September 2 - Our Lady of Stinging Nettles (Germany, 1441) Memory of Mary on Saturdays (II) Humbertus de Romanis, Master General of the Order, gave three more reasons for choosing to dedicate Saturdays to the Blessed [...] placed between "sorrowful" Friday and "joyful" Sunday -so we cannot reach Saturday without going from sorrow to glory. Mary is therefore placed between us creatures living in this land of exile and Jesus [...] discouraged, had hidden "by fear of the Jews" (Jn 20:19), so the faith of the Church was concentrated in its entirety on Mary. Therefore, each Saturday is the memory of the Virgin Mary who believes and
November 12 - Our Lady of the Tower (Eriburg, Germany) A Son of Israel Converts (II) From that day on his entire life was devoted to the love of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and to Our Lady, in particular [...] apostolate of the Scapular of Our Lady of Carmel Mount. He established an association whose mission was the exposition and nocturnal adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. He entered the order of Carmel on [...] habit under the name of Brother Augustine Mary of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Hermann aspired to a life completely hidden in God, but his Superiors sent him to travel throughout Europe to preach. He brought
from the darkness of sin, I may be found worthy to glorify you, to sing freely to you, the only true mother of the true light- Christ our God." Saint Ephrem Ephrem the Syrian or Ephrem of Nisibia (ca. 306 [...] Mary Mother of Grace (France) – St Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and doctor of the Church (d. 373) Saint Ephrem’s prayer to Mary to obtain a pure body and a pure mind "Most holy Lady, Mother of God, the only [...] detestable and infamous tyranny of impure inclinations and passions; abolish in me the empire of sin; give wisdom and discernment to my stubborn, wretched mind, for the correction of my faults and falls, so that
Mother of God (Bistrica, Croatia) - 3rd apparition in Fatima: The vision of hell (Portugal, 1917) God wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart (II) On July 13, 1917, Our Lady said to the three [...] visionaries of Fatima (Portugal): "You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If you do what I am going to tell you [...] crimes, by means of war, famine and persecutions against the Church and the Holy Father. To prevent this, I came to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on
years, conflicts started to arise. We decided to entrust our stumbling blocks to Mary Undoer of Knots by praying the novena. Together, we attended an Alpha course (Introduction to the Christian life program) [...] each family. We pray for our children, and our children pray for us. In communion, we entrust our intentions to Mary, like children do with their parents. And we try to live our faith in today's world, [...] May 20 – Our Lady of Graces (Cuneo, Italy, 1537) Mary Undoer of Knots helps resolve family issues My husband and I have been married for 13 years and are the happy parents of 5 children. As a mixed atheist
famous for the Shrine of Our Lady of Deliverance, a major Catholic pilgrimage in the country. In 1974, the rector of the seminary of Saint Theresa of Issia, Father Paul Pageaud, wrote to a stigmatized sister [...] (octave of Easter), Pentecost, and August 15 (feast of the Assumption). On August 15, 2019, more than 50 000 pilgrims came! The shrine consists of two chapels that host pilgrims. The chapel of Our Lady of [...] will have a special place in it." So, after a year of preparation, on February 11, 1981, the parish was consecrated to the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary. And in 1984, while Father Pageaud was doing
priest, founder of the Oratorian Fathers (d. 1595 in Rome) "It has been granted to me to save Christians from imminent and deserved punishments" The Shrine of Santa Maria del Fonte (St. Mary of the Spring, [...] called Our Lady of Caravaggio) was built between the 16th and 18th centuries, near the town of Bergamo, Italy. Its construction, begun in 1575, was championed by St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan [...] apparition of the Virgin Mary on May 26, 1432, to a young peasant girl of the region, Giannetta de'Vacchi. Mary appeared to her dressed as a queen. She introduced herself as Mary, Mother of God, told the
day to the Heart of Jesus, without changing our ordinary activities (work) and uniting the offering of our daily life to the offering of the Blood and the Water that sprang forth from the Wound of Jesus' [...] October 21 - Our Lady of Europe Like Mary at the foot of the Cross, let us suffer with Christ Today is Friday, the day in which we pray the sorrowful mysteries. Let us meditate on the third sorrowful mystery [...] an Association of the Faithful, the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart began on March 13th, 1863, at the Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary at Bourg-en-Bresse, France. The result of much hard work
weight of something. During Our Lady's conversation with the seers, some of the bystanders heard a whispering, like the humming of a bee. Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me? Our Lady: I want you to come [...] here on the thirteenth of next month, to pray the Rosary every day, and to learn to read. I shall later say what I want. (Lucia asked for the healing of a sick person.) Our Lady: If he converts, he will [...] Lucia: I would like to ask you to take us to heaven. Our Lady: Yes, I shall take Jacinta and Francisco soon, but you will remain here for some time yet. Jesus wishes to use you in order to make me known and
4 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Cardinal, Bishop of Milan (d. 1584) - Our Lady of Pötsch (Máriapócs, Hungary) The tears of the Madonna of Máriapócs The shrine of Máriapócs in Hungary is a Greek-Catholic church [...] hundreds of onlookers. The parish priest collected these precious "pearls of mercy" in a silk handkerchief and sent them to the Bishop of Eger. The investigation confirmed the supernatural origin of the phenomenon [...] national Act of Trust in Mary. Three years after that act of consecration to Mary, in 1696, the miracle of Máriapócs occurred… and just one year later, in 1697, the Turks were definitively driven out of the A