following the right path? He describes with great emotion how one day he entered a chapel to seek God's strength in the midst of his difficulties. He saw a rosary on a bench in the church and understood that [...] looked at Mary, he told her that he was ready to do so and asked her for two things: that he could be reconciled with his wife and that she and their children could enter into full communion with the Church [...] 1962, devotion encouraged by Bishop Preikas) A “badly recited Rosary” gets requested grace In April 2013, the conversion to Catholicism of Fernando Casanova, a Puerto Rican Pentecostal pastor, made headlines
safely home. Mary was dressed in a star-studded robe of dark blue with slippers of the same colour. A black veil on which she wore a gold crown decorated with a red band covered her head. It was in a little [...] free of stars above a neighboring house. Suddenly he saw an apparition of a beautiful woman smiling at him; she was wearing a blue gown covered with golden stars, and a black veil under a golden crown. [. [...] that something new was happening. A blue oval frame with four candles, two at the level of the shoulders and two at the knees, was being formed around the Lady, and a short red cross had appeared over
Unaware of it at first, I also began to engage in a battle with Protestant websites that denied Mary's role in the plan of salvation. Surely inspired by Mary, I consecrated my computer to her, asking her to [...] Holy House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) My conversion was a life-changing experience I still vividly remember my "encounter" with the Virgin Mary, eight years ago. I was studying about the Catholic faith [...] how much God loves us. I first watched a video about her apparitions in Garabandal (Spain), then one about Fatima, Medjugorje, etc. Before that, Lourdes was just a name. I didn’t know what took place there
her: "Do not fear, Mary: you have found favor with God." In times of joy and in times of darkness, Mary never ceased to count on God. The Magnificat contains the secret of her hope, in a verse that sums up [...] than with the Virgin Mary. In Galilee, Nazareth was the butt of jokes. People would say: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" (Jn 2:45). But it is precisely Nazareth that God chose to play a key role [...] words: "You have found grace with God" was enough to dispel all her fears: she instantly knew that her life’s mission had begun. What was Mary, an obscure young girl from a scorned town, looking for in
forgetting a mother’s affection, live in anger with themselves and indifference to everything! How many, sad to say, react to everything and everyone with bitterness and malice! … God himself needed a Mother—how [...] Cana; she encourages the disciples in the Upper Room… Mary is a cure for solitude and dispersion. She is the Mother of con-solation : she stands “with” those who are “alone” … And in the journey of life [...] Birth of Saint Jacinta Marto of Fatima (Portugal, 1910) A Mother’s embrace is essential In today’s fragmented world, where we risk losing our bearings, a Mother’s embrace is essential,” the successor of Saint
called mysteries (here the word ‘mystery’ refers to a truth of the faith, not to something incomprehensible). Each set is meditated upon with Hail Marys grouped in series of 10 called “decades.” Each set [...] sovereign remedy for errors and vices." The prayer of the Rosary is often prayed with the help of an object also called a “rosary.” The prayer consists of four sets of prayers following four general aspects [...] of the Mother of God (Eastern Orthodox Slavic calendar) - Saint Romanos the Melodist (6th century) A sovereign remedy in this month of October The month of October is the month of the Rosary, this Marian
move mountains ? but mainly because he was a man with a big heart, affectionate, human, humble, loyal and good. He was "a man of God" as the late Father Marie-Dominique Philippe once said of him. He has [...] man from Douai wrote to him about a dream he had had in which he saw the statue of Notre-Dame de France and at its feet a vast throng of statues from all over France. A few months later, four people (who [...] the Holy Father John Paul II asked that the Jubilee year of 2000 be prepared in prayer with the Virgin Mary, as a "new Advent." Every bishop in France was contacted and 30 bishops accepted to be on the
the reign of Louis XIV and the Regency, the Virgin Mary appeared to Benoîte Rencurel, a shepherdess from the Avance Valley (Hautes-Alpes, France). Mary said to her messenger: "I have asked my Son for Le [...] Le Laus and he has granted it to me. I ask that a church be built here, where many sinners will convert." For 350 years, this kindness of the Virgin Mary for her children has not ceased to unfold in the [...] to share in his sufferings to save them. Benoîte was comforted by Mary and the angels during the great difficulties she experienced: a 20-year persecution by Jansenist priests, calumnies of all kinds,
incredible quantity of water flowed out, to the point of overflowing, like a river with a strong current! In accordance with the second promise of the Virgin, money poured in for construction. Eventually [...] Apparition of the Madonna Del Monte Berico (Italy, 1426) A source of water would come out of the rock! In the north of Italy, near Vicenza, the Virgin Mary appeared to an old woman named Vincenza Parisi, on [...] would build her a church on Mount Berico. The old woman went to the city to bring this message, and the people received it favorably. The City Council decided to build this church in a very short time
blessing. The shrine has a 10-meter statue of the Virgin Mary with a fountain flowing at her feet. The wish of the community’s forefathers to see their parish transformed into a pilgrimage center became [...] June 28 - Saint Irenaeus of Lyons A new Marian shrine in Yaoundé, Cameroon The opening ceremony of a new diocesan Mary Mediatrix of Etoudi Shrine (named after a district of the city) took place on April [...] faithful that the Virgin Mary is our best ally to petition the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit on our behalf. Her intercession is powerful because of the special bond she has with her Son. She disperses
