the strength of the Mother of God. And this, believe it, all of Orthodox Russia feels it clearly." Serge Bulgakov, Iz Gloubiny This collection, published in October 1918 in Moscow and of which only two [...] June 8 - Our Lady of Kazan (Russia) The Russian land has been trodden by the Mother of God’s feet Russian theologian and economist Serge Bulgakov, who, at the height of the atheistic wave, asked Patriarch [...] in the guise of a slave, with neither a striking appearance nor beauty. Not the Christ that Blok showed, the Christ in the snowstorm, but the gentle Gardener who said to Mary Magdalene, "Mary!" [Cf. Jn 20:16]
evil.” It is the final evil of hell we need to be delivered from. “Following the example of Christ, the Church warns the faithful of the ‘sad and lamentable reality of eternal death,’ also called ‘hell,’” [...] and the Examination of Conscience. -Last, Night prayer is a nightly memento mori, a reminder of death. In the Rosary, we go through the four last things again and again, asking Mary to “pray for us sinners [...] us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.” Then, the last thing we pray each night is the “Salve Regina,” calling upon the Queen of Heaven for mercy
First apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) I am the Mother of Ipalnemohuani (I) In 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared four times to a poor but respectful Indian of Mexico, Juan Diego [...] roots of their own religious culture and using their native language. On the first day, Juan Diego heard something resembling the songs of many precious birds coming from the top of the little hill of Tepeyac [...] him and a lady of incomparable majesty said to him, "Understand and know for certain, my dearest and humblest son, that I am the ever-virgin Saint Mary, Mother of God, The One Great God of Truth, Ipalnemohuani
Pellevoisin (France, 1876) The Treasures of My Son In Pellevoisin, Estelle Faguette, who suffered from tuberculoses, received a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, which we can be divided in three parts [...] an act of submission and obedience." (...) As she made these statements, the Virgin lifted up a small piece of white cloth which she wore on her chest. Estelle had already seen this small piece of cloth [...] particularly came for the conversion of sinners." On Saturday, September 9, 1876, Estelle received a 9th visit from the Blessed Virgin who appeared to her at the end of her rosary prayers and gave her a sign
Anthony of Padua (d.1231) The Virgin and the Allegory of the Bee Our Lady, Blessed Mary, gave birth to the Son of God without corruption, because the Holy Spirit came upon her, and the power of the Most [...] her womb for nine months could not lack charity. She was compact because of her poverty and cleaner than all others because of her virginity. [...] Most High overshadowed her (cf. Lk 1:35). She was the good bee (cf. Sir 11:3). She was small, because of her humility, and round, because she contemplated heavenly glory, which is without beginning or end
June 5 - Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1611) Imitation of Jesus Christ Our Lord The Holy Spirit could not leave such wonderful and inconceivable dependence of God unmentioned in the Gospel, though he concealed [...] the greatest miracles. How highly then do we glorify God when to please Him we submit ourselves to Mary, taking Jesus as our sole model.
the inviolate womb of the Virgin, so he rose from a closed tomb. Just as his birth did not cause the Virgin Mary to lose her virginity, so his Resurrection did not break the seals of the tomb. Saint John [...] born of the Virgin If a Jew asks you how the Virgin could give birth, answer him this: "How can a virgin land make plants grow?” Indeed, in Hebrew "Eden" means virgin land. A virgin drove us out of paradise;
the floor, the beloved image of the ever-Virgin Mary, the holy Mother of God, became the sign, printed supernaturally on his tilma. Despite the fact that the evangelization of the Americas had gotten off [...] December 14 - Our Lady of Alba Royale (Hungary, 1005) I am the Mother of Ipalnemohuani (VI) Juan Diego left, and later opened his tilma for the bishop, in the hollow of which he had placed the flowers [...] off to a bad start because of the deplorable behavior of the conquistadors, the miraculous events of Guadalupe impelled 9 million Indians to ask for baptism in the 10 years which followed.
Anthony of Padua (d.1231) The Virgin and the Allegory of the Bee Our Lady, Blessed Mary, gave birth to the Son of God without corruption, because the Holy Spirit came upon her, and the power of the Most [...] her womb for nine months could not lack charity. She was compact because of her poverty and cleaner than all others because of her virginity. [...] Most High overshadowed her (cf. Lk 1:35). She was the good bee (cf. Sir 11:3). She was small, because of her humility, and round, because she contemplated heavenly glory, which is without beginning or end
June 5 - Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1611) Imitation of Jesus Christ Our Lord The Holy Spirit could not leave such wonderful and inconceivable dependence of God unmentioned in the Gospel, though he concealed [...] the greatest miracles. How highly then do we glorify God when to please Him we submit ourselves to Mary, taking Jesus as our sole model.
