Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – National holiday in France since 1638 (King Louis XIII’s vow) France, what if it were the time of your awakening? Indeed, the feast of the Assumption is a source of great [...] I would like our country (France) to look at Mary as a mother, as a river looks at its source, to find inspiration and momentum. Mary expresses the heart of her vocation from the first words she utters: [...] also the vocation of France, as suggested by Saint John Paul II during his first trip to our country in 1980: France, eldest daughter of the Church, are you faithful to the promises of your baptism? Allow
August 3 - Act of Consecration to Mary inspired by St. Peter Damien and approved by the Archbishop of Cambrai (France, 1626) Why address our prayers to Mary instead of directly to God? Cardinal Suenens [...] archbishop of Brussels and primate of Belgium who died in 1996, liked to tell these two stories that reveal the true meaning of Marian devotion: As a young professor of theology at the University of Louvain [...] receiving the news: one of his friends came to visit his elderly mother and brought her a bouquet of flowers. "Since that day, I have understood Marian devotion better. When we turn to Mary, we can make Jesus
July 26 – Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary The Amazing Story of Ferruzzi’s Madonnina It is called the Restful Madonna, or Madonna and sleeping child or even the Street Madonna. Whatever [...] given a religious connotation. With her face full of sweetness and the sleeping baby in her arms, the girl is undeniably reminiscent of the Virgin Mary. Very quickly, it was ‘baptized’ the "Madonnina"! [...] popular and is one of those holy pictures of the Virgin that all Italians have at home. Maria Paola Daud - Published on Aleteia - 24/02/21 https://www.safcam.org/the-amazing-story-of-ferruzzis-madonnina
July 17 – Feast of Mary’s Humility Mary proclaimed herself the handmaid of God while she became His Mother "The Virgin Mary passed her life in obscurity, in a humble town, in a home humbler still, the [...] thanks to the power and mercy of God, the more does she, conscious of no merit in herself, grow in humility, promptly proclaiming and consecrating herself the handmaid of God even while she becomes His [...] the more content with her retirement and the poverty of her home because they left her freer to lift up her heart to God and to cling to Him closely as the supreme Goodness for which her heart yearned (.
July 13 - Mary Mother of God (Bistrica, Croatia) - 3rd apparition at Fatima: the vision of hell (Portugal, 1917) The shrine of Mary's prodigies A Virgin and Child was venerated in this place in Marija [...] streams will whisper...as long as our meadows will be green...as long as we will smell the scent of the flowers of our homeland". Attilio GALLI, Madre della Chiesa dei Cinque continenti, Ed. Segno, Udine, 1997 [...] region in 1545, the parish priest, wishing to protect her from desecration, hid the statue in the wall of the church choir. But he died before he could tell anyone. His successor did not know about the hiding
Bernadette, to lend me your clogs. They are for me the symbol of common sense, of the spirit of poverty, and of simplicity. Sadly, you know that I lack all that: I ask you, Bernadette, to lend me your clogs. You [...] July 10 – Aagen Pilgrimage: Mary’s tunic on display every seventh year (Germany) Poem to Bernadette, to follow Mary's road of trust To help me put my hesitant steps in your steps, I ask you, Bernadette [...] teach me humility. I will walk conscious of my limitations, taking only small steps, falling and rising. Please Bernadette, lend me your clogs! To follow Mary's road of trust, to discover the Living Water offered
Our Lady of Lujan in Argentina; Holy House of Loreto in Italy; Our Lady of Knock in Ireland; Our Lady of the Poor in Banneux, Belgium; Our Lady of Africa in Algeria; Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima in [...] - Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation, Visitation, Christmas, Adoration of the Magi, Finding of Jesus in the Temple, Resurrection, Ascension) Rosary marathon in May 2021 for the end of the pandemic [...] Cuba; Our Lady of Nagasaki in Japan; Our Lady of Montserrat in Spain; Our Lady of the Cape in Canada; National Shrine Our Lady Ta' Pinu in Malta; Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico; Mother of God in Zarvantysia
June 21 - Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Jesuit novice (d. 1591) Les Maristes Bleus*, a symbol of hope for the Syrians Dr. Nabil Antaki founded Les Maristes Bleus [...] the start of the war, the organization changed its name to Les Maristes Bleus to recall the Marist spirit of their work and the color of the sky and the blue color associated with the Virgin Mary. The violent [...] the city of Deraa were arrested and tortured for painting revolutionary-themed graffiti on the walls of a school. The protests that followed were concurrent with the Arab Spring: a series of anti-government
June 22 – Proclamation of the dogma of Mary, Mother of God (Ephesus, 431) Mary "Mother of God" "Mother of God," Theotokos, is the title that was officially attributed to the Virgin Mary in the fifth century [...] human (cf. DS , n. 250)—in the Person of the Son of God was solemnly confirmed and, on the other, the legitimacy of the attribution of the title Theotokos, Mother of God, to the Virgin ( ibid ., n. 251) [...] explosion of Marian devotion was recorded and many churches dedicated to the Mother of God were built. Outstanding among these is the Basilica of St Mary Major here in Rome. The teaching on Mary, Mother
Leiria-Fatima. He says his elevation to the rank of cardinal is not only a sign of Francis' affinity for popular devotion, but shows the relevance of the message Mary gave to the Church when she appeared in the [...] Fatima: Mary announces that Jesus will bless the world Pope Francis and the message of Fatima Among the Church’s newest cardinals is Antonio Augusto dos Santos Marto, who oversees the diocese of Leiria-Fatima [...] Francis visited Fatima in May 2017 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of one of the most famous Marian apparitions in the history of the Church, “he understood and intuited” not only what was happening
