play a significant role in doing so. Their real power to change the world lies in three things: consoling God through prayer, converting sinners through sacrifice, and being faithful to Jesus with the help [...] help of Mary, by praying the Rosary. The children of Fatima provide a good example of this: their Rosaries and other prayers stopped the spread of Communism, generations of Catholics began to offer sacrifices [...] Catholics celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, to commemorate the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to three young Portuguese shepherds in 1917. The Church has learned many lessons from them, especially
April 9 – Blessed Virgin Empress The last two remedies During a private visit with Father Fuentes, on December 26, 1957, Sister Lucia, the seer of Our Lady of Fatima (Portugal), alluding to the third secret [...] so that they would not be influenced." She also said: "That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious [...] the last times of the world, but She made me understand it…She told me that the devil is engaging in a decisive battle against the Virgin…Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other
Gräblin forest, a shepherd named Nicholas Sikatka saw "a lady come down from the sky, dressed in white and gold, wearing a diamond-studded veil and a sparkling crown. The apparition showed him a rosary she [...] an icon of the Virgin Mary was hung on a pine-tree at the site of the apparitions. People sick with cholera were healed through her intercession. The diocesan bishop organized a religious procession. Since [...] charity in their unhappy hearts, and to offer them a future of peace and freedom.” She then joined her hands, raised her eyes to the sky and disappeared in a great light dazzling light. The Virgin appeared
are entrusted. She seeks a Presence and she finds a Person, in whom all hope is contained. Her heart beats only in this call, "The young woman is with child and will give birth to a son" (Is 7:14). She never [...] February 23 - Our Lady of the Rocks (Spain, 434) Seat of Wisdom (I) Before the Annunciation, Mary had already given herself entirely to God. She is an offering, giving herself completely, she is poor,
are entrusted. She seeks a Presence and she finds a Person, in whom all hope is contained. Her heart beats only in this call, "The young woman is with child and will give birth to a son" (Is 7:14). She never [...] February 23 - Our Lady of the Rocks (Spain, 434) Seat of Wisdom (I) Before the Annunciation, Mary had already given herself entirely to God. She is an offering, giving herself completely, she is poor,
ever elaborated By a decree signed on February 11, 2018—the 160th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes—Pope Francis established the liturgical memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church [...] Gentium , whose Chapter VIII, entirely dedicated to the Virgin Mary, explores her role in the mystery of Christ and the Church. Pope Paul VI, who had a deep devotion to the Mother of God, saw in Lumen Gentium [...] Gentium "the most extensive synthesis of Marian doctrine ever elaborated by an ecumenical council, with a view to manifesting the face of the holy Church, to which Our Lady is intimately associated." Vatican
pilgrims arrived. Their numbers would swell to 130,000 in 18 months. Following the healing of a person with paralyzed legs for six years, the vicar general recognized the "hand of God" behind the occurrence [...] Laus. In 1669, Benedicta had a vision of Christ crucified. For several years after that she experienced in her body the "sufferings of Good Friday." She died in Le Laus in a house that is still standing [...] the conversion of sinners" Benedicta Rencurel was born in September 1647 in Saint-Étienne d'Avançon, a small village in the French Alps. In 1654, the 7-year-old girl lost her father. This sad event plunged
locations. Sharing a brief history, Downs said the Rosary Congress began in Poland in 1979, as people prayed that through Mary’s intercession St John Paul II would be allowed to make a papal visit to the [...] co-director Kristin Bird said that at the 4pm hour, the Rosary Congress will “unite with that so we’re working together with like-minded ideas.” “We feel these two apostolates go hand in hand,” said 2018 Rosary [...] Have you heard about the Diocesan Rosary Congresses? The Rosary Congress ( RosaryCongressUSA.org ) is a seven-day event of perpetual Eucharistic adoration and praying the Rosary hourly day and night. This
the symptoms are a deep joy and a feeling of belonging to a big family! When I returned to Naples, my native port, after my first pilgrimage to Lourdes in June 1973, where I worked as a stretcher bearer [...] December 8th, for his calling to be a pediatrician: "At the age of 17, I caught an incurable disease called ‘lourditis’! This highly contagious virus is transmitted by contact with the sick and disabled. The epicenter [...] still did not know how much the Immaculate Conception would guide my life. It is because of the Virgin Mary that I am, at age 61, the most useless doctor in the world! As President of the Lourdes Office of
Tikhvin where a monastery was eventually founded in honor of the Virgin of Tikhvin. At first, a wooden church was built on the site of the appearance of the icon, in honor of the Assumption of Mary. Then in [...] of several icons of the Virgin Mary that was painted by St Luke the Evangelist. It was moved from Jerusalem to Constantinople in the 5 th century, to the Basilica of St Mary of Blachernae especially built [...] in 1560, by order of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, a monastery was built in Tikhvin, surrounded by a stonewall. At this time the miraculous icon was regularly transported to Moscow. Devotion to the icon of the
