pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a month ago, I changed my mind and decided to give it to a friend monk who knew my story, and to ask him to pray for me and for my conversion of heart. So I took the icon out of the [...] January 7 - Our Lady of Charity (Rumilly, France) - Feast of Saint John the Baptist (Maronite and Byzantine rites) With the Virgin Mary’s help, I was able to forgive! My name is Olga, I live in France [...] several confessions, I never managed to forgive her. I couldn't say “hello” to her until about a month ago. I still bore a lot of hatred inside. I had actually decided to throw away her icon, but when I returned
apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico City, 1531) – Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (d. 1548, Mexico) God chose Nazareth to play a key role in world history! "God chose the foolish of the world to shame [...] prepared to face the open marks of contempt addressed to barren women at the time. But it was to her that God sent Gabriel, who told her: "The holy Child who will be born of you will be called Son of the Most [...] shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something" (1 Cor
July 22 - Our Lady of Safe Hiding (Overloon, Holland) - Birth of Saint Marguerite Mary Alacoque (1647) I Spoke to Her Like a Child I always ran to Mary in all my needs. I had the habit of giving the small [...] ran to her with so much trust that it seemed like I had nothing to fear under her maternal protection. I consecrated myself to Mary as her slave forever, begging her not to refuse my vow. I spoke to her [...] crown of the Rosary to her, kneeling on the floor on my bare knees, genuflecting or kissing the floor as many times as I said a ‘Hail Mary.’ She has always been a mother to me and has never refused to help
August 7 - Feast of Our Lady of Los Reyes (Seville, Spain) Rosaries give comfort to Covid-19 patients Father Joe McNerney, a full-time hospital chaplain in the Diocese of Portsmouth, England, said that [...] that we may delight in serving you all the days of our life, and at the last, with Our Lady's help, come safely to your presence.” Adapted from Catholic News Agency [...] because of the situation we’re not able to give Communion. If a patient’s ventilated, you can’t. It’s just out of the question.” Father McNerney, who was born in Seattle, Washington, and moved to the UK
12 – Easter Sunday– Apparition of Our Lady of the Revelation in Tre Fontane to Bruno Cornacchiola and his 3 children in 1947 (approved in 1956) The Risen Christ appeared to Mary first The Gospels mention [...] invites us to seek the reasons why the Evangelists made such a choice… If the authors of the New Testament do not speak of the Mother’s encounter with her risen Son, this can perhaps be attributed to the fact [...] Indeed, it is legitimate to think that the Mother was probably the first person to whom the risen Jesus appeared. Could not Mary’s absence from the group of women who went to the tomb at dawn indicate
Many of them also struggled to pray the Rosary. "In vain do I strive to meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary. I am unable to fix my attention. For a long time, I was sad because of this lack of devotion [...] March 24 – Our Lady of the Thorn (Châlons-sur-Marne, France, 1400) - Saint Catherine of Sweden (d. 1381) What if you don’t like to pray the Rosary? So, you’re Catholic and you don’t like to pray the Rosary [...] Blessed Virgin so much that it should be easy for me to say in her honor prayers so pleasing to her. Now, it saddens me less, because I think that the Queen of Heaven, being my Mother, she must see my goodwill
, Fr. Tiago went to Cova da Iria to celebrate Mass at the Chapel of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima and to dedicate his priesthood to her. In declarations to the Press Office of the shrine, he said: [...] been blind since the age of 16 due to congenital glaucoma, was ordained to the priesthood at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Sameiro in Braga, Portugal, on July 15, 2019. The 35-year-old is reportedly [...] October 13 – Our Lady of Fatima: 7th apparition, the Miracle of the Sun (Portugal, 1917) First blind man ordained to the priesthood in Portugal celebrates Mass in Fatima Father Tiago Varanda, who has been
September 17 – Our Lady of the Virtues and Grandeurs of Mary (17th century) - St Robert Bellarmine Mary called him to the Catholic faith Leo de Bondt was born in 1941 in Holland and raised in a Protestant [...] In order to marry her, he accepted to become Catholic, but without much conviction. On the day of their wedding, his wife asked him if he could pray and put flowers in front of a statue of Mary. He did [...] Blessed Virgin brought Leo back to Jesus, like the famous convert Alphonse Ratisbonne. He did not have an apparition, he simply had an experience of Our Lady in the form of a special grace for his family
special place in every Catholic Church. Many of the faithful have entrusted themselves to Mary by the imposition of the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Immaculate Conception. Many schools and towns [...] August 6 - Transfiguration of the Lord – Our Lady of Copacabana (Bolivia) Many nations are consecrated to Mary The Philippines is a Marian country. The image of the Blessed Mother is enthroned in a special [...] consecrated the modern world to her. “Mothers of individual and peoples, you know all their sufferings and hopes. … Embrace with the love of a mother and handmaid this human world of ours. … In a special way,
May 20 – Our Lady of Graces (Cuneo, Italy, 1537) - Saint Germanus of Constantinople "I went to the Good Mother when I signed up " On February 23, 2017, Bafétimbi Gomis, Marseilles soccer club’s striker [...] Lamperti the key to his success: his faith in God. For him, offering to the Lord his successes and failures, like his knee injury of February 12, is a way of living his faith: "I went to the Good Mother [...] wrong turn and become a delinquent. Some of my brothers did. It was really my faith that got me out of there." Since then, Gomis has not missed an opportunity to express his faith: after games, on social
