prayed the Angelus, she saw a strange light and a figure dressed in white on the maple tree near the presbytery; the figure was seated on a gold, pearl-studded throne. A moment later the girl saw the glowing [...] illuminated. A golden circle appeared around it with a throne of gold; two angels escorted the Blessed Mother to the throne. When Our Lady was seated, two other angels brought Baby Jesus in a heavenly glow [...] were raising a crown above Mary’s head. Yet another angel brought a gold scepter and held it in his right hand above the crown. One more angel hovered above the entire scene, pointing to a cross. On June
September 25 - Mary, Protectress of Orphans - Our Lady of Saint Peter (Italy, 1751) Praying Mary in a time of crisis… and then what? During a time of crisis, especially one involving our health, it can [...] may pray for the Virgin Mary’s intercession, asking for a miraculous cure or even the simple restoration of our health. Often our health will be restored, either miraculously or in a more gradual way. While [...] in God or the Virgin Mary for a specific goal in mind. When that goal is accomplished, then devotion is dropped entirely. This type of devotion is not “love” at all, but only a momentary feeling that
the Head, the Son of the Father and of Mary, in such a way that "a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his Mother" (The Secret of Mary, n. 11). In Christ, the Only-Begotten [...] declares Mary "Mother of the Church" (1964) A true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his Mother John Paul II's Letter to the Montfort Religious Family summarizes with great clarity [...] clarity the Montfortian and Vatican II’s doctrine of "Mary, Mother of the Church": The Council itself contemplates Mary as "the Mother of the members of Christ" (cf. ibid., nn. 53, 62), and consequently
22 - Proclamation of the dogma of Mary Mother of God in Ephesus (431) A spiritual weapon and a rose given to Mary Brother Daniel Klimek, a Franciscan tertiary, during a lecture in Steubenville, Ohio, USA [...] the Virgin Mary; each Hail Mary prayed is like presenting her with a rose as a sign of our love for her. Adapted from an article by Elisha Valledares-Cormier [...] USA, said that the Rosary is a unique gift that offers both effective spiritual protection against evil and a means of honoring the Virgin Mary by presenting her with spiritual roses. “Wars and bloody crimes
concluded with a crowning of the image of Mary as we sang “Immaculate Mary.” People left with a lightness of spirit and a new understanding of unity through prayer. The Rosary is not just a bunch of prayers [...] children of Mary dressed in white (1947) A Living Rosary and a May crowning I teach the first-year confirmation class in a local parish. For the last class, I decided that a Living Rosary and a May crowning [...] crowning of the statue of Mary would speak more directly to them than anything I say about the power of Mary in their lives. In a Living Rosary, each person stands in the place of a bead of the rosary and leads
April 30 - Virgin Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (Luxembourg) - Our Lady of Africa (Algiers, Algeria, 1876) A novena to Our Lady brings a woman back to life In 1987 my mom suffered a stroke; she was 74 [...] called the nurse, who called the doctor...I waited with my friend in the hallway. After an hour and a half the doctor came to me and said: "Go light a candle, because your mother is saved!" Mom died 20 [...] started a novena to Our Lady while my brothers and sisters were already planning the funeral. I told them that our mom would not die. Three days after I started my novena, I went to the hospital with an old
billion. He was a man endowed with a strong faith who spent his life away from the spotlight and the tabloids. Each year he went on pilgrimage to Lourdes, taking his top manager. He also organized a visit to [...] Saint Joan of France, founder of the Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (d. 1505) A chocolate empire, a billionaire, and Our Lady Michele Ferrero, 89, creator of Nutella, died on February [...] can do little.” And indeed, a small statue of the Virgin is present in each of the Ferrero establishments worldwide. Michele Ferrero was the richest person in Italy, with a net worth, according to Forbes
an icon of the Virgin Mary with the words “Mother of the Persecuted” written in Aramaic, believed to be the language of Jesus. [...] Fr. Kiely envisages the London shrine becoming a magnet for Christians [...] November 16 - Our Lady of Ostra Brama (Poland and Lithuania) A new shrine in London dedicated to Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians Fr. Benedict Kiely, the English priest behind the project, believes [...] trouser suspenders and round spectacles - received what he describes as his “call within a call.” “ In August 2014, I was a parish priest in Stowe, Vermont, and I heard that for the first time in basically 2
June 9 – Mary Mother of Grace (France) – St Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and doctor of the Church (d. 373) Saint Ephrem’s prayer to Mary to obtain a pure body and a pure mind "Most holy Lady, Mother of God [...] purity and holiness of soul and body, look upon me, guilty, impure, and stained in my soul and body with the defects of my passionate and voluptuous life. Purify my spirit from its passions; sanctify and [...] God." Saint Ephrem Ephrem the Syrian or Ephrem of Nisibia (ca. 306 in Nisibia, d. 373 in Edessa) was a 4th -century Syriac-speaking deacon and theologian in the region of Assyria.
September 3 - Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) - Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) A statue of Mary pulled to the top of a mountain “La Cordée Pierre et Charles” (French for The Pierre [...] September 1-3, was to pull a statue of the Virgin Mary to the summit of the Aiguille de La Grande Sassière, a 12,300 ft mountain on the French-Italian border of the Alps. Organized as a pilgrimage, the project [...] young French and Italians, to the Virgin Mary. Pierre and Charles were French twin brothers who had a deep desire for beauty and God, and who died tragically in a freak avalanche on the Mont Blanc, on December
