June 29 - Saints Peter and Paul, apostles - Our Lady of Laghet (France) The sadness of being far from Our Lady Some Slovak Protestant writers have talked about their sadness at not being able to pray to [...] able to rely on Mary during her earthly pilgrimage: "This certainty lies in my heart, And God knows how ancient the desire is, To burn thyme at your feet, And to say to you: lead me, full of grace! But for [...] unreachable. This desire is only a dream and cannot not be fulfilled, To God I must go by the path of solitary suffering, By a narrow path, all encumbered with thorns." Encyclopedia Maria volume IV Beauchesne
visited by hundreds of people every day and on feast days, thousands of people of all faiths go to the shrine to honor the Mother of God. The statue of Our Lady of Bandel or Our Lady of the Good Journey on [...] on the roof of the basilica is considered miraculous. In front of the statue hundreds of candles are lit by the pilgrims and the faithful. Every November, during the novena of Our Lady of the Good Journey [...] January 25 – Our Lady of the Good Journey (Bandel, India, 1599) In India, hundreds of people visit this shrine every day Bandel is located 40 km from Calcutta, India. The Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary
this reason, I bend my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that, through the supporting merits of the glorious and holy Virgin Mary, his Mother, and of our most blessed father Francis and all the [...] August 11 - Our Lady of the Way (Saint Charles, Missouri, USA) - Saint Clare Our Lady of Poverty The way and path is difficult and the gate through which one passes and enters into life is narrow; there
March 14 - Our Lady of Kostroma or Fedor (Russsia) The Silence of the Holy Family (I) Tradition tells us that the three inhabitants of the Holy House of Nazareth almost never spoke. The sweet heavenly [...] where the winds of the Alps howl through the corridors and shake the windows, while the rest of the house is quiet as a tomb. The words of Jesus were very rare, which is the reason why Mary kept them in her [...] we could believed to be a part of the life of the Holy Family, took place merely in our imagination, they did not exist. Silence reigned there deeper than in a loneliness of tears or a Cistercian monk's
April 5 - Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Fr. Jakob Rem (Ingolstadt, Germany, 1604) The Compassion of the Blessed Virgin (I) She is the Eve of the new Covenant, the mother shared by all believers; [...] yet this cost Mary the death of her first-born Son. She had but to join the eternal Father, with whom she gave her consent for their Son to be nailed to the cross. This is why Providence summoned her [...] life she bore! What must her feelings have been on hearing the final dying words of her Son! No, you may be sure that of all the emotions that assailed her soul, without question this was the most painful
December 5 - Our Lady of the Jesuit College (Rome, 1584) The Mother of Mercy Mary is the antithesis of Satan, because she not only accepted God's grace, which Satan refused, but also the perfect forgiveness [...] offered to her in the very creation of her soul. She welcomed the purity of her immaculate conception, not just as a free gift, but as a gift of mercy, a grace of forgiveness, since it would have been [...] included in the fall of the sons and daughters of Adam. Though she had never been defiled by sin, she was forgiven in a greater measure than anyone else, for she has been the object of a prepossessing forgiveness
Beatification of Bartolo Longo, Apostle of the Rosary (1980) The Spiritual Journey of the Rosary In the spiritual journey of the Rosary, based on the constant contemplation - in Mary's company - of the face [...] face of Christ, this demanding ideal of being conformed to him is pursued through an association which could be described in terms of friendship. We are thereby enabled to enter naturally into Christ's life [...] the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the same life in Holy Communion, we can become, to the extent of our lowliness, similar to them and can learn from these supreme models a life of humility, poverty
April 5 - Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Fr. Jakob Rem (Ingolstadt, Germany, 1604) The Compassion of the Blessed Virgin (I) She is the Eve of the new Covenant, the mother shared by all believers; [...] yet this cost Mary the death of her first-born Son. She had but to join the eternal Father, with whom she gave her consent for their Son to be nailed to the cross. This is why Providence summoned her [...] life she bore! What must her feelings have been on hearing the final dying words of her Son! No, you may be sure that of all the emotions that assailed her soul, without question this was the most painful
pressure of an opposing civilization, a civilization of death,” he continued. “We need a civilization of life!” Sadly, the intersection between organized crime and veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not [...] on August 15th, when the Catholic Church marks the feast of the Assumption of Mary. In May, 1993, Saint John Paul II scrapped the prepared text of a speech in Agrigento to deliver a powerful, emotional appeal [...] as “a culture of death” and “an enemy of human dignity and civil peace,” he exclaimed. “In the name of Christ, I say to those responsible: Convert! One day you will face the judgment of God!” “May there
from his childhood. I understood the presence of Mary in the life of the pope, a witness he never ceased to give. From that moment, I recite the 15 mysteries of the Rosary every day.” [...] There is great [...] tells the story from when he was a bishop of joining a group that was praying the Rosary with St. John Paul II: “I was praying in the middle of the people of God to which I and all those there belonged [...] September 16 - Saint Robert Bellarmine, doctor of the Church (d. 1621) The Rosary connects us as one army of prayer warriors under the Pope My family has been saying the Rosary daily ever since my daughter
