the "Life-giving" Virgin Mary. It was Emperor Leo I the Thracian (5 th century) who first found the spring. While he was still a simple soldier, a heavenly voice addressed him with these prophetic words: [...] inhabited this place for a long time" The Virgin Mary appeared several times in Constantinople (today’s Istanbul, Turkey), particularly at the still popular Church of Saint Mary of the Spring, west of the [...] blind man regained his sight, and Leo, once he became emperor, built a church at the site of the spring in around A.D. 474. A long time later, as the large church threatened to crumble, the Mother of God appeared
the car is a great place to pray the Rosary.” It’s one of the ways their family is growing in holiness together as a domestic church, in the hallowed footsteps of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph [...] saying grace at the table. “Take a moment and invite members of the family to offer prayers of intercession. Pray for someone or offer a prayer of gratitude for something they’re grateful for in their life [...] (Corsica, France) The car is a great place to pray the Rosary Every time Chris and Jennifer Sariego and their four children leave their home in Los Angeles and get into their car for a drive longer than 15 minutes
Prayer. She literally provided a prayer day camp. Similarly, many other apparitions are a kind of Sunday school. Father Paul Dollié, a parish priest in Paris, noticed Mary’s special teaching method, and [...] when the Lourdes apparitions started in 1858, a parish mission had just begun. The parish priest Father Peyramale had been looking for a priest to preach a 15-day retreat, but had found no one, so he had [...] the exact same moment—he didn’t know it then—the Immaculate Conception began catechizing Bernadette and a whole crowd of people. In December 1947, in the French town of L’Ile-Bouchard, Mary taught some children
February 1- Our Lady of Copacabana (Bolivia) A Dream Come True (II) All at once, I saw a majestic-looking Lady standing at His side, wearing a mantle that sparkled like the sun. As she approached me I [...] come forward and took me by the hand with kindness. Then she said, "Look!” When I looked up, I noticed that the children had all disappeared. In their place I could see a multitude of goats, dogs, cats, bears [...] strong: and what you see happening at this moment to those animals, you will do for my children one day." I turned my gaze back to the animals and in their place I saw a flock of peaceful lambs jumping, running
February 1- Our Lady of Copacabana (Bolivia) A Dream Come True (II) All at once, I saw a majestic-looking Lady standing at His side, wearing a mantle that sparkled like the sun. As she approached me I [...] come forward and took me by the hand with kindness. Then she said, "Look!" When I looked up, I noticed that the children had all disappeared. In their place I could see a multitude of goats, dogs, cats, bears [...] strong: and what you see happening at this moment to those animals, you will do for my children one day." I turned my gaze back to the animals and in their place I saw a flock of peaceful lambs jumping, running
Rejoicing (France) A recent Marian apparition in Sicily (II) On May 4, 1986, Rosario Toscano, born in 1971, was sick and in bed at home in Catania, Sicily, when he saw a great light and heard a feminine voice [...] Shortly afterwards, Mary asked for a chapel to be built in honor of her "Immaculate Heart, Queen of Peace". On May 11, 1990, an unusual phenomenon was observed by several hundred witnesses: a dazzling white [...] " On March 1, 1987, the Virgin Mary communicated secrets to him: two were personal and ten concerned the future of the world. Like the Fatima messages, they establish a close correlation between the conversion
to suffer in her, with her, through her, the Passion of their Son, of their child, in a single fusion of love. Rolande Lefebvre, a French mystic In 365 méditations sur la Vierge Marie , Presses de la R [...] 1858) In a single fusion of love The Virgin Mary made me understand something that, until now, I had not fully grasped: that, during the Passion, the Holy Spirit somehow became incarnate in Mary. By Him [...] Him, the Father and Mary were joined together intimately and became one. The Passion of Jesus was also the Passion of the Father, and the Passion of the Father was lived out in Mary. The Father borrowed from
eventually find our way back. More than a bridge that I cross, this message is a guideline, a focal point towards the coming of Christ for me as a shepherd and as a fisher of men. The Most Rev. Georges Colomb [...] which is a total commitment of our person, in a serene abandonment to the call. I also see the response to this vocation as a gift of our self, in order to serve, just like the Virgin Mary did. The vocation [...] This is so true that one of its famous missionaries, Saint Théophane Vénard, wrote in a letter dated 1851 that Mary is "the second providence of the missionary." Could one express more eloquently the devotion
I had been ordained a deacon! Was it just a coincidence? For many maybe yes but in my short years as a priest I have learned that we need to see things with eyes of faith, like Mary. This is why those called [...] trust in her in a special way. Now, three years later and a parish priest I would like to express the immense joy I have experienced as a priest. I would not change it for the world. May I be a priest of Jesus [...] and I was greatly fortified but only a year later would I truly understand this moment. I entered the seminary again in 2005 and in 2006 the bishop asked me to go to a parish so as to acquire pastoral experience
reign of Christ the Lord would come through the same path that he took at his first coming: with and by Mary, and in the company of the angelic legions as in Bethlehem. In those future times, the visible [...] Blessed Virgin, in these end times in which we live, has given a new effectiveness to the recitation of the Rosary." Brother Bernard-Marie, o.f.s. Excerpt from the Bulletin de L'Oeuvre des Campagnes n. [...] October 6 – Our Lady of the People (Italy) In our time, the Blessed Virgin gave a new effectiveness to the Rosary Saint Louis de Montfort and Marthe Robin (France) emphasized the increasingly important
