March 12 – Our Lady of the Elm (Italy, 1610) She called on the Blessed Virgin with all her might Forcibly assimilated to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) in August 1940, Lithuania (Northwest [...] with fear, she called on the Blessed Virgin with all her might to come to her rescue. The woman who searched her saw the pouch attached to her skin. She opened it and asked in surprise: “Tchto eto?” (What [...] finally returned it to her as a worthless object. André Martin, author This true story is taken from the book Lituanie, terre de foi, terre des croix (Lithuania, Land of Faith, Land of the Cross), published
26 – Our Lady of the Lake (Italy, 1872) Never separate Mary from Jesus Where do we find Jesus on earth if not in Mary’s arms? Did she not give us the Eucharist? Her acceptance of the incarnation of the [...] womb set in motion the great mystery of Jesus’s reparation of injuries towards God and his union with us, which Jesus fulfilled during his mortal life and continues to give us in the Blessed sacrament. Without [...] could not go to Jesus. For she possesses him in her heart—he delights in it, and those who want to know his intimate virtues, his secret and privileged love, must seek them in the heart of Mary. Those who
April 24 – Our Lady of Luján (Argentina) Lourdes: The 70th recognized miracle French Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonin of Beauvais declared that the recovery a long-debilitated nun made after she visited Lourdes [...] a miracle,” the nun, now 79, recounted of her July 2008 pilgrimage to Lourdes. After returning to her home convent and praying in the chapel, “I felt a surge of well-being throughout my body, a relaxation [...] Lourdes was a miracle—the 70th event to be recognized as an act of divine intervention at the shrine. He proclaimed the miracle nearly a decade after Bernadette Moriau, born on September 23, 1939 in northern
May 14 – Our Lady Patroness of Bavaria (Germany) My relationship with the Virgin was renewed While he was serving as the pastor of the parish of Qaryatayn, near Palmyra, Syria, Father Mourad was abducted [...] Lord was speaking through this masked Muslim. Thanks to prayer, I was able to regain my peace. It was May, the month of Mary. My cellmate and I began to recite the Rosary, which I did not pray much before [...] on on several occasions if he did not convert to Islam, whipped and subjected to a mock execution, Father Mourad’s detention conditions resemble a Way of the Cross. "The first week was the hardest," he
December 1st – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1923) He sent a strong messianic signal The first prophecy on which we should meditate during Advent evokes the time of the coming of the Messiah. It is found [...] the time of the Virgin, after Herod I was appointed king of Judea, putting an end to the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty. Judea became a vassal province of Rome and remained so until the destruction of Jerusalem [...] from his descendants, until the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor." This passage, which has always been understood by scholars of Israel in a messianic sense, takes
12 - Humility of Our Lady Marian Apparitions in France Recognized On Sunday, May 4, 2008, during a Mass celebrated in the town of Laus in the French Alps, Bishop Jean-Michel de Falco of Gap, accompanied [...] obliged to believe in apparitions,” he continued, “even in those officially recognized, but if they help us in our faith and our daily lives, why should we reject them?” the bishop asked. The shrine of Our [...] Our Lady of Laus attracts some 120,000 pilgrims each year. The Catholic philosopher Jean Guitton called it “one of the most hidden and powerful shrines of Europe.”
half of it. Her hands, raised to the height of her chest, seemed to be effortlessly holding a small golden globe. Her eyes looked up to heaven, and her face brightened as she offered the globe to Our Lord [...] Laboure, Virgin (1806-76) - Our Lady of Walsingham (England, 1061) The Rue du Bac Apparitions (II) On November 27, 1830, which was one Saturday and a day before the first Sunday of Advent, at 5:30 pm, during [...] thought I heard a noise like the rustling of a silk gown, on the right side of the chapel. I then saw the Blessed Virgin Mary near the painting of Saint Joseph. She was of average height and her face was so exquisite
from all eternity! He, the Word, the Light, the God of gods, the Lord of Lords did not fear to become incarnate, by the Breath of His Spirit, in the womb of Mary. She is the All Pure. She is the Immaculate [...] I not love her? Mary! Mother! Deign to look down again today upon each of us, your children. Consider neither our sin nor our poverty, but simply Jesus hidden in our hearts. Admirable Mother, may you console [...] Mother from the bottom of her soul? She has wept so many times over our sinful humanity. She has cried so much at the sight of pending atrocities. She has wailed so much at the sight of the Enemy turning her
April 13 - Our Lady of Tears Mary and Diana (I) In 1922 the servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, then a young priest and scholar, was offered to accompany a distinguished French novelist, Emile Baumann [...] was the visit to the city of Ephesus. When I saw it, it was a wilderness; when St Paul saw it, it was called the "Treasure House of Asia." He looked out on the great glory of the temple of Diana as she [...] exasperation came to an end when the chief victim of the decline of idol worship began to protest against Paul. His name was Demetrius; he had built a considerable business in the manufacture of little silver
January 21 - Our Lady of Altagracia (Dominican Republic, 1650) Mary Has Given the World its True Light Holy Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world its true light, Jesus, your Son - the Son of God. You [...] completely to God's call and thus became a wellspring of the goodness which flows forth from him. Show us Jesus. Lead us to him. Teach us to know and love him, so that we too can become capable of true love [...] love and be fountains of living water in the midst of a thirsting world.
