September 6 - Our Lady of Tears (Italy, 1553) Mary urges a young Hindu to become a Christian One day, in India, a young man who was a follower of the god Shiva, came to ask Father Collin, an Oblate missionary [...] missionary, to admit him into the Catholic Church. He explained why: - "I worked as a mason when a splash of lime burned my eyes and I became blind. In my distress, I prayed to all our Hindu gods, but with [...] a beautiful lady appeared before the eyes of my soul and told me: "Go to Madhu and become a Christian." I didn't know what Madhu was, or what being a Christian meant, and I didn't bother to find out. The
Revolution, Our Lady appeared in Moscow with an icon of the Virgin Queen (1). Soon after came the apparitions of Mary at Fatima, which the Russian resistance was able to learn about thanks to clandestine [...] Magdalene - Our Lady of Kaloja (Russia Russia's great thirst for a return to Jesus and Mary In Russia, a country evangelized since the 10th century, the 20th century was marked by 70 years of religious [...] the arrival on the throne of Peter of a man from the East, the Polish pope Karol Wojtyla, who had lived under Communism and took on the name of John Paul II, led to the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union
April 13 - Our Lady of Tears (Italy) "Medjugorje brought me back to the Church” "I went on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the invitation of one of my brothers who is very religious [...] existence of Mary and Jesus, the Son of God. These stories seemed to me like reassuring children's tales. My brother eventually had to cancel his trip, but I still went out of curiosity. As soon as our bus departed [...] quickly made to feel at ease: we were asked to fill out a small anonymous survey to know where we were in our faith. The group was pretty diverse, and we were invited not to put on masks and to be real with
questions. He said, “My first thought was to ask her to teach me the Hail Mary…but I was too proud to admit that I didn’t know it. So as a kind of indirect way of teaching me the Hail Mary, I asked her her [...] conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.’ (Our Lady originally presented this prayer to St. Catherine Labouré.) When I went to sleep that night,” Schoeman continued, “I knew virtually [...] none of what she revealed to me in this experience.” “Although she was perfectly beautiful to look at–indescribably beautiful–even more perfecting was the beauty of her voice. It was composed of that which
February 1 - Our Lady of Copacabana (Bolivia) A few tips to pray the Rosary well Although the idea of praying the rosary might be daunting for some, Dominican Father Lawrence Lew, the general promoter of the rosary [...] starting to pray the rosary to continue to gradually increase the number of decades prayed each day, praying one decade at a time, spreading each throughout the day. 3.In his role as general promoter of the [...] fellow Dominicans to preach about the rosary, which he said is part of the sacred heritage of the Dominican order. 4. He compared praying the rosary to a doctor prescribing a new medicine to a patient. The
things.” It meant to hold space for the Holy Spirit at all times, to be tuned in to His quiet whispers and movements, to be aware of when He was speaking to me or resting with me or asking me to wait on His [...] December 20 - Our Lady of Folgoët (France) I learned what it meant to “ponder all these things” “She pondered all of these things in her heart…” I’d hear this beautiful description of Mary’s love and instantly [...] prayer of St. Teresa of Calcutta often carried me through the chronic sleep deprivation and dark moments of doubt: “Mary, please be a mother to me now.” Over the years, I learned what it meant to “ponder
was the Transfiguration that appealed to me: I started to read and reread the verses and their commentaries. I also like to feel the presence of the Father and of Mary as I say the Hail Marys - her gentle [...] comforting presence; the deepening of a relationship with her whom I like to consider as the door to Heaven, who carries my prayers to the Father much higher than I am able to. It's not much, but it's already [...] October 28 - Our Lady of La Treille (France) I see Mary as the door to Heaven I am a beginner at praying the rosary. I pray it during my motorcycle commutes and many times I don't finish it. I leave off
proclamation of the Kingdom of God with the invitation to conversion (Mk 1:14-20), whose fruit is interior conversion and holiness. Jesus brought God’s message and grace to the last frontiers of human activity [...] attentive to the signs he gives us, transmit the Word of life, and be committed to doing the will of the Father. Lord, grant that all missionaries, far and near, all the young people who feel called to evangelize [...] October 27 - Our Lady of Charity (Cuba) May Mary help us to become evangelizers Today is Thursday, the day in which we pray the Luminous Mysteries. Let us meditate on the 3rd luminous mystery, the proclamation
– Saint James, Apostle – Our Lady of the Castle (Dalmatia) Everything taught about Mary also applies to the Church What is the Church? To answer this question, we can turn to Saint Paul. Or we can just [...] the Passover of Jesus Christ. What passage in the Gospels equates the Virgin with the new people of God? The answer is found in the account of the Announcement of the birth of Jesus made to Mary: "Mary [...] and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:7-8). These two passages therefore point to the birth of the Church. Since the same prophecy concerning the coming of the Spirit appears in the pericope of the A
the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the first day of the apparitions of the Virgin to the young Bernadette Soubirous. For the past two years, because of Covid, pilgrims had to view the grotto of the sanctuary [...] April 23 – Our Lady of Penha (Brazil) Lourdes reopens to visitors After two years of closure due to the pandemic, the grotto of Lourdes (southern France) reopened to pilgrims on February 11, 2022, the [...] pandemic, some 3.5 million pilgrims would come to this shrine each year. Now they are coming back in great numbers to pray to our Heavenly Mother for the conversion of this troubled and divided world. Adapted
