y think of doing another one. It was my sister who brought me a novena candle and the booklet. I immediately did the novena in a spirit of trust, and I have felt a little better each day. I am not completely [...] Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) Mary undoes the knots of depression Two months ago, I fell into depression and was having panic attacks. It was very hard. I had already made a novena to Mary Undoer
consecrate myself to You, wholly to You, now and forever. Living in your spirit and in that of St. Joseph, I will live in the spirit of Jesus, with Jesus, Joseph, the angels, the saints and all souls. I love [...] June 15 - Feast of all the Churches of the Holy Land Mary is the Mother whom Jesus gave me Monsignor Francis-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân (1), who died in 2002 and is now venerable, left a splendid Eucharistic
booklet encouraging Catholics to pray a novena to Our Lady of Walsingham: “This novena in honor of Our Lady of Walsingham is the beginning of a National Novena of Prayer for our country which will help [...] December 10 – Miraculous Transfer of the Holy House of Loreto (1294) England to be re-dedicated as Dowry of Mary in 2020 England will be re-dedicated as the Dowry of Mary in 2020, the rector of Walsingham [...] your forefathers towards the great Mother of God.” Mgr Armitage said: “It is hoped that through this novena every part of the Church in England and Wales will deeply embrace Our Lady of Walsingham as the powerful
January 27 – Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Feast of the Dormition of Mary (Coptic Church) The bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saint John Damascene is one of the strongest [...] his definition of the Assumption as a Dogma of faith: Even though, according to nature, your most holy and happy soul is separated from your most blessed and stainless body and the body as usual is delivered [...] to a better and more divine tabernacle, which is not subject to any death … Hence I will call her holy passing not death, but falling asleep [dormition] or departure, or better still, arrival. … Your stainless
we can climb up to Jesus and our Father while she intercedes for us poor sinners, and asks the Holy Spirit to bring us his gifts, his charisms, his fruits and his virtues. Fabrice Harschène Belgian Catholic [...] September 10 – Holy Mary of Life (Italy, 1613) The Rosary—the lifeline that Mary tosses to us The Rosary often has the reputation of being an archaic devotion for the elderly or religious. However, many [...] many popes have urged us to pray it. Recently, Pope Francis recommended the novena to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, along with the recitation of the Rosary. These repeated invitations are a good thing and are
December 1 – Holy Mary of Graces (Italy, 1923) A new Marian shrine dedicated to married couples The Church was lacking a shrine dedicated exclusively to marriage, with all its ups and downs; a special [...] married couples as well. This new place of prayer for marital spirituality is intended to support the novena to "Mary who restores married couples," which is also an initiative of the Institute for the Family
to do the same. Each day of the novena leading up to December 8th, the diocesan faithful were invited to recite the following prayer written by Cardinal Sarah: "O Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the Angels [...] January 27 – Holy Mary of the Angels (Aix-en-Provence, France) All the parishes dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary! Archbishop Cattenoz of Avignon, in southern France, consecrated his diocese to
April 9 – Byzantine Church: Holy Mary of the Spring – Holy Virgin Empress (Russia) The origin of the Akathist hymn to the Mother of God There are many varied stories as to the origins of the Standing Praises [...] city walls, chanting and censing. They were not expecting a miracle, only hoping to bolster the spirits of the people. However, before the eyes of the City, a miracle occurred. In the bay of the Golden
May 10 – The Virgin of the Holy House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) Mary is a Mother, like the Church Unique among women, Mary “is both mother and virgin, not only in the spirit but in the flesh as well. [...] Mary is a mother in spirit, but it cannot be said that she is the mother in spirit of our Head, which is the Savior Himself, for she herself was born of him, like all who believe in him. And all who believe [...] of a virgin, to indicate that his members would be born, according to the Spirit, of the virgin Church. Thus Mary is, in spirit and flesh, mother and virgin: both the mother of Christ and a virgin of Christ
receive the anointing of the Lord: "The Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord" [...] December 13 - Our Lady of the Holy Chapel (Paris) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (IV) 'The Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him" (Is 11:2) Like all Israel, Mary meditated on the figure of "God's
