while everything stops. It's noon and I'm with you, Mary, in this place where you are. I say not a word; I just look at your face and let my heart sing its own language. I say not a word, but I only sing [...] coming to pray. I have nothing to offer and nothing to ask for. I come only to look at you, Mother. To look at you, cry out of happiness, knowing that I am your son and you are there. Just for a moment while [...] prime honor and final flourish - just as she came out of God on the morning of her original splendor: ineffably intact because you are the mother of Jesus Christ, who is truth in your arms, and the only hope
Mother. To you I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer me. Amen. [...] January 21 - Our Lady of Consolation (Rome, 1471) The Memorare Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your
rosary, And, to me, its black beads are like seeds That I toss up to Heaven with great hope. What a marvelous miracle! Each Hail Mary will soon fall at the feet Of the Queen of the Heavens And my prayers
mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen. [...] Aug 31 - Our Lady of Founders (Constantinople) The Memorare Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine in
rosary, And, to me, its black beads are like seeds That I toss up to Heaven with great hope. What a marvelous miracle! Each Hail Mary will soon fall at the feet Of the Queen of the Heavens And my prayers
People from all over Orissa come every day, and even faithful from other religions have shown strong faith in Jesus. Respect, devotion and reverence for Mary have increased. Many patients have already been [...] thousands of faithful, Catholics and non-Catholics, especially during the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on February 11th. People of all faiths go there, and find solace in prayer and claim to have been miraculously [...] outbreak of a cholera and smallpox epidemic. The first to respond to the calamity were the French missionaries of St Francis de Sales, who gathered sick, orphaned and abandoned children and took them to the
Chancellor Adenauer once said: "It is thanks to Schuman’s wisdom and courage that the foundations of reconciliation between our two peoples and the building of a united Europe were laid." After his funeral [...] Saint Louis de Montfort. Adapted for A Moment with Mary from Pourquoi devenir chrétien? (Why become a Christian?) by Jeanne Tallier, in the Legion of Mary "L'Etoile" (Star) magazine, issue #162 [...] period of economic recovery in France. In August 1948, he took over the cabinet of Foreign Affairs, and dreamed of European unity: "Europe will not happen at once, it will be done by concrete achievements
than they were filled with a common desire to end their dispute amicably and to return home without going to Grenoble! Since Mary does not do things by halves, she arranged for them to providentially meet [...] as friends, to the joyous surprise of the other citizens and all those who expected the inevitable ruin of their families! Indeed, the Virgin Mary, venerated in her shrine of Bargemon, "doesn’t care any [...] to the bitter end if needed, in order to finally break the deadlock, even if it meant the financial and social ruin of the other party. On their way to Grenoble, the men stopped for the night in the small
of the Virgin Mary at Fatima in Portugal, repeatedly said that prayers and sacrifices offered for the conversion of sinners form the core of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Father Thomas [...] Fatima, asked Sister Lucia what Our Lady’s main message was. She replied: "The conversion of sinners and the return of souls to God. This plea was reiterated in all her apparitions. That is why I consider [...] speaking, the Blessed Virgin addressed this theme in only three apparitions, the first, the third and the fourth. But it was also mentioned in the three apparitions of the Angel in 1916, so in total, in
forest in central Vietnam, the Virgin Mary, surrounded by two angels, appeared to a group of persecuted Christians. "She was wearing a beautiful oriental coat, and was holding the Baby Jesus in her arms [...] That is how the Shrine of La Vang came into being. Healings and conversions are alleged to have occurred there. In 1901, a church was built and blessed in the presence of 12,000 pilgrims. On this occasion [...] faithful prayed together at Our Lady of La Vang for the 200th anniversary of the apparition. A pilgrimage and an uninterrupted prayer tradition continue there to this day. Patrick Sbalchiero Adapted from René
