April 25 – Our Lady of Good Counsel (Genazzano, Italy, 1476) The devil trembles and flees when he hears this prayer One day, after Saint Bernard had prayed a Hail Mary with great respect in front of a statue [...] it. Saint Alphonsus Liguori had a great devotion to the Hail Mary . He recited it every day on the hour every hour. When the hour struck, he would stop to recite it, whatever his occupation and the people [...] around him. When someone expressed some surprise at this habit of his, he replied, "An Ave Maria is a treasure that surpasses the price of the whole world." The Children's Rosary From the booklet Histoires
July 24 – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy) Living like Mary, the one who serves with love In 1970, I was a member of the Focolare Priestly School founded by Chiara Lubich, where I discovered [...] in Mary our model of life, in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Living like Mary, the one who serves with love, the Mother of all, the one who loves until it hurts, has become my daily aim—attaining [...] offer their sufferings for the conversion of sinners; young people who leave everything to devote themselves to the priestly life. Bishop Salvador Paruzzo, Diocese of Ourinhos SP (Brazil) Exclusive Interview
In 1832, at the age of 33, Pauline bought a large house on the hill of Lorette in Lyons for the organization of the Living Rosary, and also to give Our Lady of Fourvière a pedestal of greenery and prayer [...] January 10 – OUR LADY OF GUIDES (Manila, the Philippines, 1570) Pauline Jaricot: The Living Rosary (II) The Living Rosary spread abroad, in Switzerland, Belgium, England, and several countries on the American [...] prayer. She gathered a few companions, the Daughters of Mary, there to meet the obligations of the new organization which, the first year alone, sent out 240,000 books, 80,000 holy images, 40,000 medals and
April 3 – Our Lady of the Cross (Italy, 1490) In 2009, the Virgin began visiting Christians and Muslims again in Egypt Forty-two years after the apparitions of Zeitoun, and 10 years after those of Assiut [...] luminous form believed to be the Madonna moves on the facade of the church of Archangel Michael, in El Waraq, Lower Egypt. Waraq el Hadar is an island on the Nile near the famous pyramids of Giza. This bright [...] are genuine: it seems evident that the Mother of God, by making herself visible to Muslims above churches, is telling them to stop the violent persecution of Christians. Marie-Gabrielle Leblanc, February
November 22 - Our Lady of Lavang (Vietnam, 1798) Mary in the Temple (II) Eighty-two young girls were weaving the veil of the Temple Rabbinical literature confirms that many young girls lived in the Temple [...] subject: "The veil of the Temple was a palm-length in width. It was woven with seventy-two smooth stitches each made of twenty-four threads. The length was of forty cubits and the width of twenty cubits. [...] Eighty-two young girls wove it. Two veils were made each year and three hundred priests were needed to carry it to the pool" (Mishna Sheqalim 8, 5). The Talmud also says that when the Temple was burnt in 70 A
April 17 - Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (III) Finally, Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and wills [...] cannot fail to be a woman who loves. We sense this in her quiet gestures, as recounted by the infancy narratives in the Gospel. We see it in the delicacy with which she recognizes the need of the spouses [...] spouses at Cana and makes it known to Jesus. We see it in the humility with which she recedes into the background during Jesus' public life, knowing that the Son must establish a new family and that the Mother's
November 22 - Our Lady of Lavang (Vietnam, 1798) Mary in the Temple (II) Eighty-two young girls were weaving the veil of the Temple Rabbinical literature confirms that many young girls lived in the Temple [...] subject: "The veil of the Temple was a palm-length in width. It was woven with seventy-two smooth stitches each made of twenty-four threads. The length was of forty cubits and the width of twenty cubits. [...] Eighty-two young girls wove it. Two veils were made each year and three hundred priests were needed to carry it to the pool" (Mishna Sheqalim 8, 5). The Talmud also says that when the Temple was burnt in 70 A
January 17 – Our Lady of Holy Hope (Pontmain, France, 1871) The baby pointed and said “Zesus!” On January 17, 1871, Mary appeared in Pontmain, 40 km from a routed French army after the defeat of Le Mans (a [...] city in western France). Pontmain was a hamlet with a population of less than 100. On the main square in front of the church from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, on a clear starry night, two children (followed by others) [...] litanies, Marian hymns, etc.), Our Lady silently unfolded a simple message spread under her feet: "But pray my children, God will answer you in a short time. My Son allows himself to be touched." Three days later
sacrament of Holy Orders and this "power" is independent of the priest’s morality. The Lord has so arranged that the people of God will never be deprived of divine food. Similarly, if I confess my sins to an [...] sense that in spite of the indignity of her ministers, she offers all the help and graces of sanctification needed for my eternal salvation: the Mass, the sacraments, the veneration of the Blessed Mother [...] May 27 – Our Lady of the People (Italy, 1645) Sinless, but not without sinners "The Church is sinless, but not without sinners," said Cardinal Journet. Not without sinners, we know it only too well. She
May 8 – Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 1875) The "Holy Manna" from Saint John’s tomb On May 8th, Eastern Orthodox celebrate the synaxis (assembly of believers) of the ashes or "Holy Manna" produced [...] diseases of the body and the soul for those who applied it on themselves with faith. Thus the Orthodox Church solemnizes once a year the beloved disciple of the Lord, beloved son of the Mother of God. According [...] Jesus especially entrusted to the Virgin Mary. After the wonderful passing and burial of the holy Apostle John the Theologian in Ephesus (celebrated every year on the 26th of September), his tomb was found
