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 [...] 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

moments where Mary, the Mother of Jesus, offers her presence and her intercession, as in the beginning of the Christian faith, when the whole Church was gathered in the Upper room and Mary "was there," [...] improvise? It is simply a filial imitation, which imprints in us the icon that we contemplate. If Mary excels at meeting us in our individual mysteries, it is because, keeping all things in her heart, [...] poor heart, in the radiance of the life of Jesus. A way of letting oneself be looked at by Jesus, as Mary would have done, throughout an ordinary day. * A musical phrase repeated over and over during a c

authentic, by presenting some little-known facts. According to the four visionaries—Conchita, Mari Loli, Mari Cruz and Jacinta—Saint Michael and Our Lady of Mount Carmel appeared to them from June 18, 1961 [...] Cantabria (Spain), who claimed to have had several visions of the Archangel Saint Michael and the Virgin Mary between 1961 and 1965. The Church has never officially approved these apparitions, but it is hard [...] just follows the alleged events. The key moments of the apparitions are: two messages that the Virgin Mary asked to be made public, where she mainly requested to make sacrifices and to convert, and where she

pray for what we need, and we pray to the One that can deliver. The Rosary is sometimes prayed to ask Mary to pray for us sinners to God, for example: “This Rosary is offered for an increase of vocations to [...] Dubuque.” In fact, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7) was established in gratitude to Mary for her intercession, resulting in victory at the battle of Lepanto. We are of course mindful of the [...] faith is enough. (3) The heart of the Rosary is to reflect on the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. When praying the Rosary this way, we don’t think so much about the words of the prayers, but on saying

him: "You've suffered enough... That's enough now. That's enough now." On March 1, 1987, the Virgin Mary communicated secrets to him: two were personal and ten concerned the future of the world. Like the [...] righteousness from his people, not bloodshed and the cries of the oppressed." Shortly afterwards, Mary asked for a chapel to be built in honor of her "Immaculate Heart, Queen of Peace". On May 11, 1990 [...] cross-shaped cloud, "lit from within", appeared at the site of the apparitions, at the precise time when Mary appeared to Rosario. This unusual cloud was witnessed by hundreds of people. Archbishop Bommarito

"mysteries" of the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary: The Joyful mysteries of Jesus' childhood (Annunciation of Jesus' birth to Mary, Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, Nativity, Presentation of Jesus in [...] Crucifixion), and the Glorious mysteries (Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost, Assumption, Crowning of Mary). Reviving a medieval tradition, Pope John Paul II added a fourth series: the Luminous mysteries,

1568, the latter was dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. The high point in the history of Gietrzwald is an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1877, after the partition of the kingdom of Poland between [...] "I would like you to say the Rosary every day." On July 1st, she declared: "I am the Most Blessed Mary Immaculate." Many people joined the girls in the following months. Some asked the Virgin questions [...] people, and the freedom of Poland. Others asked for healing, especially from alcoholism. The Virgin Mary's answer was always: "Pray and say the Rosary: priests will be freed, the sick will recover, Poland

then which was born of Mary was according to the divine Scriptures human by nature, and the Body of the Lord was a true one—but it was this—because it was the same as our body, for Mary was our sister inasmuch [...] it behoved Him to be made like His brethren in all things, and to take a Body like us . This is why Mary is truly presupposed, in order that He may take it from her, and offer it for us as His own. And this [...] but to a virgin betrothed to a man, in order that by means of the betrothed man he might shew that Mary was really a human being.’ And for this reason Scripture also mentions her bringing forth, and tells

ées department of France. This shrine has been a place of pilgrimage since 1515, after the Virgin Mary appeared three times to Anglèze de Sagazan, a young shepherdess, giving her the following messages: [...] as the "miraculous statue, miraculously saved". So many sick people flocked to this place chosen by Mary "to pour out her graces", that both the place and the Virgin received the title of "healing", in the [...] Immaculate Conception (known as the Fathers of Garaison) was founded along with a school. The statue of Mary was crowned by Bishop Laurence in 1865 and the first chaplains of the Lourdes shrine, in particular