10 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1546) - Saint Gregory of Nyssa The Rosary, a sort of eighth sacrament In the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, where Catholics make up just 1 per cent of the population [...] language, says Father Leopold Kropfreiter. The Austrian priest of the Servants of Jesus and Mary Congregation has been a missionary in the largest of the central Asian republic since 2008. Under Soviet rule [...] character of the Church of Kazakhstan, namely, a strong Eucharistic adoration and a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. The cross bears an inscription paying homage to the martyrs and victims of the Soviet

Apparitions of the Mediatrix of All Graces to Bärbel Ruess (Marienfried, Germany, 1946) Miracles of the Rosary in South America (II) In 1754, an image that came to be known as Our Lady of Las Lajas (Our [...] (Our Lady of the Rocks) miraculously appeared on a rock cliff in Colombia. This image depicted the Virgin Mary giving a friar’s cord to Saint Francis and a rosary to Saint Dominic. Mystified by its appearance [...] they bored 3 feet into the rock and determined that the image appearing on the surface of the rock goes to a depth of at least 3 feet into the rock itself! This famous image now has a shrine built around

about a way of life that is godless and indeed profanes God in his creatures that risks leading to hell.” He added that “in asking and demanding of each of us the fulfillment of the duties of our proper [...] July 8 – Our Lady of Kazan (Russia) For a general mobilization against the risk of hell In his homily of May 13, 2017, in Fatima (Portugal), for the canonization of the shepherds Francisco and Jacinta [...] created us to be a source of hope for others, a true and attainable hope, in accordance with each person’s state of life … Life can survive only because of the generosity of other lives.” He concluded

April 23 – Our Lady of La Penha (Brazil) The Church distinguishes two types of revelation The Church distinguishes between two types of revelation: the Revelation contained in the Bible and interpreted [...] can be useful insofar as their messages confirm or underline the depth of the mysteries of faith. For example, when the Virgin Mary appeared in 1858 in Lourdes, she introduced herself as "the Immaculate [...] finished. Nothing can be added to it. This is what the last book of the Bible, called the Apocalypse or Revelation, states. The second type of revelation are the so-called "private" revelations. Through them

Ignatius of Antioch already bears witness to this connection: "Mary's virginity and giving birth, and even the Lord's death escaped the notice of the prince of this world: these three mysteries worthy of pr [...] March 26 - 5th Sunday of Lent - Our Lady of the Palace (Italy, 1776) - Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel Three mysteries worthy of proclamation accomplished in God's silence People are sometimes troubled [...] adaptation to the ideas of the age. The meaning of this event is accessible only to faith, which understands in it the "connection of these mysteries with one another" in the totality of Christ's mysteries

September 18 – Our Lady of Meritxell (Andorra) The Pieta on the shoulder of this world racing champion One hardly has to look far for symbols of Lewis Hamilton’s religious devotion. An image of Pieta, Michelangelo’s [...] Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of the dead Christ, is inked on his shoulder. Tattoos, though, are only the half of it. These days, the four-time world champion’s faith is so integral [...] wait, because I go to church. I go with a couple of my close friends and we leave feeling enlightened and empowered. It’s like a re-centering. Most of the time you leave and think, ‘Wow, I know where I

faith born of the “yes” of a woman" … "Therefore, without the warmth of the living and recognized presence of women, the Church risks becoming more like a ministry, a bureaucracy, instead of the Good News [...] homily during the Mass of the translation of the icon Salus Populi Romani on January 28, 2018. Mary "is not a possibility among others offered by popular devotion; she is at the heart of the Christian faith [...] Avril 12 – Apparition of Our Lady of the Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola and his three children in Tre Fontane in 1947 (approved in 1956) Christianity was born of a woman's “yes” "The Mother is not an

"cleanse" a city of all its religious objects. They attempted to tip over a statue of the Virgin Mary, but couldn’t do it! It looked like a mysterious power kept her in place. Then one of them, driven by [...] by his fanaticism, climbed on the base of the statue to behead it. He managed to do it, to the delight of his friends, who gave vent to their hatred of religion around the mutilated statue. A few weeks [...] January 24 – Our Lady of prayer (Toledo, Spain) - Saint Francis de Sales The day he desecrated the statue of the Madonna "Let the modern iconoclasts meditate the following fact that happened during the

December 12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas (Mexico, 1531) I am the Mother of Ipalnemohuani (IV) But the Blessed Virgin came down the hill to meet him, and blocking his way, she said [...] assured her that he would come back again tomorrow for her. But the merciful and ever-virgin Saint Mary replied, "Listen and understand, my humblest and dearest son: what has troubled you, what has afflicted [...] Am I not here? Am I not your mother? Aren't you under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? (...) As Juan Diego listened to the Lady from Heaven, he felt comforted and his heart became

January 29 – Our Lady of Nasturtiums (Italy, 1630) "Come, recite your Rosary and keep your peace of mind" "Recite your Rosary," says God, "and don't worry about what superficial people say to you: that [...] "Come," says God, "recite your Rosary and keep your peace of mind." Charles Péguy (1873-1914), Catholic French writer and poet Translated by the Marie de Nazareth editorial team [...] As was my Son. As was His Mother." "Recite your Rosary: you will find at your side the whole company of the Gospel: the poor, uneducated widow; the repentant moneylender who has forgotten his catechism;