bless the people. Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Sorrows will also come." Lucia asked what they were to do with all the offerings of money that people left at the foot of the oak at the Cova da Iria [...] "I want you to have two processional stretchers made, for the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. I want you and Jacinta to carry one of them with two other girls. You will both dress in white. And then I [...] dressed in white. What is left over will help towards the construction of a chapel that is to be built here." Lucia then asked for the cure of some sick people. “Some I will cure during the year.” Then, looking
outskirts of the city. The name of the woman was Egidia Mathis. Two soldiers from one of those roving bands of mercenaries were hiding in ambush. Suddenly, they attacked the woman, with the intention of raping [...] Lady of Flowers (1336) The Madonna appeared, beside Egidia, to comfort her In Bra, a small town in the province of Cuneo which has always belonged to the Diocese of Turin (Italy), on the evening of December [...] because of the shock of the attack, Egidia gave birth at the foot of the column. With her newborn baby wrapped up in her scarf, the young mother managed to reach the nearest house. The news of the prodigious
that the Mother of the Savior would play in the end times. They predicted that the reign of Christ the Lord would come through the same path that he took at his first coming: with and by Mary, and in the company [...] company of the angelic legions as in Bethlehem. In those future times, the visible representatives of the invisible Angels will be what Louis de Montfort calls the great saints of the end times, in other [...] spirit, obedient to the motions of the Holy Spirit and strong as an army drawn up in battle (Sg 6:4). They will be the last crusaders, the last bearers of the cross of love. According to Saint Faustina
led the preparation of a gathering of the members of the Congregation and the Children of Mary for the whole northern part of Paraná (one of the 26 states of Brazil). In memory of this event, we installed [...] the age of 21, I was elected president of the Marian Congregation, which then had more than 200 members. In view of the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate [...] last day of May—a month dedicated to Mary—Pope Paul VI sent me a letter announcing that I was appointed as the first bishop of the Diocese of Umuarama-PR. José Maria Maimone, SAC. Emeritus Bishop of Umuarama
with God passed through Mary’s soul. We know how silent God is." Frederic William Faber In Belle et douce Marie, la Vierge des peintres (“Sweet and Beautiful Mary: The Virgin of Painters”) by Michael Lonsdale [...] with Jesus for twelve long years, important years for the formation of habits, though Mary lived them as if in a holy ecstasy, full of painful love. She had carried Jesus in her arms. She had watched over [...] Lonsdale, released in December 2017, Éditions Philippe Rey, a 125-page illustrated book of paintings of Mary in color accompanied by beautiful texts, p.54
(today basilica) of the Puríssima (Mary Most Pure). The priest for whom I used to serve Mass belonged to the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Nativity of Mary, but I attended a Marist primary and secondary [...] In front of an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, she said, "I offer you my son.” The Virgin took her at her word! This is how Mary has always been in my life. Gustavo Rodríguez Vega Archbishop of Yucatán [...] Lady of Copacabana (Bolivia) She said to the Virgin, "I offer you my son," and she took him at his word! The Blessed Virgin Mary has always been present in my life: I was baptized at the Shrine of Our Lady
Lady of the Lake (Italy, 1872) Our Lady is with us and can change us The young Chilean Khristian Briones became addicted to drugs in prison, before being saved by the Rosary (see A Moment with Mary of January [...] from prison, he fell back into drugs. Yet, one day, as he gave a cigarette to someone, he heard by way of thanks: "God bless you!” This simple sentence was an encouragement that made him decide to take up [...] forward ... God works on me so that I become a better Christian," he explains. Briones shares his message of hope with inmates through "a Rosary workshop about four times a week that includes catechesis and Mass
January 17 – Our Lady of Holy Hope (Pontmain, France, 1871) "Therefore you will be next to my Mother" A poor man was praying, conscious of his poverty. He said to God: "I am not worthy to enter your Kingdom [...] next to my Mother." Excerpt from Une année avec la Vierge Marie (A Year With the Virgin Mary), selected by Olivier Bonnassies - Presses de la Renaissance, Paris 2009. [...] Kingdom, but because of your Mercy, I know that you cannot close your door. I only ask you to give me the last place." And Jesus answered him: "I will give you the last place. Therefore you will be next
really like to do is to stand before an image of Our Lady and meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary. This prayer makes me feel the love and presence of Mary in my life. I feel that she accompanies me and [...] to learn to meditate the mysteries of the Holy Rosary myself. My father wrote them down for me on a piece of paper used to wrap bread. This paper was my first manual of prayer. Unfortunately, I have not [...] Our Lady of Meritxell (Andorra) My first prayer book I was born into a family that gathered every evening before going to bed, to pray the Rosary. My father was the one who led the meditation of the mysteries
from Mary in St John (2: 5): "Do whatever he tells you," pronounced at the wedding of Cana. Mary is the one who intercedes for us and asks us to do everything the Lord tells us. These words of Mary—which [...] have chosen as the motto of my episcopal ministry— helped me to overcome my fears and motivated me to accept the mission of bishop! I would like Mary to be for me, for all of us, for your families, this [...] this example---the path that leads us to always do the will of Jesus! May Mary, our Mother, the perfect disciple, the apostle of Jesus, always accompany us in our lives and bring us to Jesus so that we may
