consecration to the two Hearts separately, first to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and then to the Heart of Mary. The consecration of the universal Church and the world by the Pope marks the culmination of this practice [...] Heart of Jesus is the mirror image of his Mother's Heart. In the Church, devotion to the Heart of Mary and to the Sacred Heart have developed simultaneously. The feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is [...] Heart of Mary. The Mother is always with her Son! In the second apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, on June 13, 1917, Lucia received the mission to propagate the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Keenan, head of the diocese of Paisley. The consecration, intended to mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, took place in the Scottish National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in [...] Motherhood of the Virgin Mary All of Scotland is consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary July 26, 2017, marked the beginning of 40 days of preparation for the September 3rd Act of Consecration of the Scottish [...] Kingdom of Scotland to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. All of the country’s Catholic bishops—eight ordinary bishops and eight emeritus bishops—participated. This 40-day preparation was the idea of Bishop
and local: to Our Lady of Grace, to Our Lady Help of Christians, but also to the Virgin of Miracles of Santa Fe, patroness of the Society of Jesus in the Uruguayan province, to Our Lady of Luján, patroness [...] Schmidtner of Mary Undoer of Knots. He was captivated by this work of art, and was enthusiastic about it: "The knots of life must be placed in the hands of the Mother of Jesus, the Mother of all who entrust [...] Kyrillos VI (Cairo, Egypt, 1968) The birth of the devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots In 1986, the Jesuit priest Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, returned to Argentina from his stay in Frankfurt
– The bishop of Fatima asked Sister Lucia to write down the Third Secret of Fatima (1944) Under the protection of Mary, Mother of God, to protect the country’s unity Devotion to Our Lady among Indonesian [...] (MCI). In order to revive the commitment of the faithful to national unity, Gomas Harun, a Catholic entrepreneur from Grogol (West Jakarta), created an arts competition in 2015 to give Our Lady more "familiar" [...] dedicated to the ‘Mother of all ethnic groups’ ( Maria, Bunda Segala Suku ), where the sacred images of the Virgin with an Indonesian face are exhibited. Mgr Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, archbishop of Jakarta
daily, asking Our Lady to help me go to Jesus, her Son: "O Mary, teach me to say "YES" to the Lord, every moment of my life; O Mary teach me to say "thank you" to the Lord, every moment of my life." The [...] Saint Rita of Cascia, Augustinian nun - Our Lady of Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) Stay united to Mary in order to go to her Son Jesus Two passages from the Gospel are particularly important to me in my [...] the Mother of God. The first is the story of the Annunciation (Lk 1:26-38) that ends with Mary's fiat . Her openness to the Word of God and her free decision to say "YES" is the beginning of our redemption
interior vision. The first image of this vision was the fresco in the Crypt of the Shrine of Our Lady of Myans in Savoy, France. This fresco tells of the miracle that took place in 1248, when the Granier [...] October 15 – St Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church (d. 1582) Jesus gives the vision of a perpetual rosary to get out of the current crisis Two friends and I felt sad and worried about the situation [...] by mudslides, except for the monks who were praying before the statue of Our Lady of Myans. The fresco shows some demons trying to destroy the shrine with huge rocks, admitting their defeat and saying:
- Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Mary The Virgin's Martyrdom The Virgin's martyrdom is revealed in the prophecy of Simeon as well as in the narrative of Our Lord's passion. "This child is here to be a sign [...] sign of contradiction," the holy old man said of Jesus; "and you," he now speaks to Mary, "a sword will pierce your soul." Blessed Mother, a sword has indeed pierced your soul. But this was the only way [...] way it could penetrate into the flesh of your Son. Of course, after Jesus gave up his spirit, the cruel spear which opened his side could not reach his soul; but it did pierce through yours. His soul had
May 9 – Our Lady of the Wood (Italy, 1607) To gaze upon you, to weep with joy, to know that I am your son It is noon. I see the church open. I must enter. Mother of Jesus Christ, I have not come to pray. [...] exist. Mother of our Lord, be thanked! Paul Claudel, The Virgin at Noon, excerpted from Oeuvres poétiques (1957), Note: Claudel converted to the Catholic faith in front of a statue of Our Lady in Notre Dame [...] I have nothing to offer and nothing to ask. I have come only, Mary, to gaze upon you. To gaze upon you, to weep with joy, to know this – That I am your son and that you are here. Only for that moment
November 3 – Our Lady of Coromoto (Venezuela) Mary appears to a tribal chief to urge him to be baptized At the end of the 16th century, the evangelization efforts of the Franciscans and Dominicans in Venezuela [...] second apparition, the cacique asked to be baptized, and became an ardent apostle of Our Lady, preaching the devotion to the Virgin of Coromoto among other tribes. The town of Guanare, where the image is kept [...] Pope Pius XII ratified the bishops' decree, officially declaring Our Lady of Coromoto patron saint of Venezuela and raising the shrine to a basilica. Adapted and translated from: Attilio Galli, Madre della
knows how to "keep," to put things together in her heart, to give life. If our faith is not to be reduced merely to an idea or a doctrine, all of us need a mother’s heart, one which knows how to keep the [...] March 16 – Our Lady of Clemency (Rome, Italy) A mother knows how to "keep," to put things together in her heart, to give life Mary held nothing back; she locked nothing within out of self-pity or resentment [...] then comes to dwell in our lives... Devotion to Mary is not spiritual etiquette; it is a requirement of the Christian life. Looking to the Mother, we are asked to leave behind all sorts of useless baggage
