Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church’s official approval. In early October 1859, a 28-year-old woman named Adele Brise walked alone in the Wisconsin woods, headed for a nearby grist mill with a sack of wheat [...] started a school, St Mary’s Boarding Academy, near the chapel. Over the decades, the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help became a familiar part of life in the Champion area. It was, and remains, a place of [...] January 8 – Our Lady of Prompt Succor (New Orleans, U.S.A) I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners A year after the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette in Lourdes (France, 1858)

shared with Caputo. In an interview with EWTN Vaticano, Caputo, who is also the pontifical delegate for Pompeii’s Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Holy Rosary, emphasized that the rosary is “a prayer [...] life of Christ “through the gaze of Mary” during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. “It is providential that the jubilee of the image of Our Lady of Pompeii coincides with the imminent jubilee year, focused [...] focused on Jesus our hope,” the pope said in a message to Archbishop Tommaso Caputo of Pompeii. “The rosary, a simple instrument within everyone’s reach, can support the renewed evangelization to which the Church

(Italy) – Death of Marthe Robin, a French mystic and stigmatist (d. 1981) She cannot resist a child’s trust Father Faure (1873-1955), pastor of Chateauneuf-de-Galaure, a small village in the Drôme department [...] Marthe was wounded by love in front of the altar of the Virgin Mary... Her whole life, her daily activities on the farm, became permeated with Marian grace." Faure also quotes Marthe speaking about the Blessed [...] Blessed Virgin, I must hope for her unlimited blessings. With the help of the Blessed Virgin, I would like to transform my natural life into a life completely supernatural and divine. I will be able to

them. Maj. Jeremy Haynes, a first-time spiritual pilgrim and Lourdes visitor, said he is a changed man since visiting the shrine, where Mary appeared to St Bernadette Soubirous in a series of visions in 1858 [...] paralysis. It has been a difficult journey. He also seeks healing for wounds in his family life that occurred prior to his physical injury. “With a minimum emphasis on faith, my family life was a disaster and divorce [...] created a stronger connection with my wife.” … Haynes, who went on the Lourdes trip to seek healing “mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally,” said he was honored to visit Lourdes with military

The Lord had prepared her heart so that she could hear the announcement with a sense of peace. Mary’s "yes" had been ready for a long time because of her hope that she would see the promised Salvation [...] foundress of a monastery dedicated to “the Humility of the Blessed Virgin” Did the Blessed Virgin know the future? Did the Blessed Virgin know the future? This question was submitted by a young reader [...] her answer: "Your question kind of surprised me! I can’t really imagine Mary as the fortune-teller of Galilee! You asked first if Mary knew in advance that she would be the mother of the Savior. Of course

Virgin Mary of the Mercy (Trinitarians). These two orders still exist. In 1194, the Provençal Jean de Mata, born in Barcelonnette (French Alps), had a vision of two chained slaves, a Christian and a Muslim [...] receiving a message from the Pope for the occasion. The Pope invited the religious to follow the example of the Virgin Mary, emphasizing the relationship between "the humility and simplicity of a hidden life [...] Mercedarian order added a fourth vow to the three ordinary vows of poverty, chastity and obedience: they promised to surrender their own person, as a last resort, to deliver prisoners for whom a ransom could not

men. The least of her actions was accomplished with such grace that God was glorified by it. The Virgin was never unfruitful. In her, being was already a form of doing. The purity of her soul and spirit [...] so that in her the reign of God progressed on earth more rapidly than any battle David won. Mary was certainly a discreet person, and her royal demeanor must not have gone unnoticed in Nazareth, but we can [...] But the King of kings got many of his virtues from his mother. It was from a true, albeit obscure and unknown, queen and from a despised village, that he drew the essential traits of his person. The Virgin

Isabella of France (d. 1270), founder of a convent dedicated to the "Humility of Our Lady" The Rosary is a weapon against our common enemy In an interview with the French newspaper La Croix , Father William [...] to Saint Dominic by the Virgin Mary herself, in the 12th century. It gradually acquired its present form in the 16th century." La Croix: "What is the difference between a 5-decade rosary and what we simply [...] " Father William: "He often speaks about it as well. He says that prayer is a struggle, and that the Rosary can be used as a weapon. Praying the Rosary is an exercise in endurance and perseverance that

difficult to make a little time for the interior life and for the ‘dulcis sermocinatio,’ the sweet conversation with God. Personally, when I speak alone with God or with the Virgin Mary, I feel like a child more [...] the ring; I dismiss the adult and the bishop with his serious, thoughtful and composed attitude, and I let myself relax with the spontaneous tenderness of a child in the presence of his father or mother [...] depths of my being. All this helps me to pray. The Rosary, which is a simple and uncomplicated prayer, sometimes helps me to become a child again, and I am not at all ashamed to say that! " Adapted and

September 16 - Our Lady of La Lajas (Latin America) She is More a Mother than a Queen (I) If I could have given just one sermon about her as a priest, that would have been enough for me to get across my ideas [...] that the Blessed Virgin had Christ’s passion constantly present before her eyes from that moment on? … “And a sword shall pierce will pierce your soul too…” (Lk 2:35). It is clear to see, my dear Mother [...] ideas about her. In the first place, I would have shown how little is actually known about Mary’s life. Of course, I believe that we must not say incredible or made-up ideas about her; for example, I would