January 13 - Our Lady of Victory (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1620) Through the Intercession of Mary O Jesus, Who has said, “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened [...] opened,” through the intercession of Mary, Your Most Holy Mother, I knock, I seek, and I ask that my prayer be granted. O Jesus, Who has said, “All that you ask of the Father in My Name, He will grant you,” [...] ” through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask your Father in your name that my prayer will be granted. O Jesus, Who has said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away but
development of vocations and of the priestly life of the Church. To her, the Mother of the Eternal High Priest, we want to entrust our priestly vocation, received with the imposition of hands on the day of our [...] January 4 - Our Lady of Roses (Italy, 1418) The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life and Ministry of the Priest Every aspect of priestly formation can be referred to Mary as to the human being who better than [...] than anyone has corresponded to the vocation of God; who has become the servant and disciple of the Word up until conceiving in her heart and in her flesh the Word made man in order to give him to humanity;
January 5 - Our Lady of Abundance (Italy, 1641) O Mary of All Women O Mary of all women, you are the chosen one, Who, ancient prophets promised, would bear God’s only Son; All Hebrew generations prepared [...] in your womb the God-man might come to see man free. O Mary, you embody all God taught to our race, For you are first and foremost on fullness of grace; We praise this wondrous honor that you gave birth
15 - Saint Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church (d. 1280) - Byzantine Church: Our Lady of Piety Mary, Dawn of the Redemption On September 8th, we celebrated Mary's Nativity, and soon, on December 8th [...] months earlier, hence the date of December 8th. The Nativity of Mary was an important feast in the Eastern Churches. It is actually the first great feast of the cycle of saints’ feasts in the liturgical [...] meaning of the Church's veneration of Mary. Pope Saint John Paul II said during the general audience of September 8, 2004: "This feast, very important to popular piety, leads us to admire in Mary the child
January 3 - Bishop of Fatima asked Sister Lucy to write down Third Secret of Fatima (Portugal, 1944) How many apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary have there been in the last centuries? Experts from [...] - independently of a judgment concerning the supernatural character of the facts - have authorized the faithful to worship where the apparitions originally took place. In the majority of the cases, the [...] 400 Marian apparitions were recorded (or at least claimed), and 200 of these apparitions came from the period from 1944-1993. Seven of these apparitions have been officially recognized as having a supernatural
January 2 - Foundation of the Abbey of the Dunes, in honor of the Blessed Virgin (Flanders, 1128) Mary is the Full Light of Wisdom “Heavenly wisdom built for Himself a house in Mary: for He so filled her [...] mind.” - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux [The Abbey of the Dunes, or "Ten Duinen", established in 1128 in Koksijde, as a daughter of the Cistercian abbey of Savigny, grew into one of the most prestigious Cistercian [...] her mind that from the very fullness of her mind her flesh became fecund, and the Virgin by a singular grace brought forth that same Wisdom, covered with a garb of flesh, whom she had first conceived in
Militia of the Immaculate (Rome, 1917) Like Mary, the Carmelite convent is at the heart of the Church The Magnificat is both Mary’s hymn and a hymn of God's humble people. In the first verses, Mary speaks [...] (Teresa of Avila) and our time to love is running out. Like Mary’s exultation, the Carmelite monastery is at the heart of the Church, at the heart of the world in need of salvation. Like Mary, the Carmelite [...] what He did for all the descendants of Abraham, those who live by faith. For she sees herself as a member of the people of the Covenant. She is a servant, a member of God’s servant Israel, and what God
October 15 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church (d. 1582) Mary and the Order of Carmelites His Majesty (God) knows that I have nothing to rely upon but His mercy; as I cannot cancel the past, [...] confide in the merits of His Son and of His Virgin Mother, whose habit, unworthy as I am, I wear as you do also. Praise Him, then, my daughters, for making you truly daughters of Our Lady, so that you [...] character have brought no tarnish on the luster of our holy Order. Still I must give you one warning: be not too confident because you are nuns and the daughters of such a Mother. David was very holy, yet you
Ten Virtues of Mary: I. Mary's humility; II. Of Mary's love of God; III. Of Mary's charity towards her neighbor; IV. Of Mary's faith; V. Of Mary's hope; VI. Of Mary's chastity; VII. Of Mary's poverty; VIII [...] VIII. Of Mary's obedience; IX. Of Mary's patience; X. Of Mary's spirit of prayer. *The Annonciade congregation is closely linked to Saint Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish founder of the Marian Fathers of the [...] October 5 - Blessed Bartolo Longo, founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii (d. 1926) - Saint Faustina Kowalska The Ten Virtues of Mary The Order of the Annonciade (1) was founded by a French
October 1 - Feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) Mary is the Virgin of Virgins "Virginity is a profound silence from all cares of this earth, not only from useless cares but from all cares... [...] one naturally loves his native land, and since the native land of Jesus is the Virgin of Virgins and since Jesus was born by His will of a Lily, He loves to find Himself in virgin hearts." (Letter 122 [...] to be the bride of Jesus! It must indeed be beautiful, sublime, since the purest and most intelligent of all creatures thought it better to remain a virgin than to become the Mother of a God . . . And
