September 18 - Our Lady of Mercy, also known as Our Lady of Sorrows (Montauban, France) Why not turn to Mary, the Queen Mother of intercession? One cannot be a missionary without giving great importance [...] Prayer should punctuate our days, bring us joy, and even extra help in times of trial. Why not then turn to Mary, the Queen Mother of intercession? The Blessed Virgin assists all those who place themselves [...] heavenly Mother enter our hearts? Mary keeps a tender watch over each and every one of her children, taking each of us under her mantel. She seeks to do God’s will for us, with great kindness. She brought up
September 9 - Our Lady of Cavadonga and Aranzazu (Spain) - Blessed Alan de la Roche (d. 1475) - Our Lady's 9th apparition at Pellevoisin (France, 1876) Pray to receive the treasures of Mary’s Son Jesus In Pellevoisin [...] calm.… I was waiting for this act of submission and obedience from you. For a long time the treasures of my Son have been open. They must pray." Our Lady had a Scapular of the Sacred Heart on her breast and [...] appeared to her at the end of her Rosary. There is no doubt that poor Estelle must have felt uneasy when she heard the Blessed Virgin reproach her: " You deprived yourself of a visit from me on August 15th
July 29 - Saint Martha, Hostess of the Lord - Pope Callistus III orders the ringing of the Angelus bell from this day (1456) I ask Mother Mary to stand at the door of my heart... Between 1933 and 1938 [...] illness, relived the Passion of Jesus. In one of his notebooks, Father Faure wrote that, in the first days of November 1921, Marthe was wounded by Love before the altar of the Blessed Virgin: "The Blessed Virgin [...] parish priest of Châteauneuf-de-Galaure (a small town in France), faithfully recounted in small diaries the words he heard when each Friday Marthe Robin (1), his parishioner, bedridden because of an illness
Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists, Doctor of the Church (1696 - 1787) Jesus is the mediator of justice and Mary obtains for us grace Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; [...] pleased to bestow upon us. With God, the prayers of the saints are the prayers of His friends, but the prayers of the Blessed Virgin are the prayers of his Mother. Happy they who confidently and at all times [...] with God in obtaining for us whatever graces we stand in need of. It is sufficient to ask favors of Mary to obtain them. If we are unworthy of them, she renders us worthy, by her powerful intercession; and
and is not restored to His favor. (St Alphonsus Liguori - The Glories of Mary – Section II, Mary the Refuge of Sinners). The Marie de Nazareth editorial team [...] July 23 - Saint Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373) "Revelations" of the Virgin Mary to Saint Bridget St Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373) received extraordinary "Revelations" from the Lord, who nevertheless told [...] that one must "distinguish between the Scripture inspired by the Holy Spirit and the pious writings of Christians. Only the Gospels canonized by the Church are dictated by divine science." By the mid-fourteenth
July 21 - Feast of Our Lady of Einsiedeln (Switzerland) The love of the Trinity leads us to Mary God is very close to us, but he is also the "all-different" whose love is like a devouring fire. The more [...] powerfully? At the foot of the Cross. And it is precisely there that He gives us His Mother so that with her we may become again like little children, capable of entering into the mystery of Trinitarian love [...] the same level. But there is no competition between Jesus and Mary, as if by praying to one we could risk neglecting the other. The Virgin Mary does not keep anything for herself: she constantly turns our
her womb. This birth of the Word by faith announced the birth of Jesus in the souls of those who believe in Him as the messenger of the Father. This is why Saint Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) gave the faithful [...] faithful the name of Mary at their baptism. He knew that Jesus is born in each Christian soul by faith, following the example of Mary: "Every soul that believes (like Mary), conceives and gives birth to the [...] July 8 - Our Lady of Kazan (Russia) The Christian name of each soul is "Mary" Saint Augustine (354-430) said that Mary first conceived the Word in her heart through faith, before she conceived Him in her
Lady Refuge of Sinners - Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Mary appeared to Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Saint Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal (1271-1336), received her name at her baptism, in memory of St Elizabeth [...] Elizabeth of Hungary, her aunt. At the age of eight, she began the practice of reciting the Divine Office daily and continued it until her death. She despised luxury, shunned entertainment, assisted the poor [...] free time, she sewed altar cloths and clothes for the poor. Raised to the throne of Portugal by her marriage to Denis, King of that country, she was remarkably patient in the trials she often had to endure
June 19 - Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Our Lady of Mercy (Italy, 1850) - 2nd trip of St John Paul II to Poland in 1983 Mary is preparing a deluge of graces for France Mother Mary of Jesus (1797-1854) [...] (1797-1854), of the Congregation of the Canonesses of St Augustine, received heavenly communications that corroborated the revelations of Paray-le-Monial (France). In her ecstasy of May 3, 1822, Jesus told her [...] on June 21, 1823, on the feast of the Sacred Heart. We do not know whether Louis XVIII received this message communicated to Mother Mary of Jesus, who died in the odor of sanctity. "France is still very
June 28 - Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons and martyr (d. ca. 202) Italy consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary against Covid-19 By decision of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Italy was consecrated [...] province of Bergamo, one of the most affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopate, said, "I have received more than 300 letters, full of love and [...] and devotion to the Virgin Mary, asking: Why don't you consecrate our nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, especially all who are suffering because of this epidemic, all those who work in hospitals and
