- Saint John Mary Vianney, Curé of Ars (d.1859 - Apparition of Our Lady to 14-year-old Natalino Scarpa (Pellestrina, Italy, 1716 Beit Gemal Monastery: The burial place of Saint Stephen, at whose funeral [...] pointed to the location of his tomb in Beit Jamal. Their remains were transferred to Mount Zion Abbey (Dormition) in Jerusalem. In the 5th-6th century AD a church was established on the site of the tombs [...] Arab invasion (614 AD), as most of the churches in the Holy Land. A new monastery was constructed in 1881 in the village of Beit Jamal, near the location of the ruins of the earlier church. It served as
June 19 – Corpus Christi - Our Lady of Mercy (Italy, 1850) – Pope John Paul II’s second visit to Poland (1983) Why should we pray the Rosary in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament? When we recite the [...] presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we love Jesus with the Heart of Mary. When we recite the Rosary in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we offer Jesus the perfect Adoration of Mary. We join our own love [...] love for Jesus to Mary's worship and perfect love. Jesus welcomes our time of Adoration as if it were Mary’s own prayer. No matter how weak our faith or how poor our love, Mary receives us into her Heart
June 4 – Our Lady of Graces (Italy, 1503) – First visit of Pope John Paul II to Poland (Marian Shrine of Czestochowa, 1979) The discrete and modest attitude of Mary When first [Jesus] went out to preach [...] Queen upon her Son's right hand, not even {357} then did she ask of Him to publish her name to the ends of the world, or to hold her up to the world's gaze, but she remained waiting for the time, when her [...] with Mary. It became her, as a creature, a mother, and a woman, to stand aside and make way for the Creator, to minister to her Son, and to win her way into the world's homage by sweet and gracious persuasion
Avril 12 – Apparition of Our Lady of the Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola and his three children in Tre Fontane in 1947 (approved in 1956) Christianity was born of a woman's “yes” "The Mother is not an [...] faith born of the “yes” of a woman" … "Therefore, without the warmth of the living and recognized presence of women, the Church risks becoming more like a ministry, a bureaucracy, instead of the Good News [...] homily during the Mass of the translation of the icon Salus Populi Romani on January 28, 2018. Mary "is not a possibility among others offered by popular devotion; she is at the heart of the Christian faith
December 8 – Immaculate Conception - Consecration of Haiti to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1942) Why the dogma of the Immaculate Conception? God Ineffable — whose ways are mercy and truth, whose will is [...] centuries, to complete the first work of his goodness by a mystery yet more wondrously sublime through the Incarnation of the Word. This he decreed in order that man who, contrary to the plan of Divine Mercy [...] “reaches from end to end mightily, and orders all things sweetly” — having foreseen from all eternity the lamentable wretchedness of the entire human race which would result from the sin of Adam, decreed,
was hit by a car. She was taken to the hospital in Itapeva, where I went to see her. We were all in shock. I turned to Our Lady: "O my Mother, do not let the beginning of my office as bishop be darkened [...] August 4 – Apparition of Our Lady to Natalino Scarpa, 14, in Pellestrina (Italy, 1716) A highlight of my life as a bishop I had a very striking experience concerning the Virgin Mary in 1980, just after [...] first visit was to the hospital. The doctor said, "You can be at peace, the child is out of danger." I thanked Our Lady for I felt her presence strongly at this very significant moment of my episcopal life
December 11 – Consecration of the Shrine of Our Lady of Victories to the Most Holy Immaculate Heart of Mary (France, 1836) Both virgins are the mothers of Christ Advent reminds Christians that Mary, like [...] the forgiveness of all sins, gave birth to the body of that head. Mary’s gestation echoes that of the Church, one complementing the other, as Isaac of Stella says: "Both are the mothers of Christ, but neither [...] are virgins. Both of them, without any carnal contact, conceive of the same Spirit. Both of them, without sin, give a progeny to God the Father. One, free from all sin, bore the head of this body; the other
22 – Blessed Isabella of France (d. 1270), foundress of a convent dedicated to the "Humility of Our Lady" Mary full of grace In the greeting of the Angel, Mary is called “full of grace.” In Greek, the [...] story by aligning it closely to the history of Abraham. Just as the great Patriarch is the father of believers who responded to God’s call to leave the land in which he lived, to leave behind all that guaranteed [...] who opened the door to her Creator in a special way, placing herself in his hands without reserve… And she submitted freely to the word received, to the divine will in the obedience of faith. The Evangelist
12 - Apparition of Our Lady to Saint Herman (France, 13th C.) Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary, Mother of Jesus, give me your heart, so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, that I may be able to receive Jesus in [...] in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of poor. Amen.
December 17 - Our Lady's in Trastevere, First Church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin (Rome, ca. 352) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (VIII) "Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant" [...] all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more" (Jer 31:31-34). "You renew the face of the earth" (Ps 104:30). "I will [...] by the prophets, the coming of the Messiah would make all things new: "Behold, the days come that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah..." (...) "I will put
