Heart of Mary, when the statue of Our Lady of Fatima came to Rome. The consecration of the nations of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has spread following the request made by the Virgin Mary at Fatima [...] Saint John Paul II consecrated the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Ireland was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, by the Primate of All Ireland,
Mahmoud Shoukry Ibrahim, 45, cured of his paraplegia. 1) Read part I in A Moment with Mary of April 2, 2020 The Marie de Nazareth team [...] April 4 – Saint Francisco Marto of Fatima In Zeitoun the Virgin Mary appeared to Christians and Muslims alike (II) Cardinal Stephanos I Sidarous, patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church (united with Rome) [...] Catholic Copts, known for their integrity. These people witnessed the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and gave me a complete description of them. Sister Paula de Mofalo, a Roman Catholic nun well known
Fontane to Bruno Cornacchiola and his 3 children in 1947 (approved in 1956) The Risen Christ appeared to Mary first The Gospels mention various appearances of the risen Christ, but not a meeting between Jesus [...] This silence must not lead to the conclusion that after the Resurrection Christ did not appear to Mary; rather it invites us to seek the reasons why the Evangelists made such a choice… If the authors of [...] to think that the Mother was probably the first person to whom the risen Jesus appeared. Could not Mary’s absence from the group of women who went to the tomb at dawn indicate that she had already met Jesus
di Brindisi (Italy, 1598) – Fire of the Turin Cathedral and miraculous rescue of the Shroud (1997) Mary’s crucial choice Poor mother, how shall You go on without Jesus? He is your Life – your All. Yet, it
Lord – Our Lady of Fatima crowned Queen of Korea (1953) Mary fully shared her Son’s journey to Jerusalem Following the events in her Son’s life, Mary shared in his drama of experiencing rejection from some [...] 7:2-5) or stop his mission (Mk 3:21). Through this suffering borne with great dignity and discretion, Mary shared her Son’s journey to Jerusalem (Lk 9:51) and, more and more closely united with him in faith
April 10 – Good Friday – Our Lady of Laval (France) Mary’s temptations at Calvary If Mary was tempted, as even Jesus was in the desert, this took place above all beneath the cross. And the temptation was [...] himself from the cross, he would also free her from this dreadful sorrow, but he didn’t do it. Yet Mary didn’t cry out, “Come down from the cross; save yourself and me!” Nor did she cry, “My son, you have [...] you treated us so?" As she did when, having lost him, she later found him in the Temple (Luke 2:48). Mary was silent. "She lovingly consented to the immolation of this Victim which she herself had brought
April 15 – Our Lady of the Wound (Italy, 1490) The greatest grace the Virgin Mary obtained for Saint Faustina During Holy Mass, before Communion, we had the renewal of vows. When we had left our kneelers [...] in my mind. I later understood that this was one of the greatest graces which the Most Holy Virgin Mary had obtained for me, as for many years I had been asking this grace of Her. Since that time I have [...] has taught me how to love God interiorly and also how to carry out His holy will in all things, O Mary, You are joy, because through You God descended to earth [and] into my heart. Saint Faustina Kowalska
by the Coptic Patriarch; institution of the feast of the Zeitoun Apparitions In Zeitoun the Virgin Mary appeared to Christians and Muslims alike (I) In Zeitoun, a district of Cairo in Egypt, on the night [...] that you will no longer be able to come and see me in Jerusalem; so I came to see you in Cairo." The Marie de Nazareth team Zeitoun
himself completely to Mary How did God become a man? By totally surrendering himself to a woman, by taking flesh from the flesh of the Virgin Mary, God gave himself totally to her. And Mary completely offered [...] ourselves totally to Mary— totus tuus— that we welcome the mystery of the incarnation into us. The mystery of the consecration to Jesus through Mary, which we shorten by “consecration to Mary,” is this total [...] gift that the Word of God made to the Virgin Mary by becoming man. God became man so that man could become God. Since God became man in Mary, it is also in Mary that we can become God by letting ourselves
March 25 - Annunciation – 16th apparition in Lourdes (France, 1858) – Our Lady of Walsingham Mary’s only plan is to let God act "In the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee [...] Nazareth. It is not God’s hour that is delayed, but we who are no longer waiting for it. In Nazareth, Mary had no other plan than to let God act and to find favor with him, in the praise of his glory. That
