was face to face with God on a day of loneliness. I began to attend prayer groups, I let myself be guided by spiritual advisors, I returned to the Eucharist, I began to study the life of the Virgin Mary [...] October 6 – Our Lady of the People (Italy) Colombian doctor battling Covid 19, prays Rosary during his breaks Colombian anesthesiologist Dr Néstor Ramírez Arrieta takes advantage of every opportunity to pray [...] emotional pressure that many of us would not be able to sustain. Even so, in short moments of rest, he takes out his rosary and dedicates himself to prayer.” The post has thousands of likes, comments, and shares
She said to him: "The time has come to ask the Holy Father to promote, with the help of all the bishops, the consecration of families to my Immaculate Heart, and through it, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, [...] the merits of Jesus Christ, will rediscover the peace of God in the bond of Love"; then Mary pointed to her Heart and said: "Here is the sign of self-giving to God: it is for all men, united in the Eucharistic [...] want to express an opinion that could pass for an official statement. I recognize the singularity of the coincidence between the moment when the cross appeared and the hour when Our Lady appeared to the
it is to contemplate the things of Heaven with our limited humanity. She also knows how tremendously important it is to stay aware of the divine presence in our lives. The Rosary is the hand of Mary who [...] used to praying it, the less we can live without it; the more we “own” it; and the more it softens the soul. It is a sublime gift that the Virgin Mary has given to us, in order to bring us closer to Christ [...] shows us how to engrave Christ in our hearts. Through this prayer, we also discover meditation, since we contemplate the life of Christ, and above all, we experience all these moments in our heart. As you
June 5 – Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1611) How this saint could tell true from false apparitions Philip Neri, an Italian saint (1515-1595) was often consulted by bishops to help discern authentic mystics [...] one of his penitents shared that the Blessed Virgin came to see him at night in his room, which filled him with joy and light! The saint said to him: “Listen, the next time she comes, I want you to spit [...] following night, the apparition started talking to him about God, but remembering the promise made to his director, the man spat in her face ... prompting the vision to disappear in a sulfurous cloud (it was the
one, all-important exception - the name of this God who was revealing Himself to me as the meaning and purpose of my life. I did not think of Him as the God of the Old Testament whom I held in my imagination [...] childhood. I prayed to know His name, to know what religion to follow to serve and worship Him properly. I remember praying, "Let me know your name - I don't mind if you are Buddha, and I have to become a Buddhist; [...] knew, from one instant to the next, that the meaning and purpose of my life was to love and serve my Lord and God; I saw how His Love enveloped and sustained me every moment of my existence; I saw how
Mary, telling her that I wanted to get married, and that I would like it to be "Our Lady of Medjugorje", i.e. "the Queen of Peace" (the title under which she appears there), to send me my future husband. A [...] March 3 – Our Lady of Help (Italy) – 14th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) The Virgin Mary is a wonderful matchmaker! Five years ago, I went to Medjugorje and there I wrote a short letter to the Virgin [...] friend went to Medjugorje too. When she came back, her group organized a Rosary group. I was invited to it but declined the invitation a few times. When I finally went, while praying to the Queen of Peace,
February 28 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1522) – 11th apparition in Lourdes You know that a child needs a mother What more could You have given to me, O God, in giving me Yourself to have as my very own [...] burning with love for me directed You to grant me one more gift: yes, still one more gift! You told us to become your children, if we wished to enter the Kingdom of heaven. And You know that a child needs [...] and us to Her... You resolved, O God Who Loves us, that She should be for us a powerful Mediatrix of all Your graces and our Advocate—You will deny Her nothing, just as She is incapable of denying anything
Our Lady of Heaven and Our Lady of Vladimir, the day of the Russian victory at Borodino. After the victory the Hodigitria Icon was returned to Smolensk together with its glorified copy. The holy Hodigitria [...] Smolensk to Russia. The original icon returned to Moscow during the War of 1812 against Napoleon to protect the city. She toured the walls of the White City and the Kremlin with the miraculous icons of Our [...] April 1 – Our Lady of Tenderness (Smolensk, Russia) The Smolensk icon saved Moscow in 1812 The Smolensk Hodigitria Icon of the Theotokos, or “She who leads the way,” was, according to Church Tradition
the earliest centuries of the Church to the present day, Irenaeus and Eucherius of Lyons, Hilary of Poitiers, Anselm - who went to England from France as archbishop - , Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis de [...] without sin’. The immense number of faithful who flock from distant places every year, even in our time, to the shrines of Mary, clearly shows what devotion to the Mother of God can achieve among the people [...] on the ruins of a Druidic temple, to lay the foundations of the church of Notre-Dame de Paris, which his son Childebert completed. Finally, Louis XIII consecrated the kingdom of France to Mary and ordered
as a present to Prince Leo of Ruthenia (northwest Hungary). It remained at the royal palace in Ruthenia until an invasion occurred in the eleventh century. The king prayed to Our Lady to help his small [...] August 26 - Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland, 1382) The Black Madonna (I) The Black Madonna is a painting of the Madonna and Child which, according to popular legend, was painted by St Luke the Evangelist [...] transferred to the Mountain of Light (Jasna Gora) in Poland in response to a request heard during a dream that the Prince Ladislaus of Opola had one night. When the painting’s ownership changed to Prince Ladislaus
