June 11 - Feast of Corpus Christi (Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ) - Saint Barnabas, apostle - Leo XIII consecrates the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, "one" with the Heart of
June 6 - Saint Marcellin Champagnat (1789-1840), founder of the Little Brothers of Mary (Marists) "I have never felt so much peace as in this place" Does God exist? What is the point of living? Why make
May 22 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Augustinian nun - Our Lady of Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) A great victory is reserved for Mary in our day All the ages of the Church have been marked by the battles and
May 25 - Our Lady of the Sea (Aix-en-Provence, France) - Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, virgin, Carmelite How the Virgin Mary saved my dad’s life in a concentration camp "During the Second World War, my
May 18 - The Ascension of the Lord - Saint John I, pope and martyr (d. in 526 in Ravenna, Italy) Mary's joy at the Ascension of Jesus If Mary enjoyed great joy when her Son lived bodily beside her and
May 1 - Saint Joseph the Worker Joseph, like Mary his spouse, was of royal blood and yet passed his life in labor These are the reasons why men of every rank and country should fly to the trust and guard
May 2 - Saint Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, doctor of the Church (d.373) How Jesus instructed us that Mary remained a virgin until the end Indeed, when he was lifted up on the Cross, Jesus commended [...] really John’s mother, because of his great purity of heart and because of her untouched virginity.” Saint Athanasius, De Virginitate, in Le Museon 42: 243-44
March 27 - Madonna del Piratello (Italy, 1483) - Saint Habib the Carpenter A parish priest goes to Medjugorje "out of curiosity" Father Alexis de Brébisson has served the parish of La Bellière in Normandy
March 11 - Madonna Miracolosa (Italy, 1855) - Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem Mary could not stay at the inn because she was about to give birth When the Virgin Mary was almost at the end of her [...] humble place, where animals were sometimes housed. Jesus was placed in a manger used for animals. Saint Aelred of Rievaulx (d. 1167), referring to a meditation by Bede the Venerable, wrote: "Bethlehem -
February 22 - Ash Wednesday - Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle - Blessed Isabella of France (d. 1270), foundress of a convent named for the "Humility of Our Blessed Lady" The King of kings [...] mother Even in the years before Christ's birth, the Virgin did more for the glory of God than all the saints of the Old Covenant and of the Church. How did she do this? Because in her, everything was an effective
