March 1 – First Sunday of Lent – Our Lady of Machaby (Italy, 1800) – 12th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) The story of Mary and Joseph inspires artists in New York City Centered around the relationship [...] for the third year by the Preachers of Christ and Mary, a community of sisters who are originally from Colombia and who now serve the Diocese of Brooklyn. Their goal is to evangelize through the arts. [...] relationship between the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, “The Miracle of Christmas” is a musical recounting the events that the two saints experienced leading up to the birth of Christ. The show was produced for
power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.” More than anyone else, Mary was a disciple of her son. Her life was entirely given to bringing forth the Word of God. She was conceived of the Redemption [...] February 26 – Ash Wednesday – Blessed Virgin of Meshech (Moscow, Russia, 1492) Mary is much more than an object of devotion God offers us the Virgin Mary in the same way that He chose her for Himself; [...] at the service of the Redemption. Then, at the end of her time on earth, she was taken body and soul into the Heavenly Kingdom. She is both hidden within God and offered to all of us. Mary is near us in
March 13 – Our Lady of Rose (Italy, 1635) Mary and Joseph: a different kind of holiness There are two creatures whose holiness is of a completely separate order, that is to say, who have an incomparable [...] Trinity: first, the Mother of God, and after her, Saint Joseph. All sanctified creatures are sanctified as a result of the Incarnation. Mary and Joseph also received the effects of the Redemptive Incarnation; [...] first God intended them to be associated with Him, each in a different way, for the very realization of the Incarnation. Canon Lallement Mystère de la paternité de Saint Joseph - Tequi 1986 - p. 34
(France, 1876) Like Mary, make a free and personal act of faith At a first glance, Mary’s act of faith was easy and could even be taken for granted. She was to become the mother of a king who would reign [...] was especially true of Mary’s faith at that moment. Nowadays we are quick to talk about the risk of faith, and we generally mean the intellectual risk, but Mary faced a real risk! Mary is the only one to [...] reign forever in the house of Jacob, mother of the Messiah! Wasn’t this the dream of every Hebrew girl? But this is a rather human and worldly way of reasoning. True faith is never a privilege or an honor;
February 9 – Our Lady of the Castle (Italy, 1558) – Blessed Anne-Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) Mary evokes the mysteries of life During her visions of Our Lord’s ministry Catherine Emmerich related the [...] them. I think that the Golden Gate itself was the scene of the examination and absolution of women accused of adultery, and that other ceremonies of reconciliation took place here. Catholic.org [...] holy obedience and pure love of God, to have been conceived in her mother’s womb without any stain of sin. She also explained to them that but for the Fall the conception of all men would have been as pure
entrusted the pastoral success of his parish to the Virgin Mary, and created a spiritual organization in honor of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The purpose of this organization, he wrote [...] January 16 – Our Lady of Victories (Paris, France) Dedicate your parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary One of the 16 churches in Paris to be designated as a Minor Basilica , Our Lady of Victories (Notre- [...] failure of his ministry. On December 3rd of that year he received interior locutions from the Blessed Mother . She told him to consecrate the parish to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In a great act of faith
we speak of the devil to children, when we respond to their questions about him, don’t ever forget to remind them of the One whom God chose to crush the head of Satan underfoot: the Virgin Mary. Let’s show [...] a Miraculous Medal, where Mary is represented with a serpent under her feet. That serpent is a representation of Satan. In Mary, Satan is vanquished, crushed, because Mary refused to ever listen to him [...] January 17 – Our Lady of Pontmain (France) When speaking of Satan to children, don’t forget to remind them about Mary The devil exists. And not only does he exist, he’s not a detail, a bit player in our
January 12 – Our Lady of Vetrana (Italy) - St Aelred of Rielvaux (d. 1167) A new generation of priests formed by Mary After reaching rock bottom, Donald Calloway—now a Marian of the Immaculate Conception—had [...] coming out of seminaries to take their places. There's a whole generation of priests coming, and they're just like me… We've been formed by the Blessed Virgin Mary and her apparitions.” Our Lady of Peace, [...] the Virgin Mary. He was so poorly versed in religion that he didn't know who the Virgin Mary was. "I thought Jesus was like Santa Claus," he recalled. "I was a blank slate." Looking at more of the pictures
light of a star and the instructions of Sacred Scripture. St Leo the Great wrote : “ Mary’s faith can be compared to Abraham’s. It is a new beginning of the same promise, of the same immutable plan of God [...] January 5 – Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Mary, the daughter of Zion Pope Benedict XVI commented on the similarity between the Christmas and Epiphany celebrations (which overlapped in January 2013 [...] understood it from the beginning, the universality of the promised salvation: There was first a nucleus, embodied above all by Mary, the daughter of Zion: a nucleus of Israel, the people that know and have faith
December 9 – Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – First apparition of Our Lady in Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) – Saint Juan Diego, patron of the Indigenous people (d. 1548) “Full of grace” is the new name [...] name that God gave Mary Today let us contemplate the beauty of Mary Immaculate. The Gospel, which recounts the episode of the Annunciation, helps us to understand what we are celebrating, above all through [...] He addresses Mary with a word that is not easy to translate, which means “filled with grace,” “created by grace,” “full of grace” (Lk 1:28). Before calling her ‘Mary,’ he calls her “full of grace,” and
