June 9 – Pentecost – Mary Mother of Grace (France) - St Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and doctor of the Church (d. 373) Pentecost is also a fruit of the Blessed Virgin’s incessant prayer During that prayer
June 17 – Our Lady of Mercy (Mantua, Italy, 1805) - 1689: Apparition of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St Margaret Mary "Do not be afraid, I will not leave you" Margaret Mary Alacoque is the religious who
June 9 – Mary Mother of Grace (France) - St Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and Doctor of the Church (d. 373) Out of love for Mary, Refuge of Sinners Eve Lavallière (1866-1929) is mostly known as a once famous
June 6 – Our Lady of Graces (Alessandria, Italy, 1892) - St Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers How can you be a communist? Brother Louis Claudius, a Marist, spent 46 years in China where
May 14 – Madonna di Domenica Targa (Italy, 1729) - St Michael Garicoïts (d. 1863) Since Mary is the Immaculate Conception itself In Lourdes, the Immaculate Virgin answered Bernadette, who was asking who
May 2 - St Athanasius of Alexandria, Patriarch, Father of the Church (d. 373) They will surrender themselves to her, body and soul God wishes therefore to reveal Mary, his masterpiece, and make her more
March 1st – Ash Wednesday – 12th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) In a single fusion of love The Virgin Mary made me understand something that, until now, I had not fully grasped: that, during the
April 22 – Discovery of St Louis de Montfort’s Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1842 “inside a chest” as prophesized What is the meaning of Marian apparitions? In his book Multiplication
April 1st – Our Lady of Tenderness (Smolensk, Russia) Pope Francis will be in Fatima on May 12-13 The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, France, has joined the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, for the celebration
April 16 – Easter – Death of St Bernadette Soubirous in Nevers, France (1879) Those were tears of healing (II) At the jail of Vanier, Quebec, Father West spoke of God’s boundless love for each person from
