22 – Our Lady of Kaloja (Russia) – Birth of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque Without a doctor or medicine, death seemed inevitable In 1944, Solzhenitsyn's fellow prisoner in an archipelago camp, called [...] I had left to live, but neither my soul nor my mind accepted the final verdict. In my heart I was convinced that God would let me live. I had learned to pray as a child. But at the time of which I speak [...] managed to practice it throughout my fight against the illness. On the fortieth day, I woke up with a feeling of "being" that I had never experienced before. God performed a miracle on behalf of the sinner
The Virgin of the Golden Heart or Our Lady of Beauraing (Belgium, 1932) An unprecedented context The expectation of the Messiah was especially high at the beginning of our era, at the time of the Virgin [...] appearance alone is enough to place it apart in the religious history of the world. The expectation of the fullness of time had become so strong and precise, in that particular period of history, that more than [...] some prophecies explicitly and specifically talked about the time of His coming. The Gospel testifies to the ever-present character of this special expectation that seized everyone. As "the people were
