changed when Mary looked at her as a person. She was sure then of being loved. The only true exit door that exists is God’s gaze, through Mary," says Aymeric. "Mary appeared in Lourdes in a dark, muddy [...] Saint Bernard Mary looked at him as a person, and his life was changed! The Bernadette Fraternity (Saint Bernadette of Lourdes) was born in Brazil around Father Dominique You, a French priest member of Fidei [...] of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia (Brazil), and a few young people, including Aymeric and Christine O'Neill. This small community describes itself as a "presence of compassion in the service of the little

(1950) Is the Virgin Mary a model we can really imitate? In an interview for the French magazine Famille Chrétienne , Father de Menthière (1) was asked this question: "Is the Virgin Mary a model we can really [...] be because… she doesn’t have a Holy Virgin to love! ... This means such a lot of extra sweetness for us and so much sweetness lacking for her!" [lol] (1) French Catholic priest, pastor and lecturer at [...] will, just like Mary. In this, Mary is perfectly imitable. While Adam and Eve, who were immaculate creatures, sinned, the Holy Virgin did not fail, and she kept intact the original purity with which God had

Brother Hubert Marie, who will welcome the pilgrims for the closing ceremony on August 15, observes that “Saint Joseph is a very popular saint. People have a great love for him. He is a saint for everyone: [...] of the Castle (Dalmatia) After the "M" of Mary Pilgrimage, a Great March of Saint Joseph After the success of the "M" of Mary pilgrimage in France last year, a new pilgrimage to Saint Joseph is taking place [...] apparition in the woods of Bessillon, a natural site in Cotignac (Var department), and August 15 is the feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, celebrated each year with great solemnity in Cotignac. Everyone

then to the southwest, also to reach Pellevoisin. The “M for Mary” pilgrimage was to have started at the beginning of May, the month of Mary. Because COVID-19 restrictions on public worship were only lifted [...] in Pontmain with special prayers for the “conversion of France.” The voyage continued, lasting 104 days before reaching Pellevoisin on September 12th, on the feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Adapted from [...] pilgrimage traces a big "M" over France On France’s traditional national feast day–not the revolutionary July 14th Bastille Day but the Catholic feast of the Assumption of Our Lady on August 15th–a remarkable

he wrote to a friend: “After having read several pages, I took it, hoping to use it to write a sermon on the Blessed Virgin. I happened upon the spot where it speaks of the Company of Mary. Then I recognized [...] just one, is imbued with De Montfort's "Marian way". Cardinal Wyszynski, one of the many "slaves of Mary" who left their mark on Poland, urged him "not to refuse the See of Peter for Mary". The influence of [...] underlined: in the evening of his life, Bishop Philips, author of a section of Lumen Gentium (1) devoted to Mary, confided: "I did not have the physical Treatise on my table, but I had it in my memory and

Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church’s official approval. In early October 1859, a 28-year-old woman named Adele Brise walked alone in the Wisconsin woods, headed for a nearby grist mill with a sack of wheat [...] started a school, St Mary’s Boarding Academy, near the chapel. Over the decades, the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help became a familiar part of life in the Champion area. It was, and remains, a place of [...] January 8 – Our Lady of Prompt Succor (New Orleans, U.S.A) I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners A year after the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette in Lourdes (France, 1858)

... She would have liked to have other vocations—to be a soldier, priest, apostle, martyr! Then the Lord enlightened her with an inner light that brought her peace and joy: "Yes, I have found my place [...] the woman is responsible for it in a special way in the plan of God. She is the guardian of light and love. Emmanuelle Fournier In Un rendez-vous avec Elle (A Date with Her), Editions des Béatitudes [...] Catherine of Sweden (d. 1381) Being a woman is not second best Mary is given as an example of the perfect accomplishment of femininity. Through her, God shows women the special place reserved for them in the

sick and consoler of the afflicted, and Mary answered our prayers. Thank you Mary for that special month of May in lockdown! Judicaël K., a reader of A Moment with Mary Testimonial sent on June 18, 2020 [...] the Blessed Virgin Mary in the month of May? So I made the decision to pray the Rosary every day at a fixed time—at 5 p.m.—in audio conference with all the people who wanted to pray with me. Several people [...] Among them was a woman called Marie, a hospital cleaner based in Dijon, France. Marie had tested positive for coronavirus on March 29th. She had to stop working and quarantine at home. She had a cough, fatigue

Prayer. She literally provided a prayer day camp. Similarly, many other apparitions are a kind of Sunday school. Father Paul Dollié, a parish priest in Paris, noticed Mary’s special teaching method, and created [...] when the Lourdes apparitions started in 1858, a parish mission had just begun. The parish priest Father Peyramale had been looking for a priest to preach a 15-day retreat, but had found no one, so he had [...] June 23 – Madonna del Ardesio (Italy, 1607) The Saint Mark Sessions: A Marian Pedagogy Historically, Mary’s apparitions have usually lasted from several days to several weeks. They are to be understood

is More a Mother than a Queen (I) If I could have given just one sermon about her as a priest, that would have been enough for me to get across my ideas about her. In the first place, I would have shown [...] shown how little is actually known about Mary’s life. Of course, I believe that we must not say incredible or made-up ideas about her; for example, I would have never said that she went to the Temple at the [...] the age of three, “to offer herself to God, filled with intense feelings of love and great enthusiasm”, when the truth is that perhaps she only went there to obey her parents… Why do we say about Simeon’s