genuflecting or kissing the floor as many times as I said a ‘Hail Mary.' She has always been a mother to me and has never refused to help me. I ran to her with so much trust that it seemed like I had nothing to [...] myself to Mary as her slave forever, begging her not to refuse my vow. I spoke to her like a child, with simplicity, just like I would have spoken to my own good mother for whom I felt, as a consequence [...] Lady of Safe Hiding (Overloon, Holland) - Birth of Saint Marguerite Mary Alacoque (1647) I Spoke to Her Like a Child I always ran to Mary in all my needs. I had the habit of giving the small crown of the
(d. 1555) – Holy Mary of the Royal Court (Italy, 1575) It would be a shame to forget that our guardian angels are constantly taking care of us A few years ago, I was on vacation with my family for two [...] there was a Rosary group, but could not find any posted information. I was about to leave the church when a very young girl approached me and told me that the rosary would be said the next day in a chapel [...] to recite the Rosary with other people. But I noticed that the young girl wasn't there...she must have been an angel, maybe even my guardian angel? M. C. Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth on July 15
Margaret Mary Alacoque Without a doctor or medicine, death seemed inevitable In 1944, Solzhenitsyn's fellow prisoner in an archipelago camp, called Solodgine in the First Circle, came down with a pellagrous [...] to pray as a child. But at the time of which I speak, I had no idea what meditation was. I managed to practice it throughout my fight against the illness. On the fortieth day, I woke up with a feeling of [...] had never experienced before. God performed a miracle on behalf of the sinner that I am. He had touched me—now I am a soldier of the Church and have become a son of his Mother." Recueil Marial (Collection
Bacani, and followed with a procession of the image, which was exposed to public veneration after years of being forgotten. Story contributed by Marco Frederico Dalma, A Moment with Mary reader from the P [...] (Philippines) Marian devotion is making a comeback in the Philippines In the city of Las Piñas, Philippines, a devotion that had almost disappeared is making a comeback. St Joseph Parish, home to the [...] is also a shrine to the image of Our Lady of Consolation and of the Belt. The community has long venerated this image in its midst, well before the parish church was built in 1795. It was a priest, Saint
Pius XII consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1942) Mary is like a mother who waits for her children to come back home Mary’s assumption into heaven calls people to put aside all those [...] homily on August 15, 2019. With the assumption of Mary, body and soul, into heaven, she is "like a mother who waits for her children to come back home." Knowing that she is there with God in heaven “gives us [...] us comfort and hope during our pilgrimage” on earth, he said. "Mary shows us that if we want our life to be happy, God goes first because only he is great," he said. "Instead, how often we live chasing
June 12 – Madonna di Paitone (Brescia, Italy, 1532) - 1924 : Mary proclaimed Queen of China in Zikawei (Shanghai) In Lourdes, a Stations of Life for the Unborn This is one of the fruits of the Year of [...] la Consolation ): a new place of devotion in the heart of the shrine, designed to remember unborn children and lift them up in prayer. This new idea was devised in collaboration with the Mother of Mercy [...] interior consolation. At the end of the symbolic journey, parents are asked to give a name to their unborn child and write it in a "Book of Life," so that local nuns and pilgrims can add them to their prayer
December 30 – Virgin Mary of San Celso (Milan, Italy,1485) A family without problems? The Holy Family was not a family without problems. Mary and Joseph shared the condition of that disconcerting son, [...] Nazareth, a village considered suburban for the Jews, to see Jesus grow in wisdom and grace, leading an ordinary life with no exceptional events up to his 30th birthday. In Nazareth, Joseph, Mary and Jesus [...] day in a heroic way, so that the heroic becomes day to day and we too might imitate them in our daily lives. Joseph participated with his whole person in the work of the Redemption of the Son of Mary: he
he and I, a year and a half ago, began to become acquainted with God. And seeing how my father entered into Life just as you were singing the Hail Mary, I too want to become Catholic. I want to be baptized [...] July 10 - Aachen pilgrimage: Mary's dress on display every 7 years When a Jewish father sings the Hail Mary (II) Days and months went by, and from time to time, the son would stop by the Eau-Vive to place [...] Eau-Vive were praying along with me. Then suddenly, to my great surprise, I heard my father say very calmly: Forgive me, Lord. It was ten pm; his face immediately lit up with a strange serenity, and half
of this water to a dying child, and he was healed in a short time. Since then, people take a lot of this water home and miracles happen when people drink it with faith. For example, a small child was healed [...] development of the parish in Issia. She answered him with simple words: "Your parish will flourish when the Virgin Mary will have a special place in it." So, after a year of preparation, on February 11, 1981, the [...] Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary. And in 1984, while Father Pageaud was doing a retreat in Lourdes, the Lord gave him the desire to install a statue of the Virgin Mary in Issia. He recalls: "Each time
November 1 – All Saints Day – Mary, Queen of All Angels – First apparition in Heede, Germany (1937 - 1940) When we suffer, we really need a mother by our side Mary’s beautiful mission is to bring to Jesus [...] experience: that with Jesus, to renounce our self, take up our cross and follow him is not putting shackles on our feet but wings to our heart, giving us joy and happiness that fills our life with a piece of heaven [...] only obligation as a Christian is to be like Jesus. There is—and there has always been—only one way to be like Jesus: we need to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow him. Mary also tells us what
