the Cross (Italy, 1490) The Virgin Mary is with me as I pray on my rehab bike I love reading your daily email (Editor's note: A Moment with Mary) about the Virgin Mary. Thanks to this letter, I went to [...] healing by now, are becoming more mobile. A faithful reader who now feels the presence of our Blessed Mother at his side. A French reader of A Moment with Mary , in 2018 [...] sacrament! Because I have multiple sclerosis, I had a sense of hopelessness. Anticipating a total loss of autonomy in the near future, I was contemplating ending my life so as not to become a burden to my family
The Virgin with the Golden Heart (Beauraing, Belgium, 1932) Overpowered by contrition, he died at Mary's feet There once was a poor sinner who, among other crimes, had killed his father and a brother, and [...] On the following day, when the priest recommended to the people to pray for the deceased, a white dove appeared in the church and let fall a card at the feet of the priest. He took it up, and found these [...] and therefore became a fugitive. Happening to hear one day during Lent a sermon on divine mercy, he went to the preacher himself to make his confession. Having heard his crimes, the confessor sent him
Let us pray to Mary Queen of Nations, with Saint Louis Saint Louis had wished to die on a Saturday (a day dedicated to the Virgin Mary) and this grace was granted to him by Mary: it was on Saturday, August [...] celestial legions obey, having established different kingdoms here on earth according to the diversity of languages and climates, has conferred on a great number of governments special missions for the ac [...] by Pope St. Pius X on December 13, 1908, during the beatification of Joan of Arc. It was received with a holy fervor by an anticlerical government, gathered at Saint Peter's in Rome for the occasion. Today's
(d. 761) I have entrusted your order to my Mother Sister Cecilia, a Roman nun and a contemporary of Saint Dominic, recounted a vision that the saint had, which shows the Virgin Mary’s special protection [...] three ladies approached him. The most beautiful and noble carried a precious vase. One of her companions handed her a sprinkler, with which she blessed each of the sleeping brothers, tracing the sign of [...] Virgin's shoulder and said to Dominic, "I have entrusted your order to my mother." The Virgin opened her cloak, and lo! sheltered in its folds, Dominic saw a multitude of his own Brothers! The Mother of
new church responds to a need to welcome pilgrims from all over the diocese. The Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy promotes a Catholic Marian spirituality around the sacraments and special Marian devotions. It [...] devotions called "the 1,000 meditated Hail Marys. "Throughout the morning, visitors file up the stairs to the main statue of the Virgin Mary. They pray in front of her for a few minutes, leave candles, flowers [...] His children crushed by their human misery. "With the coronavirus pandemic, the activities of the shrine were greatly reduced for a number of weeks, but have now resumed. Adapted from an article by Lucie
place will have their wishes fulfilled." According to some, the Virgin appeared several times. Several miraculous healings and conversions have occurred at the shrine. A special pilgrimage and a tradition [...] in a wooded area, the Virgin accompanied by two angels "appeared" to a group of persecuted Christians. "She was wearing a beautiful, oriental style cloak, holding the Infant Jesus in her arms," a witness [...] "I have already granted your prayers..." In 1798, Christians in Vietnam were forced to flee into the jungle to escape government persecution. At this time a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary took
1630) I learned to do small things with Mary When Marie Claire and I got married, our wedding prayer was the "Hail Mary." Then, at a Conference of the Fraternity of Mary Immaculate Queen 1 in 1989, we discovered [...] ambitious plans hide pride? Mary teaches us humility. Do our addictions enslave us? Mary liberates us. Is our relationship with others and with material possessions somewhat unclear? Mary enlightens us. Her only [...] Enthronement of Mary. In our home and workplaces, the enthronement of Mary Immaculate Queen is the first thing we do. We also made our covenant pact with her.* So many beautiful things have happened in our
Jesus (Bologna, Italy) Prayer vigils with Mary around the world For more than a decade now, prayer vigils for the revival of the culture of Life in our societies have been held every year in several countries [...] you to the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Life, Our Lady of the Church. Keep up the good fight!" If you want to organize a Vigil for Life in your parish, you should ask your parish priest now to save the date [...] next national vigil (2). In 2018, Philippine Archbishop Palma of Cebu, who led a very successful March for Life with Mary, decried the endemic violence in his country, saying: "No man has the right to
mountains where he had almost lost his life, to install a Virgin at the top of this majestic rocky point. A large expedition accompanied by a priest had hoisted the bronze statue to the top. This feat followed [...] should release a film. In their words, it will be a way to "highlight the beauty of this cultural heritage", and to highlight this "heritage". This one should retrace their adventure, filmed with a drone in [...] Mont-Blanc topped with statues of Virgin Mary In an unprecedented succession of ascents, two French guides, Guillaume Pierrel and Lucien Boucansaud visited, in just ten days, the seven Virgin Marys of the massif
1664) Grappling with crises, Lebanon is again consecrated to Mary For the fifth consecutive year, Lebanon and all of the Middle East has been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The consecrations [...] June 3, 2021, how, “for all these five years, Mary, with her invisible hand, has kept our homeland safe from collapse, every time it reached the brink.” “With this need for mercy in our homeland and in the [...] Lebanon and the entire Middle East to the Immaculate Heart of Mary will prevail. “We believe that with the intercession of the Virgin Mary, wars can stop,” Maronite Bishop of Tyre Shukrallah Nabil El-Hajj
