December 31 – Saint Mary Odigitria (Italy) – Death of St Catherine Labouré (1876) Entering the new year with Our Lady (I) "Tomorrow, January 1st, the Church celebrates the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. [...] I find it a very beautiful thing to enter a new year with Our Lady. Mary invites us to start the year with trust and vigilance. Mary faced the future with trust. A true daughter of Israel, she had faith [...] never let go of God's hand. As her cousin Elizabeth said, Mary is "the one who believed in the words spoken to her by the Lord" (Lk 1:45). Mary's trust is contagious. With her, we can really learn how to

September 3 - Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1954) - Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) A statue of Mary pulled to the top of a mountain “La Cordée Pierre et Charles” (French for [...] loving leader. The goal of their last outing, on September 1-3, was to pull a statue of the Virgin Mary to the summit of the Aiguille de La Grande Sassière, a 12,300 ft mountain on the French-Italian border [...] provided an opportunity to entrust France and Italy, and all young French and Italians, to the Virgin Mary. Pierre and Charles were French twin brothers who had a deep desire for beauty and God, and who died

17 – The first church dedicated to Mary (Rome, Italy) An all-night Rosary Vigil with the Valets of Mary The first Rosary Vigil of the Movement of the Valets of Mary took place on Friday, October 13, 2017 [...] Portugal, said Christine Kaboré, one of the leaders of the Valets of Mary Movement (1). In fact, during the apparitions of Fatima, "the Virgin Mary introduced herself as Our Lady of the Rosary. The Rosary is a [...] God in the heart of the church," she said. ___________________________ (1) The Valets of Mary (Les valets de Marie) Movement is a group of Catholic Marian devotion, born in the diocese of Ouagadougou in

September 17 – Our Lady of the Virtues and Glories of Mary (La Flèche, France) The chapel of miracles remained completely intact In Orléans (France), near the Loire River, the parish church of Saint Paul

December 26 – Mary mourns for Saint Stephen (Jerusalem) - Synaxes of the Mother of God (Byzantine Church) "Mary has been the daily companion of my life" Our Lady, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, has [...] around my mother. My goodness, how many times did Mother have to interrupt the "Hail Marys" to scold one of us: "Hail Mary, full of grace …Stop it, child!" Then she would continue! When I was 12, my aunt, [...] to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, reign in all hearts! Angélico Sândalo Bernardino Bishop Emeritus of Blumenau, SC (Brazil) Exclusive Interview by Thácio Siqueira for A Moment with Mary

December 15 – Mary Mediatrix The evening date where we entrust everything to Mary The novena to Mary Who Restores Couples helped us out of a very difficult time. We didn’t know how to carry on. We went [...] know that when there is tension between us, there is the evening date where we entrust everything in Mary." Testimony send to Life Europe

of the Blessed Virgin Mary (654) established at the Council of Toledo in 656 During this Advent season, "Walk with Mary" As Saint John Paul II said, “Walk with Mary. Walk with Mary. May the echo of her [...] all of you during this time of Advent.” In order to prepare ourselves to welcome the Messiah—with Mary—into our lives, first of all we need to realize that she herself was prepared to fully and freely [...] the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world." (John 17:24). Mary fully participates in this plan of God, and each one of us is also called to participate in this eternal

December 19 – Holy Mary of Remedies (Portugal) Never leave the Mother’s side "Never go away from the Mother," and "never abandon the Rosary": these are the exhortations of Pope Francis at the closing of

September 27 – Our Lady of Alcazar (Toledo, Spain) - Luxembourg takes Mary as patroness (1666) Two Muslims drove the truck from Lourdes to Irak The group Œuvre d’Orient , a French association dedicated [...] dedicated to helping persecuted Christians, has sent 15 statues of the Virgin Mary from Lourdes to Ankawa, a suburb of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, which has a majority Catholic population. Once they

September 25 - Mary, protectress of orphans Encircling Poland with a human Rosary chain (II) The Polish project "Rosary at the Borders" (see A Moment With Mary of 09/24) has 22 dioceses, located in the