dream. The priest continued his search and found a large icon depicting the "Queen of Heaven sitting on her throne," with a purple cloak, a scepter and a globe in her hand, and the Child Jesus on her knee [...] Lucia of Fatima (2005) Mary, the "invisible Tsarina" On the night of February 13, 1917, a peasant woman from Botchinki (a suburb of Moscow, Russia) named Eudoxia Adrianova, heard a mysterious voice in her [...] sleep: “There is a large black icon in Kolomenskoye (a town near Moscow). You must put the red icon there too." Eudoxia obeyed the voice and went to Kolomenskoye to transmit this message to a priest, Father

immediately followed by Mary's coronation. The angels form a guard of honor for her. Jesus comes to welcome his tender Mother. Mary sees her Son and the Father carried by the Holy Spirit. Mary is rewarded for [...] The community of saints applauds. Mary, teach me to trust in your Son's plan for me every day! Mary, make me understand that our earthly life is only a fleeting moment on the scale of the eternity that [...] The Coronation of Mary Today is Sunday, the day in which we pray the glorious mysteries. Let us meditate on the 5th glorious mystery: the Coronation of Mary, whose fruit is Trust in Mary’s Intercession. The

at Calvary and her perfect union with the Son in his suffering on the Cross seem to postulate a very particular sharing on her part in the mystery of the Resurrection. A fifth-century author, Sedulius, [...] to think that Mary, as the image and model of the Church which waits for the Risen One and meets him in the group of disciples during his Easter appearances, had had a personal contact with her risen Son [...] 1:14), the Blessed Virgin too was probably a privileged witness of Christ’s Resurrection, completing in this way her participation in all the essential moments of the paschal mystery. Pope Saint John Paul

the Blessed Virgin Mary. When I pray, I always say a prayer to Mary. When I am upset or fearful, I quickly say a few Hail Marys… for instance, I’m scared of flying, and a Hail Mary always calms my fears [...] sister while they were reciting the Hail Marys together with their baby voices. This video brought back a memory of a moment of pure family happiness but also a memory of divine grace. I believe that we [...] May 27 – Madonna del Popolo (Italy, 1645). Saint Augustine of Canterbury (d.604 or 605) Mary is our Queen A few months ago, I re-watched an old video of our two oldest daughters taken during an evening

sacraments, Marthe Robin (1) experienced a life-changing encounter with the Heart of Jesus on the Cross. She was filled with a new life, in her body and her heart. Everything became clearer, and began making [...] presence of the Virgin Mary, her “great teacher” Through God’s grace, one day of December 1928, during a parish mission in Chateauneuf-de-Galaure (southeastern France), at the moment of receiving the sacraments [...] of sickness, which became a means of union and communion, a place of offering and abandonment. It was the beginning of many graces. She lived in the presence of the Virgin Mary, her great teacher and beloved

in his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae Saved by Mary from certain death During the week of August 15, 2020, in Luneville, France, a truck accidentally crashed into the house of an elderly woman [...] hours to clear the rubble from the collapsed house. The occupant, Domitila, a 93-year-old woman, was taken to the hospital in a state of deep shock. The doctor wasn’t sure that she would survive, however [...] recovered quickly. She told her visitors what happened: she was in her bed at the moment of impact, and was probably saved by a wooden beam supporting part of the upper floor. The beam remained in place and

Mother of Christ, in a motherly way, shows us that God is a father, who is great in mercy, and not a 'competitor' in our life, as if he were a despot wanting to take away our freedom. Mary knows that if God [...] great, and we must strive, with Mary, to understand that we too can be accepted, received, and welcomed into heaven only if God is great in our life, everywhere, and in all moments of our life. God manifests [...] who is really ‘small’ can be great with God and live in him and with him for eternity. Archbishop Francesco Follo, Meditation for the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, August 15, 2019 - Zenit

Lady of Charity (Cuba) Why Mary has never left us alone “One wonders: why so many shrines in the world, why so much affection and devotion to Mary? In truth, from the moment Mary lost Jesus, she adopted, [...] her Son, becoming herself a first and elected member, which means that, wherever there is a community of faith, like the first community of the Apostles, Mary is there, finds a home and family where to [...] celebration of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on August 15, 2019, at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Zakopane, a city of 28,000 inhabitants located in southern Poland, in

(1981) Mary protects her own! On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca fired a gun at the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, in St. Peter's Square in Rome. At the same moment, the Pontiff leaned over to examine a little [...] the Virgin Mary in Fatima during the apparitions of 1917 (Lucia was still alive in 2000). That same year he made public the "Third Secret" of Fatima: Sister Lucia's vision of the martyrdom of "a bishop clothed [...] little girl’s medal of Fatima, narrowly avoiding the lethal bullets aimed at his head and chest. A year later, the Pope went to the shrine of Fatima, where he left the assassin's bullet in thanksgiving to

to it. Mary is our Mother: this is not an honorary title, but a reality as concrete as the maternity of all earthly mothers. The difference is that our maternal love is limited, fragile, mixed with selfishness [...] it. As a good teacher, Mary does not act in our place, but she teaches us to do what we must do, how, and when we must do it. Then our life becomes ordered, and is deeply pacified. “By asking Mary to pray [...] selfishness, laziness, and cowardice... but not the love of Mary, precisely because she is immaculate. Her purity does not make her ethereal, a little unreal, like an unattainable maternal ideal. On the contrary