November 8 – Our Lady of the Pond (France, 1531) – Saint Elisabeth of the Trinity The Virgin Mary, model of interior souls "If you knew the gift of God!" There is a creature who knew the gift of God, a creature [...] recollection Mary lent herself to everything she did! How even the most trivial things were divinized by her! For through it all the Virgin remained the adorer of the gift of God!” Saint Elisabeth of the Trinity [...] the attitude of the Virgin during the months that elapsed between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls, those whom God has chosen to live within, in the depths of the bottomless
November 3 – Our Lady of Coromoto (Venezuela) My greatest experience of Mary My experience of Mary was influenced by my mother and by my parish priest, Father Sabino. With my mother, we prayed the Rosary [...] Rosary every night, on our knees, and we sang the office of the Holy Virgin every Saturday. At the age of 83, the year of her death, my mother was hospitalized and remained in a coma for over a week. I went [...] mother woke up and returned to her normal state! Thanking Jesus and Mary, I invited my sisters, who were present, to pray with me the Office of Our Lady. Right there and then my mother began to pray, in a loud
November 6 – Our Lady of Valfleury (France) At the school of Mary, I found God Saint Bernard said that we can never talk too much about Mary. I have learned to love Our Lady since my childhood, through [...] experienced the constant support of Our Lady in the most important moments of my Christian, religious and priestly life. In periods of doubt, when I was unsure of my vocation, I always prayed to her, asking [...] right direction. Today I am happy that the Blessed Virgin Mary has led me with her maternal hand to the Heart of her divine Son. At the school of Mary, I found God, and I love him and serve him joyfully. Bishop
October 20 – Consecration of Portugal to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (1646) The Fifteen Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who pray the Rosary (II) 8) Those who recite my Rosary shall find [...] the light of God, the fullness of His graces, and shall share in the merits of the blessed. 9) I shall deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary. 10) The true children of my Rosary [...] obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary Confraternity shall have for their brethren the saints of heaven during their life and at the hour of death. 14) Those who recite my Rosary faithfully
Our Lady of the Pond (France, 1531) – Saint Elisabeth of the Trinity Mary’s tears are the sign of the Mother’s presence Mary’s tears signal the presence of the Mother—they reveal the face of Mary as the [...] language—the language of tears. Therefore, her tears testify to the presence of the Mother in the Church and in the world (Saint John Paul II). The tears of Mary reveal the sadness of the heart of God who is not [...] loved: These are tears of sorrow for all those who refuse God’s love (Saint John Paul II). Tears are the sign that reflects the tears of humanity: Mary is a creature like us, she is part of our humanity. She
Lady of Valfleury (France) When the island of Montreal became "Ville-Marie" Jerome Le Royer, lord of La Dauversière (1597-1659), is the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of La Flèche [...] France. On February 2, 1630, after Candlemas (feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of Mary), as he prayed before a statue of Our Lady, Le Royer felt called to found a nursing [...] Flèche (in 1636), and one of the founders of Ville-Marie, the future Montreal (Canada). Born into a Breton family, Le Royer was admitted in 1608 to the Royal College of La Flèche (France), run by the Jesuits
with Mary in the heart of the Alps At the foot of the Mont Blanc, on the Italian side but not far from Switzerland and France, stands the small shrine of Our Lady of Healing. The place is full of ex-votos [...] from the small chapel of Our Lady of the Snows in Val Ferret, Switzerland, over the mountain to Courmayeur, Italy. About 300 people usually gather at the foot of the statue of Mary for the closing Mass [...] Mass. Fr. Yves Sarrasin, a native of Orsières in Valais (Switzerland), is a member of the Third Order of the Eucharistein Fraternity. He is the initiator of this annual pilgrimage called "The August 15th
the resurrection of the flesh — is a specific element of Christian revelation, a cornerstone of our faith. The wondrous reality of the Assumption of Mary reveals and confirms the unity of the human person [...] assumed from Mary; and he ascended to the Father with his transfigured humanity; with his body, a body like ours, but transfigured. The Assumption of Mary, a human being, gives us confirmation of what our [...] November 2 – Coptic Church: Memorial of the Holy Family in Egypt The Assumption of Mary confirms what our glorious fate will be God wishes to save the whole man , that is, to save soul and body . Jesus
1 – Queen of All Saints – All Saints Day With Mary, Queen of all saints Every November 1st, the Church honors the multitude of those who, in imitation of the Virgin Mary—the perfect example of holiness—were [...] the meaning of the name “pantheon” in Greek), this temple is now dedicated to Mary and all the martyrs, to whom the confessors of the faith were later added. The anniversary of the dedication of the Pantheon [...] holiness—were living and luminous witnesses of Christ. While many of them have been officially "canonized" after a procedure of investigation and given to us as models, the Church knows that many others have also
Lady of the Fountain (Italy, 1320) Mary asks for "the restoration of the living temples that we are" According to the testimony of the seer Bernardo Martinez, a humble peasant from the village of Cuapa [...] October 13, 1980, was the last apparition of Mary to Bernardo. A few years later, the Our Lady of Cuapa Shrine was built on the site where she appeared. The Marie de Nazareth Team [...] was a little girl. In this apparition the Virgin Mary asked for ‘the restoration of the living temples that we are’ and insisted on the construction of peace, not raising funds for a new church. ‘Love
