November 26 – Our Lady of Remedies (Philippines) Mary is the key to the gates of Heaven For the celebration of 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines, the 12 th Marian Healing Exhibit featured c [...] follow.” Having the Blessed Mary in our life will help us to find the way to our Lord Jesus Christ. And through our Lord Jesus Christ, we will be able to enter the Kingdom of the Almighty Father. Rev. Fr. Antonio [...] all the faithful to come and join the Blessed Virgin Mary on their way to our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us not forget that Mary is the instrument of God to save us and be united with our Lord Jesus Christ
October 20 – Consecration of Portugal to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (1646) The Fifteen Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who pray the Rosary (II) 8) Those who recite my Rosary shall find [...] all my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. 15) Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. Promises Our Lady made to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche [...] the light of God, the fullness of His graces, and shall share in the merits of the blessed. 9) I shall deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary. 10) The true children of my Rosary
October 15 – Our Lady of France – Saint Teresa of Avila From King Louis XIII to the Pilgrim Virgins of Baillet-en-France A statue called Notre Dame de France (Our Lady of France) overlooked the Pontifical [...] demolition of the pavilion in 1938, the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Verdier, had expressed the wish that the statue of Our Lady be erected on a hill near Paris. As a matter fact the small town of Baille [...] who entrusted France to the Virgin Mary in 1638, making her Queen of that country. In order to give a concrete expression to this commitment, the pilgrimage of the Virgin Mary was launched by Notre Dame
Order of Carmel and dedicate themselves to the service of Our Lady for the good of the whole Church. … Two truths are evoked by the sign of the Scapular: on the one hand, the constant protection of the Blessed [...] September 27 – Our Lady of Alcazar (Toledo, Spain) - Luxembourg takes Mary for patroness (1666) The Scapular points to an effective synthesis of Marian spirituality The sign of the Scapular points to an effective [...] orientation of one's own Christian conduct, woven of prayer and interior life, through frequent reception of the sacraments and the concrete practice of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. In this
August 9 – Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) Pray the Virgin Mary to give us the gift of tears On May 25, 2018, Pope Francis celebrated mass in the presence of the reliquary of Our Lady of Tears of Syracuse [...] cry—for our sins and for the many calamities that make the people of God and the children of God suffer." After the celebration at Saint Martha’s, the reliquary of Our Lady of Tears, entrusted to the rector [...] rector of the shrine, will continue its pilgrimage to Italian cities—the next stop is Livorno (Tuscany). The image of Our Lady of Tears is preserved in the shrine of Syracuse, in Sicily. It represents the
asks of her children to receive the Gospel, to open their hearts to the meaning of Scripture, in order to grant them ‘the intelligence of the mystery of Christ’. Because God is absent from our world, [...] March 1 – Our Lady of Machaby (Italy, 1800) – 12th apparition in Lourdes To answer the prayers of his Mother The last words that have sprung from the loving heart of Mary were spoken at the wedding of Cana [...] out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what do you want from me? My time has not yet come.’ The loving solicitude of the maternal heart of Mary is still
September 26 – Our Lady of Graces (Ancona, Italy, 1836) The final victory belongs to God and will happen with the participation of Mary "We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation [...] certain: The final victory belongs to God, and this will be verified through Mary, the woman of Genesis and the Apocalypse, who will fight at the head of the army of her sons and daughters against the [...] crush the serpent's head. Cardinal Ivan Dias Excerpt from his homily of December 8, 2007, for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of Lourdes Provided by Etoile Notre Dame
16 – Our Lady of Ostra Brama (Poland and Lithuania) The only church in the world dedicated to the repose of the Souls in Purgatory Montligeon, in France, is the only church in the world dedicated to Our [...] Our Lady of the repose of the souls in Purgatory. It owes its creation to Father Paul Buguet, born in 1843. The idea to pray for the souls of Purgatory was inspired by the Virgin Mary herself who, in May [...] May 1884, asked that priest to build a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Deceased. A basilica was begun in 1896 and completed in 1911. Today, people can inscribe the name of their loved ones in a registry
December 2 - Our Lady of Consolation and Providence (1749) - Fraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Notre Dame of Victories Church (Paris, 1836) Consecrate Your Parish to the Holy and Immaculate [...] Immaculate Heart of Mary (I) The parish of Notre Dame of Victories, located in the business center of Paris, near the Stock Exchange, is surrounded by theatres and nightclubs and had become the central point for [...] was deserted, even on days of important solemnities; sacraments and other religious practices had been given up, and nothing seemed able to put an end to this deplorable state of affairs, which had existed
December 4 - Our Lady of La Chapelle (France, 1400) Consecrate Your Parish to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary (III) I decided not to pay attention to what had just happened to me. I tried hard to forget [...] your parish to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary," kept coming back to my mind. So as to deliver myself from this tiresome thought, I gave in, saying to myself, "An act of devotion to the Blessed Virgin [...] In fact, I consented not freely, but out of sheer exhaustion. I went home and in order to forget these thoughts, I started doing paper work on the statutes of our association. Hardly had I placed my hand
