a practice of consecrating oneself - giving one’s whole person - to Jesus through Mary. It involved taking Mary as a spiritual model and guide in order to grow in devotion to Christ. Some of this made intuitive [...] July 4 - Our Lady Refuge of Sinners “I am the soul who magnifies the Lord” (II) But this new message (1) - Consecrate yourself to me - was strange and unsettling. I had not yet, in my Catholic sojourn [...] that the voice asked me to adopt a devotional practice that was unknown to me at the time. So, with reluctance and ample doubts, I began to try and understand what was being asked of me. Marian consecration
virtue of the docility which Jesus showed constantly. It was Mary, with Joseph, who introduced Jesus to the rites and prescriptions of Moses, to the prayer to the God of the Covenant through the use of the [...] January 21 – Our Lady of Altagracia (Dominican Republic, 1650) A father and a mother who raised their son Mary's motherhood was not limited to the biological process of giving birth, but as it happens [...] that the Son of God came into the world in a human condition similar to our own, except sin (cf Heb 4:15). As with every human being, the growth of Jesus from childhood to adulthood (see Lk 2:40) required
11 – Our Lady of Coromoto "My mother is queen" "My Mother is Queen" is an initiative of the Order of Pauline Religious in the year 2017, the jubilee year of the 300th anniversary of the Crowning of the [...] the Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland). The idea is to make the prayer of the Rosary—this powerful weapon to obtain the victory of Mary—popular again. Father Mariusz Tabulski, a Pauline monk [...] Czestochowa Shrine, explains: "Our hope is that, through this journey of prayer and by reflecting on the mysteries of the Rosary, we can allow Mary to guide us and to help us discover our own royal dignity.” Father
rented castle, she went to the local church and listened to the sermon of a country priest. The great actress made fun of the priest to herself, as he obviously had no talent to speak in public. But eight [...] wore a medallion of the Virgin around her neck until the moment of her death. The morning after each and every one of her successes, she would regularly send flowers to the Mother of God. One day in 1917 [...] July 10 - Our Lady of Boulogne (France, 1469) My Soul is not for Sale The childhood of the famous actress, Eve Lavalliere, was tragic. Her father was a blue-collar worker, card player, drinker and womanizer
rented castle, she went to the local church and listened to the sermon of a country priest. The great actress made fun of the priest to herself, as he obviously had no talent to speak in public. But eight [...] wore a medallion of the Virgin around her neck until the moment of her death. The morning after each and every one of her successes, she would regularly send flowers to the Mother of God. One day in 1917 [...] July 10 - Our Lady of Boulogne (France, 1469) My Soul is not for Sale The childhood of the famous actress, Eve Lavalliere, was tragic. Her father was a blue-collar worker, card player, drinker and womanizer
March 13 – Our Lady of Rose (Italy, 1635) Joseph and Mary: A couple united through trials Saint Joseph was seeking to do God's will—thence his name of “just” in Mt 1:19. Here we find an essential element [...] exercise of a mission. After seeking Jesus in the temple, they returned to Nazareth, and Jesus "was subject to them" (Lk 2:51). Until Jesus came of age, he lived under an authority that—according to the etymology [...] etymology of the word—helped him to grow. Only he who knows how to obey knows how to command. And as we have seen, Mary and Joseph knew how to obey. Pablo Largo Dominguez Excerpt from: María, microcosmos
promotion, thanks to the institution of the feast of Our Lady of Victories, later renamed Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on October 7 in memory of the victory of Lepanto. In addition, his bull Consueverunt [...] John Paul II added a fourth cycle to the traditional three series of mysteries: the Luminous Mysteries, corresponding to the public life of Christ, from his Baptism and to his Passion. Finally, in keeping [...] October 23 - Our Lady of Frassino (Lake Garda, Italy) The Popes and the Rosary Rooted in the Dominican spiritual tradition of the Rosary, the holy Pope Pius V (1504-1572) played a role in its promotion
May 6 - Our Lady of Saint John (Italy, 1658) The Woman I Love (III) I decided to give the Blessed Mother another chance. I went to the grotto about ten o'clock at night. A portly American gentleman tapped [...] return to Mary's Shrine again, for I knew not to what task the Bishop would assign me. I asked the Blessed Mother to give me some sign that despite the odds of returning to Lourdes, she would do what seemed [...] the bill. The next day we went to Paris and for twenty years or more after that, when I would go to New York on weekends to instruct converts, I would enjoy the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Farrell
habit given by Our Lady; for it is a visible sign of our will to consecrate ourselves to her and to do everything through her and for her. In union of prayer in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. www.fatima100 [...] past, to have special authorization from the Order of Discalced Carmelites. One simply has to use one of the formulas of blessing provided for in the Roman ritual. We long to be at the service of Our Lady [...] remove it to wash it, without ceasing to benefit from the promise. Pope Saint Pius X granted the right to replace the Scapular of fabric with a medal, especially because of the rapid corruption of the fabric
later, an "intense prayer of Petition to Our Lady of the Rosary would be offered at the Shrine of Pompei." “I urge everyone to unite themselves spiritually to this popular act of faith and devotion, so that [...] his path to Heaven was through teaching others to pray the Rosary. Bartolo moved to Pompeii, where he began Rosary groups, organized Marian processions, and began work on a Shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary [...] Our Lady of the Rosary at Pompeii goes back to Blessed Bartolo Longo, who converted from satanism and became, as Saint John Paul II said at his beatification, “a man of Mary.” Bartolo felt Our Lady told
