ask you to help us better understand and accept the reality of humanity composed of both men and women who are complementary and created for Life. Blessed are you, Virgin Mary, our Mother and our Queen. [...] May 11 – Our Lady of La Paz (Antipolo, Philippines) Mary, we thank you for your "YES" Mary, Mother of God, you who spoke so little (five sentences and one hymn in the New Testament), but who were always [...] the essential moments of the life of your Son Jesus Christ, in these difficult times, we need you and we pray to you! It is you, such a discreet woman, that God chose as mediatrix to help save the world:

addressed one of his epistles--while its bishop was the first of the seven to whom the Book of Revelation is addressed. Interesting still is the fact that in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the [...] exceedingly, beyond our power, inasmuch as we despaired even of life itself." Paul was obliged to leave the city later on. (...) Despite all that, Paul established the Church in Ephesus--to which he later addressed [...] April 14 - Our Lady of Guam (1825) Mary and Diana (II) A mob was quickly organized which ran over those large stones heading for the amphitheater. Paul had never said anything against Diana. On the contrary

September 24 - Our Lady of Mercy (Haiti) All Graces From Heaven Pass through Mary’s Hands It would be impossible not to love Mary, if we reflected for a moment upon her affection for us, and the benefits [...] Mary’s prayers would long ago have ceased to be, and on account of our sins, have fallen back into chaos.” The same saint tells us that all the graces which we obtain from heaven pass through Mary’s hands [...] benefits which she never ceases to lavish upon us. “Alas,” exclaims Saint Bernard, that great servant of Mary, “how blind and miserable are we that do not love so kind and good a Mother! The world without Mary’s

souls who tried to climb the red ladder. They managed to go up a few rungs, but then fell; they kept trying again and again, but they always ended up falling down. Then one of them tried to climb the white [...] January 23 - Our Lady of Damascus (Syria, 1203) Two Ladders It is told in the Franciscan Chronicles that Brother Leon one day saw two ladders: a red one, on which Jesus-Christ stood; the other a white

September 24 - Our Lady of Mercy (Haiti) All Graces From Heaven Pass through Mary’s Hands It would be impossible not to love Mary, if we reflected for a moment upon her affection for us, and the benefits [...] Mary's prayers would long ago have ceased to be, and on account of our sins, have fallen back into chaos." The same saint tells us that all the graces which we obtain from heaven pass through Mary's hands [...] benefits which she never ceases to lavish upon us. "Alas," exclaims Saint Bernard, that great servant of Mary, "how blind and miserable are we that do not love so kind and good a Mother! The world without Mary's

April 15 - Our Lady of Kiev (Ukraine) The Myrrh-Streaming Icon (IV) Of course, Catholics like icons too. Reproductions of the "Portaitissa" pasted on wooden boards were distributed by the hundreds to Catholic [...] Holy One" and of Panaghion, the “Spirit of all Holiness”. The other meaning could be that the Mother of God seems to be intervening between Catholics and Orthodox to hasten the reconstruction of Christian [...] Virgin on this subject to the young visionaries in Medjugorje. I, myself, see two more meanings behind this miracle. The first is the confirmation of the close tie that links the Mother of God and the Holy Spirit

April 15 - Our Lady of Kiev (Ukraine) The Myrrh-Streaming Icon (IV) Of course, Catholics like icons too. Reproductions of the "Portaitissa" pasted on wooden boards were distributed by the hundreds to Catholic [...] Holy One" and of Panaghion, the "Spirit of all Holiness". The other meaning could be that the Mother of God seems to be intervening between Catholics and Orthodox to hasten the reconstruction of Christian [...] Virgin on this subject to the young visionaries in Medjugorje. I, myself, see two more meanings behind this miracle. The first is the confirmation of the close tie that links the Mother of God and the Holy Spirit

January 14 – OUR LADY OF THE WORD (Spain, 1514) Mary, the Faithful Virgin (II) The second dimension of faithfulness is called reception, acceptance. The "quomodo fiet?" is changed, on Mary's lips, to a "fiat [...] when man abandons himself to the mystery, not with the resignation of one who capitulates before an enigma or an absurdity, but rather with the availability of one who opens up to be inhabited by something-by [...] the crucial moment of faithfulness, the moment in which man perceives that he will never completely understand the "how"; that there are in God's plan more areas of mystery than of clarity; that, however

the prayers of the members to the scope of the universal Church, and then asked each member to find 5 others who in turn would bring 5 more, etc. This approach allowed the Living Rosary to widely develop [...] January 9 – OUR LADY OF CLEMENCY (Absam, Austria, 1797), Pauline Jaricot (d. 1862) Pauline Jaricot: The Living Rosary (I) In 1826, twenty-seven year-old Pauline Jaricot (Foundress of the Society for the [...] the Propagation of the Faith and the Association of the Living Rosary) first organized the Living Rosary in France, by adopting a method that has been proven successful in the Propagation of the Faith. She

province of Estremadura), and under the Shrine of Our Lady of the Pillar is an ancient basilica from the 3rd and 4th centuries, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. At the end of the 5th century, the Hispanic [...] are: the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza (in Aragon); the Santa Maria de Montserrat monastery on the Montserrat Mountain (in Catalonia), Our Lady of Arantzazu, a Franciscan sanctuary [...] 10 – Our Lady of Almudena (Madrid, Spain) Spain, a Marian land since the first century According to the tradition that the apostle St. James, while in Spain, had a vision of the Virgin Mary on top of a column