September 10 – Holy Mary of Life (Italy, 1613) The beautiful fruits of Our Lady of Walsingham On Saturday, June 30, 2018, in Birmingham, England, eight priests were ordained for the personal Ordinariate
September 8 – Nativity of the Virgin Mary – Our Lady of the Kneeling Woman (France, 1550) How the Virgin asked for the celebration of her birthday Béhuard is a village located on a small island of the [...] Béhuard to honor her nativity, in 431—the year of the Council of Ephesus (present-day Turkey) where Mary was proclaimed "Mother of God" ( Theotokos in Greek). A year earlier, in 430, the Virgin had appeared [...] idols, making Béhuard one of the oldest places of the Christianization of Anjou. Notre Histoire avec Marie
September 12 – Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, following the liberation of Vienna besieged by the Turks in 1683 Let us invoke the holy name of Mary when faced with grave dangers The next day, September [...] decided to institute a feast in honor of the Holy Name of Mary. On November 25, 1683, the feast was extended to the whole Church, and the Nativity of Mary was fixed for the following Sunday. It was Pope Saint [...] its celebration. When Saint John Paul II restored this feast, it was to remind Catholics to invoke Mary when facing serious international dangers too. Rome, September 11, 2015 (ZENIT.org)
– Orthodox feast of the Placing of the Virgin Mary’s belt in a church of Constantinople’s district of Chalcoprateia "Go to confession," said the Virgin Mary A certain man in Germany had committed a great [...] sin. He was about to return home, when he thought he would go and recommend himself to the most holy Mary, before her image which was in the church. He had hardly kneeled before it, when he felt himself entirely [...] greater satisfaction than if he had gained all the gold in the world. Excerpt from The Glories of Mary by Saint Alphonsus Liguori Taken from Le Chapelet des Enfants (The Children's Rosary)
September 3 - Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) - Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) Haiti and Our Lady of Perpetual Help On June 27, 2018, Haiti celebrated the 75 th anniversary [...] people of Haiti, not only because it gave them an opportunity to give thanks to God and the Virgin Mary who interceded for them when smallpox ravaged the island in 1882, but it also marked the closing of
September 7 – The Holy House is transferred to Loreto (Italy, 1295) – Founding of the Legion of Mary in Dublin (Ireland, 1921) Massive Rosary event planned in the United States for October Bishop Robert
have relied more on Mary’s intercession throughout my college years and now into my 20s, I am growing increasingly aware of what a truly incalculable gift humanity was given in Mother Mary, loving and honoring [...] August 23 – Proclamation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s miracles (Soissons, France) - Estelle Faguette of Pellevoisin (d. 1929) Stay very close to Our Lady! Before my marriage, I lived with two other Catholic [...] would come and pray a Rosary together. During times of particular unease, we would pray the novena to Mary Who Unties Knots. Over the course of nine days, the novena calls on supplicants to lay the burdensome
August 25 – Mary, Health of the Sick - Saint Louis, King of France (d. 1270) Today the Queen of the World took me out of Purgatory In Rome, on the day of the Assumption, a woman entered the basilica erected [...] erected on the Capitol in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There, she was greatly surprised to see one of her neighbors who had died the year before! “Aren’t you my neighbor Marozina, who has been dead [...] This is why, in thanksgiving, we are visiting the places dedicated to our glorious Lady, the Virgin Mary.” And, as proof of the reality of her apparition, the happy delivered woman told her friend that in
August 11 – Mary Refuge of Sinners - Cardinal John Henry Newman (d. 1890) Mary Mother of the Church helps women rebuild their lives in Iraq Iraqi women rebuilding their lives after ISIS occupation were [...] support. Held April 27-29 in Qaraqosh, the event drew inspiration from the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church , added recently to the Church’s calendar by Pope Francis. Fr. Roni Momika, [...] to establish a new normal in their lives, from the practical to the spiritual. … A special icon of Mary was written for the occasion, which was done by a local artist who dressed the Virgin in the traditional
August 3 – Act of consecration to Mary inspired by St Peter Damian and approved by the archbishop of Cambrai (France, 1626) See the life of Jesus through the eyes of Mary! Tomás Morales Pérez was a Jesuit [...] the Blessed Virgin. If the Rosary is the Church gathered with Mary, it is also the Church that sees the life of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, “the most attractive and effective way, as lived by the Blessed [...] not a routine, a custom, something to be rushed. The Rosary is the whole of the Church reunited with Mary, contemplating Jesus.” Father Morales’ perspective is particularly important. It reflects the corrective
