March 9 – Our Lady of Miracles (Treviso, Italy, 1510) The simplest way to pray It is the nature of love to repeat itself with simple and endearing words... If you realize that you can find happiness and [...] mechanical prayer. To the person who is "spiritual" and advanced in the path of prayer, the Rosary is the simplest way to concretely and durably experience prayer. I am not afraid to affirm that he who [...] about thinking too much, but simply enjoying the peaceful company of the Mother of Jesus, rejoice, for you are surely under the action of the Spirit, and this alone matters when we pray. For those who do
March 13 – Our Lady of Rosa (Italy, 1655) Fatima: a call to mercy The diocesan process for the beatification of Sister Lucia, one of the three seers of Fatima (Portugal), ended on the anniversary of her "birth [...] hear the message of Mary and the Angels in Fatima as a call to mercy. At the second apparition of the angel to the little shepherds, he said to them: ‘Pray at great deal! The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have [...] significant that the next phase landed in Rome in the year of the centenary of the apparitions of Fatima in 1917, and in the wake of the Jubilee of Mercy. French bishop Albert-Marie de Monléon explains, in
March 14 – Our Lady of Kostroma or Fedor (Russia) After experiencing the worst, there is nothing to fear Expected to die at the age of 12 because of a rare respiratory condition, Frédérique Lemarchand [...] 11, 2012, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, she went into a clinical death during the transplant, followed by a coma that lasted 40 days. This period of coma upset her perception of things and also gave her [...] mourned. But life—and Our Lady of Lourdes—decided otherwise. At 14, Frédérique became eligible for a transplant of the heart and two lungs ... which she ended up receiving at the age of 34! On February 11
We start with St. Joseph (at the National Shrine of St. Joseph) and walk to Mary (at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help) to get to Jesus. This annual pilgrimage has impacted lives and filled hearts [...] prepares us for our destination – America’s only Church-approved Marian apparition site, where in 1859, the Blessed Mother appeared to Adele Brise on the site of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help [...] a real testament to the miracles that have taken place at the now Shrine to Our Lady of Champion. One pilgrim named Mariusz is responsible for bussing groups of Polish pilgrims (most of whom don’t speak
April 10 - Our Lady of Laval (France) A wife and mother from California possibly to be declared venerable In 2022, at their fall plenary assembly in Baltimore, the U.S. Bishops gave their support to the cause [...] cause of canonization of Cora Evans. This support allowed the cause to move onto the next stage, which includes the submission of documents to Rome. [...] Born in 1904 in Utah, Cora Evans began life in a [...] at the age of 3, Evans experienced a mystical vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, though at the time she didn’t fully understand it. For the remainder of her childhood she lived according to the Mormon
nor Our Lady neglect.” Our Lady didn’t neglect their daily meetings, nor did she neglect the pope when he asked for her intercession. The day of his attempted assassination in 1981, a copy of Our Lady [...] January 19 - Our Lady of Gimont (Toulouse, France) - 3rd apparition in Banneux ( Belgium, 1933 ) Saint John Paul II’s consistent and steadfast devotion to Mary Pope Saint John Paul II (...) was known for [...] with laying the foundations of his own love for Mary, especially with the revelation that to love Jesus was to love Mary, and that Mary’s heart would always take one closer to Jesus. That realization obliterated
11 - Our Lady of Bessieres (France) Cardinal Advincula calls Catholics to “pray the Rosary more than ever” Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula cited the importance of praying the Holy Rosary to strengthen [...] over the Eucharistic celebration for the staff and volunteers of the Archdiocese of Manila who held a launching activity to open the month of October as Holy Rosary Month. In his homily during the mass at [...] cited the noble intentions of the activity which is being held for the first time with all the employees of the Archdiocese of Manila in attendance. “I am glad that we are able to hold this activity for the
and devotion to Our Lady, whose role has always been to draw the faithful to her Son Jesus. Saturday is a "day of preparation", and Mary is the one who prepares us to harvest the fruit of our labor on Sunday [...] dedicated to Jesus, it seemed logical to dedicate the previous day to his Mother. Whatever its true origins, this Marian devotion on Saturday was confirmed during the private revelations of Our Lady of Fatima [...] December 10, 1925, the Virgin Mary appeared to Sister Lucia in the convent of Pontevedra, Spain. A few years earlier, Lucia had been one of the three seers of Our Lady's apparitions in the small Portuguese village
November 23 - Our Lady of the Assumption (Italy, 1624) "I am alive thanks to God and the Virgin Mary" The BBC reports that Argentina's vice president and former president Cristina Fernández De Kirchner [...] Shortly afterwards, De Kirchner spoke at a meeting with priests and nuns and declared: "I am alive thanks to God and the Virgin Mary." The attack took place as Ms. De Kirchner was mingling with supporters gathered [...] mysterious reason, no bullet went off, although the gun was loaded and fired! The Argentine Ministry of Security confirmed the weapon used in the incident was a .380 firearm with bullets inside. In a televised
Mary, Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and of the Church". There is thus no ambiguity as to the eminent place accorded by Vatican II to Marian devotion as part of the general economy of Salvation. [...] close to being guilty of this phobia. But a study of the final chapter of the council’s dogmatic constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, is enough to refute this view. This chapter is dedicated to "the [...] Council. Instead, he chose to specialize in Mariology, not only because of his deep spiritual convictions, but also because of his desire to strengthen popular piety, i.e the faith of the humble, who see Mary
