Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was created on January 15, 2011, to allow Anglican converts to enter fully into communion with the Catholic Church, while retaining much of their heritage and [...] July 24 – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Italy) – Saint Charbel The Virgin Mary and the Anglicans Anglicans are similar to Protestants in their attitude towards the Virgin Mary, but they recognize her divine [...] created in 1967 to promote ecumenical dialogue and to find common positions on ethical issues. Within this framework, an Anglican-Roman Catholic agreement was reached on the question of the dogma of the Assumption
October 29 – Our Lady of Follina (Italy, 1150) If you realize that you find happiness and peace by reciting the Rosary "It is in love’s nature to keep repeating itself, with simple and affectionate words [...] is a mindless, mechanical prayer, a waste of time. But for those who lead a spiritual life and are advanced in the way of prayer, the Rosary is the easiest way to help us pray in a sustained and concrete [...] recite a whole Rosary without thinking too deeply, but instead can rest in the peaceful presence of the Mother of Jesus, rejoice, for it means that the Holy Spirit is moving you, and this is what matters the
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 [...] as inaccessible, but wouldn’t it be better to show her as imitable, practising hidden virtue, living from her faith, just like we do? We could give examples of her behavior taken from the Gospel, “They [...] the Gospel and not just what we merely imagine her life was like. It is easy to imagine that her real life, in Nazareth and later, was very ordinary… “He lived under their authority...” (Lk 2:51). How
August 7 - Feast of Our Lady de los Reyes (Sevilla, Spain) A Mother for All (II) When I rose to Heaven, I missed her and she missed me. So she joined me directly, with her soul and her body. I could not [...] not become cold and stiff. This very pure body which had given a body to God could not be left to rot in the ground… I couldn’t do it to her, it was not possible, that would have cost me too much. I am God [...] for my brothers and sisters on earth so that they could have a Mother in Heaven. A real Mother, one of their own kind, in body and soul. So I gave them Mine.
and mother of 4 children, felt a sudden urge to travel to Lourdes in search of healing. Two years prior, she had fallen from a tree and severely injured her right hand. The accident left two of her fingers [...] March 1 – Our Lady of Machaby (Italy, 1800) – 12th apparition in Lourdes The first miracle in Lourdes The first documented miracle in Lourdes occurred in 1858 when 38-year-old Catherine Latapie, a farmer’s [...] had formed there. Immediately, the paralysis of her fingers was gone, and she could move them just as she could before her accident. She also joined her hands to thank the Virgin Mary for the miracle. On
meek, despised, and of low degree, the Holy Spirit taught her this precious knowledge and wisdom, that God is a Lord whose work consists but in this — to exalt them of low degree, to put down the mighty [...] January 21 – Our Lady of Altagracia (Dominican Republic, Central America, 1650) A Marian Meditation by Martin Luther When the Holy Virgin experienced what great things God wrought in her, notwithstanding [...] mighty from their seats, in short, to break whatever is whole and make whole whatever is broken. Tell me, was not hers a wondrous soul? She finds herself the Mother of God, exalted above all mortals, and still
April 29 - Our Lady of Faith (Amiens, France) The Angelus The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou [...] blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. Hail [...] O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son
March 10 - Our Lady of Miracles (Bari, Italy, 1576) Mary's and Joseph's Silence Joseph shared Mary's silence, just as he shared her secret; he to whom the angel had told such great things, and who had [...] encourages one to talk. Human advantages have nothing to do with it, if they are unknown and unappreciated by this world. What God does has in itself an inestimable price that one desires to savor with Him [...] had seen the miracle of the virginal birth. Neither one of them spoke about what they saw every day in their home nor did they draw any benefit from such wonders. As humble as she was wise, Mary let herself
messenger as "full of grace", and to the heavenly messenger she replies, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word." Thus Mary, a daughter of Adam, consenting to the Divine Word [...] 3 - Our Lady of Angels (Toulouse, France) - 14th Apparition in Lourdes Mary's Unique Holiness It is no wonder therefore that the usage prevailed among the Fathers whereby they called the mother of God [...] stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature. Adorned from the first instant of her conception with the radiance of an entirely unique holiness, the Virgin of Nazareth
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 [...] as inaccessible, but wouldn't it be better to show her as imitable, practising hidden virtue, living from her faith, just like we do? We could give examples of her behavior taken from the Gospel, "They [...] the Gospel and not just what we merely imagine her life was like. It is easy to imagine that her real life, in Nazareth and later, was very ordinary... "He lived under their authority..." (Lk 2:51). How
