Legion of Mary chapter sponsor. He professed a great love for the Blessed Virgin, a love that he taught to his students, many of whom were later arrested and executed for belonging to the Legion of Mary. Like [...] Like Blessed Marcellin Champagnat, Br. Louis Claudius led the children to Jesus through Mary. Here is a story he shared: In 1950, I spent several months in solitary confinement in a communist prison, without
on to Our Lady, and received the medal and the blue ribbon of the Daughters of Mary. Bakhita had a deep devotion to Mary: “The Blessed Virgin protected me when I did not even know her. I was in the depths [...] after her baptismal godmother, while keeping the names of Fortunata and Bakhita, and added that of Mary to place herself under the protection of the Blessed Virgin. Dressed in the white garment of her baptism
Marian apparitions According to Canon Fayard, historian of Velay (southwestern France), the Virgin Mary appeared to a widow suffering from a high fever, on the dolmen known as " the stone of fevers", on [...] the county of Velay, and how, at the request of St. Martial, built a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary on Mount Anicius. The 7th successor of St. George, St. Vosy, had the first cathedral built in the [...] of the pilgrimage: "In this sanctuary of Mount Anicius more than in any other, the Blessed Virgin Mary has received an eminently special and filial cult of honor, veneration and love from most of the faithful
little hope for the future. Meditating on the mysteries, praying the “Our Fathers” and the “Hail Marys” gave them hope, grace, courage, and perseverance. The Rosary was the only method these persecuted [...] practice of the Faith, it is an assured path to greater holiness and love, the saints all promote it, and Mary herself promises that it will help us in our problems and sorrows, as we make our way to the Father’s [...] practical relationship with the Church. Enlisting the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in this ongoing effort will ensure the graces we need to be missionary disciples of our Lord Jesus
prayer The quality of the prayer is more important than the quantity of prayer. One intentional Hail Mary that you sit with and truly consider what God wants you to take away from this moment with Him can [...] focus on the quality of each prayer – even if that means you sit with one intentionally prayed Hail Mary for a while. I found one of those small little rosary pamphlets that you can pretty much find at any [...] wasn’t a “powerful” form of prayer. I was very wrong. As I have been revisiting the rosary myself, Mary and Jesus have been hitting me over the head with “grace-bombs” lately, and it has been incredible
humble altar to Mary. Finally, he wishes that wherever the Son is adored, the Mother also be honored: Invenerunt puerum cum Maria. If we want to please Jesus, let us love and respect Mary. Let us love her [...] Son, is an abyss of love and mercy. Let us therefore never separate, in our devotion, the Heart of Mary from that of Jesus. Let us honor and love them both with all the effusiveness of our soul. They have
Devotion to Mary, a common element that unites East and West, will certainly foster unity. Adapted and translated from: https://www.medaille-miraculeuse.fr/billet/st-josaphat-une-memoire-confiee-a-marie.html [...] intercession of the Mother of Christ, who is always present in the action of the Lord and his Church. As Mary, through the Holy Spirit, gave birth to the Son of God, who received from her his human body, she
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! And when we are plunged deep in the storm, let us pray [...] when she sees, at times, the Holy Trinity scorned and rejected everywhere. How could I not love her? Mary! Mother! Deign to look down again today upon each of us, your children. Consider neither our sin nor [...] after this life here on earth, we will enter His gentle light. Constance, a reader of A Moment with Mary Poem sent in April 2021 (Translated from French)
dedicated to the Virgin Mary everywhere. On the eastern side of the island you can still find Pancheraccia Chapel, overlooking the Mediterranean sea. It was in this remote place that Mary appeared to a lost [...] lost and thirsty young girl, in the 18th century. Mary made a hole the ground and a source of water trickled out. Then she asked the child to have the people build a chapel there. The spring proved miraculous
d her. "Do you know any others? Can you say another one?" he asked her. The child began the "Hail Mary," but the pastor interrupted her. "That one is not a prayer, because you mustn't pray to a woman, [...] the pastor encouraged her this time. However, when she arrived to the words "was born of the Virgin Mary", the child sighed in annoyance and said, "There she is again! What am I to do?" The pastor later [...] two pennies, sent her home and returned to his own abode very upset. There she is again, that Virgin Mary, even in the Creed, which he had recited so many times without noticing the words he was pronouncing
