June 12 - Apparition of Our Lady to Saint Herman (France, 13th C.) Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary, Mother of Jesus, give me your heart, so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, that I may be able to receive Jesus [...] Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of poor. Amen.
April 25 - Our Lady of Good Counsel (Italy, Genazzano, 1476) Mary Our Mother of Love Needless to say, Our Lady is the mother of humankind and she particularly favors mothers and those who live and care [...] with her Son and husband. Mary's love is the love of a mother for us her children and the love of Jesus' mother for her Son. It's the pure love which brought up the Savior of the World and which now points [...] to lead us by the hand to her Son, where we will find eternal peace and joy. It is through the love of Jesus that we experience complete joy. "I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your
April 28 - Our Lady of Quito (Ecuador, 1534) - Priestly Ordination of Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1918) Mary is the Mediatrix of all Graces I would wish you each day, each moment, to draw ever closer to the [...] very strong love, and often needs to have recourse to the Mother of God, because she is the Mother of supernatural life, the Mother of Divine Grace. The Lord wishes us to receive graces through her and [...] the Immaculate, to know her better and better, and to love her more and more. (...) Mary is the Mediatrix of all graces. It is to her that we go, as children to their mother... The soul needs a very deep
in Mary. Through Him the Father and Mary were intimately joined together and became one. The Passion of Jesus was also the Passion of the Father and the Passion of Father was experienced by Mary. The [...] Passion of their Son, their Child -- in her, with her, for her -- in a singular fusion of love. The Passion of the Father and the Passion of Mary became a one and only human Passion, experienced by Mary with [...] March 20 - Our Lady of Calevourt (Uckelen, Belgium, 1454) - Maundy Thursday The Passion of the Father was Experienced by Mary (I) The Virgin Mary helped me understand something that, as of yet, I had not
Our Lady of the Rain (Italy, 1367) - Good Friday The Passion of the Father was Experienced by Mary (II) There was also the invisible presence of Saint Joseph, who shared everything with Mary. Mary said with [...] bruised body, drained of blood and burning with fever. Mary certainly tried to relieve that thirst. But how strongly she must have felt with Jesus that spiritual thirst that thirst for all of us who He wanted [...] went through, Mary went through with him. In her motherhood that knew its most intense fullness, she brought her children together in herself -- absolutely all of God's children, the children of all time from
Innocents - Death of Benoite Rencurel (Our Lady of the Laus, France, 1647) The First Moment of Christian Tradition Began in Mary's Heart (II) According to the recent findings of qualified exegetes of Saint John [...] Luke always reminds me of the relationship that God worked between Moses and Aaron at the time of Moses' vocation. When God sent Moses to Pharaoh to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt, Moses was afraid [...] John had to say, everything that Mary had told him. Moreover, this is why the Gospel of Luke is so similar to John's. Good exegetes are well aware of this dependence of Luke with respect to John.
December 29 - Our Lady of Spire (Germany, 1146) The First Moment of Christian Tradition Began in Mary's Heart (III) I think that John told Luke almost all the things he wrote in his Gospel. Let's look [...] He wants to have witnesses. Who witnessed the very beginning? There was only one witness: Mary. And who took Mary into his home? John. It is therefore easy to understand that Luke received a lot from John [...] considerable amount of time trying to understand that manuscript. And what if the knowledge we are seeking is not in writing, but in a source that is so hidden, would we spare any means? Mary's heart is not
The Expectation of Our Lady (654) assigned at the Tenth Council of Toledo in 656 Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (IX) "We have been healed by his bruises" (Is 53:5) The mystery of the Messiah thickens [...] numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors" (Is 53:11-12). "A pack of dogs surrounds me, a gang of villains closing in on me as if to hack off my [...] contrast to the promises of glory and kingship. How would the Blessed Virgin have understood what was written about the Lord's "servant" (Is 42:1), who must first "restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back
December 21 - Our Lady of Saint Acheul (Amiens, France, 4th C.) founded by Saint Firmin Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (XII) "Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will [...] midst of you, and you shall know that the Lord of Hosts has sent me to you" (Zech 2:10-11). "Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel shout aloud! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem [...] banners?" (Song 6:10). As in the Book of Wisdom, we can say that she is "a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God's active power, and image of his goodness" (Wis 7:26). "She is indeed
images of the Paschal Lamb and the scapegoat were present in Mary's mind, like all Jews, but who saw that the words of the prophet Isaiah referred to the figure of the Servant of God? "He was oppressed [...] December 19 - Our Lady of Toledo (Spain, 657) Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (X) "After the ordeal he has endured, he will see the light" (Is 53:11) The mystery of the Messiah who will renew the [...] mention the death of the Just: "Let us lay traps for the upright man, since he annoys us and opposes our way of life" (...) "He claims to have knowledge of our God and calls himself a child of the Lord" (.
