May 30 - Our Lady of Europe (Gibraltar, Spain) - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) Saint Joan of Arc: "I have come from God and the Virgin Mary" - "Do you know how to be in the grace of God?" someone asked Joan [...] which is thus declared?" - "I came to the King of France in God's name, and in the names of the Blessed Virgin and of all the Blessed Saints of Paradise, and of the Church Victorious above, and at their command; [...] do you trust in the determination of the Church? " - "I defer to Our Lord who sent me, to Our Lady and to all the blessed men and women saints of Paradise. And I am of the opinion that it is all one with
28 May - Pentecost- Our Lady of Carmine (Italy, 1663) Mary brings us into the mystery of Pentecost Mary brings us to Jesus. Mary also brings us back to him. She is the one we need to live and put into [...] discovered in the living presence of Jesus. It is Mary, our Mother, who will bring us to glory. It is she who leads us to enter into the mystery of Pentecost. On Pentecost, Mary is waiting: as on the Annunciation [...] violent love. The strength of the Spirit will never fail those who, with Mary, will work in the Church and for the Church in the future. Marie-Benoîte Angot In Adorer avec Marie, Ed. Sarment-Jubilé, p. 80
explained the importance of Mary and the need for an "incarnate" faith, which reconciles "reason with the reasons of the heart". Here are some excerpts: “If the place occupied by Mary has been essential to [...] feel warmth: devotion to Mary (which ‘avoids every false exaggeration on the one hand, and excessive narrow-mindedness in the contemplation of the surpassing dignity of the Mother of God on the other’, as [...] May 15 - Our Lady of the Light (Mexico) "Mary has always been essential to the equilibrium of the Faith" Benedict XVI has testified publicly to his Marian devotion on many occasions. In an interview with
Basilica of Loreto are like Siamese twins, for each contains a part of the House of Mary, two parts which, according to tradition, were separated from each other. This is confirmed by the results of archaeological [...] May 10 - Our Lady of the Holy House of Nazareth (Dalmatia, 1291) The House of Mary, transported from Nazareth to Loreto In 1291, when the crusaders left the Holy Land for good and the Muslim armies, as [...] the walls of the house of the Blessed Virgin in Nazareth were transported first to Dalmatia (today's Albania and Croatia), then, on the night of December 9-10, 1294, to the ancient territory of Recanati
mysteries of Jesus Christ, into the final ends of man and into the heart of God Himself; a courageous Faith, which will make us undertake and come to the end of great things for the sake of God and the [...] May 8 - Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 1875) The wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (II) Mary sustains us when we are ready to fall; lifts us up when we have fallen; takes us back, as a charitable [...] in following her we do not go astray. A true child of Mary will not be deceived by the evil one, nor will he fall into any formal heresy. For where Mary's guidance is, neither the evil spirit with its illusions
April 27 - Saturday of the 4th week of Easter: Our Lady Consoler of the Afflicted (Luxembourg) - Our Lady of Montserrat (Spain) - Our Lady of Vilnius (Lithuania) The Milk Grotto in Bethlehem, Palestine [...] Herod ’s Massacre of the Innocents , Mary spilled some drops of her breast milk which turned the cave’s walls to a chalky white. People still drink the powder of the limestone rock of the cave walls, known [...] Palestine, is dedicated to the divine maternity of the Virgin Mary The Virgin Mary’s breast milk has been the subject of veneration for centuries and even today couples battling infertility often imbue it with
quality. At the beginning, however, your understanding of it will be clouded because of the seriousness and number of your sins, and your unconscious love of self. 2. Before you read any further, in an unde [...] the Ave Maris Stella ("Hail, thou star of ocean"), and the "Come, Holy Spirit", to ask God to help you understand and appreciate this secret given by him Saint Louis de Montfort, The Secret of Mary §1-2 www [...] are unworldly, and work seriously for the salvation of souls. -That you use this secret to become holy and worthy of heaven, for the more you make use of it the more benefit you will derive from it. Under
Virgin of Mende (France, 1857) In the depth of Jesus' Passion and Mary's compassion The Church invites us to consider carefully the love that is manifested in the depth of Jesus' Passion and Mary's compassion: [...] understand the greatness of the torments I suffered then." The Mary of Nazareth Team (1) Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690) was a French Visitation nun and mystic from the convent of Paray-le-Monial who [...] any suffering like my suffering" (Lamentations 1:12). During the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1) in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Behold the Heart which has so loved
Lourdes (France (1858) Mary, cause of our joy In a 2012 Sunday Angelus address, Benedict XVI spoke of the “Woman of Christmas” – the Blessed Virgin Mary – and the experience of joy: Mary Immaculate speaks to [...] the resurrection: Jesus is Mary’s joy and the joy of the Church, of all of us. He concluded: “In this season of Advent, Mary Immaculate teaches us to listen to the voice of God that speaks in silence; [...] collection of prohibitions and rules. In reality, Christianity is the proclamation of the victory of grace over sin, of life over death. . . .It is necessary therefore to learn to say no to the voice of egoism
February 15 - Apparition of the Child Jesus to Lucia of Fatima (Pontevedra, Spain, 1926) - Feast of the Hypapante (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Byzantine rite) Statue of Mary found intact after church [...] church fire in Ivory Coast The statue of the Virgin Mary placed near the altar of the Catholic chapel in the village of Zéo (Bangolo department, Ivory Coast) was found intact on Sunday, December 04, 2022 [...] ravaged part of this place of worship. One of the faithful, Blé Anasthasie, testified: "When we managed to put out the fire, we found that all the altar cloths were destroyed. To the right of the altar,
