threatens to envelop the whole Earth in a dark night, empty of all good, full of all evil, and impenetrable, so to speak, to the life-giving rays of the Sun of Justice. Thus, the divine torch of faith is [...] is reserved to her in our time; to her belongs the glory of saving the faith from the shipwreck that threatens to destroy it. Father Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850), founder of the Society of Mary (Marianists) [...] 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
August 27 - Our Lady of Quezac (France) – Blessed Maria-Pilar Izquierdo Albero (Spain, d. 1945), foundress of the Missionary Work of Jesus and Mary Without Mary, you will not be able to love to the fullest [...] you allow Jesus to draw you to Him and lead you along the path of holiness. If you think you could actually follow Him faithfully by your own strength, think again—soon you would run out of breath, become [...] when following Jesus, be able to love to the fullest as he has shown us on the Cross: "Having loved his own, he loved them to the end" (Jn13:1). Mary is the great secret of Jesus’ heart. Father Philippe
May 13 - Ascension of the Lord - Feast of Our Lady in Fatima (Portugal, 1917) - Attack against Pope Saint John Paul II (1981) Every day, I pray to Mary and Joseph to thank them Together with my wife, I [...] for being her husband. I often think about my visit to Our Lady of Fatima Shrine (Portugal), and I thank Jesus for showing us the example of the Holy Family that we need so much in this day and age as [...] Philipp von Liechtenstein, a member of the princely family of Liechtenstein. He is a son of the former reigning prince Franz Joseph II and the younger brother of current reigning prince Hans-Adam II.
Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) An M-shaped pilgrimage to entrust France to Mary From June 2, 2020, until September 13, 2020, the Confraternity Our Lady of France [...] an idea was born—creating a great movement towards the Blessed Virgin to entrust our country to her," the Confraternity Our Lady of France explained in a press release. Adapted from: Valeurs Actuelles [...] On June 2nd, a horse-drawn carriage carrying a tall statue of Mary received the blessing of Bishop Ribadeau Dumas in front of the grotto of Lourdes, before setting off. A similar team left La Salette
addressed to her divine Son: ‘Why have you done this to us?’ (Lk 2:48). How close she is to us, our good Mother of Heaven! How she understands our puzzlements, our disappointments, even our revolts! Blessed [...] June 3 - Our Lady of the Letter (Messina, Italy) - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - St. Charles Lwanga and Companions Mary herself dared to say: "Why have you done this to us?" Father Guillaume de [...] for us the words of incomprehension: ‘Why have you done this to us?’ Blessed be the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph who sanctify our dazedness: ‘They did not understand what he was saying to them…’ (Lk 2:50)
May 6 - Our Lady of St. John (Italy, 1658) - Icon of the Life-giving Spring in Constantinople “Mary leads us to Christ, but Christ leads us to his Mother.” We need Mary the Mother of God to keep us from [...] very heart of matter: [the word] mater [“mother”] comes from materia.” The Mother of God constantly returns us to the heart of the matter: the humanity of her divine Son. As Bl. Guerric of Igny insists [...] Mother of that life, the more we come to know and embrace life in its fullness. And if we want more life in our life, we need to have a Mother to give it to us. And she does. Peter Cameron www.aleteia.org
Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine (d. 387) – Our Lady of Quezac (France) Praying the Rosary in jail helps to stay connected to Heaven I would like to share with you my experience of praying the Rosary [...] Rosary a few times at noon during our walk on the facility's grounds. What a joy it was to pray in this rather unusual place, where I wanted to attract the blessing of God and of the Virgin Mary. Isn't Mary [...] Mary honored as "Gateway to Heaven" and "Mediatrix of all graces"? By means of the Rosary, we often tell Mary our love; it is not a simple repetition, it is an effective way to keep in touch with her. Thirty-nine
November 13 – Our Lady of Nanteuil (France) - Beatification of Charles de Foucauld "I had to make the journey from my head to my heart" An adventure called the Great "M" of Mary ( aime pronounced "M" in [...] day ... We want to keep this commitment and continue to pray it every day. It is such a learning process!" Isabelle remembers: "We also learned that to get closer to Jesus, we have to go to the Virgin Mary [...] even a bishop, traveled for a total of 1,429 miles, from Lourdes to La Salette. Marie shared this reflection: "We learned to challenge ourselves, while being faithful to praying the Rosary. We arrived on
January 7 – Our Lady of Charity (Rumilly, France, 1856) With our Mother Mary, we will never be alone "I don’t have anything extraordinary to share about our Mother Mary, but I can say that, as one of her sons [...] given to her by the Son of God, I try to live each day by holding her hand, and this is something I am happy to share. I entrust my life and the lives of the faithful to her care every day. Our mother [...] brings us to the Father. With our Mother Mary, we will never be alone, and we have her blessing and protection as Mother of the Church." Dom Luiz Carlos Eccel Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Hunter (Brazil)
12 – Our Lady of the Elm (Italy, 1610) Joseph, Model for Our Times " Whoever loves his life will lose it " (Jn 12:25). That is why the Virgin Mary unceasingly invites us, in all her apparitions, to this [...] the grain of the pervasive contemporary mentality, Joseph proves to be a particularly powerful ally and remedy for our time. Far from wanting to control his own life and enjoy it according to his own plan [...] in an exemplary way, entrusting himself to God, seeking His justice, and renouncing the legitimate desire to have biological children, in order to be available to God’s plan for him. He denied himself,
