Eucharistic Communion, repeat with all the people, in a spirit of humility and a broken heart, a hundred times to the East, a hundred times to the West, a hundred times to the North and a hundred times to the South: [...] 19 – Feast of Mary Seyom (Ethiopian Church) How Mary saved the Church in Egypt (II) The patriarch found the man where the Virgin Mary had indicated (1). After repeating to him what Mary had said, Amba [...] many churches, including that of St Markorios Abu Sifein in Old Cairo. (1) See yesterday’s A Moment with Mary - November 18, 2018 According to the Biography of Saint Samaan the Shoemaker , published by

s (July 3, 1876, to September 3, 1877 – investigation inconclusive) A lesser known apparition in Germany: Marpingen The Virgin Mary appeared three different times at Marpingen, Germany. First, in 1876 [...] message given on October 17, 1999: "My apparitions in the world, as it is at the moment, will soon come to an end. For a time I will not be seen again. However, I will lead you by thought and perhaps by [...] decide for or against God. After you have decided, after, long after, you will see me with your own eyes. But that is a long time away... God does not want anyone to be condemned! It is man himself who causes

words: "Today, the moment has come to tell you who I am. I am Mary, the Mother of God, the Immaculate Conception." On Sunday May 11, 1986, Rosario saw the Virgin Mary for the first time on a boulder known as [...] 1664) A recent Marian apparition in Sicily (I) On May 4, 1986, Rosario Toscano, fifteen at the time, was sick in bed at his parents' home in Catania, Sicily, when he saw a great light and heard a feminine [...] Excellency Luigi Bonmarito, the Archbishop of Catania, blessed a statue called “Our Lady of the Belpasso Rock” and consecrated a chapel as a Marian sanctuary in Belpasso in January of 2000 — attaching the

(Patronage) of the Most Holy Theotokos (2) Oranta Contribution from Hieromonk Teodosy, a Ukrainian reader of A Moment with Mary , August 2019 ( Hiermonk Teodosy resides at the Monastic Skete (monastery) of the [...] Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.(1) The Virgin Oranta (Ukrainian: Оранта - from the Latin: “praying”) is a well-known Eastern Christian depiction of the Virgin Mary in prayer with extended arms. She is found [...] popularly thought to be for wiping away the tears of those who come before her with their problems and concerns.(2) (1) Excerpt from “A Byzantine Rite Liturgical Year” by Julian Katrij, 1983. cf p.229 ‘The Feast

loved ones help us to regard life as a continual pilgrimage. Dom Bernardino Marchió Bishop of Caruaru Testimony submitted by Thacio Siqueira for A Moment with Mary [...] Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 875) Mary touched their hearts It was at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France: I was a young priest, participating in a UNITALSI pilgrimage (an Italian organization [...] that it was Mary who touched the hearts of the people, and a process of spiritual renewal began in me. I have returned to Lourdes many times, and I have always received the same impression: Mary takes us

spirits, the men were converted by this saintly boy, who armed them with the cross of Jesus Christ. Adapted and translated for A Moment with Mary, from Histoire de saint Liévin, archevêque et martyr, by M. l'abbé [...] glorified as a chosen vessel, to be the dwelling of the Holy Spirit." At the same moment, a gust of thick black smoke came out of the mouths and nostrils of these wretched slaves of the devil, as well as a great [...] martyr (d. 754 AD) Saved at Saint Mary's Oratory Saint Lievin was a man of God, famous for the wonders, prodigies and miracles that God worked through him. He was born into a noble and powerful Scottish family

is for my good, in view of my eternity with Him, and I continue to have full trust in Him despite this accident. Françoise, 63 (2021), a reader of A Moment with Mary [...] had been hit by a car! It had come from a side street. The lady had stopped at the stop sign, watched for cars, but not for pedestrians as she made a left turn at full speed, she told me. A small crowd formed [...] I was told I had an egg-size bump on my eyebrow and a bruised and bleeding nose. People looked at me in a funny way and I thought that I must be a scary sight. Despite all this, strangely, I wasn't scared

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 [...] throne of your Son himself… a blessing for the world, a sanctification of the universe, refreshment for those who are tired, comfort for the sorrowing, healing for the sick, a port for those in danger, pardon [...] and bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the end of her earthly life. This homily is cited by Pope Pius XII in his definition of the Assumption as a Dogma of faith: Even though, according to nature

days (II) (continued from A Moment with Mary of December 2) On his knees after Mass, Fr. Desgenettes began to think it was only his imagination. “If I keep this up…I’ll end up a visionary,” he told himself [...] High Mass the next Sunday, with the bishop’s approval, Fr. Desgenettes announced a first meeting of the new pious association after Vespers that evening. There were barely a dozen people at Mass, and he [...] — when, to his shock, the same voice repeated the command. Then a notion, seemingly fully formed, sprang into his mind: that of forming a pious association to pray for the conversion of sinners through

night, and he is at ease with joy and with truth. Mary is in his possession and he surrounds her on all sides. It is not in a single day he learned how not to be alone any more. A woman won over each part [...] wheatfields and the night, As when he was once a young boy ant it began to get too dark for reading, Joseph enters with a deep sight into conversation with God. He preferred Wisdom and she had been brought [...] It is no longer bare Faith in the night, it is love explaining and working. Joseph is with Mary and Mary is with the Father. Paul Claudel (1858-1955) French playwright, poet, essayist and diplomat, member