booklet encouraging Catholics to pray a novena to Our Lady of Walsingham: “This novena in honor of Our Lady of Walsingham is the beginning of a National Novena of Prayer for our country which will help us [...] deeply embrace Our Lady of Walsingham as the powerful intercessor for these lands. It was a chance, he said, to reclaim “the great spiritual heritage which is ours of being the Dowry of Mary.” Article [...] Miraculous Transfer of the Holy House of Loreto (1294) England to be re-dedicated as Dowry of Mary in 2020 England will be re-dedicated as the Dowry of Mary in 2020, the rector of Walsingham Shrine has
Feast of the Holy Trinity - Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1503); First visit of John Paul II to Poland (Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, 1979) Shortly after the Polish episcopate pronounced the act of consecration [...] Mother of God, "in your maternal slavery of love", to serve the great cause of the freedom of the Church not only in their own homeland but in the whole world. The call of a son of the Polish nation to the [...] dynasty! In the year of the Millennium of the Baptism of Poland, on 3 May 1966, in this place the Primate of Poland pronounced the act of total servitude to the Mother of God for the freedom of the Church in
December 21 – Our Lady of Sorrows (Pescara, Italy, 1672) – Our Lady of Saint-Acheul (Amiens, France) Did they miss the appointed time? It is a historically proven fact—as inexplicable as it seems—that [...] and in her prayer to the Holy of Holies. It was accomplished for her and for all Christians in the coming of the Savior, in the fullness of the appointed time. Even the Jews who did not recognize Christ testify [...] testify to the precision of this expectation, recognizing in the Talmud at the end of the first century that "all the dates calculated for the coming of the Messiah have now passed" (Sanhedrin Treaty 97)
will of Him that was born… For the Lord Jesus Christ came to do away with not to endure our pollutions: not to succumb to our faults but to heal them. He came that He might cure every weakness of our corruptness [...] November 10 – Our Lady of Almudena (Madrid, Spain) - Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (d. 461) Born of the Virgin for our regeneration Consider here not the condition of her that bare [...] all the sores of our defiled souls: for which reason it behooved Him to be born by a new order, who brought to men's bodies the new gift of unsullied purity. For the uncorrupt nature of Him that was born
June 5 - Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1611) Imitation of Jesus Christ Our Lord The Holy Spirit could not leave such wonderful and inconceivable dependence of God unmentioned in the Gospel, though he concealed [...] Wisdom Incarnate did during His hidden life in order to bring home to us its infinite value and glory. Jesus gave more glory to God His Father by submitting to His Mother for thirty years than He would have [...] working the greatest miracles. How highly then do we glorify God when to please Him we submit ourselves to Mary, taking Jesus as our sole model.
June 5 - Our Lady of Help (Italy, 1611) Imitation of Jesus Christ Our Lord The Holy Spirit could not leave such wonderful and inconceivable dependence of God unmentioned in the Gospel, though he concealed [...] Wisdom Incarnate did during His hidden life in order to bring home to us its infinite value and glory. Jesus gave more glory to God His Father by submitting to His Mother for thirty years than He would have [...] working the greatest miracles. How highly then do we glorify God when to please Him we submit ourselves to Mary, taking Jesus as our sole model.
13 - Our Lady of Pellevoisin (France) Our Loving Mother of Mercy (I) In the month of February 1876, in Pellevoisin, France, Estelle Faguette, a thirty-two year old French woman, was the object of five [...] bedside. Our Lady rebuked the demon and he immediately departed. Our Lady then looked at Estelle and said to her, “Do not fear, you are my daughter.” Mary also told her to be brave for she was to suffer [...] apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, followed in the same year by many others. The previous year, Estelle, dying of an incurable disease, had written a letter to Our Lady requesting her intercession to obtain
13 - Our Lady of Pellevoisin (France) Our Loving Mother of Mercy (I) In the month of February 1876, in Pellevoisin, France, Estelle Faguette, a thirty-two year old French woman, was the object of five [...] bedside. Our Lady rebuked the demon and he immediately departed. Our Lady then looked at Estelle and said to her, "Do not fear, you are my daughter." Mary also told her to be brave for she was to suffer [...] apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, followed in the same year by many others. The previous year, Estelle, dying of an incurable disease, had written a letter to Our Lady requesting her intercession to obtain
October 27 - Our Lady of Charity (Cuba) The Rose Garden of Our Mother While nature itself made the name of mother the sweetest of all names and has made motherhood the very model of tender and solicitous [...] power is most far-reaching. Her desire to use it is most ardent to bring consolation, strength, and help of every kind to the children who are dear to her. Accordingly, let us approach Mary confidently, [...] private, threaten our welfare; what difficulties and evils surround us; above all, how fierce is the fight we wage with ruthless enemies of our salvation. In these and in all other troubles of life her power
- Dedication of the Shrine of Our Lady of Le Puy, Queen of France Our heavenly Mother, the Flower of all spring flowers Father Renaud Saliba, rector of the shrine of Pontmain (diocese of Laval, Mayenne [...] beauty of the new May blossoms and our heavenly Mother, the beautiful Lady, as she is called here in Pontmain. It was in Rome that the custom of increasing prayers to Mary throughout the 31 days of May was [...] be set up in every home. The family was invited to pray together in honor of the Blessed Virgin and to draw a strip of paper indicating the virtue to be practiced the next day. After Pope Pius VII (1742-1823)
