The Blessed Virgin healed the monk with her milk There was, in the 12 th century, a monk from the region of Soissons (France), who had a great love for the Virgin Mary. Whenever he had free time, he would [...] wounds with her milk, and said: "Don’t be afraid. Since you have served me well, I will not let you die in such a miserable manner. You will see that I know how to love!” Touching his raw flesh with a light [...] I am reserving a place for you in Paradise, when the time comes for your spirit to separate from your body.” Then she left. When the monks returned with a coffin, the surprise caused a great commotion

and smiling. Suddenly, her face lit up with heavenly joy: "Don’t cry," she said to her parents, "I see the Blessed Virgin coming to get me with the angels!" She died a few minutes after this final vision [...] Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers I see the Blessed Virgin coming to get me with the angels! In the 1950s, a devout Catholic couple, who were major Parisian publishers, had been unsuccessfully [...] graceful, affectionate and she loved the Lord. She was also very devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was a lily of purity too beautiful for this earth, and God decided to take her to Heaven. This happened

the Life" (Jn 14:6) from the first moment of His conception, not only during the three years of His missionary life. By remaining under the authority of Joseph and Mary in this way, our Lord invites us to [...] eager to grow, like Jesus and with Jesus, "in wisdom, in stature and in grace, in the eyes of God and of men" (Lk 2:52), at the school of the Holy Family. Father Joseph-Marie Verlinde Member of the Famille [...] Under-the-Ground (Chartres, France) - Our Lady of Fossolovara (Italy) Be eager to grow, like Jesus, with the Holy Family! As we meditate on the mystery of the hidden life, we must understand that if Jesus

Ravenna (Italy) “Don’t be afraid. Keep searching. I am with you” For Charbel [a Muslim convert], baptized in 2017, visions and messages set him on a path to discover Christianity. It was during Ramadan. [...] Charbel, who grew up in a Sunni enclave in Beirut, didn’t know any Christians with whom to share his experience. That Christmas Eve, Charbel was studying at home. “I saw the Virgin Mary for the first time in [...] the Virgin Mary again on Christmas Eve for the next three years. “And she would always say the same exact words,” he recalled. Not until after the last vision did Charbel become friendly with a Christian

only, Mary, to gaze upon you. To gaze upon you, to weep with joy, to know this – That I am your son and that you are here. Only for that moment when everything stops. Noon! To be with you, Mary, in this [...] finds my heart all of a sudden, and makes collected tears spring forth, … Because it is noon, because we are here today, Because you are there forever, simply because you are Mary, simply because you exist [...] May 9 – Our Lady of the Wood (Italy, 1607) To gaze upon you, to weep with joy, to know that I am your son It is noon. I see the church open. I must enter. Mother of Jesus Christ, I have not come to pray

of Luxembourg to Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (1666) Carried by a thousand angels, Mary saved Saint James Saint James the Greater was Saint John’s brother. Tradition says that he had a great devotion [...] devotion for the Virgin Mary, who in turn favored him with her special protection. Mary of Agreda, a 17 th -century Spanish nun and mystic, recounts two interventions of the Virgin to support the apostle in his [...] Our Lord ordered a thousand angels to go with His mother (who was still on earth at the time) to assist the apostle. The angels immediately took Mary to Spain. Seeing the Virgin Mary, the apostle prostrated

the Holy Spirit into our souls. The Easter season ends with the feast of Pentecost, celebrating the mystery of the descent of the Holy Spirit on Mary and the Apostles. This gift of the Holy Spirit was intended [...] Holy Spirit is the Love that unites the Father and the Son. He is especially credited with all the works of union. In Mary, it is through Him that the Incarnation was accomplished. Our Creed teaches us that [...] spirit of charity, that we may through you live in mutual understanding ." Meditation by a monk of Fontgombault Abbey (a Benedictine monastery of the Solesmes Congregation located in the département of Indre

Since you came to me, I have been experiencing a peace, a calmness, an inner joy that I have never known." The priest began to pray ardently to the Virgin Mary. Grace was making its way into the man’s heart [...] had not diminished at all. He still worked as a legal consultant for many households whose interests he governed. The man’s parish priest had called on him a dozen times, but each time had been turned away [...] December 13 – Our Lady of the Sainte Chapelle (France) The Lord and his Mother filled this soul with immense graces Mr. Joly was an elderly man, the last of the royal ministers of the martyr king Louis

(Russia) – Our Lady of La Regla (Cuba) – Saint Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (d. 1870) "Make yourself a slave of the Blessed Virgin and she will protect [...] around her waist as a sign of her personal consecration to Mary. She prayed: "Holy Virgin, since you deign to want me to be yours, from this moment I offer you all that I am and I promise to serve you all [...] placed under the protection of the Virgin Mary. When she was about seven years old, while going up to the city’s cathedral, Agnes thought of the sufferings of a man who had been tortured and whom she had

November 11 - Paul VI declared Mary "Mother of the Church" (1964) A Son of Israel Converts (I) Hermann Cohen was born in Hamburg on November 10, 1821. His family held a distinguished rank among the twenty [...] own success, lived a sinful, dissolute life, ruled by his passions alone. However, at age 26, one Friday in May of the same year, a friend asked him to fill in for him at the head of a church choir, during [...] become Catholic. A few months later, having overcome his prejudices against priests, he attended Mass numerous times. On August 8, in Germany for a concert, he attended Sunday Mass in a little church. At