January 13 – The Council of Trent declares Mary to be free of all sin (1547) – Our Lady of Cambrai (France) They knew how to obey Let us discover one of the crucial sources of unity in Mary and Joseph’s marriage: [...] before God is a source of unity. Later, when the Child stayed behind in Jerusalem, Mary and Joseph, who were terribly worried, did not fall for the common temptation of couples, of blaming the other for [...] suffered together: "My son," Mary said to Jesus, "why did you do this to us? See how your father and I were anxiously looking for you!"(Lk 2:48) Both shared an intense communion of feelings. Another reason
February 23 - Saint Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr (d. 155) - Apparition of Mary Immaculate Mother of Victory to Cäcilia Geyer (Wangen/Wigratzbad, Germany, 1938 – approved) "If Our Lady wants you to [...] weeks later I find myself in a bus full of energetic young people! I feel a bit out of place. Everybody seems on fire with the Holy Spirit. Unlike them, I’m full of doubts. And I don't believe in those daily [...] little beads could do, I begin to recite Hail Marys and Our Fathers for hours! And in Croatian too! The Rosary brought me the inner peace I craved. The Stations of the Cross, talks, testimonies, moving homilies…
December 18 - Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (654) established at the Council of Toledo in 656 "Someone is waiting for me in Lourdes" I love the Virgin Mary. I appreciate her and I [...] going to pray to the Virgin Mary for you..." and it made me want to do the Camino pilgrimage (Spain) to find… something. Was it the meaning of my life? Recovering the flavor of life, in this world where [...] know that someone is waiting for you. The Virgin Mary, Mother of the poor, will welcome you and she will never abandon you. S.M. Testimony sent to Marie de Nazareth , following the Mission Conference in
December 4 - Saint John of Damascus, Doctor of the Church (d. ca. 749) - Immaculate Mary of Sameiro (Portugal) The Church is a female figure Women are not ordained priests or deacons in the Catholic Church [...] Africa [1] Father Benjamin Kigninlman Koné is Vicar General of the Diocese of Katiola, in the north of the Ivory Coast, and parish priest of Christ the King parish in Kong. He has a doctorate in dogmatic [...] given community without creating confusion and disorder? Finally, the question of the sacrament of Order is at the core a matter of divine calling (vocation). Therefore it shouldn’t be something that we demand
in a special issue of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles , you evoked at length the many international apparitions of Mary, while her Son tends to remain out of the spotlight in terms of apparitions. Are these [...] September 7 - The Santa Casa of Ephesus is transferred to Loreto (Italy, 1295) - Foundation of the Legion of Mary in Dublin (Ireland, 1921) Geopolitical reasons for Marian apparitions Question: Eric Letty [...] the messenger of His Mercy. And, of course, Jesus’ message, His Good News, is contained in the Gospels. But indeed Mary’s apparitions are more numerous and more "popular," like those of Guadalupe in Mexico
July 27 - Canonization of Catherine Labouré by Pius XII, attended by 10,000 children of Mary wearing white (1947) – King of France, Philip Augustus attributes his resounding victory to the Blessed Virgin [...] ous but obscure—of a work that was nevertheless divine, and which was revealed to the eyes of men by the incredible spread of the Miraculous Medal, and by the marvelous propagation of the devotion to the [...] collaborated in the same providential work—the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception—that is undoubtedly the greatest event in the history of the Church in the 19th century. The apparitions at
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led a “Renewal of the Consecration of the United States of America to the Blessed Virgin Mary” on May 1st. The sparse [...] July 5 - Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Finding in the Temple, Resurrection, Ascension) The U.S. and Canada reconsecrated to Mary in 2020 Bishops [...] Gomez noted Mary’s history in the United States. “The first missionaries came to this country under the mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Later, the bishops consecrated her as patroness of the United States
February 17- The Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servants of Mary (Servite Friars) Mary was indescribably beautiful! Shalom World interviewed former Harvard Professor Roy Schoeman regarding his Catholic [...] Schoeman said Mary then offered to answer his 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 [...] Blessed Virgin Mary… I knew 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.
January 2 – Memorial of Mary Panaghia Portaitissa (Holy Guardian of the Door) - Saints Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus Don’t go a day without saying the Rosary! At the tender age of twenty, the Rosary and [...] True Devotion to Mary. I didn’t like them but I stepped out in faith and began by saying a decade of the Rosary each day (while my thoughts traveled to those naysayers saying “repetitions of words are useless… [...] Montfort style) was what set my feet on solid ground in a world that spun around me with all sorts of “answers” to life’s problems. And I wanted answers. My friends were leaving the Catholic Church that
Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Memory of the 7th Ecumenical Council (Second Council of Nicaea) The perfect person to protect us from heresies As the Mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary is well positioned [...] earthly life the Lord of glory did indeed have a physical body and human sentiments. Marian devotion is a touchstone of the true understanding of the Incarnation. This is why the Mother of the Lord is the perfect [...] reminds us of the eminent dignity of our bodies and warns us that we are made for the gift of self, and not to satisfy selfish impulses, and that the body will be resurrected at the end of time. Jean Michel
