of us: "Behold, your Mother!". We have a Mother in Heaven. Heaven is open, Heaven has a heart. (…) Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of Heaven [...] August 15 - Assumption of the Virgin Mary (solemnity) We have a Mother in Heaven The Feast of the Assumption is a day of joy. God has won. Love has won. It has won life. Love has shown that it is stronger [...] strength is goodness and love. Mary was taken up body and soul into Heaven: there is even room in God for the body. Heaven is no longer a very remote sphere unknown to us. We have a mother in Heaven. And the

reinforced. Indeed, at the foot of the Cross Mary was entrusted with a new motherhood, which concerned Jesus’ disciples. It was precisely this mission that demanded a renewed gift of the Spirit. The Blessed [...] prayer in the Upper Room, in an attitude of deep communion with the Apostles, with some women and with Jesus’ “brethren,” the Mother of the Lord prays for the gift of the Spirit for herself and for the community [...] model and mother Mary is called to be. In the Church and for the Church, mindful of Jesus’ promise, she waits for Pentecost and implores a multiplicity of gifts for everyone, in accordance with each one's

Europe, just a little shorter than famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (125 ft). In March 2020, this statue officially became a historical monument. To project a little hope and [...] healed of tuberculosis. His prayer was answered, and in thanksgiving to Mary, he commissioned a monumental statue in her honor. A work of the sculptor Georges Serraz, the statue was inaugurated in 1941. The [...] February 14 - Our Lady Wreathed with Roses (Pellevoisin, France, 1876) - 2nd apparition of Lourdes (1858) The tallest statue of the Madonna and Child in Europe A monumental statue of the Madonna and Child

portraying a “mothering Madonna.” He said, “The world cannot benefit from a hidden faith, love or hope … We want to make her a statue of such splendid height that no one can ignore it, of a beauty that [...] who saw the creation of Santa Clara’s statue wanted Parks to create a similar Marian statue for Wilmington. As a result, Parks created a 33-foot stainless-steel statute of Our Lady, Queen of Peace and installed [...] in Sioux City, Iowa, the Trinity Heights Shrine has a 30-foot, stainless-steel sculpture of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of Peace opposite a 33-foot statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, both created

He saw a simple village house, which happened to have a small niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary. When my father saw the statue, he cried out inwardly, "Mary, save me!" At that very moment, the heavy [...] along with his group of 10 resistance fighters. As a great lover of the Virgin Mary, he prayed his rosary a lot. His mother, of whom he was the only son, had no news of him but, trusting in Mary, she continued [...] - Our Lady of the Sea (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, virgin, Carmelite How the Virgin Mary saved my dad’s life in a concentration camp "During the Second World War, my father

November 29 – The Virgin with the Golden Heart (Beauraing, Belgium, 1932) Because he looked at the humility of his servant Truly, the Savior of the world has laid sweetness and humility at the base of [...] fasting, austerity, internal or external poverty, good works, miracles, all of these mean nothing without a humble heart. But all these will come to life again and will receive their blessing, if humility sustains [...] the care of saying to us: "Be humble." And because humility is the universal guardian, the Virgin Mary, as if she had forgotten all the other virtues of her body and soul, admired only one thing in herself

the Virgin is greatly honored. He said the Hail Mary at least 1000 times a day, using a knotted rope as a rosary. He was a great promoter of the rosary as a popular devotion. The mystery of the Incarnation [...] found a more observant, mortified, modest, gentle and humble religious," his biographer said of him. The secret of this great holiness was his devotion to the Virgin Mary. It was because of Mary that he [...] November 21 – Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple – Blessed Romeo de Llivia (d. November 21, 1261) A little-known promoter of the Rosary Romeo de Llivia was born in the last third of the 12th

Jesus appeared. This is a proven historical fact: inexplicable as it may seem, the world's attention in the first century was turned to a single point: that distant Roman province. Mary carried in her heart [...] God is at hand" (Mk 1:14). The course of human tribulations seemed to be suspended for a moment and to come to a standstill when Augustus granted the world one of the very rare periods of peace in history [...] November 28 - Saint Catherine Labouré (d. 1876) - 1st apparition of the Virgin Mary at Kibeho (Rwanda, November 28, 1981) Advent: a period of expectation unprecedented in history (I) "The time of the coming

Lisieux, holiness, etc. Mary is a living person with whom I have a personal relationship. Like a very tender mother, she accompanies me wherever I go and protects me, along with my guardian angel. She helps [...] - Sts Philip and James, Apostles - Mary, Queen of Poland - Act of Consecration of Poland to Mary (1966) Mary is a living person My mother had promised the Virgin Mary that if my birth went safely she would [...] Conception. Mary has a central place in my life. I have always prayed to her. At home, we prayed the Rosary as a family. These days, I like to pray the Rosary while going on a walk with my dear wife.

Jesus’ entire life—with Mary. He memorized those prayers, but he knew it was not enough to repeat them mechanically. The most important thing for him was his intimacy with Jesus. Since he was a child, Carlo [...] of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto - Apparition at Pontevedra of the Virgin Mary to Lucia: devotion of the first Saturday of 5 consecutive months (Spain, 1925) Carlo Acutis, a geek who prayed the Rosary [...] the need to witness his faith in a de-christianized society, the loneliness of being an only child, but also friendship, love, and his relationship as a teenager with his parents, and finally his fatal