April 18 - Our Lady of Health (Italy, 1428) - Beatification of Sister Faustina (1993) Aiming for the perfect imitation of the Virgin Mary Our Monastery of the Celestial Annunciades in Rome, which was [...] lived humbly. The spirit of the Order of the Celestial Annunciades aims for the perfect imitation of the Virgin Mary, which for the former princess was that precious pearl of the Gospel for which "she [...] Rome, Italy. The community of the Celestial Annunciades of Rome had the joy and honor, on December 1, 1985, to receive the visit of His Holiness Pope Saint John Paul II. The echo of his fatherly words still
blessed by creation. To Mary, God gave His only-begotten Son, whom He loved as Himself. Through Mary, God made Himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary. The whole universe [...] ruined creation, without Mary. God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life and Mary the mother through whom [...] April 21 - Saint Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church (d. 1109) Mary the mother of the re-created world Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation receives new life from your abundance
Beatification of Catherine Labouré by Pius XI (1933) A special calendar of feasts for the Virgin Mary The faithful readers of A Moment with Mary might be interested to know how the calendar of Marian feasts [...] Instead, because we at A Moment with Mary have the mission to make Mary known and loved, i.e. to promote devotion towards our Mother Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church, and to go to Jesus our [...] most of the daily meditations, is elaborated. We could simply have followed the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, with all the great feasts, solemnities, memorial feasts and other feasts of the
May 15 – Our Lady of Light (Mexico) The Virgin Mary calls the eldest Daughter of the Church to wake up! In this month of Mary, in the context of anti-Christian legislations promulgated by several Christian [...] starting in 1830, the Virgin Mary has multiplied her visits and calls for conversion, especially on the soil of the "eldest Daughter of the Church" (i.e. France)! In that year, Mary appeared to Saint Catherine [...] come through Mary." Today, more than ever, the Virgin Mary calls her eldest daughter, but also all her daughters, the nations, to wake up and convert, to bring about her victory. The Marie de Nazareth Team
May 19 – Feast of the entrance of the Holy Family into Egypt (Coptic Church) A portrait of the Virgin Mary that is "not manmade" In Tyrol, Austria, on January 17, 1797, between 3 and 4 pm, 18-year-old [...] white than a photograph. Unlike the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe whose mantle covers her hair parted in the middle, a double veil covers the head of Our Lady of Absam. The mantle is enveloped in sun rays; [...] from the small town of Absam, saw an image of a beautiful young woman in a windowpane at her parents’ house. After undergoing scientific tests, the image was declared to bear no trace of external influence
May 7 – Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) A statue of Mary miraculously finished! In the 11 th century, a certain Guerlenc, Count of Corbeil (Parisian region) tried to seize abbatial property, then fell [...] hand"), then “Our Lady of Miracles,” the name that is still hers today. Her intercession has obtained many miracles for those who pray to her. The pilgrimage to Our Lady of Miracles of Saint - Maur-des-Fossés [...] granted, he converted and commissioned a wooden statue of the Virgin from the sculptor Rumolde. On July 10, 1068, the sculptor heard someone calling him out of his studio. He went to see who it was but couldn’t
to the Mother of God and men. I would insist that, in every place of worship, a statue of Our Lady be presented to the devotion of the good people of God, to continue a long tradition of the Latin Church [...] May 9 – Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) Let a statue of Mary be honored in every church Priests and faithful are at times surprised to not see a statue of the Virgin Mary in some churches – these are [...] Orthodox venerate the image of the Virgin Mary… I also wish that, in all the churches, a statue of the Blessed Virgin would be worthily honored with flowers, especially in the months of May and October. God always
Sunday: the Resurrection of the Lord – Saint Francisco Marto of Fatima Was Mary a witness of Christ’s Resurrection? How could the Blessed Virgin, present in the first community of disciples (cf. Acts 1:14) [...] become the herald of his glorious coming. Thus bathed in the glory of the Risen One, she anticipates the Church’s splendor. It seems reasonable to think that Mary, as the image and model of the Church which [...] witness of Christ’s Resurrection, completing in this way her participation in all the essential moments of the paschal mystery. Welcoming the risen Jesus, Mary is also a sign and an anticipation of humanity
feast - Death of Pope Saint John Paul II (2005) The temptations of Mary on Calvary If Mary was ever tempted, as Jesus was tempted in the desert, it was probably in its fiercest form at the foot of the Cross [...] others, why can't you now save yourself too, my Son?" Mary was silent, "giving to the immolation of the victim, born of her flesh, the consent of her love," says a text from Vatican II. She celebrated [...] painful temptation, because Jesus Himself was the cause of it. She believed in God’s promises and she believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God. She knew that if Jesus had prayed for it, the Father
March 26 - Italy: Our Lady of the Palace (Italy, 1776) - Sinaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Orthodox Church) Mary, the most perfect of Christ's disciples First, the Virgin Mary has always been proposed to [...] accepted the will of God (cf. Lk. 1:38), because she heard the word of God and acted on it, and because charity and a spirit of service were the driving force of her actions. She is worthy of imitation because [...] because she was the first and the most perfect of Christ's disciples. All of this has a permanent and universal exemplary value. Pope Saint Paul VI (pope from 1963-1978) Excerpt from his encyclical Marialis
