September 6 - Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1553) Mary urges a young Hindu to become a Christian One day, in India, a young man who was a follower of the god Shiva, came to ask Father Collin, an Oblate missionary [...] explained why: - "I worked as a mason when a splash of lime burned my eyes and I became blind. In my distress, I prayed to all our Hindu gods, but with no result. Then a beautiful lady appeared before [...] Madhu and become a Christian." I didn't know what Madhu was, or what being a Christian meant, and I didn't bother to find out. The lady came back and told me again: "Go to Madhu and become a Christian." I

too could be a bit like our Mother! With a heart open to God’s Word, with a silent heart, with an obedient heart, with a heart that knows how to receive God’s Word and allows it to grow with the seed of [...] February 9 – Our Lady of the Castle (Italy, 1558) - Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Mary prayed as Mother and as a disciple Mary was open to God’s voice that guided her heart, that guided her steps where her [...] terrible passion Friday. The Mother kept everything and brought it to her dialogue with God. Someone has compared Mary’s heart to a pearl of incomparable splendor, formed and smoothed by patient acceptance of

(Italy, 1650) Mary and Joseph: a married couple to imitate in difficult times Discovering the Holy Family, and especially getting to know and love the future mother and father of Jesus, is a precious experience [...] because Mary and Joseph have so much to tell us about how we can accept God's plan, with all the challenges this can entail in our daily lives. Sometimes we think that everything was easy for Mary and Joseph [...] constantly confronted with successive trials, frightening by their intensity. Far from distancing them from us, the way in which Mary and Joseph lived through these overwhelming moments makes them even closer

y. He was supposed to give a conference next week in Lourdes on "Mary, consoler of the afflicted, according to Father de Montfort". I see him as a martyr of charity, with a type of welcoming charity that [...] light of God. It is a painful, upsetting event, but its significance is certainly that Father Olivier Maire is now with Saint Louis de Montfort, close to the Lord and the Virgin Mary". Adapted from vaticannews [...] October 19 – Crowning of a statue of Fatima by the Archbishop of Ottawa, to inaugurate a 50-day pilgrimage through 7 Canadian dioceses (Canada, 1947) Murdered French priest Fr. Maire was an expert on

center of a priest’s life: the cross, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary Cardinal Robert Sarah reflected on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the meaning of the priesthood in a Mass in St [...] 2019. “During the daily Mass the priest comes face to face with Jesus Christ and at that precise moment, he is identified, he identified himself with Christ, becoming not only an Alter Christus, another Christ [...] the Discipline of the Sacraments said the inner life of a priest should center around three things: the cross, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary. “According to St Josemaría Escrivà, the cross of our Lord

ph/article/1906076/Pampanga/Opinion/Cervantes-Urgent-messages-of-the-Blessed-Virgin-Mary-from-Bacolod (1) See A Moment with Mary of November 16, 2021 [...] November 17 – Mary Gate of Dawn (Lithunia) Messages from Our Lady of the End Times (II) On September 1, 2018, Our Lady said to Edsol (1): "My children, I bring a message to all of you in my divine son’s [...] frighten all of you, but so that all of you will know these events are very near. Next year will be a year of heavy trials for mankind as seven years of desolation are near. "Go to confession, attend mass

reader of A Moment with Mary , 2020 [...] smallness with His eternal love. Precious Mary, Mother of God, please help and guide me this day to be small so that I can be found standing at the foot of the cross. Composed by Matthew Dhillon, a reader [...] December 8 – Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Precious Mother of God Precious Mary, Mother of God, I see you standing at the foot of the Cross. Not collapsed, not kneeling, not prostrate

(France, 1876) Like Mary, make a free and personal act of faith At a first glance, Mary’s act of faith was easy and could even be taken for granted. She was to become the mother of a king who would reign [...] But this is a rather human and worldly way of reasoning. True faith is never a privilege or an honor; it means dying a little, and this was especially true of Mary’s faith at that moment. Nowadays we [...] the risk of faith, and we generally mean the intellectual risk, but Mary faced a real risk! Mary is the only one to have believed in a “situation of contemporaneity,” that is to say, she believed while

and sail to a new life. Don’t be afraid, I am and will be with you always.” Oh Mary! Incredible Mary, who uses the little moments of our lives to help us understand the most important things: a piece of rope [...] sailors pull a statue of the Madonna in a boat up to the cathedral. Last year my husband was part of the sailors’ team. Afterwards, he felt terribly tired, and a few days later he was diagnosed with a rare type [...] by grief—I couldn’t even pray—but I accepted their offer. Then Mary played a surprising joke on me! Surrounded by a net and decorated with flowers, the statue was at the prow of the boat. In the middle

Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) A great victory is reserved for Mary in our day All the ages of the Church have been marked by the battles and glorious triumphs of the august Mary. Since the Lord set an enmity [...] fleeing, becoming rarer and rarer, and the vices are unleashed with frightful fury. It seems that we are approaching the predicted moment of a general defection and an almost universal apostasy. This sad [...] the doldrums of passions. The well of the abyss vomits forth a blackish and pestilential smoke, which threatens to envelop the whole Earth in a dark night, empty of all good, full of all evil, and impenetrable