March 13 - Our Lady of the Rose (Italy, 1635) Our Lady’s Rosary and Abundant Grace The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, [...] it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation [...] the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant
February 16 - Our Lady of the Thorn (Châlons, France) Our Lady and the Burning Bush According to tradition, the discovery of a statue of the Virgin Mary took place on the eve of the Feast of the Annunciation [...] polychrome statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus in the midst of the flames. In 1406, on the very same site of the miracle, construction of a church was begun for the enshrinement of the miraculous [...] gone home. The church was elevated to a minor basilica and the beautiful shrine is a worthy place to venerate the Blessed Virgin, where Christian souls can adore the Son of God.
February 16 - Our Lady of the Thorn (Châlons, France) Our Lady and the Burning Bush The night of the Annunciation of the year 1400, some shepherds were attracted by a bright light coming from the nearby [...] left for home. Our Lady of the Thorn became a place of pilgrimage very rapidly. Today, a minor basilica, the shrine proved to be so beautiful that the people considered it worthy place to venerate the Blessed [...] statue and carried it in his own hands to the nearby Oratory of Saint John. On the very site of the miracle, construction of a church was begun for the enshrinement of the miraculous statue. Since the church
March 6 – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1630) The fullness of our faith held in one hand A German bishop, Cardinal Meisner (1933-2017), Archbishop of Cologne, once received a group of Germans who had been [...] whole New Testament: the mystery of the Incarnation of God in the joyful mysteries; the mystery of Redemption in the sorrowful mysteries; and finally the mysteries of our fulfillment, which are the glorious [...] deprived of all contact with the Church during all those years. He recalled the conversation he had with them: "They said to me: ‘We miss the Church so much! What truth of faith must we pass on to our children
the foot of our own crosses too . This is why she is called Our Lady, Health of the Sick . The magnificent Stabat Mater (Sorrowful Mother) was written to describe the pain and suffering Mary had to endure [...] December 19 – Our Lady of Remedies (Portugal) She is standing at the foot of our own crosses too Mary’s greatest challenge and heartbreak came as she had to watch her Son willingly allow Himself be whipped [...] next to last verses of the Stabat Mater , which frame the entire hymn. At the Cross, her station keeping stood the mournful Mother weeping, close to her Son to the last. Through her heart, His sorrow sharing
book that Bernadette gave several accounts of the story of the apparitions and had to write down her testimonial seven times by hand! Laurentin endeavored to blend these seven versions into one narrative [...] calm, poised, precise, able to catch trick questions—and sometimes gently mocking—just like Saint Joan of Arc before her judges. “I have been asked to tell you about it, not to make you believe it.” The [...] the story of her short and simple life and is punctuated by bold and surprising assertions of her biographer, supported by strong evidence. One is that Bernadette is to Lourdes what Mary is to the Church
(France, 1858) Our Lady’s Messenger (I) Why does the evangelist specify names in such detail at the Annunciation? Undoubtedly, it is because he wants us to pay the same amount of attention to his story that [...] he introduces us to the Lord who sent the message, the Virgin to whom it is sent and the Virgin’s fiancé, using precise details by stating the family name, the city and the country of origin. Why does [...] speak without reason? Heaven preserve us to believe so, because in truth a leaf does not fall from a tree, nor does a sparrow in the sky fall to the ground without our Father knowing (Mt 10: 31). I cannot
(France, 1858) Our Lady’s Messenger (I) Why does the evangelist specify names in such detail at the Annunciation? Undoubtedly, it is because he wants us to pay the same amount of attention to his story that [...] he introduces us to the Lord who sent the message, the Virgin to whom it is sent and the Virgin's fiancé, using precise details by stating the family name, the city and the country of origin. Why does [...] speak without reason? Heaven preserve us to believe so, because in truth a leaf does not fall from a tree, nor does a sparrow in the sky fall to the ground without our Father knowing (Mt 10: 31). I cannot
various manifestations of piety towards the Mother of God, Mother of mankind, all of you may draw from the treasure of our saint's writings and examples of what formed the basis of his Marian devotion—his [...] the Refuge of Sinners, the Mother of Divine Grace, our life, our sweetness, and our hope… She is also our advocate—an intermediary between God and the sinner—who is busy invoking the clemency of the judge [...] Marie de Montfort’s canonization (1947) Our Lady roped him with her rosary The great secret of Saint Louis Marie de Montfort on how to attract souls and give them to Jesus is Marian devotion. He founded
yet Mary is so closely united to him, and so close to us, that we can do no better than to put our hands in hers and to acknowledge her as “our life, our sweetness and our hope.” Pope Francis, January 1 [...] need to entrust ourselves to our Mother. In the Scriptures, Our Lady embraces any number of concrete situations; she is present wherever she is needed. She visits her cousin Elizabeth; she comes to the [...] Bishop of Fatima asks Sister Lucia to write the third secret of Fatima (1944) Mary can relieve loneliness and breakdown of our social life In today’s fragmented world, where we risk losing our bearings
