been able to conceive. So I started praying with all my heart, telling Mary that I wanted to become a mother, but leaving it up to her to decide the right moment. I asked her to help me accept my trial patiently [...] October 20 – Mater Admirabilis (Rome, Italy) Thanks to Mary who made me become a mother My husband and I wanted a baby, but because of menstrual issues, I thought that I was unable to conceive. I was very [...] imagine for a minute that I was pregnant. Actually, the baby was already implanted in my womb! I discovered a few days later that month that I was pregnant! I was able to get close to God and Mary thanks to
in Ravenna, Italy) Mary, a one-in-a-million mother Mary is a wonderful name that carries within it all the values I am particularly attached to. I don't have a special story about Mary, because I have grown [...] grown up with her all my life. I was raised Catholic, in a community that shared common values. I can’t list everything that Mary has given me and taught me throughout my life. Without realizing it, her [...] in me: her resilience, tolerance, acceptance of others, self-sacrifice, and the infinite love of a one-in-a-million mother... In this world we live in, we are tested all the time. If our values are not firmly
45am on September 3, 2021. He was reunited with his relieved parents three days later after being spotted drinking water from a creek by a rescue helicopter during a frantic search of the rugged bushland around [...] her son was being watched over by the Virgin Mary. “We’re a religious family ... I always say that the Virgin Mary and all the saints and the angels are with my kids every day,” Kelly Elfalak said in an [...] an online video, News Corp reports. “The Virgin Mary is always with us and I knew she was always with AJ. Ms Elfalak went on to say that she had prayed and taken holy communion the morning her son was found
prayer on a piece of paper and put it in our prayer corner where we pray together as a couple every morning. Less than a month later, we happened to participate—in a totally unexpected way—in a prayer vigil [...] vigil in Paris with Father Suarez, a Filipino priest known worldwide for his gift of healing. When he touched Laetitia's tummy, she felt a soothing warmth. And within a week, she was pregnant! Our little [...] to Mary inspired by Saint Peter Damien and approved by the Archbishop of Cambrai (1626) We don't have enough words to thank the Blessed Virgin My wife Laetitia and I have been readers of A Moment with
Virgin Mary, Health of the Sick - Saint Louis, King of France (d. 1270) Mary became the Godmother of my vocation My greatest experience with the Virgin Mary took place at home within my family, at a time [...] Luziano da Silva, Bishop of Catanduva - SP - Brazil Exclusive Interview by Thácio Siqueira for A Moment With Mary [...] of the Mother of Jesus. Mary became the Godmother of my vocation. I can say that it was at the feet of Our Lady that I discovered God’s call to the priestly life. At many moments of my life, especially
Perpetual Help (1866) A Venezuelan was healed of a poisonous snake bite thanks to Mary! A Venezuelan tribal chief, chosen by Our Lady to evangelize the Coromoto Indians, ended up being a modern-day Jonah who [...] took her leave, but left a tiny image of herself holding the Child Jesus in the chief’s hand. (The image is less than an inch in size.) Some time thereafter, the chief was bitten by a poisonous snake and seemed [...] chief himself had finally embraced the faith. A church was built in honor of Our Lady of Coromoto in the nearby town of Guanare in the 1700s. Later, in the 1980s, a shrine was built at the location of the 1652
July 25 - Saint James the Apostle - Our Lady of the Castle (Dalmatia) A Jordanian pilgrimage site where a statue of Mary wept tears of blood in 2010 On Friday, June 18, 2021, the Catholic Church in Jordan [...] Yousef Ne’mat, a priest of the Latin Patriarchate, who built the first sanctuary in memory of the passing of Lord Jesus Christ in this place. Fr. Ne’mat brought a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Jerusalem [...] happening with what God is saying to us. According to Christian sources, Blessed Virgin Mary and Lord Jesus Christ walked the mountain range, which runs along the Jordan, and took refuge for a time here
founding a brotherhood of the Rosary... Since the Dominicans are an order of preachers, they associated a "mystery" – a significant moment in the life of Christ – to each decade (10 Hail Marys), also h [...] Holy Guardian Angels Each Hail Mary was intended to be a spiritual rose The prayer of the Rosary was not finalized overnight. At first the Christians wanted to greet Mary with the words that the Archangel [...] n: " Hail Mary, full of grace," with Elizabeth’s blessing: "You are blessed among all women." The second part, "Holy Mary, Mother of God," was only added in the 15th century. Each Hail Mary was intended
Sweden (d. 1373) How a medal of Mary saved a soldier during WWII It was on the night of November 10, 1939. I had been sent to reconnoiter the position of the German troops, and with three other soldiers [...] he heard. From time to time a burst of machine-gun fire warned us that the Germans were on the alert. All of a sudden I saw a little light on the ground. I bent over to take a closer look. I had scarcely [...] when I felt a gust of machine-gun fire above me, where my head would have been. Had I not bent down, I would certainly have been killed on the spot. What was this light that caught my attention? A medal of
Augustine, Bishop of Canterbury (d. 604 or 605) When the Holy Spirit finds Mary in a soul, he hastens there! When Mary has taken root in a soul she produces in it wonders of grace which only she can produce; [...] find in them a sufficiently close union with his faithful and inseparable spouse. I say "inseparable spouse", for from the moment the substantial love of the Father and the Son espoused Mary to form Jesus [...] will have her equal in purity and fruitfulness. Together with the Holy Spirit Mary produced the greatest thing that ever was or ever will be: a God-man. She will consequently produce the marvels which
