intensity to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary." His appeal was made at the end of the General Audience on June 8, 2016 in St Peter's Square. The Pope asked us to pray to the Hearts of Christ and the Blessed [...] encyclical on the Heart of Christ, Haurietis Aquas , a title taken from the prophet Isaiah: "You shall draw water from the springs of salvation." "The Heart of Christ is the center of Mercy," said the Pope [...] June 30 - Feast of the Most Holy Icon (Spoleto, Italy, 1185) Pray to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Already in June 2016, Pope Francis exhorted young people, the sick and newlyweds "to pray with
derided this act of trust. During this pandemic, the people of Chartres have been invoking the protection of the Blessed Virgin again, by exposing the reliquary of her veil on the threshold of the Cathedral [...] July 2 – Our Lady of Piat (Philippines) Chartres Cathedral displayed the relic of Mary’s veil during the pandemic On March 25, 2020, the feast day of the Annunciation, many parishes in France and throughout [...] victims in the city in just a few days. The bishop of the time, Bishop Clausel de Montals, ordered a procession on August 26th of that year. The veil of the Blessed Virgin was carried through the streets
May 22 - St Rita of Cascia, Augustinian nun – Our Lady of Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) Mary’s joy in the Ascension of Christ Oh, if she had joy while her Son was still living with her in the flesh, if [...] her only Son enter heaven with commanding power and reach the throne of God the Father Almighty? Was a joy like this ever heard of? Was a joy like this ever seen in public, so that the human mind might [...] that, as she knew well, had been taken from her? Who ever said, why, who ever even believed that Mary’s joy did not surpass all the joys that came before it? In this world, good mothers are wont to be
May 20 – Our Lady of Graces (Cuneo, Italy, 1537) Mary’s Meals feed millions of kids Mary’s Meals is a Scottish charity that sets up school food programs in some of the world’s poorest communities to ensure [...] provide daily meals in places of education for children — the poorest children on Earth who miss school because of hunger. Mary’s Meals is a universal mission. People of many different faiths and no faith [...] least because of the large network of people who had been on retreat at Craig Lodge over the years and who began spontaneously to support and fundraise for our mission. That outpouring of support led me
self-emptying—of Mary, the Mother of God, at the foot of the cross, describing her as "Mother of Hope": On Calvary, therefore, Mary didn’t experience only the death of her Son but also the first fruit of the r [...] Italy: Our Lady of St John (1658) - Icon of the Theotokos the Life-giving Spring ("Panagia Argokiliotissa," Constantinople) Mary is the "Mother of Hope" In his third Lenten Sermon, the Preacher of the Papal [...] just the “Mother of Sorrows” but also the “Mother of Hope.” Beneath the cross, he says, Mary “believed against hope” and “the Church, like Mary, lives the resurrection ‘in hope’… Just as Mary was close to
Our Lady of the Countryside (Italy, 1559) The Rededication of England as ”Mary’s Dowry” On February 12, 2020, after his weekly audience, Pope Francis blessed a specially commissioned painting of Our Lady [...] personal promise of the people of the country, and a renewal of the entrustment vows made by King Richard II in 1381.” The Walsingham Shrine attracts around 150,000 pilgrims each year, not all of whom are Catholic [...] Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor John Armitage, Rector of the Walsingham National Shrine. Cardinal Nichols called the blessing “a great encouragement to us all as we prepare for our act of Rededication
April 14 – Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) To stop the pandemic, bring your prayers to Mary with Francisco and Jacinta of Fatima Cardinal Antonio dos Santos Marto, Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, Portugal [...] 4, 1919, at the age of 10 in the family home. Little Jacinta breathed her last on February 20, 1920, at the age of 9, alone, in the Dona Estefania Hospital in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, where she [...] which they are subjected." So far, the coronavirus pandemic has caused tens of thousands of deaths worldwide, and more than a third of the world's 7.8 billion people are forced to remain confined to their homes
the statue of Our Lady of Fatima came to Rome. The consecration of the nations of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has spread following the request made by the Virgin Mary at Fatima during her [...] Our Lady of Miracles (Italy, 1555) Pope Saint John Paul II consecrated the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Ireland was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Solemnity of the An [...] Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin, from Armagh Cathedral. Let us recall that on March 25, 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II consecrated the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when the
March 15 – 3rd Sunday of Lent – Our Lady of Under-the-Earth (Chartres, France) – Our Lady of Fossolovara (Italy) In Chartres, Mary was venerated before the birth of Jesus! In Notre Dame of Chartres Cathedral [...] the underground crypt of the Cathedral of Chartres. The crypt is a beautiful shrine to Our Lady venerated in a small statue of Mary with her eyes closed. The statue is a copy of a 12th-century Romanesque [...] converted the shrine into one dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Throughout the centuries, through fires, the building and rebuilding of different churches, the original Druid grotto, called
March 5 – Our Lady of the Miracle (Italy, 1440) Was Mary born in Sepphoris of Galilee? Sepphoris of Galilee (now in Israel) is not mentioned in the Bible but it was one of the most majestic cities in biblical [...] from Nazareth, Sepphoris is described by the Roman historian of Jewish origin Flavius Josephus as the "ornament of all Galilee" in the time of Herod the Great, who decided to fortify it to make it its temporary [...] the Roman occupation of Palestine was the historical, cultural and political framework of Jesus’ time. Apocryphal texts, especially James’ proto-gospel, suggest that Saint Anne, Mary’s mother, was born in
