Longo - Apostle of the Rosary (d. 1926) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (III) The contemplation of Christ has an incomparable model in Mary. In a unique way the face of the Son belongs to Mary. It was in her [...] himself to the contemplation of the face of Christ as faithfully as Mary. The eyes of her heart already turned to him at the Annunciation, when she conceived him by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the months [...] features. When at last she gave birth to him in Bethlehem, her eyes were able to gaze tenderly on the face of her Son, as she "wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger" (Lk 2:7).
Slavic Byzantine Church, Our Lady of Prokov - Saint Romanos the Melodist (6th C.) The Cantor of the Virgin Mary The only authority for the life and date of this greatest of Greek hymn-writers is the account [...] during the reign of Anastasios. It was in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos that he received the charisma of sacred poetry from the Blessed Virgin. One Christmas Eve, the Virgin Mary appeared to him [...] glorified God. He went up to the ambo and began the strains of his he parthenos semeron ton hyperousion tiktei. After this improvisation for the feast of the Nativity, he composed about one thousand kontakia
de Montfort, the author of an excellent work on the Rosary, and, closer to ourselves, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, whom I recently had the joy of canonizing. As a true apostle of the Rosary, Blessed Bartolo [...] depths of his heart: "Whoever spreads the Rosary is saved!" As a result, he felt called to build a Church dedicated to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Pompeii, against the background of the ruins of the ancient [...] October 3 - Our Lady of the Place (Rome, 1250) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (II) It would be impossible to name all the many saints who discovered in the Rosary a genuine path to growth in holiness. We
Lady of the Assumption (Naples, Italy, 11th C.) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary (I) The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God [...] still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life, which [...] which, after two thousand years, has lost none of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to "set out into the deep" (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry
September 28 - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, 1854) The Salutation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Hail, Heart most holy, Hail, Heart most meek, Hail, Heart most humble, Hail, Heart most pure [...] most faithful, Hail, Heart most blessed, Hail, Heart most merciful, Hail, most loving Heart of Jesus and Mary; Thee we adore, Thee we praise, Thee we glorify, To Thee do we give thanks Thee we love, With [...] illuminate it, And sanctify it; That in it Thou may live and reign both now and forever, And in the ages of ages. Amen.
1st - Leo XIII declared October as the Month of the Holy Rosary (1883) Memory of Mary on Saturdays (I) The dedication of Saturdays to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the liturgy began during the Carolingian [...] completed the work of nature, just as God completed in Mary the work of grace. 3.Saturday is the day when God rested, after the work of creation (cf. Gn 22) but God's true "rest" is in Mary to whom liturgy [...] most blessed of all women (cf. Lk 1:42). 2.Saturday is the day God sanctified. Since Mary is "full of grace" (cf. Lk 1:28), it is right to dedicate the holy day to the holy one. Saturday is the day when
discouraged, had hidden "by fear of the Jews" (Jn 20:19), so the faith of the Church was concentrated in its entirety on Mary. Therefore, each Saturday is the memory of the Virgin Mary who believes and who awaits [...] September 2 - Our Lady of Stinging Nettles (Germany, 1441) Memory of Mary on Saturdays (II) Humbertus de Romanis, Master General of the Order, gave three more reasons for choosing to dedicate Saturdays [...] awaits the resurrection of her Son. 7. The Mother of Jesus herself showed a preference for this day, in the church of Blacherne in Constantinople. Each Friday evening, without any human intervention, the
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, which [...] world to come, so too does she shine forth on earth, until the day of the Lord comes, as a sign of sure hope and solace to the people of God during their sojourn on earth. It gives great joy and comfort [...] some who give due honor to the Mother of our Lord and Saviour, especially among the Orientals, who with devout mind and fervent sentiment give honor to the Mother of God, ever virgin.
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 she, who [...] the beginnings of the Church by her prayers, may now, exalted as she is above all the angels and saints, intercede before her Son in the fellowship of all the saints, until all families of people, whether [...] honored with the title of Christian or whether they still do not know the Saviour, may be happily gathered together in peace and concord into one people of God, for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided
April 20 - Our Lady of Sorrows (Quito, Spain) The Sweet Fruitfulness of Mary’s Womb Let us linger on the association between the Blessed Virgin and honey that led Hildegard of Bingen to write, in a letter [...] letter to Bernard of Clairvaux, that the Father "sent the Word with sweet fruitfulness into the womb of the Virgin, from which He soaked up flesh, just like honey is surrounded by the honeycomb."
