Nicaragua was consecrated to the Virgin Mary! Marian devotion was introduced in Nicaragua in 1522 by the explorer Gil Gonzalez de Avila, who had a great love for the Virgin Mary and liked to promote that devotion [...] in 1983 was met with strong opposition and protests. Nevertheless the country gradually moved towards peace. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared between May 8 and October 13, 1980 to a peasant of Cuapa [...] Cuapa, delivering a message of peace. When the pope returned in 1996 to Managua on his second visit, he received a warm welcome. The Immaculate Conception, whose devotion began in the town of El Viejo, in
visit to Poland (1983) At every Mass, the Virgin Mary is there Jesus wanted to uniquely and singularly associate his Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the work of our Redemption, the work of Salvation [...] his Cross. We are truly on Mount Calvary! Mary is there too. We can hear the words: "Behold, your Mother," and "Behold, your son… and from that moment he took Mary in his home.” At the same time that I receive [...] actualizes the gift of himself on the Cross, the Virgin Mary is there at the foot of the Cross. This is why I like to see an image of the Virgin Mary next to each altar. She shouldn’t be far from the altar
Pope a picture that he commissioned to commemorate an historical event: “This is a painting that commemorates a special moment in the history of part of the Catholic population of Kazakhstan, in a town [...] 1935-36.” The event took place in 1941, when a famine was worsening in the little town: “With temperatures from -40 to -58ºF, with two meters of snow… just try to make a living there!” exclaimed the bishop. In [...] Italy) Mary Queen of Peace, Patroness of Kazakhstan (I) Bishop José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, of the diocese of Holy Trinity in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was visiting Rome in early 2019. He brought with him as a gift
of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the Council of Ephesus was held. As the gods of Athens were yearnings for a god among men, so it happened that Diana, the Moon Goddess, found her fulfillment in Mary, who is [...] April 14 - Our Lady of Guam (1825) Mary and Diana (II) A mob was quickly organized which ran over those large stones heading for the amphitheater. Paul had never said anything against Diana. On the contrary [...] the every side. Then a recorder, an important civic official, calmed the angry crowd. Two of Paul's companions in travel, Gaius and Aristarchus, had been carried into the theater with the crowd. Paul himself
Angel’s greeting. He addresses Mary with a word that is not easy to translate, which means “filled with grace,” “created by grace,” “full of grace” (Lk 1:28). Before calling her ‘Mary,’ he calls her “full of [...] name given to her by her parents. We too call her in this way, with each Hail Mary. What does “full of grace” mean? That Mary is filled with the presence of God. And if she is entirely inhabited by God, [...] and thus to begin a new history. Each time we acknowledge her as “full of grace,” we give her the greatest compliment, the same one God has given her. A beautiful compliment to give to a woman and to tell
ten other priests. Isabelle Rolland, Marie qui défait les nœuds: d’un “miracle conjugal” à une dévotion universelle (Mary Undoer of Knots: From a "marital miracle" to a universal devotion), Paris: MDN productions [...] painting of Mary Undoer of Knots. In this copy, the Virgin Mary is depicted wearing a crown. This crown exists: it was made by the Fratelli Savi jewelers. The prayer marathon thus ended with the solemn crowning [...] of the Virgin Mary, ended on May 31, 2021. At the closing ceremony held in the Vatican gardens, Bishop Bertram Johannes Meier of Augsburg, who was present, presented Pope Francis with a copy of the painting
powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or at least obtain for me the strength to overcome them until death. From you I implore a true love for Jesus Christ. Through you I hope to die a holy death [...] 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 [...] by the love you bear to Almighty God, I pray you to assist me always, but most of all at the last moment of my life. Forsake me not then, until you shall see me safe in heaven, there to bless you and sing
powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or at least obtain for me the strength to overcome them until death. From you I implore a true love for Jesus Christ. Through you I hope to die a holy death [...] 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 [...] by the love you bear to Almighty God, I pray you to assist me always, but most of all at the last moment of my life. Forsake me not then, until you shall see me safe in heaven, there to bless you and sing
(1891) Let us not reduce the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary We should approach the mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary only with trembling. It is a very profound, very pure, and very luminous mystery, and [...] and he who lacks what is necessary to draw near to it - as is the case with each of us, because of our resistance and our mental clumsiness - will inevitably belittle it, or distort it through his own lens [...] her light. Cardinal Journet Quoted by Mgr Brincard in the preface of Daniel-Ange's book, Touche pas à ma Mère
flesh born of Mary from the Holy Spirit is the bread that came down from Heaven". We also read in the 9th century Bergomense Sacramentary: "Her womb made a fruit ripen, a bread filled us with the angelic [...] in her relationship with this most holy mystery. From this point of view, it is even easier to understand why in Lourdes, the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is associated with a strong and constant [...] flesh born of Mary is the bread that came down from heaven One cannot contemplate Mary without being attracted to Christ, and one cannot look at Christ without immediately perceiving Mary's presence. There
