June 19 - Our Lady of Monte Senario (Florence, Italy, 1240) Like a Sweet Lure The Lord revealed to Saint Catherine of Siena the reason why He created Mary: "I reserved this beloved girl for myself," He
worship you, the Child of Mary, the Word of the Father, the King of nations, the Savior of mankind; to whom be glory for ever. [...] January 11 – OUR LADY OF BESSIERE (Limousin, France) An Epiphany Prayer Lord Jesus may your light shine our way, as once it guided the steps of the Magi: that we too may be led into your presence and worship
Lady of the Rocks (near Salamanca, Spain) - Saint Polycarp (d. ca. 155), bishop and martyr Jesus, Saint John and His Mother "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife [...] wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son.' Then to the disciple he said, 'This is your [...] disciple of John the Apostle and Evangelist. It is possible that he also knew the Blessed Virgin as she lived with Saint John. Polycarp became bishop of Smyrna (in present-day Turkey) ca. 107 and one of the
April 21 – Easter Sunday - Our Lady of the Slap (Italy, 1200) Because the Blessed Virgin was in great need The Easter season offers many stories of apparitions of the risen Lord to the early Christians [...] his Spiritual Exercises, for the mystery of the Resurrection, Saint Ignatius of Loyola recommends that we meditate on the fact that Jesus appeared to the Virgin Mary. Even though Scripture does not mention [...] or leaves someone in the shadows, keeping a discreet silence about her: the Virgin Mary. She is mentioned at the foot of the Cross, and is present among the first community gathered in the Cenacle, but where
March 12 – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spain) “What, my most precious little one, saddens your heart?” As we visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the same things that happened to Juan Diego can also happen [...] Mopohua , 107). “Yet am I not here with you, who have the honor of being your mother?” ( ibid ., 119). Mary tells us that she has “the honor” of being our mother, assuring us that those who suffer do not weep [...] with us so as not to leave us overwhelmed by our sufferings. Pope Francis Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, homily on February 13, 2016 Zenit.org
the beginning of this month (May). She accompanied me to the altar this morning with such solicitude! ... I wish I had a voice loud enough to tell all the sinners of the world to love Mary." He went on: [...] the tormented anguish of my restless heart! And how many times has she comforted me! ... In difficult times, it seems to me that I have no mother on earth, but only one, full of pity, who is in Heaven [...] September 23 – Our Lady of Valvanera (Spain) - Saint Padre Pio (d. 1968) Padre Pio: “Follow this blessed Mother” In a letter dated 1912, Padre Pio wrote: “How many times have I confided to this mother
March 16 – Our Lady of Clemency (Rome, Italy) A mother knows how to "keep," to put things together in her heart, to give life Mary held nothing back; she locked nothing within out of self-pity or resentment [...] dwell in our lives... Devotion to Mary is not spiritual etiquette; it is a requirement of the Christian life. Looking to the Mother, we are asked to leave behind all sorts of useless baggage and to rediscover [...] be reduced merely to an idea or a doctrine, all of us need a mother’s heart, one which knows how to keep the tender love of God and to feel the heartbeat of all around us. Pope Francis Homily, January 1
with the eyes of a hunted deer. This girl has hardly just arrived, but she already wants to go away. And she will escape as a matter of fact, forever, dying in 1915, and canonical law court of 1919 will be [...] over her forehead. During the night of the 18th of July, 1830, after a 4 or 5 year old child dressed in white called me to the chapel, I heard a noise like the rustling of a silk dress, and it was the Blessed [...] hands on Mary’s knees, after working in the fields of Burgundy and serving the poor. Do you realize, my little sister, what you have just said? The others saw, but, in addition to seeing Mary, you touched
the message of Fatima.“Oh, how wrong they are," cried the seer, "the scapular is the sign of our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary!” When Father Rafferty asked if the leaders of the Blue Army [...] commitment to serve entails the wearing of a uniform. In the same way, the scapular manifests, on the part of the one who wears it, his belonging to Mary and, on the part of Our Lady, the commitment to help him [...] Church and is perfectly consistent with Our Lady's words of June 13, 1917: “To whomever will embrace this devotion (of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), I promise Salvation; these souls will be cherished by
– Our Lady of the Cross (Italy, 1490) In 2009, the Virgin began visiting Christians and Muslims again in Egypt Forty-two years after the apparitions of Zeitoun, and 10 years after those of Assiut, hundreds [...] hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, both Christians and Muslims say that they are currently seeing the Virgin Mary. This is happening while pogroms are being waged everywhere against Christians. "El Adra [...] be the Madonna moves on the facade of the church of Archangel Michael, in El Waraq, Lower Egypt. Waraq el Hadar is an island on the Nile near the famous pyramids of Giza. This bright figure, whom the crowds
