July 26 - Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, Mary's Parents I am Anne, Mary's Mother (II) It was over a year before the first Holy Mass in honor of Saint Anne was said in Bocenno. The rector reproached Yves [...] truth about what I promised you." A few moments later, the peasants unearthed an old wooden statue right beneath the wax torch. It was in poor condition and only had a few remnants of white and blue paint [...] March 7, 1625, Saint Anne appeared once more, and also advised Yves to bring his neighbors with him. "Bring them with you to the place where this wax torch leads you and you will find the statue that will

provide their children with an adequate presence while they are growing up. I entrust to the protection of St Anne and St Joachim all the grandparents of the world and bestow on them a special blessing. May [...] May the Virgin Mary who according to a beautiful iconography—learned to read the Sacred Scriptures at her mother Anne's knee, help them always to nourish their faith and hope at the sources of the Word [...] July 26 – Saints Joachim and Anne, Mary’s parents Grandparents are under the protection of Jesus’ grandparents Today is the liturgical commemoration of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of Our Lady, and

Purgatory: “I saw my guardian angel, who ordered me to follow him. In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls. They were praying fervently, but to [...] January 1 - Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God “I saw Our Lady visiting the souls in purgatory” In purgatory, the soul is in a process of passive purification. In addition to the help of saints and angels [...] Faustina, a Polish nun canonized by John Paul II in 2000, recounts in her Diary having visited purgatory. Guided by her guardian angel, she saw the most consoling presence of all, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen

Heart of Mary (1942) She has always saved us! Marshal Foch, a general in the French army, was born in Tarbes, near Lourdes, in 1851. As a child, he met Bernadette Soubirous and even played with her once [...] once. At 20, he consecrated himself to the Virgin Mary. In 1914, when the Great War broke out, Foch called upon Our Lady daily and before every battle. Indeed, he strongly believed in the power of prayer [...] of the war, he attended daily Mass and recited the Rosary before going to work. "I owe my faith in Mary to my mother. I have prayed my Rosary every day of my life." - "Even in days of hard fighting?" –

theologians countered the doctrine which holds that Mary Most Holy was exempt from original sin from the very first moment of her conception, with a seemingly insurmountable objection: in fact, at first [...] November 8 – Mary of Victory – Blessed John Duns Scotus How Duns Scotus won the debate on the idea of the Immaculate Conception Not only Christ's role in the history of salvation but also that of Mary is the [...] universality of the Redemption brought about by Christ might seem to be jeopardized by such a statement, as though Mary had had no need of Christ or his redemption. Therefore the theologians opposed this thesis

Mother, act in me... pray in me... speak in me... love Jesus in me and with me, so that I may be able to say at every moment, in union with You. I am the little handmaid of the Lord... let it be done to me [...] February 6 – Mary, Mother of Piety (Italy) – French mystic Marthe Robin (d. 1981) "I increasingly depend on Our Good Mother" Marthe Robin left us the following thoughts: "The whole program of my life consists [...] consists of remaining united to Mary, my Mother, under the dependence of the Interior Master who directs me, in allowing myself to be invaded, devoured, consumed by God. "I entrust all things to my Beloved

Balkans. My plan was to meet up with a pilgrimage there. With the look of a tourist and a deep tan, sunglasses and a camera, I finally reached my destination after a long drive through Italy, Slovenia, [...] November 25 – Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) Now I know that Mary is there! In July 2010, I went to Medjugorje (Bosnia-Herzegovina) at the spur of the moment, while vacationing in the Balkans [...] and Croatia. Welcome to Medjugorje, with its 40 million pilgrims in 30 years, in a country that still shows scars from the war in the Balkans. My head was full of the arguments from several books I had

holding on to each other. At the same moment, a farmer called Joseph Donnet was going around his house with a lantern in his hand filling the animals’ troughs. Although the light of the lantern was faint [...] Brothers of Mary) - St Norbert of Xanten, bishop Praying the Memorare saved his life On a cold February day of 1823, the founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin Champagnat, decided to go visit a sick [...] and the bad weather. They made a difficult trek after dark of several hours through a storm. Soon Brother Stanislas became so tired that Fr Marcellin had to help him. After a while, the cold and exhaustion

eternal life! Raphaël (8): Mary is the greatest of mothers. She did not have a single stain on her. Mary is a very important person—she is the "head" of Heaven after Jesus. I ask Mary for many things and especially [...] undo all the knots that hinder my bond of peace with God. Clément (18): Mary is for me the one we pray to every day. Each Hail Mary said in the evening with the family or alone is an opportunity to pray [...] – Pentecost – La Linda (Peru, 1664) Mary, take us under your mantle! Anne (wife): Mary is the Mother of us all. Through her "fiat," she teaches us to live each moment of our life under her gentle maternal

The Hail Mary is the prayer addressed to Mary. The first part of the Lord's Prayer is praise to God, the first part of the Hail Mary is the praise of Mary. The second part of the Lord's Prayer is a request [...] It must be said with the soul turned to Heaven, farther than life, farther than the earth, where Mary, my Mother and yours, lives with her body and soul after she lived on earth with her soul always hovering [...] December 1 – Holy Mary of Graces (Italy, 1923) Your Mother must be invoked, just like the Father The Hail Mary must not be recited by thinking only of the earth and your flesh, which is dust and will become