November 14 - Our Lady of the Grotto (Lamego, Portugal) Like Mary, the Docile Handmaid of the Divine Word This attitude of religious listening is the typical attitude of Mary Most Holy exactly as shown [...] This is also the image of the Church offered by the Council itself, in the constitution "Dei Verbum" (No. 1). Let us pray that, like Mary, the Church may be a docile handmaid of the Divine Word and proclaim [...] shown in the emblematic image of the Annunciation: The Virgin receives the heavenly messenger while meditating on the sacred Scriptures, represented generally with a book that she holds in her hands, or on
one will recall the example of the miracle of Theophilus, whom Mary reformed by the grace of forgiveness. But those above, innocent in grace, have in Mary the channel of that grace, by which they are [...] November 15 - Our Lady of Piety (Byzantine Church) - Saint Albert the Great Mary is the Channel of Grace The Blessed Virgin is the hope of forgiveness for those who are sorry for their sins and expiate [...] speaks persuasively to her Son, interceding for sinners, and, by the support of her merits, she restores the repentant to the level of grace they had lost.
November 8 - Our Lady of Belle Fountaine (La Rochelle, France) - Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity (d. 1906) Mary, Model of Interior Souls It seems to me that nobody has penetrated the mystery of Christ in its [...] that her little child be a living and striking image of her first-born, the Son of the Eternal, the One who was the perfect praise of the glory of his Father. [...] contemplates the clarity of the Blessed Virgin! [?] The secret that she pondered and kept in her heart, no tongue has been able to tell, nor pen translate. May this Mother of Grace form my heart, so that
November 6 - Our Lady of Valfleury (Lyons, France) Mary's Childbirth in the Marian Piety of the Second Century The Spirit opened the womb of the Virgin and she received conception and gave birth; and the
October 26 - Beatification of Bartolo Longo, a devout lover of the Virgin, who had been Satan’s slave for many months The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (VIII) The Rosary is both meditation and supplication [...] in the Rosary we plead with Mary, the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit (cf. Lk 1:35), she intercedes for us before the Father who filled her with grace, and before the Son born of her womb, praying with us and [...] n. Insistent prayer to the Mother of God is based on confidence that her maternal intercession can obtain all things from the heart of her Son. She is "all-powerful by grace," to use the bold expression
October 27 - Our Lady of Charity (Cuba) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (IX) O Blessed Rosary of Mary, Sweet chain which unites us to God, Bond of love which unites us to the angels, Tower of salvation against [...] our lips Will be your sweet name, O Queen of the Rosary of Pompeii, O dearest Mother, O Refuge of Sinners, O Sovereign Consoler of the Afflicted. May you be everywhere blessed, Today and always, On earth [...] against the assaults of Hell, Safe port in our universal shipwreck, We will never abandon you. You will be our comfort in the hour of death: Yours our final kiss as life ebbs away, And the last word from our
October 25 - Consecration of Toledo’s Cathedral to the Blessed Virgin (Spain, 1075) The Virgin Mary Stops the Invasion of Christendom On Saturday, October 25, 732, the first day of Ramadan, the Moslem invaders [...] the Franks, just north of Poitiers, France. The leader of the Franks, Charles Martel, defeated the Arab army, which had to retreat. This victory ended the Moslem invasions north of the Pyrenees. Charles [...] Charles Martel attributed his victory to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
October 21 - Our Lady of Europe The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (VII) The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables [...] the basis of my Episcopal motto: Totus Tuus. The motto is of course inspired by the teaching of Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, who explained in the following words Mary's role in the process of our co [...] in us (cf. Gal 4:19). This role of Mary, totally grounded in that of Christ and radically subordinated to it, "in no way obscures or diminishes the unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power
October 20 - Consecration of Portugal to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (1646) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (VI) Even now, amid the joyful songs of the heavenly Jerusalem, the reasons for giving [...] continues to relate her personal account of the Gospel. Mary constantly sets before the faithful the "mysteries" of her Son, with the desire that the contemplation of those mysteries will release all their [...] their saving power. In the recitation of the Rosary, the Christian community comes in contact with the memories and the contemplative gaze of Mary.
October 6 - Our Lady of All Help (1640) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (IV) Thereafter Mary's gaze, ever filled with adoration and wonder, would never leave him. At times it would be a questioning look [...] times it would be a look of sorrow, especially beneath the Cross, where her vision would still be that of a mother giving birth, for Mary not only shared the passion and death of her Son, she also received [...] Jn 19:26-27). On the morning of Easter hers would be a gaze radiant with the joy of the Resurrection, and finally, on the day of Pentecost, a gaze afire with the outpouring of the Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14)
