Sister Monica took her final vow and officially became a part of the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence in Chile. She revealed to the Catholic News Agency that it is no coincidence that [...] and Cristian had been sick with a severe case of pneumonia and were in critical condition at the hospital. As a devotee of the Nuestra Señora Purísima of Lo Vasquez (Our Lady Most Pure), the twins' mother [...] August 28 – Our Lady of Tears (Syracuse, Italy, 1953) - Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church (d. 430) Twins consecrated to Our Lady as infants Twins Monica and Cristian Moya, who were born in January
explained that they did it because of an intervention of the Virgin Mary their lives. Here are two excerpts from their many testimonies published by La Croix Africa: "After leaving the Catholic Church, it was [...] François, 70, from Port Bouët, in the district of Abidjan (Ivory Coast), decided to return to the faith in which he was raised. His wife, involved in the Legion of Mary, regularly encouraged him to pray to Our [...] Impressed by the positive fruits of this intercession that he noticed in his wife, François felt drawn to recite the Rosary: "I began to feel the intervention of Mary in my life, he said. It’s thanks to
Our Lady of Tichwin (Russia) - Publication of the Third Secret of Fatima (2000) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the Third Secret The interpretation of the third secret given by the Virgin Mary to the young [...] In the way of the cross of this century, the figure of the Pope holds a special place. - In the same way that the Church was born from the open side of Christ on the Cross, so the death of witnesses is [...] young seers of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, was made in 2000 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. We will retain the following points: - The purpose
voice saying, 'These rays are symbols of all the graces that Mary obtains for people.' (...) "Then an oval formed around the Blessed Virgin, and I read these words: 'O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for [...] little cross and below it the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Again, an interior voice spoke, telling me to have a medal struck on this model. It would be a source of wonderful graces to those who wear it with [...] November 29 - Apparition of Our Lady of Beauraing (Belgium, 1932) The Rue du Bac Apparitions (III) "While I was contemplating her, the Blessed Virgin lowered her eyes and looked at me, and at the same
name of Mary." This world that He had reserved for Himself, He offered it to us on the Cross through the hands and heart of the apostle John. Thus the month of May - following the Paschal joy of the R [...] Apparitions of Myriam, Immaculate Mother of Jesus to Sebastian Fausto de Faria in Natividade, Brazil (1968, approved) "Never let anything depress you or discourage you.” In The Secret of Mary, St. Louis [...] Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not nestled in the folds of my cloak? In my arms? Is there anything else you need? " Let us pray to Mary especially for all the victims of the pandemic. Let us pray
May the Totus tuus of the beloved Pontiff encourage us to follow him on the path of the gift of ourselves to Christ through the intercession of Mary, and may she herself, the Virgin Mary, obtain it for us [...] himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus. Like his Divine Teacher, he lived his agony in prayer. On the last day of his life, on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, he asked that the Gospel of John be read [...] June 2 - Feast of Our Lady of Edessa, Asia Minor in honor of the statue that spoke to St Alexis (400) The House was Filled with the Fragrance During the long periods John Paul II spent in his private chapel
May the Totus tuus of the beloved Pontiff encourage us to follow him on the path of the gift of ourselves to Christ through the intercession of Mary, and may she herself, the Virgin Mary, obtain it for us [...] himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus. Like his Divine Teacher, he lived his agony in prayer. On the last day of his life, on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, he asked that the Gospel of John be read [...] June 2 - Feast of Our Lady of Edessa, Asia Minor in honor of the statue that spoke to St Alexis (400) The House was Filled with the Fragrance During the long periods John Paul II spent in his private chapel
August 11 - Saint Clare of Assisi (d. 1253) - Death of Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman (d. 1890) - Inauguration of Constantinople (Byzantium), a city dedicated to the Mother of God St John Henry Newman: [...] answered by the Fathers of Ephesus when they declared Our Lady to be the Theotokos, or Mother of God, 'in order to protect the doctrine of the Incarnation, and to preserve the faith of Catholics from a specious [...] renounced devotion to her'. (Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, September 1845) For Newman, confessing that Mary is Deipara, or Bearer of God, is a doctrine which copper fastens St John's a
the Holy Virginity of Mary: to keep Mary's virginity under the externals of marriage, Joseph acquired angelic purity, expressed by his continence, somewhat in proportion to the purity of his chaste wife. [...] March 17 - Virgin of the French (Nagasaki, Japan) - Our Lady of Blaj (Romania) Joseph's fidelity was unshakeable Joseph went through many trials in the service of the Lord. A man of prayer and faith, he [...] foreign land; in the daily work of Nazareth; in the unexpected finding of Jesus in the Temple after a three-day search… this episode was a forerunner of the time of waiting that was to take place between
deprivation of Bethlehem came, and when the Cross of Jesus came, the certainty of the Angel's words sustained her: "Do not fear, Mary: you have found favor with God." In times of joy and in times of darkness [...] her: "The holy Child who will be born of you will be called Son of the Most High." God made something new, surprising, unheard of; and the most admirable thing about Mary's attitude is that she so quickly [...] apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico City, 1531) – Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (d. 1548, Mexico) God chose Nazareth to play a key role in world history! "God chose the foolish of the world to
