important stage of my life? I spent much of the retreat in front of the image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, asking for her maternal protection after I left the seminary. During the rest of the retreat I [...] thought of my vocation to be a priest and religious that I understood that my place was there. I never again doubted my vocation after that. Archbishop Murilo Krieger Vice President of the Conference of Bishops [...] Bishops of Brazil and Primate of Brazil Exclusive Interview by Thácio Siqueira for A Moment with Mary

invocation of the Hail Mary "and at the hour of our death." At the foot of the cross stood Mary, Our Lady of Compassion. The hour of the Passion of Jesus is also the hour of the compassion of the Virgin [...] that it is the hour of Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted as well! Common experience shows that many of the dying spontaneously call for Mother Mary. If we pray to Mary at the hour of our death it is also [...] liturgy of the Church calls her the "gate always open to heaven" and beseeches us to look at the star to reach the port of heaven. Father Guillaume de Menthière Excerpt from his book Je vous salue Marie (Hail

the Lord's plan for each one of us, for the glory of God, our personal sanctification, and for the good of souls and the Church. Blessed Father Marie Eugène In La Vierge Marie toute Mère (The Virgin Who [...] (1858) – Birth of John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) May they give us their powerful love We should get close to Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and the Child Jesus amid the dreariness of ordinary life [...] life. Let us simply ask them, humbly and ardently, to help us to understand the meaning of this trial, and to make us accept it, so that we may follow in their footsteps, and remain faithful like them. May

then the Virgin Mary - who came under her title of Our Lady of Carmel. From July 2, 1961 to November 13, 1965, the girls reported more than 2,000 encounters with the Virgin. Message of June 18, 1965 (through [...] warnings" In 1961, in Garabandal, a village of 300 inhabitants in the Spanish Pyrenees, at a place called La Calleja, four young girls, Conchita, Jacinta, Mari Loli and Mari Cruz reported seeing an angel, followed [...] June 18 - Apparition of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Garabandal from 1961- 1965 (Spain; supernatural character not yet officially established, devotion permitted) "You are now being given the last warnings"

mystery of the descent of the Holy Spirit on Mary and the Apostles. This gift of the Holy Spirit was intended for them first and, through them, for the whole Church. Jesus prayed for this mission of the Holy [...] establishment of the Church and of our spiritual life. Within the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the Love that unites the Father and the Son. He is especially credited with all the works of union. In Mary, it is [...] that Jesus "was conceived of the Holy Spirit". In us, the Holy Spirit is like the soul of our soul, the principle of our spiritual life. It is actually through Him that the life of grace begun at Baptism

again; the streets will be full of blood; the whole world will mourn." Saint Catherine Labouré (1) This is the saint's personal account of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary she received in Paris in 1830 [...] sweetest emotion of my life, and it would be impossible for me to express it. The Blessed Virgin explained to me how I should act in the midst of my sorrow, and, pointing to the foot of the altar with her [...] 1830. (1) Saint Catherine Labouré (1806-1876) was a French nun of the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, in the Rue du Bac convent in Paris, France. In 1830, the Blessed Virgin appeared to her several

Fioretti de Notre Dame du Mont-Carmel : “Simon, a man of great temperance and devotion to Mary, often prayed to the Virgin, glorious Mother of God, Patron of the Carmelite Order, humbly entreating her to accord [...] On July 16, 1251, in Cambridge, England, the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Simon Stock, an early Prior of the Carmelite religious order. The account of this vision has been passed down to us through numerous [...] heartfelt devotion: Flower of Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Fertile Virgin, One and Only, Sweet Mother, but who has not known man, accord us your favors, Star of the Sea. One day, Our Lady

director of Human Life International (HLI) in Ireland, inspired by photos on social media of hundreds of men in Poland praying the Rosary in public, began a project called the Men’s Public Rosary of Reparation [...] reparation for the sins of “ abortion, contraception, all forms of impurity, reckless driving, dishonesty, and deceit. ” “ One of my main comments to the men last month was, ‘If the men of Ireland took proper [...] starting Oct. 4, ” McCrystal said. The initiative, he said, is in response to Our Lady of Fátima’s request for the devotion of the Five First Saturdays, in reparation for the insults and blasphemies against her

first thing that the Most High corrected was my idea of Mary, the Nazarene Woman... Although a practicing Catholic, I was "cold" towards the Mother of the Savior: she had done her job and that was it. But [...] was already the prince of this world (Jn, 12), and when people, as they still are today, were inclined towards being “politically correct,” a young Nazarene girl of about 15 years of age, said "YES" to the [...] the greatest love of her life: God Himself! Her God, and our God. She spent the rest of her life doing the same thing—saying "YES" to God nonstop. The girl was called Mary, the Immaculate, conceived without

Praying the Rosary Like Never Before: Encounter the Wonder of Heaven and Earth (1), Edward Sri first notes that Catholics pray with Mary and not Mary herself. He makes this beautiful simile: “A rosary is like [...] want to fill some of our day with thoughts of God, all we need to do is pull out the beads and turn to the Lord in prayer.” (1) Praying the Rosary like Never Before: Encounter the Wonder of Heaven and Earth [...] April 8 – Our Lady of Basella (Italy, 1356) A rosary is like a portable chapel Edward Sri is Professor of Theology and Sacred Scripture at the Auguste Institute in Denver, Colorado, USA. This institute