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
October 24 - Our Lady of Hermits (Switzerland) Reciting the Rosary (II) O Mother, please intercede for me. In the palm of my hand, I see my rosary, And, to me, its black beads are like seeds That I toss [...] toss up to Heaven with great hope. What a marvelous miracle! Each Hail Mary will soon fall at the feet Of the Queen of the Heavens And my prayers in blossom will go gently Towards the Blessed Virgin with
October 24 - Our Lady of Hermits (Switzerland) Reciting the Rosary (II) O Mother, please intercede for me. In the palm of my hand, I see my rosary, And, to me, its black beads are like seeds That I toss [...] toss up to Heaven with great hope. What a marvelous miracle! Each Hail Mary will soon fall at the feet Of the Queen of the Heavens And my prayers in blossom will go gently Towards the Blessed Virgin with
Sept 6 - Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1553) Show Me You Are My Son! One day a sinner said to the Blessed Virgin, "Show me you are my mother." And she answered, "And you, show me you are my son." And to another [...] called her, addressing her as "Mother of Mercy", she said, "You sinners, when you want my help, you call me Mother of Mercy, but you never stop turning me into a mother of misery and pain by your sins."
September 26 - Our Lady of Graces (Ancone, Italy, 1836) She is More a Mother than a Queen (V) The Blessed Virgin’s most important privilege is that she is the Mother of God and free of the taint of original [...] original sin. Yet, remember that on the former point, Jesus said to us: “Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother (Mt 12:50). In addition, we are happier than she is [...] is herself, because… she does not have a Blessed Virgin to love!
September 26 - Our Lady of Graces (Ancone, Italy, 1836) She is More a Mother than a Queen (V) The Blessed Virgin's most important privilege is that she is the Mother of God and free of the taint of original [...] original sin. Yet, remember that on the former point, Jesus said to us: "Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother (Mt 12:50). In addition, we are happier than she is [...] is herself, because... she does not have a Blessed Virgin to love!
November 23 - Our Lady of the Vault (Italy) Mary in the Temple (III) And Mary was given the task of weaving the purple and scarlet In the Apocalypse of Baruch, the existence of virgins living in the Temple [...] task of weaving the purple and scarlet" echoes the apocryphal book of James's proto-Gospel. The insight of Christian faith can discern in this weaving of purple and scarlet represented on icons of the [...] Temple as weavers of the holy veil is confirmed: "And you virgins who weave byssus and silk, and gold from Ophir, in haste pick it all up and throw it in the fire that it will return it to its Author, and
witness to her living presence among us.” These were the words of Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, during the celebration of the Feast of the Assumption [...] Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on August 15, 2019, at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Zakopane, a city of 28,000 inhabitants located in southern Poland, in the region called “Little Poland [...] October 27 – Our Lady of Charity (Cuba) Why Mary has never left us alone “One wonders: why so many shrines in the world, why so much affection and devotion to Mary? In truth, from the moment Mary lost
March 13 – Our Lady of Rose (Italy, 1635) The Virgin Mary admired only one thing in herself Truly, the Savior of the world placed gentleness and humility at the foundation of virtues. Abstinence, fasting [...] nothing without the humility of the heart. But all these things come to life and receive his blessing, if humility lies underneath. Humility of the heart is the generative force of all virtues. The stem and [...] Lord only wished to reserve for Himself the care of saying to us: "Be humble." Because humility is the universal guardian, the Virgin Mary, as if she had forgotten all the other virtues of her soul and body
December 22 – Our Lady of the Milk (Italy) Admission is free The "Cave of the Milk" is a religious shrine believed to be a place where Mary nursed Jesus, according to various traditions in ancient and [...] far from the Church of the Nativity. Its local name in Arabic is Meharet-es Sitti (Cave of Our Lady) also known as the “Grotto of the Virgin" or "Saint Nicholas Church" for the chapel that stands above [...] The limestone rock of the cave is white, and the dirt floor is made of a fine whitish powder, treated as a sacred relic dubbed "Mary’s milk." This cave or grotto sits outside the city of Bethlehem, not far
