illuminate the world with light, your graces and your mercies, lower your eyes filled with compassion on me and accept me as your servant and your child who loves you and calls you “Mother of Mercy”! Listen to [...] Immaculate Steps Open the Way of Purity and Peace! O Mary, Immaculate Mother of Jesus, my tender Mother, Queen of the Holy Rosary, you who lowered yourself and chose the sad Pompeii Valley for residence [...] open the way of purity and peace for me. How sweet is the softness of your voice in my ears, my sweet Lady, because your words are those of life. Open your hands full of graces and help your unworthy servant
March 11 - Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 639) She understands the sinner and loves him Mary is a luminous sign and an appealing example of moral life, who deserves the title of "Throne of Wisdom." [...] to sympathize with all weakness. She understands the sinner and she loves him with a maternal love. That is why she is on the side of truth and shares the burden of the Church to remind all of us about moral [...] theological doctrines, can make a person truly happy—only the Cross and the glory of the risen Christ can pacify his conscience and save his life. Françoise Breynaert , Doctor of Theology
Deliverance (France) – Our Lady of the Raft (Italy, 1117) Welcoming without resignation and waiting in hope Holy Mary, Virgin of waiting, give us the soul of a watchman. Now that we have arrived at the threshold [...] hearts the passion to bring fresh news to a world that already feels old. Bring us at last the harp and the zither, so that with you, lover of the morning, we may awaken the dawn. Facing the changes that
cut this project short. Fifty years later, at the term of an amazing and providential adventure, Edmond Fricoteaux (French lawyer and founder of the Confraternity Notre-Dame of France, +2007) managed to [...] north of Paris on a main highway. 52,000 people, 25,000 subscribers, 7 bishops, the Nuncio and Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris, gathered there for the blessing of the statue on October 15 [...] Terouenne (1133) - Benediction of Notre-Dame of France at Baillet-en-France (1988) Notre-Dame of France and Cardinal Verdier's Wish (II) Upon the demolition of the Pontifical-Pavilion-turned-Marian-Pavilion
illuminate the world with light, your graces and your mercies, lower your eyes filled with compassion on me and accept me as your servant and your child who loves you and calls you "Mother of Mercy"! Listen to [...] Immaculate Steps Open the Way of Purity and Peace! O Mary, Immaculate Mother of Jesus, my tender Mother, Queen of the Holy Rosary, you who lowered yourself and chose the sad Pompeii Valley for residence [...] open the way of purity and peace for me. How sweet is the softness of your voice in my ears, my sweet Lady, because your words are those of life. Open your hands full of graces and help your unworthy servant
cripples saved by their faith, and the good shepherds, like those in Bethlehem, who discovered my Son and His Mother..." "Recite your Rosary," says God, "Make your prayer churn and churn, as you do the beads [...] your fingers." "And then, when I will it, I assure you, you will receive the proper food, that strengthens the heart and reassures the soul." "Come," says God, "recite your Rosary and keep your peace of [...] 29 – Our Lady of Nasturtiums (Italy, 1630) "Come, recite your Rosary and keep your peace of mind" "Recite your Rosary," says God, "and don't worry about what superficial people say to you: that it's an
singer and actress Romina Power, focusing on her great devotion to Our Lady. Romina Power—famous singer, actress and TV personality, and the daughter of two great Hollywood stars, Tyrone Power and Linda [...] best: their relationship was deep and happy both as a married couple and as an artistic duo, and four children were born from the marriage: Ylenia, Yari, Cristel and Romina. Although for decades the couple [...] still alive and hiding somewhere. The singer tells Maria con te how her family, half of Mexican origin on her mother’s side, was devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe, and how close she felt to Mary at that dramatic
the spring and wash yourself there." Bernadette scraped at the sandy dirt with her fingers. From deep in the rock, a spring began to flow. The child drank the first sip of the muddy water, and wet her face [...] Virgin Nicopeia (Venice, Italy) – 9th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) "Drink from the spring and wash yourself there" On February 18th, the Lady said to Bernadette (1): “Could you do me a favor by [...] shepherdess living in Lourdes (France), to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times. Dom Antoine Marie, osb. Abbot of Clairval
Novembre 2 – Coptic Church: Memorial of the Holy Family in Egypt A peace and joy unknown in Islam Born and raised in a Muslim family, Egyptian author Nahed Mahmoud Metwalli (1) persecuted the Christians [...] the Virgin Mary, then Jesus, in several visions. One day when she made a snide remark about the medal of the Virgin her secretary was wearing, Nahed suddenly saw the Blessed Virgin, clothed and veiled in [...] faith has brought me incredible peace and joy, unknown in Islam... Christianity is a life worthy of angels. May the Lord grant his light to all men, to know his Truth and Love!" _____________________________
Rosary (1883) The remarkable and solemn title of Our Lady of the Rosary It has always been the habit of Catholics in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in her maternal [...] Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bear witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to the help she has granted in return, and to the peace [...] goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. … This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never
