October 20 - Consecration of Portugal to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (1646) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (VI) Even now, amid the joyful songs of the heavenly Jerusalem, the reasons for giving [...] in which she continues to relate her personal account of the Gospel. Mary constantly sets before the faithful the "mysteries" of her Son, with the desire that the contemplation of those mysteries will release [...] release all their saving power. In the recitation of the Rosary, the Christian community comes in contact with the memories and the contemplative gaze of Mary.
Dominic, founder of the Order of Friars Preachers (d. 1221) - Our Lady of Laeken (Belgium) - Feast of Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnam) Mary to Saint Dominic: “If you want to win souls over to God, preach my [...] Queen sought our Lady's help more than ever, and had a large number of rosaries given out to all members of the court and to people in several towns in the Kingdom, asking them to pray to God for a blessing [...] Trinity wants to use to reform the world?" "Oh, my Lady," answered Saint Dominic, "you know far better than I do, because next to your Son Jesus Christ you have always been the chief instrument of our salvation
August 25 - Our Lady of Rossano (Calabria, Italy) Jesus Teaches Us to Love His Mother (II) The Mother herself shows what great sorrow she felt, caused by the highest virtue, when she says, “We have been [...] for you in sorrow” (Lk 2:48). She includes Saint Joseph and, like a humble person, put him ahead of herself, saying “Your father and I” (ibid.). Although the most holy Virgin did not need to be tested by [...] aid and example for us. She showed us how much the soul progresses in such a sorrowful experience, because of the absence of the beloved and the soul’s anxious search for him.
August 25 - Our Lady of Rossano (Calabria, Italy) Jesus Teaches Us to Love His Mother (II) The Mother herself shows what great sorrow she felt, caused by the highest virtue, when she says, "We have been [...] for you in sorrow" (Lk 2:48). She includes Saint Joseph and, like a humble person, put him ahead of herself, saying "Your father and I" (ibid.). Although the most holy Virgin did not need to be tested by [...] aid and example for us. She showed us how much the soul progresses in such a sorrowful experience, because of the absence of the beloved and the soul's anxious search for him.
every Catholic in our diocese was praying every day for the evangelizing fruitfulness of our efforts to prepare our already engaged Catholics to go forth and witness the love of Christ to those who have no [...] icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is placed in the Redemptorist Church (Rome, Italy, 1886) The Rosary is often the only method for persecuted Christians to hang onto the Faith and pass it down to their [...] practice of the Faith, it is an assured path to greater holiness and love, the saints all promote it, and Mary herself promises that it will help us in our problems and sorrows, as we make our way to the Father’s
Lamy, the Chapel of Our Lady of Light (inspired by the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris) was built. It was placed under the care of the Sisters of Loretto, who were to arrive from Kentucky to found a school for [...] staircase is known to be made of spruce wood, no one has been able to determine either what subspecies of spruce it is, or even how the wood got to the chapel. In 1852, by order of the bishop of Santa Fe, Jean [...] advised the nuns to demolish the choir. Instead, the nuns decided to pray a novena to Saint Joseph, patron saint of carpenters, asking for a solution. After finishing the novena, according to testimonies that
children, had gathered in front of his church. I hurried to open it. A woman approached me and said, putting her hand over her heart: “Is our heart and the heart of all of us here the same as yours?” I answered [...] But where are you from? “Most of us are from Urakami (1). Almost everyone in Urakami has the same heart as ours.” Then she immediately asked: “Where is the image of Our Lady?” When I heard this blessed name [...] June 15 – Feast of All the Churches in the Holy Land (Ethiopia) Is your heart the same as ours? In 1865, Japan reopened its doors to foreigners after more than two centuries of total isolation. When Father
Divine Mercy Sunday – Our Lady of Basella (Italy, 1356) A shrine dedicated to "Mary who heals married couples" On February 3rd, a new Marian shrine was created in the parish church of Solesmes in France. [...] family in the diocese of Bayonne (France), also the director of the Institute for the Family in Europe (IFE). Deeply aware of the painful trials many couples go through, he says that to "fix" them, one must [...] aspects but also the spiritual dimension. And, being a devout Christian, to him the solution is simple: "We must turn to Mary, model of all spouses.” The shrine is simply called "Mary who heals married couples
March 21 - Our Lady of Bruges (Flanders, 1150), where a lock of Our Lady’s hair is preserved Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue (II) Do you really think He cares If I tell Him things- Little things that happen [...] hear Me if I speak low? Does He understand me now? Tell me - for you know? Lovely Lady dressed in blue Teach me how to pray! God was just your little boy, And you know the way.
March 21 - Our Lady of Bruges (Flanders, 1150), where a lock of Our Lady’s hair is preserved. Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue (II) Do you really think He cares If I tell Him things- Little things that happen [...] hear Me if I speak low? Does He understand me now? Tell me - for you know? Lovely Lady dressed in blue Teach me how to pray! God was just your little boy, And you know the way.
