golden wings, clad in white, the angel descended from heaven. When the young Justyna prayed the Hail Mary, the figure rose from the throne and ascended into heaven together with the angel. The apparitions [...] Lady; the Child was holding the orb in his left hand. Still other angels 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 [...] with her 12-year-old Barbara Samulowska. During the apparition Justyna asked: “What do you want, Holy Mary?” The reply she received was, “I want you to pray the Rosary daily.” Our Lady spoke in the local dialect
gather in St Peter’s Square. “The Nativity of Mary was celebrated yesterday at Loreto, in the Pontifical Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto—the House of Mary, the House of every family—and the proposal of
September 17 - Our Lady of Virtue (France) She is More a Mother than a Queen (II) For a sermon about Mary to bear fruit, I believe that we need to talk about her real life, such as we can discover in the [...] very ordinary… “He lived under their authority...” (Lk 2:51). How simple that sounds! We often depict Mary as inaccessible, but wouldn’t it be better to show her as imitable, practising hidden virtue, living
as simply as Mary, nor lived in such pure ignorance of her own dignity, a dignity which however placed her above the angels. She was of course born without sin, what amazing solitude! Mary is a source so
to a statue of the Black Madonna, covered with a white mantle sewn with gold and precious stones. Mary has been venerated there since the early 17th century under the title of "Our Lady of Peace and Good [...] intact. The latest was in 1942, when the church was destroyed by Japanese bombing. During the month of Mary (May), 40,000 to 50,000 people attend Mass in the Shrine. Attilio Galli, In Madre della Chiesa dei
explorers and conquistadores liked to participate in popular demonstrations in honor of the Virgin Mary. At the time of territorial conflicts and popular insurrections, the Virgin was invoked to bring justice [...] Moreno consecrated the Republic of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Most Sacred Heart of Mary. The village of El Quinche is situated 50 km from Quito (the capital), in a mountainous region. Its
the Rosary is therefore a prayer with a clearly Christological orientation." "The Jesus of each Hail Mary is the very one that the succession of mysteries presents to us in turn." "It is my favorite prayer [...] recitation of the Rosary, both in the ecclesial community and in the intimacy of our families." The Mary of Nazareth Team
shrub In the time of Emperor Charlemagne at Christmas around the year 800, a statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered in a blooming broom shrub in the small village of Soucieu, (now Valfleury, France) [...] and gave it the beautiful name of Valfleury in memory of the discovery of the statue of the Virgin Mary. After an interruption due to the turmoil of the French Revolution (1789-1799), pilgrimages resumed
Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David, and the virgin's name was Mary (Lk 1:26). "Rejoice, full of grace! The Lord is with you!" (Lk 1:28). "Of all women you are the most [...] thanksgiving for her graces! Saint Louis de Montfort, also, wrote that every time we recite the Angelus, Mary feels the same joy as the one she felt when she received the visit of the Archangel Gabriel in Nazareth
Bosnia-Herzegovina (I) In the history of the Roman Catholic Church, many apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary have been recorded throughout the ages. The most famous being Guadalupe (Mexico), La Salette, and [...] overriding objective: to bring the world back to God. The messages are poignant and elevated in urgency as Mary reveals that these will be her final apparitions on earth, because, as she adds, "It will no longer
