September 12 – Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, following the liberation of Vienna besieged by the Turks in 1683 Let us invoke the holy name of Mary when faced with grave dangers The next day, September [...] he decided to institute a feast in honor of the Holy Name of Mary. On November 25, 1683, the feast was extended to the whole Church, and the Nativity of Mary was fixed for the following Sunday. It was [...] Te Deum (a solemn song of thanksgiving) in the church of the Virgin of Loreto to whom he attributed the victory. Pope Innocent XI also attributed this victory to the intercession of the Virgin. In thanksgiving
the integral development of the person." As in 1942—the year of the consecration of the country to Our Lady of Perpetual Help—all the bishops of the country attended the ceremony of this Marian anniversary [...] Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) - Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) Haiti and Our Lady of Perpetual Help On June 27, 2018, Haiti celebrated the 75 th anniversary of its consecration [...] to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, patron saint of the island. For this solemn occasion, Haiti’s Episcopal Conference organized a great procession of prayer and praise, followed by a Mass of thanksgiving
August 11 – Mary Refuge of Sinners - Cardinal John Henry Newman (d. 1890) Mary Mother of the Church helps women rebuild their lives in Iraq Iraqi women rebuilding their lives after ISIS occupation were [...] 2016, most of whom belong to the Syriac Catholic rite. Many of these families are trying to establish a new normal in their lives, from the practical to the spiritual. … A special icon of Mary was written [...] support. Held April 27-29 in Qaraqosh, the event drew inspiration from the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church , added recently to the Church’s calendar by Pope Francis. Fr. Roni Momika
Canonization of Catherine Labouré by Pius XII, attended by 10,000 Children of Mary dressed in white (1947) The Marian devotion of Chinese Catholics It is with a solemn mass that the Shrine of She Shan, the [...] Shrine (Diocese of Shanghai, Mainland China) opened the month of Mary. Today, the shrine is world-renowned thanks to Pope Benedict XVI who composed and broadcast his "Prayer to Our Lady of She Shan." At [...] At the top of the shrine is the statue of Our Lady who holds Her Son high, "presenting Him to the world with His arms wide open as a gesture of love," and asking Catholics "to always be credible witnesses
parents of the Virgin Mary The parents of the Virgin Mary The author of the Protoevangelium of James (apocryphal gospel) portrays the parents of Mary, Anne and Joachim, as living in the neighborhood of the [...] dei poveri in Santa Maria "Regina Martyrum", a quarterly magazine of Spirituality of the Order of the Servants of Mary, Provinces of Piedmont and Romagna, Year IV, issue # 2, 2001, p.21-27 [...] to the poor. Full of faith in God, they had all the qualities needed for God’s visit. In an apparently quite different account, according to the Syriac Fathers, Mary is the "Daughter of the poor," a "humble
cross. 5. Mary standing at the foot of the cross. 6. Mary receiving the lifeless body of her Son. 7. Mary mourning at the tomb of Jesus. The stations of the Via Matris reconstitute the path of suffering [...] venerate the Virgin Mary’s dress, exhibited every 7 years (Germany) The Via Matris: Mary’s Stations of the Cross According to tradition, after the Ascension of the Lord, the Virgin Mary returned daily to [...] Resurrection of Jesus had taken place, instituting the first Stations of the Cross. The Church has preserved this devotional practice ever since. Praying the Stations of the Cross is a way of sharing in
21 – Coptic Church: Feast of the Visitation of Mary The two servants of Mary (II) Then the mother of God presented Blessed Dominic to Our Lord. “I accept him,” said the Son of God, “he will do very well [...] gesture has left on the ocean of ages an indelible wake, and the two begging militias find there the symbol of their eternal covenant. This is the reason why the Patriarch of Preachers has his place among [...] zealously all that you have said.” She then introduced Blessed Francis to him, and the Savior approved of him too. Now blessed Dominic, considering attentively in this vision that companion whom he did not
March 19 – Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary Joseph also remained a virgin, out of consideration for Mary You say that Mary did not remain a virgin. I, on the contrary, wish to affirm something more radical—that [...] radical—that Joseph actually remained a virgin—and did so for Mary, so that a virgin Son could be born of a virgin marriage. Since in a holy man like Joseph there was no room for fornication, and since it is [...] written that he had another wife, and if he was for Mary, who was considered his wife, a guardian more than a husband, we can conclude that, together with Mary, the one who deserved to be called father by the
February 10 – King Louis XIII consecrates France to Mary (1638) An icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave Suspended at almost 4,000 feet of elevation on top of an impressive cliff, the Sümela monastery in Turkey [...] Barnabas and Sophronios, in honor of a rare icon of the Blessed Virgin. After Barnabas and Sophronios discovered the icon on the wall of a cave in the steep slopes of the mountain, they decided to stay [...] on account of important consolidation works to prevent landslides, the monastery is due to reopen at the end of 2018. Even though this monastery was converted into a museum when the Republic of Turkey was
January 27 – Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) All the parishes dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary! Archbishop Cattenoz of Avignon, in southern France, consecrated his diocese to [...] to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on December 8, 2017, and invited each parish priest to do the same. Each day of the novena leading up to December 8th, the diocesan faithful were invited to recite the following [...] following prayer written by Cardinal Sarah: "O Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the Angels and the Saints, Mediatrix of all graces, we find refuge and protection in Your Immaculate Heart, because you are
