21 – Saint María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui Madre Laura, founder of the Missionaries of Mary Immaculate Laura Montoya Upegui was born on 26 May 1874 in Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia, the second of three [...] Christ." In 1914, she went to live among the native Indians and founded the "Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and St Catherine of Siena." Mother Laura died on 21 October 1949 in Medellín, after a long and

September 3, 1877 (Marpingen, Germany – Approval pending) Anglicans consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Four Anglican bishops and an Anglican-ecumenical pilgrimage were in Fatima on May [...] that visits Fatima every year on May 12-13. The association was founded and consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Fatima on May 15, 2001, by the Rev. Fr. Edwin Barnes, the former Anglican Bishop

1604) – 2nd apparition in Fatima: "God wants to establish the devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world" (1917) “My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge” As soon as Jacinta, Francisco and I had finished [...] devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” “Am I to stay here alone?” I asked, sadly. “No, my daughter. Are you suffering a great deal? Don’t lose heart. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your [...] Lady’s right hand was a heart encircled by thorns which pierced it. We understood that this was the Immaculate Heart of Mary , outraged by the sins of humanity, and seeking reparation. Sister Lucia’s Memoirs

Garicoïts (d. 1863) Since Mary is the Immaculate Conception itself In Lourdes, the Immaculate Virgin answered Bernadette, who was asking who she was: "I am the Immaculate Conception.” By these luminous words [...] words, she expressed not only that she was immaculately conceived but in a deeper sense, that she was the Immaculate Conception itself. Something white is not the same as whiteness itself; something perfect [...] Uncreated Immaculate Conception... Admittedly, the third person of the Trinity is not incarnate, yet our human word of "spouse" cannot express the reality of the relationship of the Immaculate with the

d to the Immaculate Heart of Mary On Saturday, February 18, 2017, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Westminster was completely filled for the consecration of England and Wales to the Immaculate Heart of

(Italy, 1995) – Death of Saint Louise de Marillac (1660) Two hundred years before the dogma of the Immaculate Conception Despite her initial desire to enter the convent, after she met Saint Vincent de Paul [...] (feast of the Annunciation), when the sisters would renew their vows, and December 8th (feast of the Immaculate Conception, which wasn’t universally recognized then. The dogma was only proclaimed on December [...] her religious say the following prayer: “Most Holy Virgin, I believe and confess your holy and immaculate Conception.” Michèle Rivière de Précourt President of the French Federation of the Saint-Vincent

“full of grace” and that is because of the Immaculate Conception which prepared her for the immense task God had chosen her for. In Mary’s pure and immaculate heart, Dominican Sister Rose Rolling of St [...] Matthew, apostle and evangelist - Our Lady of Graces (Trieste, Italy, 1486) Our hope is in Mary’s Immaculate Heart In a time of increasing isolation, conflicts and fragmentation – within society, and within [...] self-aggrandising world to bring us this hope? And the answer, as presented here, exists within the Immaculate Heart, the pure heart of Mary, Mother of God. (...) Her courage, her discerning faith she at once

July 4 - Our Lady Refuge of Sinners Mary Immaculate is the refuge of sinners The Immaculate is the refuge of sinners, the place where even the worst of sinners, who are mired in their sin, those who feel [...] with selfishness, laziness, and cowardice... but not the love of Mary, precisely because she is immaculate. Her purity does not make her ethereal, a little unreal, like an unattainable maternal ideal. On

June 17 - The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Message of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary (1689) Our Lady of Fatima: "God wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart" The feast [...] wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If you do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and you will have peace." She also said, "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph!" (July 13, 1917) [...] feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is celebrated on the Saturday of the third week after Pentecost, the day after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Gospel reveals the Heart of Mary because

December 13 - Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr (Syracuse, Italy, 1st century) "From the moment of her immaculate conception, Mary knew that she was to become our Mother" In the following excerpt from Luisa P