1950. St John of the Cross, while close to death, happily recalled "how the Mother of God of Carmel, on Saturday, came with her help and favor to Purgatory, and how she delivered the souls of religious or [...] June 1 – Our Lady of Holy Languor (France) – Saint John Paul II celebrated mass at Le Bourget Airport (Official visit to France, 1980) Saturday, the day consecrated to Mary Among the many spiritual privileges [...] (the Little Office of Our Blessed Mother). Some modern historians of the Carmelite order have questioned the authenticity of the Sabbatine Bull. We do not wish to go into this controversy, which has little
Mother.’ And great is our joy when we see one of you who, leaving my side, gets up from his knees to go to Mary, or another who, detaching himself from her bosom, comes to me... I say to you, ‘Love Mary. I [...] May 18 – Our Lady of Holy Desire (Italy, 1890) "I give you to the one who loves you" Jesus said, "The human eye cannot fix the sun, but it can look at the moon. The eye of the soul cannot fix the perfection [...] offered her as a model to all of you, whom I wanted to be as brothers, precisely in Mary. She is the Mother. How sweet it is for children to look at their mother! I have given her to you for that, so that
Could it be to ask us to turn to her instead of to Christ or the Father? Absolutely not! Instead, it is to help us see the mysteries of the life of Jesus, and through them to see the mystery of the Triune [...] May 9 – Our Lady of the Woods (Italy, 1607) We need to look through Mary’s spectacles The Rosary has always been an important element of Marian apparitions. In some of them, the Virgin was seen moving [...] Mary’s own eyes; so that our contemplation can take its source within her memory of those events. Our vision is blurred. Forgive me this image, but in order to see clearly, we need to look through Mary’s
meaning of an act of reparation: to please God, for the salvation of souls and of all society. The choice to pray outside and not in a church is explained by the public scope of abortion today. Acts of reparation [...] affecting us in our personal or family life that cannot to be solved through the Rosary." The offering of the Rosary to God is at first intended to repair the offense done to him by the killing of innocent human [...] the sin of abortion and embryonic destruction, as well as ardent petitions addressed to the Virgin Mary to enlighten the conscience of those who resort to such methods. Prayers are also offered to bring
been very important to us. I entered the seminary at the age of eleven. There, the devotion to Mary was strong: daily Rosary, first Saturdays, the month of May had many events organized to give thanks ... [...] had to face ... As a bishop, I make petitions to Mary every day. I entrusted to her the diocese of Saint Louis de Caceres in Mato Grosso (Brazil) and I also offered the Virgin Mary the diocese of Saint [...] April 24 – Our Lady of Lujan (Argentina) I entrusted my dioceses to her My experience with Mary began the day I was born! My mother had already lost three children during pregnancy. She almost lost me
April 14 – Our Lady of the Lakes (Italy, 1652) This is where the Holy Family stopped on its way to Egypt (II) Following the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Cairo (Egypt) in 1968, the Orthodox [...] Coptic Church added the feast of the Transfiguration of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, celebrated every year on April 2 nd , to the liturgical calendar. Father Boutros Gayed, brother of the Patriarch, reported [...] reported many healings and miracles obtained through the intercession of the "Virgin of Light" in Zeitoun since 1972. Countless people claimed to have been healed during the apparitions or shortly after witnessing
April 13 – Our Lady of Tears (Italy) This is where the Holy Family stopped on its way to Egypt (I) On the night of Tuesday, April 2, 1968, at 10:30 pm, some Muslim mechanics and public transportation drivers [...] saw a "lady dressed in white" kneeling near the cross at the top of the dome. These apparitions continued for months. The apparitions were preceded by luminous phenomena described as "a shower of diamonds" [...] diamonds"... After these signs, Our Lady herself would appear. For several weeks, the crowd averaged about 250,000 people, with Muslims coming in large numbers alongside Christians. The Coptic pope made an
vision of the third part of the "secret" (of Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal), so distressing in its beginnings, ends in a picture of hope: no suffering is in vain, and precisely a suffering Church, a Church [...] March 30 – Our Lady of Miracles (Lucca, Italy, 1588) The call to prayer, penance, and conversion is still there Concerning the vision of the martyrs of the Church, Cardinal Ratzinger explained: "The vision [...] carries a relevant message of conversion and penance for today: "The situations to which the third part of the "secret" of Fatima alludes seem to belong to the past." Those who expected exciting apocalyptic
March 31 – Our Lady of Iwer (Russia) If we want to resemble Mary If we want to resemble Mary, to be transformed from the inside out as the years go by, we must have this double movement of both momentum [...] myself to your will." To live this way, one must really believe that God is here, directing all things. In our own existence, if we say to God, "Here I am, let everything be done to me according to your [...] your word," we have to negate attitudes such as: "I like it, I don’t like it," our own judgment, desires, and worse still, our own little comfort. The Word of God was able to take flesh in Mary's womb because
(France, 1858) – Our Lady of Walsingham (England, 11th c.) Mirat the Muslim changed his name to Lorda Charlemagne had placed his glory and his salvation under the protection of Our Lady. In 778, after his [...] before Mirat, he said to him: "Since you do not wish to go to Charlemagne, the greatest of princes, at least recognize as your suzerain the noblest Lady ever, Holy Mary of Le Puy, Mother of God. I am her servant [...] servant, be her knight." Without hesitating, Mirat declared that he was ready to surrender his arms to the servant of Our Lady and to receive baptism, on condition that his county would never obey, in his own
