persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, grieving exceedingly with her only begotten Son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with His sacrifice, [...] September 25 – Mary, protectress of orphans – Our Lady of Saint Peter (Italy, 1751) Mary in the Economy of Salvation After this manner the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully
to her like a child, with simplicity, just like a good Mother for whom I felt attracted with a tender love. I came to the Visitation Convent because I was attracted to the lovely name of Mary. I found what [...] cured of a serious illness she had had for four years, through the intercession of Mary. In thanksgiving, on the day of her confirmation, she added the name of "Mary" to "Margaret. "I went to Her with so much [...] After becoming a nun, she fell ill, and it was the Virgin Mary who cured her. She said, "My dear daughter, draw some courage in the health that I give you from my divine Son, for you still have a long and painful
be a just man, fully in accord with God's will. Faced with uncertainty, his first reaction is to opt for the solution that is the most respectful of Mary. This is the reaction of a good man with a generous [...] this silence with a "yes" of adoration. Mary's maternity has no other explanation than God's love for the world and his infinitely free choice of a woman to be intimately associated with his work of r [...] March 20 - Saint Joseph, Spouse of Mary - Our Lady of Abundance (Italy, 1603) Joseph understood Mary's silence A shadow has crept into Joseph's happiness. Mary is now lost to him: he will be alone, and
was with his parents and Mr. Tri, an architect who had helped build the Marian center. At precisely 9 a.m. on December 28, 1975, the priest brought the Blessed Sacrament to Ho Ngoc Anh, who, with the help [...] of Benoîte Rencurel of Le Laus (France, 1647) Cured by Mother Mary on December 28, 1975 One day, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Ho Ngoc Anh, a young resident of Saigon (South Vietnam) and promised to cure [...] he would receive communion and drink a glass of water from the grotto of Our Lady of Fatima. On this date, Ho Ngoc went to the Binh Triêu Charity Home in Saigon, with his parents and siblings. On December
his, sensing that I had found in him a loving father, a faithful spouse, and a chaste companion who would be like olive and fig trees shading a small house and defending it from winds and the heat, providing [...] Virgin Mary (solemnity) My sweet spouse who did not disappoint me In Maria Valtorta's 1944 Notebook (1), January 11 entry, the visionary wrote what the Virgin Mary told her about her first meeting with Joseph: [...] like a cloud dissolving into a rainbow. It was enough for me to look into his eyes to read in them that he was an honest, faithful, pure, just man. His age, more than twice my own, had left him with the
the building of a united Europe have been laid." After his funeral service in the cathedral of Metz, his coffin was carried in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Robert Schuman had a deep devotion to [...] Good Shepherd (Italy) Robert Schuman and the Virgin Mary Robert Schuman (1886-1963) was a French statesman who served as finance minister in 1946, during a difficult period of recovery for the country. In [...] Affairs. Schuman had a dream about European unity: "Europe will not happen overnight, it will be built by concrete achievements, first by creating a true solidarity." The culminating moment of his life came
Hanoi is called a city of peace. That is a wonderful title but “it will be more wonderful that we appeal to Mary Queen of Peace to shelter the city and its residents…We believe that Mother Mary loves all people [...] feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On July 2, 1959, the late Archbishop Cardinal Joseph Mary Trinh Nhu Khue of Hanoi honored Mother Mary as patroness of the ancient city and granted the [...] Mother Mary is full of grace as she firmly believes in a mighty but invisible God, absolutely trusts in divine providence and says yes to the plan of salvation from God. He said to follow Mary’s faith means
world who, with His Holiness, were united with the People of God, the Mystical Body of Christ; he made it to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ and of his Mystical Body, so that with her and through [...] Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1952) The first fruits of the consecration of Russia to the Heart of Mary The "Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart" is a votive prayer requested by Our Lady [...] Russia" to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in his papal bull Sacro vergente anno. But as Sister Lucia herself pointed out (1) : "The consecration was made by Pius XII with a veiled, but divinely understood,
met his fiancée thanks to the Virgin Mary The police officer who died after taking the place of a hostage in France was a practicing Catholic who had “experienced a genuine conversion” around 2008. Colonel [...] Regular of the Mother of God of Lagrasse Abbey. Father Jean-Baptiste said in a statement: “It was through a chance meeting during a visit to our abbey…This young couple regularly came to the abbey to participate [...] Colonel Arnaud Beltrame died on March 24, 2018 after volunteering to replace a female hostage during a terrorist attack on the “Super U” supermarket in Trèbes, southern France, on Friday. … Father Dominique
24 - Vigil of the Nativity of the Lord Mary talks about Jesus’ birth (I) In the following excerpt from Luisa Picarreta's book (1), the Virgin Mary recalls the moment of Jesus’ birth: “You must know that [...] first kisses of light to little Baby Jesus, and to warm Him with its heat; the ruling wind purified the air of the stable with its waves, and with its sweet moaning said to Him: "I love You"; the heavens [...] of light put to flight the night of the human will, the night of sin, the night of all evils; and as a sign of what He was doing in the order of souls, by means of His usual omnipotent Fiat the midnight
