Virgin Mary all the "knots" that have been discerned and prayed over. You can view the calendar of future retreats, as well as reviews of past retreats on the official website of Mary Undoer of Knots (1) [...] May 15 – Nuestra Señora de la Luz (Mexico) "Retreats of Trust" with Mary Undoer of Knots The AVE Mary Undoer of Knots Association (French acronym for Avancer, Vivre et Écouter: Moving Forward, Living and [...] program includes talks, times of adoration, and group prayer. The last two days of the novena are prayed together. Each participant can talk to a priest, receive the sacrament of reconciliation, attend mass
Schmidtner of Mary Undoer of Knots. He was captivated by this work of art, and was enthusiastic about it: "The knots of life must be placed in the hands of the Mother of Jesus, the Mother of all who entrust [...] Our Lady of Grace, to Our Lady Help of Christians, but also to the Virgin of Miracles of Santa Fe, patroness of the Society of Jesus in the Uruguayan province, to Our Lady of Luján, patroness of Argentina [...] apparition approved by Coptic Patriarch Kyrillos VI (Cairo, Egypt, 1968) The birth of the devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots In 1986, the Jesuit priest Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, returned
Montfort “To Mary alone God gave the keys of the cellars of divine love” To Mary alone God gave the keys of the cellars of divine love and the ability to enter the most sublime and secret ways of perfection [...] they can feed without fear of death on the delicious fruit of the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They can drink copiously the heavenly waters of that beauteous fountain which [...] perfection, and lead others along them. Mary alone gives to the unfortunate children of unfaithful Eve entry into that earthly paradise where they may walk pleasantly with God and be safely hidden from their enemies
April 4 – Blessed Francisco Marto of Fatima Mary places maternal love at the heart of the mysteries of salvation The daughter of Israel, the Virgin Mother, the Immaculate Conception is a central figure [...] and her implacable cruelty. With Mary, everything changes, because she is the full heir of the Jewish heritage of the Old Testament, gathering in her person the virtues of Sarah, Judith and Esther. She is [...] all over Europe. This is not by chance, but rather because of the centrality of Mary's person in the culture we have inherited and owe a great deal to. In primitive religions, the woman was generally associated
March 17 – Virgin of the French (Nagasaki, Japan) – Our Lady of Blaj (Romania) Scarred statue of Mary that survived the Nagazaki A-Bomb now a symbol of Peace When the atom bomb "Fat Boy" devastated Nagasaki [...] preserved forever." The remains of the statue of the Virgin Mary have found a new home inside a rebuilt church, also called St Mary's, built on the same site, only 500 metres (1,640 feet) from the bomb's ground [...] glass windows of the church, toppled its walls, burnt its altar and melted its iron bell. But, in what local Christian followers have likened to a miracle, the head of a wooden Virgin Mary statue survived
Friday to Easter Sunday. Woman of hope, the Virgin Mary prepares Christian hearts for the return of Christ Jesus. Like all mothers, Mary oversees the preparation of the gathering of her children. Through her [...] February 15 – Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Byzantine rite) Woman of hope, Mary prepares hearts for the return of Christ Jesus The virtue of hope requires memory; without memory, there is no hope [...] years of crossing the desert to the Promised Land, and the ship's anchor that secures the ship in the midst of storms. The Lord’s prayer shines like the prayer of Advent. It is a prayer of hope and of desire
December 18 – Feast of the Expectation of the Virgin’s Childbirth (654) established at the Council of Toledo in 656 In the time of the Virgin Mary, this conjunction of planets occurred three times The [...] the coming of the star of the Messiah. They expected the birth of the "ruler of the world" to occur in or after 7 B.C., which is precisely when the Virgin of Nazareth was alive! Kepler, one of the fathers [...] October 1, and December 5. They therefore considered the constellation of Pisces to be the sign of the end of time, meaning the beginning of the messianic era. #NULL
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington (Washington D.C., USA, 1959) The Immaculate Conception of Mary, patroness of the United States The Cathedral-Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate [...] world. The Basilica is the national Catholic place of worship of the United States, and the Immaculate Conception - a title granted to the Virgin Mary by Pope Pius IX in 1847 - is its national Patroness [...] faith and love of God and Mary. It was Pope John Paul II who elevated the National Shrine to the status of a Minor Basilica on October 12, 1990, and later, on April 16, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI gifted it with
November 15 – Saint Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church (d. 1280) – Our Lady of Piety (Byzantine Church) Mary is a pillar of the Church because of her faith "Blessed are you who believed!" (Lk 1:45) [...] perfect virtue of the soul, Mary was extremely blessed because she was completely filled with virtue and grace; she was prudent and full of faith, to the point of deserving to conceive because of her faith [...] faith, and to become the foundation and pillar of the Church thanks to her faith. To believe means, as St Augustine says, to give the consent of one's own mind and to adhere with complete devotion to what one
October 4 – Saint Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) The arrival of Saint Francis at Saint Mary of the Angels Here is the story of the arrival of St. Francis at the Porziuncola (1): When this church too was at [...] been reared in days of old in honor of the most Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, but which was then deserted and cared for by none. When the man of God beheld it thus abandoned, by reason of the ardent devotion [...] Bonaventure, Life of Saint Francis of Assisi , chapter 2 (1) Porziuncola, also called Portiuncula (in Latin) is a small Catholic church located within the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi
