October 26 - Beatification of Bartolo Longo, servant of the Virgin Mary after being the slave of Satan Mass said in Lourdes for Middle Eastern Christian refugees Many immigrant refugees in Europe make [...] director of the Catholic organization “Oeuvre d'Orient” (France). “Here, they are on a healing pilgrimage of faith,” the prelate added. One of them, Hind, testifies: “When we were in Iraq, we dreamed of going [...] officials acknowledged their plight with a Mass. Lourdes, the city of miracles recognized by the Catholic Church, has always attracted dozens of different nationalities during its annual pilgrimages. This year
July 5 – Feast of the Seven Joys of Mary (Annunciation / Visitation / Nativity / Adoration of the Magi / Finding in the Temple / Resurrection / Ascension) This policeman prays to Our Lady before every [...] file a report. He decided to pull into the parking lot of St Thomas à Becket Church in Reston. “I didn’t realize I was in front of the Virgin Mary statue and I didn’t put any strong emphasis on it because [...] the Virgin Mary and made it a practice (before every shift).” Yap believes Mary’s intercession helped him — along with other police officers and medical professionals — to save the lives of three women
June 22 - Proclamation of the dogma of Mary Mother of God in Ephesus (431) A spiritual weapon and a rose given to Mary Brother Daniel Klimek, a Franciscan tertiary, during a lecture in Steubenville, Ohio [...] He said that praying the Rosary is also an act of intimacy with the Virgin Mary; each Hail Mary prayed is like presenting her with a rose as a sign of our love for her. Adapted from an article by Elisha [...] protection against evil and a means of honoring the Virgin Mary by presenting her with spiritual roses. “Wars and bloody crimes have been stopped through the spiritual weapon of the Rosary,” Klimek said. “If
– Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (654) established at the Council of Toledo in 656 During this Advent season, "Walk with Mary" As Saint John Paul II said, “Walk with Mary. Walk with [...] with Mary. May the echo of her fiat resonate in your hearts. That is what I wish for all of you during this time of Advent.” In order to prepare ourselves to welcome the Messiah—with Mary—into our lives [...] loved me before the creation of the world." (John 17:24). Mary fully participates in this plan of God, and each one of us is also called to participate in this eternal purpose of the Father. Father Pierre
Orthodox Church: Feast of the Densata (Conception of Mary) - Saint Ignatius of Loyola The Ethiopian Coptic Church: a deeply Marian Church Heirs to the theology of St Athanasius and St Cyril of Alexandria, the [...] embraced the divine maternity of Mary. Their Marian offices, recorded sermons, and collections of stories of miracles attest to this fact. In invoking Mary as Theotokos (Mother of God), the Copts see her as [...] was a Mother in the full sense of the word: Mother of Christ the man, Mother of Christ as God, and Mother of the mystic Christ, which is the Church and every faithful. Mary’s perpetual virginity represents
December 26 – Mary mourns the death of St Stephen (Jerusalem) – Synaxis of the Mother of God (Byzantine Church) Labor pains start during papal Mass Beata was nine months pregnant, but she still had some [...] contraction. After the Gospel, in his homily the Pope spoke of the coming of God, who sent his Son born of a woman to earth. Beata made a grimace of pain. Suddenly, the two friends realized what was happening [...] Poland, for the Mass of Pope Francis, on July 28, 2016. The Mass began. Beata had a first contraction. Sylwia was worried, but Beata reassured her: "Don’t worry. I still have plenty of time." The first reading
November 19 – Feast of Mary Seyom (Church of Ethiopia) – Our Lady of the Good News Loving the Marian Church (II) The Marian Church stands at the foot of the Cross. She doesn’t run for her life and hide [...] laid down his arms ... Every night at the end of Vespers, the Church sings the Magnificat. That is because the Church knows where her joy lies ... At the foot of the Cross, a Marian nation was born. "Seeing [...] words. With humble courage she stands alongside the lowliest. The Marian Church lets in the breeze of Pentecost, the gentle wind that encourages us to go out and loosens our tongues. She speaks up in the
lay member of the Servants of Mary who wrote thousands of handwritten pages, without modification, recording events throughout Christ’s life. Together these visions are called the “Poem of the Man-God” [...] was not aware of it when I saw that he was respectful to Me as usual. If he had known that I bore in Me the Word of God, he would have adored that Word enclosed in My womb, with the acts of veneration which [...] December 23 – Our Lady of the Oak Mary and Joseph's painful trial before their marriage (1/2) In Maria Valtorta's The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me (1), the Blessed Virgin recalls how she and Joseph
Miracle of the Sun (Portugal, 1917) The Doves of Fatima In 1946, Portugal celebrated the third centenary of its consecration to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception by King Juan IV, and Our Lady of Fatima [...] The episode of the doves largely impressed the spirit of the Portuguese people: the Cardinal of Lisbon expressed his amazement in his radio-message of Christmas 1946 and the newspapers of the country reflected [...] Fatima was crowned on May 13 by the cardinal legate Aloisi-Masella in front of 800,000 believers for the closure of the Marian Congress of Evora, where a vow had been made 300 years earlier. There was a great
Miracle of the Sun (Portugal, 1917) The Doves of Fatima In 1946, Portugal celebrated the third centenary of its consecration to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception by King Juan IV, and Our Lady of Fatima [...] The episode of the doves largely impressed the spirit of the Portuguese people: the Cardinal of Lisbon expressed his amazement in his radio-message of Christmas 1946 and the newspapers of the country reflected [...] Fatima was crowned on May 13 by the cardinal legate Aloisi-Masella in front of 800,000 believers for the closure of the Marian Congress of Evora, where a vow had been made 300 years earlier. There was a great
