(Portugal) My Name is Lady Mary (II) Finally, one morning at the end of September, the shepherdess, who had left her sheep and goats to graze on a river bank, saw Lady Mary in the distance, glowing beautifully [...] to the village of The Laus and found the small chapel. She entered and saw the Virgin Mary standing on the altar. Mary congratulated her on having searched without losing her patience. Delighted as she was
August 31 - Our Lady of the Founders (Constantinople) My Name is Lady Mary (III) In September 1665, an investigation into the apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father
August 29 - End of the Apparitions in Laus, recognized in 1665 (Southern Alps, France) My Name is Lady Mary (I) One day in May 1664, seventeen-year old Benoite Rencurel was tending sheep in a valley surrounded [...] August 29, Benoite asked the visitor what her name was, and heard this response, “My name is Lady Mary, Jesus’ Mother.” The Virgin also told her that the apparitions would now come to an end for an indefinite
August 2 - Feast of Our Lady of the Portioncule (Our Lady of Angels) A Place for Mary The Virgin comes walking, the Word in her womb; could you not give her a place in your room?
August 9 - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) Mary the Sign of Created Hope (I) In the meanwhile just as the Mother of Jesus, glorified in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church
August 10 - Our Lady of Graces (Cotignac, France, 1519) Mary the Sign of Created Hope (II) The entire body of the faithful brings forth instant supplications to the Mother of God and Mother of men that
Immaculate Heart (1952) Fight Against Death With a Hail Mary (II) And I started saying non-stop, initially to myself, then in a low voice, ‘Hail Mary, full of grace…’ I was just so desperate. We laid my child [...] except for my “Hail Marys” and the “Lord's Prayer” and other invocations like: “Save my child!” I told my mother where she could find a cloth and continued clinging to my “Hail Marys” like to a life buoy [...] her child dying. And, then I relived in thought the scene of the Crucifixion, I really understood Mary’s pain as she was crucified with her Son, but accepted to give Him up for the salvation of the world
August 1st - Saint Alphonsus de Liguori (d. 1787) Prayer to My Mother Mary Most Holy Virgin Immaculate, my Mother Mary, to you who are the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the universe, the advocate, the
Victory over the Turks by the Knights of Rhodes through Our Lady’s Protection (Constantinople, 1480) Mary Watches Over You We ought to love the Blessed Virgin very much. If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when
July 19 - Our Lady of Moyen Point (France) Mary’s Timing Jesus says to Mary that His “hour” has not yet come. On an immediate level, this means that He does not simply act and decide by His own lights [...] it is the beginning of the new liturgy in “spirit and truth”. When at this juncture Jesus speaks to Mary of His hour, He is connecting the present moment with the mystery of the Cross interpreted as His
