August 3 - Act of consecration to Mary inspired by Saint Peter Damien and approved by the Archbishop of Cambrai (France, 1626) - Feast of Saint Gamaliel and Saint Abibon Beit Gemal Monastery: The burial [...] burial place of Saint Stephen, at whose funeral Mary was present (I) According to Christian tradition, Beit Gemal (also spelled Beit Jamal) was the site of the Roman village of Kefar Gamala – the village named

July 19 - First apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Catherine Labouré (July 19 or 20, 1830 - Paris, France) A Worldwide Rosary for the conversion of the world Men from more than 40 countries joined [...] joined together May 6 for the worldwide Men’s Rosary, praying on their knees before the Virgin Mary so that men would once again be valued in society and for the conversion of the entire world. The general [...] because of our virtues, but by getting on our knees asking for the intercession of our Most Holy Virgin Mary, so that she would grant us the conversion of sinners, our own conversion, that of our families, and

July 17 - Feast of Mary’s humility A reflection on Mary’s unconditional love Over the years, I’ve often written about how I’ve felt comfort in the Blessed Virgin Mary. While Jesus is indeed love itself [...] or sought thine intercession, was left unaided.” Mary would always be there. Mary always was there. Growing up in a home without a father, I think Mary’s maternal love connected with my own mother’s love [...] on in a 2014 Catholic Review reflection on Mary’s unconditional love. The famous line in the famous prayer, the Memorare, has that wonderful reference to Mary’s love: “Never was it known that anyone who

Virgin Mary and became man". The Council of Ephesus in 431 definitively settled the question, giving Mary the title of Theotokos ("who gave birth to God" in Greek). Jesus is both man and God. Mary is the [...] July 13 - Mary Mother of God (Bistrica, Croatia) - 3rd apparition of Fatima: the vision of hell Why does Mary's face look so young in the Pieta? Michelangelo's famous Pietà statue in the Vatican, sculpted [...] the "Sorrowful Virgin Mary" (Mater dolorosa), holding the body of Christ on her knees after he was unfastened from the Cross and before his burial, Resurrection and Ascension. Mary's face in this statue

- Feast of Mary Mediatrix (Maronite and Syriac liturgical calendar) After the Trinity, Mary is the one whom we should most revere There can be no doubt that the Blessed Mother and Virgin Mary, with a virile

July 7 - Pius XII consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1952) The first fruits of the consecration of Russia to the Heart of Mary The "Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart" is a votive [...] 29, 1929. And in 1952, Pope Pius XII consecrated "the peoples of Russia" to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in his papal bull Sacro vergente anno. But as Sister Lucia herself pointed out (1) : "The consecration [...] united with the People of God, the Mystical Body of Christ; he made it to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ and of his Mystical Body, so that with her and through her, with Christ, it could

the Hail Mary, he left us peacefully. Don't you believe that my father received forgiveness from God, and that Mary is the one who obtained this forgiveness for him? It was through the Hail Marys that he [...] July 10 - Aachen pilgrimage: Mary's dress on display every 7 years When a Jewish father sings the Hail Mary (II) Days and months went by, and from time to time, the son would stop by the Eau-Vive to place [...] place flowers by the statue of Mary and to ask for prayers for his father, whose cancer was progressing. One day, he arrived very distraught and said: "My father is dying. I came to ask you to pray for

Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation, Visitation, Christmas, Adoration of the Magi, Recovery in the Temple, Resurrection, Ascension) Devotion to the Seven Joys of Mary St. Francis of Assisi was [...] contemplate, meditate and spread the earthly joys of Mary, which they gathered in a devotional practice called the Seraphic Rosary, a chaplet of the joys of Mary also known as the Franciscan crown. The joys [...] in the mysteries and in their number, until they were finally settled on seven, like the sorrows of Mary: the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, the Recovery of Jesus

defined the place of Mary in the history of salvation. The first two Marian dogmas (Mary Mother of God and Mary's perpetual virginity) are common to the different Christian faiths: Mary was declared Theotokos [...] 22 - Proclamation of the dogma of Mary Mother of God in Ephesus (431) The Divine Motherhood of Mary in the Mystery of the Church The dogma of the divine maternity of Mary was elaborated over time and thus [...] instead it re-examined the fundamental mystery of Mary in the broader doctrinal context of the entire mission of the Virgin Mary. In interpreting Mary's consent at the Annunciation, Vatican II emphasized

June 21 - Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Jesuit novice (d. 1591) Former atheist and occultist converted by Mary (II) Former atheist and occultist William Toro is