devotion I teach. " The purpose of the consecration to Our Lady is therefore to go to her Son. This is the teaching of Our Lady in Fatima. On June 13, 1917, she said to little Lucia: "My Immaculate Heart [...] May 22 – Our Lady of Graces (Brescia, Italy, 1526) What it means to devote oneself to Mary On the topic of the consecration to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort, in his Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed [...] "Mary being the most conform to Jesus Christ of all creatures, it follows that of all the devotions, that which consecrates and most conforms a soul to Our Lord is the devotion to the Most Holy Virgin, his
April 2 – Our Lady of the Way (Leon, Spain) It is good to know what She said “no” to (I) In our relationship with Mary and to better understand the value of her "yes," it is good to know what she said [...] When the angel spoke to her of Elizabeth, in spite of her condition she immediately went to her bedside. She said “no” to any preferential treatment. When she heard the good news of her pregnancy, she could [...] from God. She adjusted herself to His decisions and endured what was painful to bear. From the beginning, she gave her child to others - to the shepherds, to the magi, to the whole world. Excerpt from an
April 3 – Our Lady of the Cross (Italy, 1490) It is good to know what She said “no” to (II) To better understand the value of her "yes," it is good to know what Mary said “no” to. She said “no” to the temptation [...] her time to praying for us. She lives in the kingdom of Heaven, attentive to what is happening on Earth, remaining forever the best of mothers. Let us ask our Holy Mary to give us the strength to say “no [...] “no,” as well as “never”: the strength to never forget her, to never cease to love her, and to never fail to turn to her when we need help. Excerpt from an article adapted from a text by Alejandra María
have an open knowledge of the admirable mysteries of the birth and childhood of Christ, and above all of the mystery of the Incarnation, which is the beginning and the foundation of faith? www.vatican.va [...] Saint Pius X (d. 1914) – Our Lady of Knock (Ireland, 1879) – The Virgin with the Golden Heart (Beauraing, Belgium, 1932-33) To know Jesus better, we must entrust ourselves to Mary Saint Pius X (pope from [...] wrote 16 encyclicals. One of them, entitled Ad Diem Illum (1904), is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary (jubilee) of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception
June 29 – Our Lady of Laghet (Laghet, France) No one who perseveres in their devotion to Mary goes to Hell Saint Dominic was preaching in Carcassonne (Southern France) when a heretic was brought to him. Because [...] servants of Mary, and that there were many who, in spite of their sins, saved themselves from eternal death by invoking the name of Mary. They ended by saying: “We are forced to declare that none of those [...] Christians! All that this man, our enemy, says about Mary and the Rosary, is perfectly true.” And they added: “Mary, the Mother of God, is our greatest enemy. She overturns all our schemes. Without her, we would
Versailles. In 1855, Sister Justine went to Constantinople to tend to the wounded of the Crimean War, then to Algeria from 1858 to 1867, as superior of the military hospital of Dey. Pope Pius IX approved the green [...] January 18 – Our Lady of Dijon (France) The Virgin comes to ask us to love her "Immaculate Heart" On January 18, 1840, the Virgin Mary appeared to Justine Bisqueyburu (1817-1903), from Mauleon in the Pyrenees [...] associated with the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul - not to be confused with the scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary associated with the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The apparitions followed
November 4 - Our Lady of Mariapocs (Hungary, 1696 - First Miracle) They Come to Unite Their Own Tears to the Virgin's Tears According to tradition, on 4 November 1696, the faithful who were attending Mass [...] Meanwhile, a copy of the icon, placed in Mariapocs, also began to shed tears in 1715, during the first half of the month of August. Pilgrims came in great numbers and the civil authorities decided to build a larger [...] It is as if they go there to unite their own tears to the Virgin's tears, to purify and let their tears melt together into a single offering, united to the redemptive offering of Jesus the Savior."
and to its current Patriarch, the Blessed Virgin has always been the companion and Patron Saint. Even the names of the Patriarchates honor her: from Our Lady of Yanouh to Our Lady of Elige, to Our Lady [...] Lady of Qadisha and then Our Lady of Deman and finally Our Lady of Bkerke. Here we see the extent of the Virgin’s influence in the life of the Maronite Church; she has been engrained in the ecclesiastical [...] after the Feast of Pentecost and the Feast of the Apostles, on the Feast of Our Lady on 15 August, which is the feast of her ascension to heaven. The Virgin Mary remains the mother of our Church, the beloved
March 28 – Our Lady of Bocciola (Italy, 1543) – The departure of the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Boulogne (France, 1938) Mary knows how to give a queen’s reward! The great German attack on Amiens (France) [...] A soldier came up to me with a huge bouquet of daffodils. "Mr. Chaplain," he said, "take this bouquet to the Queen of May. She protected me in an extraordinary way. This is a token of my gratitude." "But [...] me, how many of our men fell? None?" - "No, not one!" - "And how many are wounded?" - "Not one, Sir!" I often remember that month of Mary in 1918 and I have to admit that Mary knows how to give a queen’s
center of the world" (May 31, 1951). The image is accompanied by a prayer given by the Lady, on February 11, 1951, feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes: "Pray before the Cross: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father [...] herself as the "Lady of all Nations" or the "Mother of All Nations." From 1945 to 1959, Ida received 56 apparitions. Their message teaches us how to invoke the Holy Spirit in a new way in order to receive the [...] the gift of Peace. In this time of "decline of the faith" (March 28, 1951) and in this "world sunk in corruption" (May 7, 1949), Mary came to unveil a plan of Salvation for Humanity. The Lady stands on
