20 - Our Lady of Itati (Paraguay) A Large Veil Was Lifted (I) The Blessed Virgin pronounced these words, either about the secrets or rules, but at the time I was only able to guess at the meaning of the [...] panorama opened in front of me, I could now see these events and changes upon the earth through the eyes of the Eternal God in His glory as He watched the Blessed Virgin lowering herself to speak with two shepherds [...] shepherds (...) Some people have not approved of the fact the fact that Mary spoke to us in such length. It is such a pity that these people feel so miserly towards a poor shepherdess who has no other hope
August 6 - Transfiguration - Our Lady of Mercy (Italy) A Mother for All (I) God said His most beautiful creation was His Mother. I lacked having a Mother, so I created her. I created her before she created [...] that on earth I never got tired of looking at her, listening to her or admiring her beauty. My Mother is very beautiful, so beautiful that, aside from the splendors of Heaven, I never feel disoriented [...] men. I have nothing to envy them for, because I have a Mother, a real one, the one I had been lacking. My Mother’s name is Mary, God said. Her heart is absolutely pure and full of grace, She is a virgin
June 3 - Our Lady of the Letter (Italy) Nazareth has a permanent message for the Church The Church cannot grow and prosper if she does not know that her hidden roots reach back to the home of Nazareth [...] in the little dwelling of the Virgin, the house of the worker, and one of the forgotten places of "pagan Galilee” from which no good could be expected. It is always by returning to this departure point that [...] give a just answer to the rebellion of our century against the power of wealth, if Nazareth does not remain for her an actual reality. Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) From "The God of Jesus Christ," April
March 30 – Our Lady of Miracles (Lucca, Italy, 1588) The Foreign Legion visits Lourdes Shrine With 1000 recruits per year from 146 nationalities, the French Foreign Legion is a model of integration. Upon [...] the meaning of its motto: Legio patria nostra (the Legion is our homeland). The men come mostly from foreign countries, and many have a painful past behind them. A lot of these men come to the Legion looking [...] "Year of Bernadette," the choice of the place was not an accident. Father André Cabes, Rector of Lourdes Shrine, reminded his listeners at a lecture he delivered on December 8, 2018, on the feast of the
January 4 - Our Lady of Roses (Italy, 1418) Mary and God's plan It was by contemplating in his eternal mind the Virgin, Christ and the Church, that God gave his absolute approval to the whole creation [...] for the great joy that divine Wisdom felt at the idea of the sons of Man: she saw the only pure and immaculate daughter of Adam; she saw the Son of Man par excellence, the only just one; Finally, she saw [...] her future incarnation and, in the children of Adam, her own children; and she rejoiced to see that they justified the plan of creation that she suggested to God (cf. Mt 11:19). Vladimir Soloviev Excerpt
April 7 – Our Lady of Zyrovic (Lithuania, 1432) Shrines where Mary's presence shines forth The places where Mary comes to meet us are a special demonstration of her motherhood to men, as are the houses [...] "You are the great honor of our race" (Judith 15:9), and: "When our people were being oppressed, you averted our disaster, walking in the straight path before our God.” (Judith 13:20). Pope Saint John [...] presence of the Mother. These places and houses are very numerous. They range from the simplest oratories in privates homes or along roads enshrining beautiful images of the Mother of God shines, to chapels
February 14 – Our Lady of Roses (Pellevoisin, France, 1876) The most needed mission in the Church Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. [...] has even more need of prayerful souls than of powerful preachers or men of eloquence. Today more than ever have we need of people who, by their self-immolation, disarm the anger of God inflamed by the ever [...] crimes of nations. We must have souls who by their importunity re-open the treasures of grace which the indifference of the multitude has closed. We must have true adorers; that is to say, people of fervor
Virgin of Guadalupe. Every December 12th, the feast day at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located in a neighborhood of Mexico City, is celebrated with the arrival of millions of pilgrims who travel [...] apparitions Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) - Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548) The most splendid pilgrimage in Mexico The most splendid pilgrimage in Mexico is by far the one in honor of the Virgin [...] their place of origin, to show their love for the brown-skinned Madonna, their national patroness. The pilgrims wear uniforms, traditional clothes, or traditional dress dating back to the time of the apparitions…
November 6 – Our Lady of Valfleury (Lyons, France) In a blooming broom shrub In the time of Emperor Charlemagne at Christmas around the year 800, a statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered in a blooming [...] Valfleury in memory of the discovery of the statue of the Virgin Mary. After an interruption due to the turmoil of the French Revolution (1789-1799), pilgrimages resumed under the Vincentians and spiritual renewal [...] superior of the Vincentians, also instituted in 1862 the work of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Agony, through which a new religious community dedicated to the sick was born called the Sisters of Gethsemani
20 - Our Lady of Itati (Paraguay) A Large Veil Was Lifted (I) The Blessed Virgin pronounced these words, either about the secrets or rules, but at the time I was only able to guess at the meaning of the [...] panorama opened in front of me, I could now see these events and changes upon the earth through the eyes of the Eternal God in His glory as He watched the Blessed Virgin lowering herself to speak with two shepherds [...] shepherds (...) Some people have not approved of the fact the fact that Mary spoke to us in such length. It is such a pity that these people feel so miserly towards a poor shepherdess who has no other hope
