1914) - Our Lady of Knock (Ireland, 1879) - Our Lady of the Golden Heart (Beauraing, Belgium) What Mary said at Beauraing is still relevant today At Beauraing, the Blessed Virgin said: "Pray, pray very [...] Perhaps the period we are going through is an opportunity to put some light back into our lives, and Mary can guide us. She also presented herself at Beauraing as the Immaculate Virgin, the Mother of God [...] difficult moments, offering our life and our suffering, offering our pain out of love. At Beauraing Mary showed her Heart of gold: she appeared in a school courtyard, the Institute of Our Lady of the Sacred

September 2 - Our Lady of Nettles (Germany, 1441) Mary’s love for us is a great blessing Pope Saint John Paul II wrote, “Mary always reminds us of the salvific value of the work of Jesus, our only Savior [...] her for help and assistance and through Mary have experienced the love of her Son, Jesus, Our Lord. Our Holy Father Pope Francis encourages us to approach Mary during this pandemic. He wrote, “It is t [...] Jesus Christ cannot dispense us from including her who was His mother in our act of faith.” Bringing Mary into our lives, into our homes, and into our faith was impressed on me by the Marists during my teenage

such a time. Mary is therefore able to initiate us into the secrets of the Wisdom of the Cross, which are not given to the lukewarm or the curious or the amateurish. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is such because [...] August 27 - Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine (d. 387) – Our Lady of Quézac (France) Mary’s heart, our model in future tribulations One might think that a third millennium-Christian, through the [...] it. The Blessed Virgin, full of wisdom as well as affection, is one of those people. The Heart of Mary is the intelligent heart that King Solomon had asked of the Most High. Like her Son, she accepted

September 4 - Our Lady of the Good Shepherd (Italy) Every prayer to Mary is centered on Christ The maternity of Mary in the order of grace began with the consent she gave in faith at the Annunciation and [...] happiness of their true home. (Lumen Gentium 62) Jesus, the only Mediator, is the Way of our prayer; Mary, His Mother and our Mother, is completely transparent to Him: she shows the Way, "she is its Sign [...] espoused by the Son of God. This double movement of Marian prayer is perfectly expressed in the "Hail Mary." Parish of Our Lady of Victories (Paris, France), 2017

Saint Maximilian Kolbe, martyr (d. 1941 in Auschwitz) - Madonna del Sasso (Locarno, Switzerland, 1480) Mary is the Immaculate Conception Who is the Holy Spirit? The flowering of the love of the Father and the

Lord - Pope Callistus III orders the ringing of the Angelus bell from this day (1456) I ask Mother Mary to stand at the door of my heart... Between 1933 and 1938, Father Faure, then parish priest of Ch [...] exercise, but a real preparation—in order to be worthy to receive communion, she entrusts herself to Mary: " Come O God of my heart, my joy, my love, my life, my everything, your little bride is hungry and [...] and thirsty to receive you, to love you and to give herself wholly to you alone. I ASK MOTHER MARY TO STAND AT THE DOOR OF MY HEART TO RECEIVE HER JESUS HERSELF; I beg my guardian angel and all the saints

Founder of the Friars Preachers (d. 1221) - Our Lady of Laeken (Belgium) How was the "Hail Mary" written? The “Hail Mary” that Catholics have been praying for centuries is composed of two main parts. The first [...] angel Gabriel greeted Mary by saying, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” (Luke 1:28). The next part of the prayer is taken from the Visitation, when Elizabeth greeted Mary with the words, “Blessed [...] Death”) the prayer was further developed and a second part was added to it. This second part (“Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death”) is believed by many to have

as “The M of Mary”(1), criss-crosses France following an M-shaped route, stopping at the five Marian apparition shrines. On June 2nd, a horse-drawn carriage carrying a tall statue of Mary received the [...] Cross (Edith Stein) - Our Lady of the Parish (Italy, 1829) An M-shaped pilgrimage to entrust France to Mary From June 2, 2020, until September 13, 2020, the Confraternity Our Lady of France is organizing a

Transfiguration and Mary The Gospel doesn’t say that Mary played a part in the Transfiguration, but the Church’s tradition, especially Saint Gregory Palamas in the East, speaks of Mary's role in similar [...] through divine energies. Mary was the first to achieve this through grace. Then, considering the mystery of the Church as a communion of deification, St Gregory Palamas explained that Mary transmits to us this [...] Eastern writers use the term divinize—and makes us capable to participate in divine life. Source: Marie de Nazareth editorial team

consecration to Mary every day, and his deep devotion is reflected in his motto, Totus Tuus ("I am all yours"). I believe now would be a beautiful time for all of us to renew our devotion to Mary, who is the [...] of every one of us. Mary was the first person to consecrate herself to Jesus Christ, the first to offer her whole heart to do His will, to serve his beautiful plan of redemption. Mary carried the Child Jesus [...] the Church. As Jesus entrusted himself to Mary, we need to entrust ourselves to her and look to her as our model, as children look to their mother. From Mary, we learn to trust that God’s plan of love