plan of salvation into which the Virgin Mary was called on to play a role. ... Our hearts swell with love when shown God’s providential designs that reserved such a special place for the Virgin in the plan [...] Mother of Jesus will agree that our love for her has a solid doctrinal foundation, which makes it something more than a subjective devotion based on a personal emotional need. Jean-Michel Castaing, French [...] veneration we ought to give to the Virgin Mary (different from the latria , the cult of adoration that we owe to God only). And the best way to do this is to look at how Mary was associated to the Holy Trinity
in the diocese of Turin), a young expecting mother was passing by a votive column consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the outskirts of town. Two rough soldiers, from a band of mercenaries, were [...] painted on the column, calling for her help. Without warning, a beam of light flashed from the image, blinding the two mercenaries who fled in a panic. Then, the Madonna herself appeared to Egidia and comforted [...] Lady vanished. Due to such feelings of fear and emotion, Egidia gave birth at the foot of the column. With her new-born child wrapped in her shawl, the young mother managed to reach the nearest house. The
meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, and go to confession with the same intention. Confession can be made on another day, provided one is in a state of grace while receiving Holy Communion. 3. The benefits [...] the hour of death with all the graces necessary for their salvation". 4. Why five Saturdays and not nine, or seven in honor of the sorrows of Our Lady? Finding myself in the chapel with Our Lord for part [...] “Peace or war in the world depends on the practice of this devotion, united with the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I have so desired its propagation; and then, above all because
however, bore a luminous statue of Our Lady. As the people took hold of it to bring it to shore, a voice was heard saying, “I choose your city as a place of grace.” The citizens welcomed Mary to their city [...] ashes and the church demolished. A new statue was made in 1803 and pilgrimages resumed. The image represents the Mother with the Child in her arms, standing in a boat, with an angel on either side. At the [...] (France, 1938) Our Lady of Boulogne and the “Great Return” In the year 636, a small group of people standing on the seashore witnessed a ship without oars or sails came into the harbor of Boulogne. It finally
National Marian Shrine. The Grotto, founded in 1922 as a replica of the site in Lourdes where St Bernadette Soubirous experienced visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858, hosted Bernadette’s relics between the 24 [...] remained at Carfin till 1 October, with individual dioceses organising specific days of prayer and pilgrimage at the site. From there, the relics returned to England, beginning with the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle [...] 24 September and 1 October as part of the 2022 tour of the relics in Britain. At a “National Mass” commemorating the site’s centenary, celebrating the visit of the relics to Carfin and marking the grotto’s
We took a good look at the statue, which is quite faithful to the description given by the seers. Mary is dressed simply, without a crown on her head. She wears a long white dress, without a belt, partly [...] sacrifices and prays for them" A few steps from the Cabeço (the hill), I met up with my friends at the place called Valinhos (in Fatima, Portugal). It is a circular area, bordered by a stone wall, surrounded by [...] partly hidden by a thick veil which goes down to her feet. She holds a rosary between her fingers. In this place, at the end of her visit, Mary felt a great sadness. She declared: "Pray, pray much and make
shone a heavy chain and from a smaller golden chain hung a resplendent crucifix with a hammer and pincers placed on each side of the Cross, a little beyond the nailed hands. Her eyes were filled with immense [...] Grenoble, France, when they saw a bright light revealing a woman they would later call "the Beautiful Lady," seated with her head in her hands and her chest shaking with sobs, in an attitude of deep sadness [...] first, the two shepherds were very frightened, but the Beautiful Lady stood up and called to them in a very gentle voice: "Come forward, children, don't be afraid." Without hesitation, Maximin and Melanie
Tonight I prayed the Hail Mary ten or twenty times. Though my sinfulness had made me deeply sad, I just knelt like a boy before his mother, My hands clasped, my eyes wet with tears. "Pray for us, poor [...] And I felt peace flood into my heart. I believe in him, I place my hope in God, knowing that he Is a forgiving master, kind, merciful and fatherly. Yet, seated on his eternal throne, he is also my judge
(I) In our relationship with Mary and to better understand the value of her "yes," it is good to know what she said “no” to. She said “no” to anything that wasn’t in line with the will of God or did not [...] for anything in return. She simply accepted it. She said “no” to vanity. She recognized herself as a mere servant of the Lord. She did not boast about her mission and her baby. She did not tell Joseph [...] to others - to the shepherds, to the magi, to the whole world. Excerpt from an article adapted from a text by Alejandra María Sosa Elízaga, for the Archdiocese of Mexico (SIAMO) and taken from the Spanish
returns old Saturn's reign, with a new breed of men sent down from heaven. Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom the iron shall cease, the golden race arise.” The Virgin Mary in whom the Son of God would [...] When Virgil prophesied the coming of the Virgin's Son When the Virgin Mary was walking on this earth, the Romans were also expecting a not-too-distant Golden Age, as shown in the fourth Eclogue of the "
