Our Lady of Ostra Brama (Poland and Lithuania) A new shrine in London dedicated to Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians Fr. Benedict Kiely, the English priest behind the project, believes it will be Europe’s [...] suspenders and round spectacles - received what he describes as his “call within a call.” “ In August 2014, I was a parish priest in Stowe, Vermont, and I heard that for the first time in basically 2,000 years [...] an icon of the Virgin Mary with the words “Mother of the Persecuted” written in Aramaic, believed to be the language of Jesus. [...] Fr. Kiely envisages the London shrine becoming a magnet for Christians

devotion for the Virgin Mary, who in turn favored him with her special protection. Mary of Agreda, a 17 th -century Spanish nun and mystic, recounts two interventions of the Virgin to support the apostle in his [...] of Luxembourg to Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (1666) Carried by a thousand angels, Mary saved Saint James Saint James the Greater was Saint John’s brother. Tradition says that he had a great devotion [...] Our Lord ordered a thousand angels to go with His mother (who was still on earth at the time) to assist the apostle. The angels immediately took Mary to Spain. Seeing the Virgin Mary, the apostle prostrated

September 25 - Mary, Protectress of Orphans - Our Lady of Saint Peter (Italy, 1751) Praying Mary in a time of crisis… and then what? During a time of crisis, especially one involving our health, it can [...] may pray for the Virgin Mary’s intercession, asking for a miraculous cure or even the simple restoration of our health. Often our health will be restored, either miraculously or in a more gradual way. While [...] thanks to God or the Virgin Mary for such a grace, afterwards our devotion may lessen in fervor or we may even abandon it. Saint Louis de Montfort, an 18th-century French priest who dedicated his whole life

this term too the source of Mary’s exultation is further clarified: her joy comes from grace, that is, from being in communion with God, from having such a vital connection with him, from being the dwelling [...] Blessed Isabella of France (d. 1270), foundress of a convent dedicated to the "Humility of Our Lady" Mary full of grace In the greeting of the Angel, Mary is called “full of grace.” In Greek, the term “grace [...] dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, totally fashioned by God’s action. Mary is the creature who opened the door to her Creator in a special way, placing herself in his hands without reserve… And she submitted

But He didn’t. Yet Mary did not cry out: "Come down from the Cross; save yourself and me with you!" or, "You have saved many others, why can't you now save yourself too, my Son?" Mary was silent, "giving [...] approved by the Coptic Patriarch and established as a liturgical feast - Death of Pope Saint John Paul II (2005) The temptations of Mary on Calvary If Mary was ever tempted, as Jesus was tempted in the desert [...] of her flesh, the consent of her love," says a text from Vatican II. She celebrated her Passover with Him. Father Raniero Cantalamessa (1) Excerpt from Marie miroir pour l'Église, Edition Saint-Augustin

presence. Since you came to me, I have been experiencing a peace, a calmness, an inner joy that I have never known." The priest began to pray ardently to the Virgin Mary. Grace was making its way into the [...] had not diminished at all. He still worked as a legal consultant for many households whose interests he governed. The man’s parish priest had called on him a dozen times, but each time had been turned away [...] On Monday, December 12th, the priest returned, and this time insisted on being let in. After a few minutes of merely polite conversation, Mr. Joly suddenly told the priest: "Father, would you be so kind

Ravenna, Italy) Mary, a one-in-a-million mother Mary is a wonderful name that carries within it all the values I am particularly attached to. I don't have a special story about Mary, because I have grown up with [...] with her all my life. I was raised Catholic, in a community that shared common values. I can’t list everything that Mary has given me and taught me throughout my life. Without realizing it, her values [...] values have taken root in me: her resilience, tolerance, acceptance of others, self-sacrifice, and the infinite love of a one-in-a-million mother... In this world we live in, we are tested all the time. If our

I said to the Virgin Mary: "Mary, this is my life, I come to you with all of my pain. I am not worthy of your Son anymore, because I am divorced and the Lord does not deal with divorced people." When [...] pilgrimage, I saw the priest who had helped me. He smiled as he told me: "You are filled with God’s love." Actually, I was overwhelmed with guilt. I then experienced my heart opening up to Mary and Jesus, which [...] confessed to a priest for the first time and unpacked my “load” of sins. In Mary’s and Jesus’ light we see everything we did that was wrong, and this light freed me from my sins. I wish everyone could have the

Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast of the Dormition of Mary (Orthodox churches) A deluge of graces came after the consecration to Our Lady of the Assumption After French King Louis XIII managed to quell a Protestant [...] following this vow: "Never has a people, on any occasion, shown more joy. It is a great and sure proof of the love that these subjects have for their king, when they welcome with such transports the prospect [...] were able to conceive a child, after 20 years of sterility. The king then decided to make an official vow to solemnly entrust France to the Virgin Mary: "So many evident graces have been received that we

Word of God, he would have adored that Word enclosed in My womb, with the acts of veneration which are due to God and which he would not have failed to accomplish, as I would not have refused to receive, [...] visionary and victim soul, a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who wrote thousands of handwritten pages, without modification, recording events throughout Christ’s life. Together [...] which we must react with all our strength, so that our souls may not perish, and we may not lose God. ” Maria Valtorta, The Gospel as Was Revealed to Me, Vol. 1, 25 (1) Maria Valtorta was a 20th -century visionary