poverty of happy days, which is another name for freedom of heart, which makes us available to God and to others, a fresh clay for the inspirations of the Spirit. · The kind of peaceful Easter poverty [...] ing: it is to let the flowers look at you. The Rosary is a bit like that: it is a way of placing oneself, with the heart of a pauper, under the radiance of the life of Jesus. It is a way of letting Jesus [...] easily in our mysteries, it is because she used to keep all things in her Heart; she would continually scrutinize the mysteries, the saving moments of the life of Jesus. The Rosary allows us to inhabit her
crazy bunch of religious lunatics?" But to my complete surprise, Mary spoke to me on the hill of apparitions, and told me that she and Jesus loved me just as I was, and that I was dear to them! I collapsed [...] December 12 – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) The best gift I have ever received It happened in Medjugorje during Holy Week in 2010. I was 39 years old at the time. As a child, I was raised near Paris [...] deeply depressed and tried to commit suicide several times. I drank a lot, a whole bottle of whiskey some nights. I would hang out with people who were unsuitable and cruel to me. My son Mathis has suffered
January 22 - Eve of Our Lady's Espousals - Claire de Castelbajac (d. 1975) Claire Died, Reciting the "Hail Mary" On the morning of the day of her tenth birthday, October 2, 1963, despite feeling tired [...] anxious to go to Mass. That evening, she confided to her mother, "Do you know what I asked this morning? I asked to always remain pure, just like I was after my baptism." She made the habit of invoking [...] go straight to heaven, because heaven is God's praise and I'm there already!" On January 17th, unconscious, she received the Sacrament of the Sick. On Sunday the 19th, while she seemed to be sleeping,
March 18 – Our Lady of Mercy (Italy, 1586) A rosary found intact under rubble and ashes Isabel Lara lived close to the World Trade Center and after Sept. 11, she wasn't allowed to return home for a week [...] Venezuela, I didn't realize that I wasn't ever going to return... There was this rosary that belonged to my grandmother that I took with me when I went off to graduate school in New York…” After the 9/11 attack [...] wasn't able to go back to her apartment for a week…. But she kept thinking about the rosary she had left behind: “I was so concerned that I would lose it… nothing else in that apartment mattered to me except
February 14 - Our Lady of the Roses (Pellevoisin, France, 1876) - 2nd apparition in Lourdes "It was the Rosary that saved the baby" In December 2017, I was very fortunate during the Christmas season to be allowed [...] would like to take this opportunity to praise those doctors, whose work I was able to observe that day. All too often, we don't appreciate their care and diligence. The doctor was putting all of his concentration [...] especially the Mother of God, so she would come to the rescue. But something surprising happened right after the birth. The doctor, whom I had never met, came to me and said, pointing to my Rosary, "This is
continued to work, sitting cross-legged on the sand. We spoke of religion, of course, and I must confess that I was pretty direct when we compared our respective beliefs. Once I announced to him that I [...] December 11 – Our Lady of Consolation (Italy) When Mary is depicted... in the crescent moon When I met him, Thiam was already an old man who had a sculpture shop at the artists' market in the village of Soumbédioune [...] sculpture made. After some thirty years of faithful services, he asked the monks to be released from his artistic “duties,” which of course they agreed upon. He continued to create beautiful objects that the
came to get me and bring me home. Since then, I have returned to a normal life! After what happened to me - I'm not dead! - I had only one idea in my mind and an ardent desire in my heart: to go to Lourdes [...] from Toulouse as soon as possible to thank Our Lady for her intercession. I was able to fulfill this wish on May 11, 2016." Olivier (France) Published in Lourdes’ Journal of Graces #5 July 2016 [...] March 6 – Our Lady of Graces (Padua, Italy, 1630) "I am not dead!" Olivier, a resident of Toulouse, France, was lying in intensive care, at death’s door. At the same moment, his brother Bertrand was praying
Wednesday – Our Lady of Roses (Pellevoisin, France, 1876) 450 Nativity displays found in one village! Above Nice, in the Alpes Maritimes (France), the charming little Provencal village of Lucéram has become [...] famous thanks to its 450 nativity scenes scattered in all the corners and alleys, for the past 20 years, during the period of Advent and until the feast of Epiphany. This year, visitors were able to admire these [...] places. The onlookers never tire of seeing them, as they change places and appearance every year, according to the imagination of the residents. "I inherited a collection of 110 Provençal santons. They represent
Everyone got out of bed, amazed, and peace returned to my father’s house. Obviously, this event was very important to me. The Good Mother has continued to protect me during my times of hesitations and the [...] February 26 - Our Lady of the Fields, consecrated by Saint Denis (Paris, France, c. 250) My Father’s Faith Obtained the Miracle The following is the testimony of a Marist brother: The Blessed Virgin protected [...] in the north of the Province. He knocked on the door of the presbytery, asked for a lantern and the key to the shrine sanctuary. He left his horse in the stable, and walked, bare-foot, up to the shrine that
September 21 – Our Lady of Graces (Trieste, Italy, 1486) - St Matthew Mary unfolded her plan for me, very slowly On a rocky hillside, above the small village of Medjugorje, two young girls, maintained [...] next day, four of their friends joined them and also maintained the same story. Today millions of pilgrims from all over the world come, to visit "The Gospa." How I know this is because Our Blessed Mother [...] back to the sacrament of confession, after being away for, 20, 30 and 40 years. I have witnessed healings, in people's lives, all because of this simple prayer, from my heart, "If you allow me, to come
