April 15 – Monday of Holy Week – Our Lady of the Wound (Italy, 1490) "The Blessed Virgin exists, God exists!" Dr. Carrel (1873-1944), one of the most remarkable surgeons of his time, had lost his faith [...] faith at the end of his studies in Paris, where the pontiffs of positivism bewitched the minds of students. According to them, only tangible realities existed. God, the soul, and the spiritual world were merely [...] to accompany a train of patients going to Lourdes, asked him to go instead, which Carrel accepted to do. The friend especially recommended a young dying patient of his called Marie Ferrand. The trip was
experiencing one of the most serious societal crises in its history - to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and implore her to come to the aid of its people. In La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée department, Marie-Claire confided [...] December 6 - Our Lady of Sées (France) - Our Lady of the Vow (Siena, Italy) "Right now, the only thing we have left is prayer" Since January 2022, the "France Prays" (La France prie) project has been growing [...] French expatriate in Austria, Louis-Pierre Laroche, on YouTube. At the beginning of January 2022, Laroche shared his experience of a similar initiative in his adoptive country, which had already snowballed
April 14 – Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) Blessed are you who believed Outstanding among the saints is Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. In the Gospel of Luke we find her engaged [...] disposal of God's initiatives. Mary is a woman of hope: only because she believes in God's promises and awaits the salvation of Israel, can the angel visit her and call her to the decisive service of these [...] in a service of charity to her cousin Elizabeth, with whom she remained for “about three months” (1:56) so as to assist her in the final phase of her pregnancy. She says on the occasion of that visit, “My
historical center is the Marienplatz, (Mary's Square), in which the "Mariensäule," the Column of Our Lady, stands with a gilded bronze statue of the Virgin Mary on its summit. I wanted to begin my stay [...] prayer to Mary; there I returned at the end of my mandate before leaving for Rome. This time, I wanted to pause again at the foot of the Mariensäule to implore the intercession and blessing of the Mother [...] in Bavaria with a tribute to the Patroness of Bavaria, which, for me, assumes a highly significant value: there, in that square and before that image of Mary, about 30 years ago I was welcomed as Archbishop
righteousness of your Son can no longer save," he wrote to the Virgin Mary. For him Mary isn’t of course more merciful than her Son, but she participates in a unique way in the divine mercy, as Mother of the Word [...] today’s Romania) was Archbishop of Constantinople (Turkey). This Father of the Greek Church had a deep Marian spirituality. Following are excerpts of his writings: "You are predestined from all eternity to save [...] Word incarnate. "Just as he was born of the inviolate womb of the Virgin, so he rose from the closed tomb. In the same way that his birth did not cause the Virgin Mary to lose her virginity, so his resurrection
November 23 - Our Lady of the Assumption (Italy, 1624) Can a Christian pretend to be an orphan? Mary is Mother, and one cannot conceive any other title of Mary that is not ‘Mother.’ She is Mother, because [...] brings us Jesus and she helps us with the strength of the Holy Spirit, so that Jesus will be born and grow in us. She constantly gives us life. She is Mother of the Church. She is maternity. We do not have the [...] psychology of orphans. A Christian does not have the right to be an orphan. He has a Mother! We have a Mother. An elderly preacher once ended his sermon by saying, “Whoever does not want Mary as a Mother
Our Lady of the Visitation (Bollezeele, France) This is the Heart The Church invites us to attentively consider the depth of the love manifested in the Passion of Jesus and the Compassion of Mary. "All you [...] any sorrow like the sorrow inflicted on me?" (Lm 1:12). At the time of the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Here is the Heart which loved [...] itself nothing, to the point of becoming exhausted and consumed with love to bear witness for them. And as a reward I mainly receive only ingratitude." Jesus also asked Margaret Mary to accompany him in prayer
and there is Our Lady in the midst of that,” said Father Nathan Siray, pastor of Our Lady of the Rockies Parish. “That’s kind of our No. 1 devotional image to Our Lady of the Rockies that is completely unique [...] is set in custom-made stained glass, one of the focal points of the new US$14.8 million church in the mountain community of Canmore, about 15 miles southeast of Banff. It’s a new church for the parish, [...] August 18 – Our Lady of Rejoicing (France) A new Marian shrine in Canada Canmore, Alberta, has a new shrine called Our Lady of the Rockies Church. Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary celebrated Mass at
noblest expression of their ideal: "the chaste cult of Mary has always been the inspiration of the French knighthood and created among us traditions of loyalty, courtesy and honor which survived all the failings [...] September 18 - Our Lady of Meritxell (Andorra) The Most Beautiful Adornment It is before the altar of the Virgin that future knights would spend their vigil of arms, because Mary was the purest and noblest [...] failings, and are still now the most beautiful adornment of our civilization."
apparitions of Our Lady of Aparecida, patroness of Brazil, at the national shrine of Aparecida, in the State of São Paulo. In 1717, after having prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, some fishermen [...] Our Lady of El Pilar (Spain) – Our Lady of Aparecida, patronness of Brazil The largest Marian shrine in the world From October 10-12, 2017, Brazilian Catholics celebrated the 300 th anniversary of the apparitions [...] water and brought up first the torso and then the head of a statue of the Virgin Mary. They threw the nets again and this time they found them full of fish. The devotion to the Virgin increased among the
