September 17 – Our Lady of the Virtues and Grandeurs of Mary (17th century) - St Robert Bellarmine Mary called him to the Catholic faith Leo de Bondt was born in 1941 in Holland and raised in a Protestant [...] newspaper containing a very beautiful image of Mary, as she is represented at the church of St Andrea delle Fratte in Rome. Leo was looking at this picture… when Mary called him! From that moment, his life completely [...] Guillain-Barré syndrome. He became completely paralyzed and stayed in a hospital. Leo turned to Mary: "Mary, what do you want from me? If you really exist, give me a sign and heal this child." That evening

September 12 – Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, instituted after the liberation of Vienna from the Ottoman Empire (1683) The feast of the Holy Name of Mary reestablished after the terrorist attacks To remind [...] Cross, "Behold your Mother" teach us, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary has been inscribed in the octave of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. This feast had disappeared from the liturgical calendar in 1970 [...] John Paul II delivered a prayer for peace at the General Audience, entrusting the world to the Virgin Mary: "Let us implore the Lord so that the spiral of hatred and violence does not prevail. May the Blessed

September 10 – Holy Mary of Life (Italy, 1613) The Rosary—the lifeline that Mary tosses to us The Rosary often has the reputation of being an archaic devotion for the elderly or religious. However, many [...] why pick up a rosary or go back to praying it? Because in all her apparitions, the Blessed Virgin Mary has asked us to do so. Because it puts the Gospel back in our mind. And because it is an engine of [...] truth is that our life hangs by a thread and all our hair is counted. The Rosary is the lifeline that Mary tosses to us so we can climb up to Jesus and our Father while she intercedes for us poor sinners,

Nativity of the Virgin Mary The daughter of infertile parents, she became the fertile virgin Today, as every year on September 8 th , we celebrate the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast starts the [...] their hope to have a child. However, God had different plans, and he announced them to Mary’s parents. Thus Mary was conceived with the view of being the Mother of God’s Son who was to redeem the world [...] the liturgical cycle of saints feast days and is a great day of rejoicing for all of us. Mary’s birth was a miracle: her parents Joachim and Anne were already advanced in age, but they hadn’t given up

love for Mary was readily passed on to me and my brother and sister (who was named for Mary) as our mother taught us the Hail Mary—the simplest of prayers, made up of two salutations to Mary: the first [...] devotion to Mary survived into our adult lives, and my sister Mary and I prayed the Rosary each night at the presbytery we shared at St Cecilia’s Parish for over 13 years. During the last months of Mary’s life [...] the familiarity she observes in most cradle Catholics towards Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She notices, for instance, how easily Hail Mary’s trip off our tongues, and how we, who have been brought up Catholic

August 22 – Queenship of Mary The Queen chosen by God Himself She is, by her immaculate purity, the Queen chosen by God himself, the beloved Queen of Angels, who, from the heights of Heaven, reigns over

Most Holy Theotokos in Constantinople – Feast of Mary Mediatrix (Belgium) The hearts of Jesus and Mary cannot be dissociated The two hearts of Jesus and Mary, by their love for humankind, are as united as [...] Marguerite Marie Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial. On September 22, 1891, Pope Leo XIII, in the Encyclical Octobri Mense, declared: "With equal truth may it be also affirmed that, by the will of God, Mary is the [...] Blessed Virgin’s womb. Therefore devotion to the Sacred Heart and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary cannot be dissociated. The joint devotion to the hearts was first formalized in the 17th century by

Missionary Work of Jesus and Mary Without Mary, you will not be able to love to the fullest "Do not be afraid to take Mary home"… as if we would ever have to fear that Mary could take us away from Jesus [...] and stop. Without Mary, you will not, when following Jesus, be able to love to the fullest as he has shown us on the Cross: "Having loved his own, he loved them to the end" (Jn13:1). Mary is the great secret [...] Jesus! In fact, it is quite the opposite: the more you take Mary into your home, the more you allow Jesus to draw you to Him and lead you along the path of holiness. If you think you could actually follow

August 7 – Memory of Mary’s cloth relic (Chartres, France) The fervor of the builders of Chartres Cathedral The people of France began building the 34 majestic Gothic cathedrals in the 12 th century that [...] Virgin" (formerly thought of as the "Holy Tunic"). This event made Chartres a prominent shrine. The Marie de Nazareth team

July 31 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola (d. 1556) – Ethiopian Church: Conception of Mary in the womb of her mother Anne, announced to Joachim by the Archangel Gabriel on 7 Nahasê (July 31 in the Ethiopian calendar) [...] them with dreams at night, visions of the poem of glory that was to come from them and was Most Holy Mary, My Mother. If their humility made them hesitant, their hearts trembled in hope at the first hint