will return to the seminary to resume the studies I began outside the Catholic Church. I hope to be able to make Jesus the Savior and Mary our Mother known and loved! I am reminded of a saying of Saint Louis [...] confusion. He inspired me to have recourse to Mary with confidence. For several years I had been reciting my rosary daily and, faced with the extent of my misery, I resolved to recite the entire 20-decade [...] after my consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I had many interior and exterior struggles, but all of them prepared me for that key moment when, during a pilgrimage to Saint Francis de Sales shrine

January 18 - OUR LADY OF DIJON (France) Maria Zell (II) In 1510, the chronicle of Zofingen reported an extraordinary occurrence which gave new lustre to the glory of the shrine of Maria Zell. The plague [...] concern: to save up enough money to fulfil her vow. She had almost reached her goal when the city of Zofingen, until then subjected to Bern, abandoned the religion of Christ for the teaching of the apostate [...] two children. Overcoming her weakness, she ran to the foot of a statue of Mary inside an oratory ready to fall into ruin. Mary granted the humble prayer of her servant. Anna recovered, and so did her two

Church. Our Lady herself, most especially in her appearance at Fatima, but also in other apparitions, has begged us to pray the rosary daily. She said that it was essential to bring peace to our families [...] families and to our world, and she asked us to pray the rosary to bring an end to war. Those who start to pray the rosary regularly find in it eventually a mysterious attraction and incredible power. Many find [...] memory that are intended to allow us to enter into the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. Some find it helpful to combine Scripture reading and even some silence with the prayers to aid in meditation on

him. She continues to be deeply attached to the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, but she discovered with her sister Taryn that in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where she used to live, there’s another [...] continues to believe that her daughter is still alive and hiding somewhere. The singer tells Maria con te how her family, half of Mexican origin on her mother’s side, was devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe [...] another shrine dedicated to that apparition of Our Lady. She went there to pray three years ago when visiting her sister Taryn (who died of leukemia in 2020). Romina Power is also a painter, and on multiple

letter to my Son. It's true, your parents need you." Estelle had the simplicity of writing to the Blessed Virgin to ask for her intercession. In "response" to that letter, Our Lady appeared to her fifteen [...] through your Divine Son, the health of my poor body for His glory. See the suffering of my parents; you know that they have only me to take care of them..." Our Lady appeared to Estelle and said, "I am all Mercy [...] February 14 - Our Lady of Pellevoisin (France) Your Letter Touched My Mother's Heart In the year 1875, in Pellevoisin, France, Estelle Faguette, suffering from an incurable disease, wrote a letter to Mary and

As we climb, we'll raise the intentions of our friends and supporters with us, through the intercession of Our Lady. We'll literally lift your prayers closer to heaven!" The MacFarlane-Barrow family ran [...] but after a life-changing pilgrimage to Medjugorje in 1990 were inspired to give their home over to the service of God and a community of young people and program of retreats quickly formed around it. [...] team on to Britain's highest peak to raise funds for the well-loved house of prayer. The group prayed the Rosary in relays from base to summit, creating an unbroken prayer chain all the way to the top

authorization to go negotiate with the besieged. He proposed to Mirat to surrender, not to the sovereign, but to the Queen of Heaven. The proposal actually pleased the Moor chief who laid down his weapons at [...] at the feet of the Black Madonna of the Puy and asked to be baptized. The day of his baptism, Mirat took the name of Lorus that, transmitted to the city, became Lourdes at a later date. One thousand years [...] January 29 - Our Lady of Chatillon sur Seine (France, 1130) Charlemagne, Mary’s Son (II) In 778, Charlemagne was ready to surrender, wearied by the obstinate resistance of the Saracen Lord Mirat in the

January 15 – OUR LADY OF BANNEUX (Belgium, 1933) - First Apparition Mary, the Faithful Virgin (III) The third dimension of faithfulness is consistency. To live in accordance with what one believes. To adapt one's [...] It is easy to be consistent in the hour of enthusiasm, it is difficult to be so in the hour of tribulation. And only a consistency that lasts throughout the whole of life, can be called faithfulness. [...] the deepest core of faithfulness. The fourth dimension of faithfulness is constancy. It is easy to be consistent for a day or two. It is difficult and important to be consistent for one's whole life.

January 11 - Our Lady of Bessiere (Limousin, France) A Young Girl’s Heroism A girl accidentally got sand in her eyes while playing and this caused her eyes to become severely infected. Doctors tried several [...] several operations without success... The father took his child to see a famous ophthalmologist in Sweden, but to no end. Her sight went from bad to worse, so much so that the young girl could not see almost [...] Christian by her mother, stopped at Czestochowa, Poland. At 6:00 in the morning, they went to the sanctuary to pray in front of the Black Madonna. After the first mass, the father asked, "Did the Madonna cure you

pope went to Loreto and Assisi to ask for the intercession of Mary and Saint Francis on behalf of the Council. He then scheduled the session between the feasts of the Motherhood of Mary and of the Immaculate [...] Virgin Mary only tends to make our faith more robust, more prompt and more effective; to make our charity more ardent, and our Christian commitment more alive and more fruitful." Source: Dictionnaire en [...] September 26 – Our Lady of Graces (Ancona, Italy, 1836) – Saint John XXIII (d. 1963) Vatican II was overseen by Mary When he was still archbishop of Venice, Italy, Pope Saint John XXIII (1881-1963) had