December 25 - The Nativity of Jesus Mary talks about Jesus’ birth (II) In the following excerpt from Luisa Picarreta's book (1), the Virgin Mary recalls the moment of Jesus’ birth: Then I wrapped Him in [...] shared Him with dear Saint Joseph, placing Him in his arms. Oh, how he rejoiced! He pressed Him to his heart, and the sweet little Baby poured torrents of grace into his soul. Then, together with Saint Joseph [...] your hearts." And there was a coming and going of shepherds, who came to visit Him, and to all He gave His sweet gaze and His loving smile, even amid His tears. Now, my child, a little word to you: You must

The Mother of God appeared a second time to Marcelle, dressed in a blue mantle decorated with fleur-de-lys and edged with white ermine, with her feet resting on a globe with the word "France" written on [...] Lanchon (in religion Sister Marie-France) received several apparitions (1) of Jesus and Mary during the First World War. On September 8, 1914 - the Feast of the Nativity of Mary - Marcelle was praying in [...] when Virgin Mary appeared to her, accompanied by St. Michael and St. Therese, and gave her the following message: "If, in union with my divine Son, I love all the nations he redeemed with his Blood, see

animatedly conversing with them, calling on one of her daughters from time to time to take a photo for a memento, all in between bites of lunch. Unknown to the restaurant’s servers and a few of the guests, the [...] Armenian Church: Transfer of Mary’s veil For Paschner, the c in cancer stands for Christ... A woman hopped from one table to another to embrace friends and exchange pleasantries with guests. She was animatedly [...] had no relationship with God because in the U.S. you have to work in order to survive. Life there as a single mom is expensive,” Paschner said. It was in March 2013 when doctors found a 29-centimeter malignant

Fraternity of Mary’s Heart at the Church of Our Lady of Victories (Paris, France, 1836) Divine and joyful childhood! The Advent season is about trusting and waiting like Mary, and with Mary. The liturgical [...] liturgical year begins with the fervor of Advent, this joyful expectation of Someone, of the Coming One, Emmanuel, God with us. A God who enters history to experience all its stages and share the anxieties, joys [...] and embraced the human adventure through the experience of living our everyday life with the simplicity and innocence of a child. He became one of us to give us divine life. Father Joseph Bahati Bavurha Pastor

holding a globe in her hands. But up until that day her confessors had ignored her request. She therefore begged Mary to tell her if she should share her "secret" with her Superior. She perceived a positive [...] asked to have a medal made, known as the Miraculous Medal. Worn out by work and age, her heart became weak. She still had a sorrow in her heart: the Blessed Virgin had asked her to have a statue sculpted [...] everything. Her Superior was convinced, and soon the statue of the Virgin with the globe was sculpted. Sister Catherine awaited death with a serene attitude. Many times she warned her sisters that she would not

– October 12, 1961) was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus [...] knows. "Why" He behaved in a certain way. You do not ask those with a vocation "why" they leave everything to follow the voice of God. I was Wisdom and I knew. I was "called" to a mission and I was fulfilling [...] symbol of three other days of future anguish, Mary, exhausted, enters the Temple, walks along the yards and the halls. All of a sudden, from beyond the barrier of a large group of people, She hears His voice

Medrano de Bianchini, a wife and mother whom God gifted with special charisms. On that day, the feast day of the Annunciation, Maria Esperanza had her first vision of the Virgin Mary, during a prayer group session [...] “My daughter, I come with my hands filled with graces and covered with splendors of light, to call all my children to conversion. It is the seed of glory that I offer to you as Mary Reconciler of all peoples [...] the Most Blessed Virgin Mary – Our Lady of Walsingham (England, 1061) Mary Reconciler of People and Nations appears in Venezuela in 1976 The Blessed Virgin chose Venezuela to give a message of reconciliation

to offer a special Mass. The goal was to present to God their country with its many struggles. As in 1882, the bishops, in communion with the priests, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, implored [...] the Servants of Mary – Father Maximilian Kolbe is arrested by the Nazis (1941) Haiti places itself under Mary’s protection This year, the feast of the Immaculate Conception coincided with the 75th anniversary [...] Haiti. According to the Catholic Church, the country is in a deeper crisis than in 1882, when a smallpox epidemic decimated Haitian families. In a packed stadium, the ten bishops brought before God the country’s

win gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Games with a record-breaking score, Kim teamed up with Korean bishops for a National Rosary Campaign. Kim was seen wearing a rosary ring, which her fans had previously [...] contact with local nuns and Catholic organizations through her personal physician – also a Catholic – who was treating her for knee injuries. At her baptism, Kim took the name “Stella” after Mary, Star of [...] May 4 – Pius XII establishes the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1944) Catholic skater Yuna Kim and the Rosary Catholic Olympic gold-medalist Yuna Kim lit the torch at the Opening Ceremony for the

of Tears Mary and Diana (I) In 1922 the servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, then a young priest and scholar, was offered to accompany a distinguished French novelist, Emile Baumann, on a trip tracing [...] g excerpt showing Mary's early role in the Church: "One other moment in the voyage among countless ones that affected me was the visit to the city of Ephesus. When I saw it, it was a wilderness; when St [...] debauchery and worship of Diana was beginning to decline, since he preached that there were no gods made with hands. Consequently there was in Ephesus muttered curses against him; finally, the ill-concealed