the Church in Need (ACN) within minutes of receiving Fr Ezeagu's phone call, Fr George Okorie, Superior General of the Congregation of the Sons of Mary, Mother of Mercy, said: "When I spoke to Fr Valentine [...] March 21 - 5th Sunday of Lent - Our Lady of Nowy Swierjan (Russia) Kidnapped priest in Nigeria saved by the Rosary Father Valentine Ezeagu was driving through Imo state on December 15, 2020, en route to [...] information about Fr Ezeagu's kidnappers, Fr Okorie said: "We thank God who has really touched the hearts of the abductors. We pray for them." Adapted from Independent Catholic News
April16 - Our Lady of Victories in the Church of St Mark (Venice, Italy) At Notre-Dame des Victoires During her pilgrimage to Rome, St Therese of Lisieux experienced Mary’s faithful tenderness, through [...] through Notre-Dame des Victoires (Our Lady of Victories): "The graces that she granted to me moved me so deeply and I was so happy, I cried like on the day of my First Communion. The Blessed Virgin led me to [...] much tenderer than that of “Mother”. With what enthusiasm did I pray her to always keep me with her and to fulfill my dream by hiding me under her virginal cloak! Ah! This was one of my first desires as a
Transfer of the Holy House of Loreto (1294) She is that "woman" who is present in the central salvific event "When the time had fully come, God sent forth his son, born of woman." With these words of his Letter [...] determine the fulfillment of the mystery "pre-determined in God" (cf. Eph 1:9). The Son, the Word one in substance with the Father, becomes man, born of a woman, at "the fullness of time". This event leads [...] leads to the turning point of man's history on earth, understood as salvation history. It is significant that Saint Paul does not call the Mother of Christ by her own name "Mary", but calls her "woman": this
The Virgin of the Golden Heart or Our Lady of Beauraing (Belgium, 1932) An unprecedented context The expectation of the Messiah was especially high at the beginning of our era, at the time of the Virgin [...] the opinion of many historians, the exceptional character of Christianity’s appearance alone is enough to place it apart in the religious history of the world. The expectation of the fullness of time had [...] Virgin Mary, as evidenced by the Gospel and several Jewish and pagan writings, because some prophecies explicitly and specifically talked about the time of His coming. The Gospel testifies to the ever-present
April 16 - Our Lady of Victories in the Church of St Mark (Venice, Italy) At Notre-Dame des Victoires During her pilgrimage to Rome, St Therese of Lisieux experienced Mary's faithful tenderness, through [...] through Notre-Dame des Victoires (Our Lady of Victories): "The graces that she granted to me moved me so deeply and I was so happy, I cried like on the day of my First Communion. The Blessed Virgin led me to [...] much tenderer than that of "Mother". With what enthusiasm did I pray her to always keep me with her and to fulfill my dream by hiding me under her virginal cloak! Ah! This was one of my first desires as a
18 – Feast of Our Lady, Garden of Myrrh (Ethiopian Church) – Founding of Schönstatt by Fr. Joseph Kentenich (Germany, 1914) A Rosary crusade in the United States Robert Renaud, a parishioner of St James [...] Carthage, N.Y., with Mass at 5:15 pm, and the evening continued with seven hours of praying the Rosary in honor of Mary’s “Seven Sorrows.” Mr. Renaud sent emails around the world to enlist members to the [...] make new ones who share our love for the faith, and most of all to spend some quality time with the Lord.” In addition to the spiritual rewards of attending the devotion, those who attend for at least three
September 17 - Our Lady of Virtue (France) She is More a Mother than a Queen (II) For a sermon about Mary to bear fruit, I believe that we need to talk about her real life, such as we can discover in the [...] sounds! We often depict Mary as inaccessible, but wouldn’t it be better to show her as imitable, practising hidden virtue, living from her faith, just like we do? We could give examples of her behavior taken [...] things that were being said about Him” (Lk 2:33). Their wondering could perhaps imply a certain amount of astonishment, don’t you agree, my Mother?
Valfleury in memory of the discovery of the statue of the Virgin Mary. After an interruption due to the turmoil of the French Revolution (1789-1799), pilgrimages resumed under the Vincentians and spiritual renewal [...] November 6 – Our Lady of Valfleury (Lyons, France) In a blooming broom shrub In the time of Emperor Charlemagne at Christmas around the year 800, a statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered in a blooming [...] superior of the Vincentians, also instituted in 1862 the work of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Agony, through which a new religious community dedicated to the sick was born called the Sisters of Gethsemani
April 2 - Our Lady of the Highest Grace (Dominican Republic, 1506) - John Paul II (d. 2005) Our Lady in Bosnia-Herzegovina (I) In the history of the Roman Catholic Church, many apparitions of the Blessed Virgin [...] for so long a period of time, to so many chosen seers, with such a profound impact worldwide. For more than 25 years, the "Gospa" has appeared daily in the quiet, rural village of Medjugorje in Bosnia [...] Virgin Mary have been recorded throughout the ages. The most famous being Guadalupe (Mexico), La Salette, and Lourdes (France), Knock (Ireland) and Fatima (Portugal). But never in recorded Marian history
September 17 - Our Lady of Virtue (France) She is More a Mother than a Queen (II) For a sermon about Mary to bear fruit, I believe that we need to talk about her real life, such as we can discover in the [...] sounds! We often depict Mary as inaccessible, but wouldn't it be better to show her as imitable, practising hidden virtue, living from her faith, just like we do? We could give examples of her behavior taken [...] things that were being said about Him" (Lk 2:33). Their wondering could perhaps imply a certain amount of astonishment, don't you agree, my Mother?
