1885) Jesus at San Nicolás de los Arroyos: "Souls will come to me through the means of Mary’s Immaculate Heart." (II) Gladys has shared about 1,800 messages from the Virgin Mary. Many focus on topics [...] my mother, so that what I ask will be achieved. Souls will come to me through the means of her Immaculate Heart." The diocese's successive local bishops have discussed the apparitions several times. Bishop

Quiroga Jesus in San Nicolás de los Arroyos: "Souls will come to me through the means of Mary’s Immaculate Heart." (I) The apparitions began after some rosaries in homes throughout San Nicolas de los Arroyos

my first Mass will be said in honor of your Immaculate Heart." And guess what: on June 28, 2010, I actually celebrated my first Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the church of the Sacred Heart [...] July 2 - Our Lady of Piat (Philippines) "My first mass will be said in honor of the Immaculate Heart" My name is Pierre Nguyen and I have been a priest for almost 13 years, a member of the Emmanuel community

Bernadette to confirm the dogma of the Immaculate Conception The Church proclaims that Mary is holy. But her holiness is unlike any other: she is the "Immaculate Conception", which means that she was actually [...] Eve. But Pope Pius IX settled the matter by declaring the dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854: Mary is immaculate from the moment of her conception, "because of the merits of Jesus Christ [...] born and grew up and lived and died without committing a single sin. This is the meaning of the Immaculate Conception. This declaration raised a lot of controversy. Many disagreed with the fact that Mary

December 4 - Saint John of Damascus, Doctor of the Church (d. ca 749) - Immaculate Virgin of Sameiro (Portugal) Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, protectress of Portugal Portugal's devotion to Mary started [...] 25, 1646, a royal decree was issued ratifying the decision of the Cortes to name Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception as the patroness of Portugal, in gratitude for the nation's regained independence, in [...] major Portuguese institutions, including the universities, decided to defend the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception... two centuries before the proclamation of the dogma by the Church in 1854! In 1863

Doctor of the Church (d. 604) – Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) What is the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary? Germany was consecrated to Mary in Fulda in the [...] world. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is a specific Catholic devotion focused on one aspect of the holiness of the Mother of God: her total purity - confirmed by the recent dogma of the Immaculate Conception [...] Mary reaffirmed the immaculate nature of her soul to Saint Catherine Labouré. But it was especially with the Marian apparitions of Fatima (Portugal) in 1917 that devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary acquired

17 – Our Lady of Town Squares (Crozant, France, 1664) Mary is "the figure of the Church, who is immaculate yet espoused" Where do we find the first mention of the expression "Mary, Mother of the Church" [...] rightly said that [Mary] was married and was a virgin, for she was the figure of the Church, who is immaculate, yet espoused. The Virgin conceived us spiritually, and the Virgin brought us into the world without

Auschwitz) – Madonna del Sasso (Locarno, Switzerland, 1480) Let us "teach everyone who the Immaculate is" allow the Immaculate to act by all means available, including the most cutting-edge, because discoveries [...] permeate all our activity is to act "through the Immaculate", our goal being the conquest of the whole world and of each soul in particular to the Immaculate and, through her, to the Most Sacred Heart of [...] who the Immaculate is, to spread the love that is due to her and above all to revive this fundamental love which is not a matter of sentiment, but of a will united to the will of the Immaculate, just as

Peter Chrysologus, Doctor of the Church (d. 451) Let us offer our day to Jesus, through Mary’s Immaculate Heart When I was a child, my family prayed the rosary daily, but during June, the month when we [...] my parents had us recite the “Morning Offering,” which includes the words, “O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer Thee my prayers works, joys and sufferings of this day, for all the intentions

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 [...] - 2nd apparition of Our Lady in Fatima (Portugal, 1917) June 13, 1917: The consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the reparation of sins As soon as Jacinta, Francisco and I had finished praying [...] 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