September 22 - Saint Thomas of Villanova (d. 1555) - Holy Mary of the Royal Court (Italy, 1575) Mary is an amazing matchmaker! Five years ago, I went on a pilgrimage to Medjurgorje (in Bosnia Herzegovina) [...] Herzegovina), where I wrote a short letter to the Virgin Mary. In it I told her that I really wanted to get married, and that I would like "Our Lady of Medjugorje," who calls herself "the Queen of Peace," to find [...] I went, and it was there, while praying to "Our Lady of Medjugorje"—the Queen of Peace—that I met John, who is my husband today! We are the happy parents of a little boy called Karol (named after Saint
mother named Gladys Quiroga de Motta saw these glowing rosaries and began to pray to the Virgin Mary. The Virgin appeared to her on Sept. 25, carrying the infant Jesus and wearing a blue gown and veil. Her [...] hands and keep it forever and ever. You are obedient; I am happy because of it. Rejoice, for God is with you." The Virgin Mary asked Gladys to go look for a statue that had been blessed by a Pope and was [...] daughters and a grandmother. At various times, the Virgin Mary apparition referred the woman to several Bible verses. One month after the first appearance, the apparition gave Gladys a white rosary and said
Joseph, Husband of Mary The Smack of the Rosary was an Amazing Grace Father John Ogilvie was condemned as a traitor, but during a long imprisonment no tortures could force him to name any Catholics. Under [...] ns, his patience, courage and gaiety won the admiration of his very judges. He was hanged on March 10, 1615 after renewing his fidelity to the King in the temporal field and declaring that he would die [...] the rosary was an amazing grace. The customary beheading and quartering were omitted in John’s case owing to undisguised popular sympathy, and his body was hurriedly buried in the churchyard of Glasgow
n of Mary O Jesus, Who has said, “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened,” through the intercession of Mary, Your Most Holy Mother, I knock, I seek, and I ask [...] “All that you ask of the Father in My Name, He will grant you,” through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask your Father in your name that my prayer will be granted. O [...] O Jesus, Who has said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away but My word shall not pass away,” through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted. Amen.
their own skill and industry, and a soul thoroughly tractable, entirely detached, most ready to be molded in her by the working of the Holy Spirit. What blemishes and defects, what shadows and distortions [...] , what natural and human imperfections are found in the first soul, and what a faithful and divine likeness to Jesus is found in the second! There is not and there will never be, either in God's creation [...] He created a third for himself, which he named Mary. Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) In The Secret of Mary, part 1: Necessity of having a true devotion to Mary
the pilgrims and bring interior consolation. At the end of the symbolic journey, parents are asked to give a name to their unborn child and write it in a "Book of Life," so that local nuns and pilgrims can [...] offers concrete help and support to women facing an abortion, through listening and prayer. Throughout the meditation path are little signs with life-affirming passages from the Gospel, and short meditations [...] of Tarbes and Lourdes (France), inaugurated the Way of Consolation ( Chemin de la Consolation ): a new place of devotion in the heart of the shrine, designed to remember unborn children and lift them up
on of Mary as Mother of the Church, that is to say of all the faithful and all the Pastors, the Christian people may, with greater ardor, turn to the Holy Virgin and render to her the honor and devotion [...] entered the Council hall, along with "Mary, the Mother of Jesus," so at the close of the third session We leave this Temple with the most holy and sweet name of Mary, Mother of the Church. [...] relationship with Christ, and for her presence in the economy of salvation brought about by Jesus Christ, thus it also constitutes the principal basis for the relations between Mary and the Church, since she
small church and placed some relics of St Francisco and St Jacinta inside the altar, thus establishing a spiritual connection with the 100 th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima this year. The Mary of Nazareth [...] Valence (France), existed in the Middle Ages under the name of "Our Lady of Consolation." The love of the population of Marsanne for the Virgin Mary found a new impetus when the Virgin intervened to help [...] cutter, who was blind and had lost her mother. She cured her, but in exchange asked for an oratory to be built: "I want my beloved people to come in procession in this valley and that a chapel be built
Will Reign Through Mary (II)Jesus Will Reign Through Mary (III) Every day, from one end of the earth to the other, in the highest heaven and in the lowest abyss, all things speak of and proclaim the wondrous [...] wondrous Virgin Mary. The nine choirs of angels, men and women of every age, rank and religion, both good and evil, even wicked demons themselves, are all compelled by the force of truth, willingly or unwillingly [...] "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her millions and millions of times each day with the angelic greeting: "Hail Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, and begging her the
renowned throughout French-speaking Africa. It was a stigmatist nun, Mother Mary of the Cross, foundress of the Little Sisters of Mary Mother of the Redeemer, of Saint Aignan on Roë in France who offered her [...] the future.” When Father Tardif (a Canadian) came to Issia, he also made a prophecy in 1987 and spoke in the name of the Lord: "I want to dig a spring of living water here, where my people will come to quench [...] Bishop Pierre-Marie Coty, who had already decided to make the hill of Issia a place of pilgrimage dedicated to Our Lady of Deliverance. There are many reports of miracles, healings, and conversions of
