December 21 - Our Lady of Saint Acheul (Amiens, France, 4th C.) founded by Saint Firmin Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (XII) "Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will [...] midst of you, and you shall know that the Lord of Hosts has sent me to you" (Zech 2:10-11). "Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel shout aloud! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem [...] banners?" (Song 6:10). As in the Book of Wisdom, we can say that she is "a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God's active power, and image of his goodness" (Wis 7:26). "She is indeed
Lady of Molen (France, 1075) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (XI) "Kings shall shut their mouths before him" (Is 52:15) In scrutinizing the Scriptures, the Blessed Virgin prayed in the midst of Israel [...] ready for the day of his coming? "'The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!' says the Lord of hosts. But who can [...] day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap; and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi
- Institution of Our Lady of Deliverance (France, 1583) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (VII) "I shall make you a light to the nations so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth" (Is [...] come to you" (...) "The abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from [...] have made a covenant of the people and a light to the nations" (Is 42:6). "It is not enough for you to be my servant, to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back the survivors of Israel; I shall make
December 10 - Transition of the Holy House of Loreto (Italy, 1291) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (I) "She will crush your head and you will strike her heel" (Gen 3:15) The Virgin Mary certainly understood [...] praying in silence or reading the word of God and "pondering in her heart" (Lk 2:19) all of God's promises to his people, beginning with the first announcement of salvation, in Genesis, shortly after the [...] understood, better than any other, the promises of God to his people, because she was capable within herself of deeply penetrating God's mystery. She was first and foremost attentive and fully turned to God
November 14 - Our Lady of the Grotto (Lamego, Portugal) Like Mary, the Docile Handmaid of the Divine Word This attitude of religious listening is the typical attitude of Mary Most Holy exactly as shown [...] This is also the image of the Church offered by the Council itself, in the constitution "Dei Verbum" (No. 1). Let us pray that, like Mary, the Church may be a docile handmaid of the Divine Word and proclaim [...] shown in the emblematic image of the Annunciation: The Virgin receives the heavenly messenger while meditating on the sacred Scriptures, represented generally with a book that she holds in her hands, or on
one will recall the example of the miracle of Theophilus, whom Mary reformed by the grace of forgiveness. But those above, innocent in grace, have in Mary the channel of that grace, by which they are [...] November 15 - Our Lady of Piety (Byzantine Church) - Saint Albert the Great Mary is the Channel of Grace The Blessed Virgin is the hope of forgiveness for those who are sorry for their sins and expiate [...] speaks persuasively to her Son, interceding for sinners, and, by the support of her merits, she restores the repentant to the level of grace they had lost.
November 8 - Our Lady of Belle Fountaine (La Rochelle, France) - Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity (d. 1906) Mary, Model of Interior Souls It seems to me that nobody has penetrated the mystery of Christ in its [...] that her little child be a living and striking image of her first-born, the Son of the Eternal, the One who was the perfect praise of the glory of his Father. [...] contemplates the clarity of the Blessed Virgin! [?] The secret that she pondered and kept in her heart, no tongue has been able to tell, nor pen translate. May this Mother of Grace form my heart, so that
November 6 - Our Lady of Valfleury (Lyons, France) Mary's Childbirth in the Marian Piety of the Second Century The Spirit opened the womb of the Virgin and she received conception and gave birth; and the
October 26 - Beatification of Bartolo Longo, a devout lover of the Virgin, who had been Satan’s slave for many months The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (VIII) The Rosary is both meditation and supplication [...] in the Rosary we plead with Mary, the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit (cf. Lk 1:35), she intercedes for us before the Father who filled her with grace, and before the Son born of her womb, praying with us and [...] n. Insistent prayer to the Mother of God is based on confidence that her maternal intercession can obtain all things from the heart of her Son. She is “all-powerful by grace,” to use the bold expression
Charité. The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (IX) O Blessed Rosary of Mary, Sweet chain which unites us to God, Bond of love which unites us to the angels, Tower of salvation against the assaults of Hell, Safe port [...] comfort in the hour of death: Yours our final kiss as life ebbs away, And the last word from our lips Will be your sweet name, O Queen of the Rosary of Pompeii, O dearest Mother, O Refuge of Sinners, O Sovereign [...] Sovereign Consoler of the Afflicted. May you be everywhere blessed, Today and always, On earth and in heaven.
