anew with Christ, letting us be accompanied by Mary, a sign of consolation and sure hope for all." The Jubilee was officially inaugurated on December 8th, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, with the [...] Pope Francis is extending the Lauretan Jubilee to December 2021. In his words, he thanked the Pope for a gift that allows people to enjoy for another 12 months the benefits of this spiritual jubilee in this [...] December 10th in the Roman calendar the optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin of Loreto, and finally with the inclusion in the Lauretan Litanies of three new invocations ‘Mother of Mercy’ (Mater Misericordiae)
their faces to the ground, a light appeared above their heads. The children saw the Angel again who this time held a chalice in his left hand; the Host rested above it with drops of Blood dripping down [...] outrages, sacrileges, and indifference with which He Himself is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor [...] men. Make up for all their crimes and console your God." He then prostrated himself one last time with the children and repeated the prayer to the Holy Trinity (above) three times. The three small visionaries
Polish author Wincenty Laszewski, in his book on “The miracles of Mary in the life of John Paul II” (1), writes that the Blessed Virgin Mary addressed to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, abbess of the Royal [...] drive Satan from his throne, he who is imbued with pride and damned forever, by crushing him under my foot and chaining him into the abyss of hell." Mary also said: "Even if the sun were to disappear, [...] God's plan of salvation ... Even when history seems to be finished for men, Heaven would still have a lot of time ... the miracle of St Peter's Square (the foiled assassination of Pope John Paul II) illustrates
srl. (1) Maria Valtorta was a Catholic Italian mystic and writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus [...] all. He explains to Mary that one night the previous December, they saw a new star of an unusual brightness appear in the sky. The maps of the sky had never shown or mentioned such a star. Its name was [...] unknown because it had no name. Born out of the bosom of God, it had flourished to tell men a blessed truth, a secret of God. But men had not paid any attention to it, because their souls were steeped in
in Rome. Paulette Leblanc, Specialist of Alexandrina’s spirituality Notre Histoire avec Marie (Our History with Mary) [...] mission of Blessed Alexandrina Maria Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904-1955) of Balasar, Portugal, was a Portuguese mystic who for 12 years lived only of the Eucharist. Although she is not well known in France [...] mission that God entrusted to Alexandrina was the Consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which Pope Pius XII made in 1942. When we recall the apparitions of Fatima, we think especially of
araison is a Marian shrine and a Catholic school in Monléon-Magnoac in the Hautes-Pyrénées department of France. This shrine has been a place of pilgrimage since 1515, after the Virgin Mary appeared three [...] Sagazan, a young shepherdess, giving her the following messages: "Here I will pour out my gifts"; "I want a chapel to be built"; and "Don't forget to thank God for his blessings". Immediately, a church was [...] of the Immaculate Conception (known as the Fathers of Garaison) was founded along with a school. The statue of Mary was crowned by Bishop Laurence in 1865 and the first chaplains of the Lourdes shrine
Redeemer. Redeemed by reason of the merits of her Son and united to Him by a close and indissoluble bond, she is endowed with the high office and dignity of being the Mother of the Son of God, by which [...] January 10 - Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1546) She Far Surpasses all Creatures The Virgin Mary, who at the message of the angel received the Word of God in her heart and in her womb and gave Life to the
French roads last summer, tracing a giant "M for Mary," from June 1st to September 13, 2020, stopping at five major French sites of Marian apparitions. Pilgrims walked behind a statue of Our Lady of France [...] western route—starting from Lourdes—that made a stop (among others) at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Pontmain; The eastern route—starting from La Salette—that made a stop in Paris for 6 days, and was in the [...] for the great feast of the Assumption. Its pilgrims were greeted with great solemnity by the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, who led a Rosary on August 14th in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, and presided
devotion of many Catholics to Mary. In 1858, a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported having 18 visions of a beautiful “young lady” in a cave near Lourdes, which was then a provincial town. Soubirous [...] miracles. The most recent case, which they confirmed in 2018, involved the healing of a French nun who had been using a wheelchair and suffering severe pain for almost 30 years, but recovered soon after her [...] Lourdes is one of the very few apparitions the Vatican has officially commended as worthy of belief, with its own feast day, February 11, in the Church’s annual liturgical calendar. Some six million pilgrims
her to the pastor’s house. Every day upon waking at 6 a.m., she recited the Rosary of the seven sorrows, beginning with Simeon’s words to Mary that a sword would pierce her heart. In our conversation, she [...] the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer,” Immaculée Ilibagiza told me as we sat in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel last June. Intense prayer, she [...] several other women lay crammed into a small bathroom in the home of a Protestant pastor near her home in the western province of Kibuye, on Lake Kivu. Pastor Murinzi, a Hutu, did not share in the ethnic
