Saint Catherine Laboure (d. 1876) Mary invites us to enter the New Year with confidence On January 1st, the Church celebrates Mary, Mother of God. I find it very beautiful to enter a new year with the [...] cousin Elizabeth said, she is the one who believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her (Lk 1:45). Mary's trust is contagious. With her, we really learn to trust. Trust is not optimism. The latter [...] our life to him. As Saint Paul wrote: All things work together for good to those who love God. (Rm 8:28). To trust is to surrender oneself into the hands of God. Trust drives away fear. It is a source
was to receive being first purified: He needed to find a perfect and immaculate virgin (Homily 52,6) (1). Mary was the end point of a purification process throughout history and all generations. Everything [...] mind: All divinely inspired Scriptures were written with the Virgin Mother of God as a goal (homily 53,8). Mary herself had her own path of ultimate preparation, which St Gregory Palamas, a monk on Mount Athos [...] Gregory Palamas delightedly makes this observation: What Christ is by nature, the Virgin is by grace . (1) All quotes are from the homilies of St Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) Marie de Nazareth Team
attending Mass there saw the Madonna weep real tears. The miracle reoccurred several times until December 8th (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) and was witnessed by hundreds of onlookers. The parish priest [...] Vienna, a copy was made for the church of Máriapócs, and that copy wept again in 1715, from August 1st - 15th (Feast of the Assumption). A third lacrimation took place in 1905 and lasted a whole month [...] and prayed for unity between Orthodox and Catholics. The feasts of the Máriapócs Shrine are September 8th and August 15th. The editorial team of Marie de Nazareth
July 1st – Armenian Church : transfer of Mary’s Veil Mary has always been in God’s love In her book of divine revelations and prophecies ( Revelations III, 8), Saint Bridget of Sweden quotes Mary as saying: [...] proceeded from love for God or from mere scholarly cleverness.” Saint Bridget of Sweden, Revelations (VIII, 8)
tradition, the Blessed Virgin appeared to the Indian chief a second time during the night of September 8, 1652, in the presence of his wife, his wife's sister-in-law and her nephew. The chief was by no means [...] religious symbol of the nation, just like the apparitions of Guadalupe in Mexico have done. On February 1, 1654, in thanksgiving for these apparitions, the image was carried to the Church of Guanare (today
tradition, the Blessed Virgin appeared to the Indian chief a second time during the night of September 8, 1652, in the presence of his wife, his wife's sister-in-law and her nephew. The chief was by no means [...] religious symbol of the nation, just like the apparitions of Guadalupe in Mexico have done. On February 1, 1654, in thanksgiving for these apparitions, the image was carried to the Church of Guanare (today
June 8 - The Immaculate Heart of Mary – Crowning of Our Lady of Le Puy (France, 1856 – this pilgrimage goes back to 5th century) Research concurs with Catholic tradition Christians honor the Loreto Shrine [...] transport on a ship, appears to be a falsification, according to an Italian article of December 10, 2019 (1), which we quote here: "This is a historical forgery, produced by the De Angelis family of Palermo, [...] happy to provide this information to our readers, so that they can form a more cognizant opinion. (1) Santa Casa The Marie de Nazareth editorial team Adapted from: Vatican News
Valtorta, The Gospel as Revealed to Me , volume 1 Original title:L′Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato, Copyright © 2001 by Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl. (1) Maria Valtorta was a Catholic Italian mystic [...] January 8 - Baptism of the Lord - Our Lady of Prompt Succour (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1809) The name of the Magi's star was "Messiah" (II) In these excerpts from Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as Revealed [...] Revealed to Me (1), Maria saw the Magi arrive and prostrate themselves before the Holy Family after following the star that led them to Bethlehem: § 221- The oldest of the Magi speaks on behalf of them all
than 1.2 million pilgrims attended the commemoration Mass of Our Lady of Suyapa. They were brought there out of love, faith and trust in her intercession. Honduras has a population of more than 8.7 million
Lord's Word.” On July 8, this time in a dream, the Blessed Mother told Bernardo to “pray for Nicaragua and for the whole world because serious dangers threaten it.” On September 8, the Blessed Mother appeared [...] change, you will hasten the arrival of the Third World War” (II) Then the Blessed Mother asked Bernardo (1) to look at the sky. Bernardo later recalled that he saw “something like a movie” during which he felt [...] will be no peace. Do not turn to violence. Never turn to violence.” Ding Cervantes, January 20, 2022 (1) In 1994, the Nicaraguan bishop Bosco M. Vivas Robelo of the diocese of Leon approved the Marian apparitions
