Rosary prayer rises like incense to the feet of the Almighty. Mary responds at once like a beneficial dew, bringing new life to human hearts. St Therese of Lisieux [...] October 1 - St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), Doctor of the Church As long as people pray the Rosary, God cannot abandon the world By the Rosary you can obtain everything. According to a graceful comparison [...] comparison, the Rosary is a long chain that links Heaven and earth. One end of it is in our hands and the other end is in the hands of the Holy Virgin. As long as people pray it, God cannot abandon the world
terror, to the proud depression of Jansenism, he opposed the filial, trusting, ardent, expansive and effective love of the devout servant of Mary, refuge of sinners, the Mother of divine Grace, our life, our [...] True devotion, that of tradition, that of the Church, that, we would say, of good Christian and Catholic sense, tends essentially towards union with Jesus, under the guidance of Mary. Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) [...] who is busy invoking the clemency of the judge in order to bend his justice, and to touch the obstinate hearts of the guilty. In his conviction and experience of Mary’s role, Father de Montfort declared
at the Motherhouse of the Congregation, 120 Rue du Bac in Paris, received apparitions of the Virgin Mary in July, November and December 1830, during her novitiate, in the chapel of her convent. These [...] painting seemed to rotate, showing a circle of twelve stars, a large letter M surmounted by a cross, and the stylized Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary underneath. After Catherine had carefully [...] telling her, ‘These rays are symbols of the graces that Mary obtains for men.’ Around the painting that depicted her vision was inscribed in gold letters, ‘O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who
Lady of Altagracia (Dominican Republic, Caribbean region, 1650) "Then I will drive Satan from his throne ..." Polish author Wincenty Laszewski, in his book on “The miracles of Mary in the life of John [...] Blessed Virgin Mary addressed to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, abbess of the Royal Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in Quito (Ecuador), from 1594 to 1634, many predictions, several of which clearly [...] abyss of hell." Mary also said: "Even if the sun were to disappear, we should trust in God's plan of salvation ... Even when history seems to be finished for men, Heaven would still have a lot of time
apparition of the Virgin Mary on May 26, 1432, to a young peasant girl of the region, Giannetta de'Vacchi. Mary appeared to her dressed as a queen. She introduced herself as Mary, Mother of God, told the [...] priest, founder of the Oratorian Fathers (d. 1595 in Rome) "It has been granted to me to save Christians from imminent and deserved punishments" The Shrine of Santa Maria del Fonte (St. Mary of the Spring, [...] Our Lady of Caravaggio) was built between the 16th and 18th centuries, near the town of Bergamo, Italy. Its construction, begun in 1575, was championed by St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan. The
the French geneticist, who discovered the cause of Down syndrome and was a fervent disciple of Mary, published in the magazine Le Sourire de Marie (Mary’s Smile). [...] younger. The serious degree of a homicide cannot be measured in terms of how much the victim weighs. The most illustrious physician of all time (Saint Luke) has given us an idea of this marvel that is early [...] childhood, in just a few words. Go back to the story of the Visitation: How old was the little prophet who leapt inside Elizabeth at the approach of Mary carrying Our Lord? He was 6 months old. Saint Luke
associated with the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul - not to be confused with the scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary associated with the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The apparitions followed [...] wounded of the Crimean War, then to Algeria from 1858 to 1867, as superior of the military hospital of Dey. Pope Pius IX approved the green scapular in 1870. Sources: B. D. Attwater, A Dictionary of Mary [...] Pyrenees (France), who was a postulant with the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, in the convent of Blangy-sur-Bresle, near Versailles. The Virgin asked her to love her "Immaculate Heart." On
the intercession of the Virgin Mary. I learned to recite the Rosary. My daughter was born on April 21, 2006. The following summer, I took her to Lourdes to give thanks to God and Mary. Today I have been [...] November 30 – Our Lady of Good Help (Nantes, France) “I wanted to have a baby…” I live in Congo and am from a Muslim background. After the birth of my son, I was no longer able to bear a child. After another [...] Being Muslim, I don’t pray the Rosary, but I do believe in the Virgin Mary. At the Grotto, I sat and contemplated the statue of that holy woman. I thought, "Lord, you have permitted that I go on this
she ran to the foot of a statue of Mary inside an oratory ready to fall into ruin. Mary granted the humble prayer of her servant. Anna recovered, and so did her two children. Mary's protégée, and although [...] January 18 - OUR LADY OF DIJON (France) Maria Zell (II) In 1510, the chronicle of Zofingen reported an extraordinary occurrence which gave new lustre to the glory of the shrine of Maria Zell. The plague [...] against the Virgin Mary, the saints, their feasts, shrines, statues and images, was well-known. Anna Dubliken did not share the ideas of the blasphemers. Passing by the oratory of Mary, she saw an excited
Heart of Mary, and the wearing of the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Let us look at the scapular today. The request to wear the scapular isn’t part of the verbal requests of Our Lady of Fatima [...] Lucia of Fatima in the Convent of Tuy (Spain, 1930) Our Lady wants us to wear the brown scapular Two components of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary are quite easy to perform. Because of that [...] behind. Most monks wear it as a top layer of their habit. The scapular of Mount-Carmel is a smaller version of that monastic habit, and is made of two pieces of brown woven wool, rectangular or square in
