that fell on the city. In 1917, the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Scutari was rebuilt, precisely on the same spot where the image of Our Lady of Good Counsel was in 1467 before it was taken away [...] Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzaro (Italy) before heading to Scutari (Albania) two days later on April 25th, to bless the foundation stone for the reconstruction of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, [...] s son accompanied the exiles in their crossing of the Adriatic Sea. In this context, on April 25, 1467, the image of Our Lady of Scutari, Mother of Good Counsel, disappeared and reappeared in the church
their home town of sorts. The Basilica is visited by hundreds of people daily and on Feast Days or public holidays thousands of people of all faiths visit the Basilica. The statue of Our Lady of Bandel or Our [...] Our Lady of Good Voyage on the top of the Basilica is considered to be miraculous, and people of all faiths pray to Our Lady for favors. In front of the statue hundreds of candles are lit by pilgrims and
for the mystery of the Incarnation and "recognize in her the beginning of all good." ( Contra haereses , lib. III, cap. XXII, n°4 et lib. V, cap. XIX, n°I - mentioned in The Glories of Mary by Saint Alphonsus [...] The Principle of all Good According to Saint Ireneus "Why did the Divine Word not want to take flesh in Mary's womb before obtaining her consent," wondered Saint Ireneus, through the angel? It's because
d, and a local pilgrimage was begun. In 1672, a chapel was built under the name of "Our Lady of the Good News." The Good News or the Gospel teaches us that Christ made death a passage towards eternal life
importance of asking the Virgin Mary to intercede in favor of the unity of all peoples: "The entire body of the faithful pours forth instant supplications to the Mother of God and Mother of men that she [...] the beginnings of the Church by her prayers, may now, exalted as she is above all the angels and saints, intercede before her Son in the fellowship of all the saints, until all families of people, whether [...] honored with the title of Christian or whether they still do not know the Saviour, may be happily gathered together in peace and harmony into one people of God, for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided
dynamism of their earthly pilgrimage and offer to all members of the community of believers a treasure of spiritual, liturgical and ecclesial traditions which bring out the universal goodness of God and [...] commemoration of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary The origin of the liturgical commemoration of the Nativity of Mary is linked to the church built in the fifth century in Jerusalem, in the vicinity of the probatic [...] from the day of the dedication of this primitive church, without ruling out the possibility that the memory of Mary's birth, the dawn of the time of salvation, was placed at the beginning of September, the
your servants, O most good God, your riches of grace; since the maternity of the Virgin Mary was for us the beginning of salvation may the feast of her Nativity bring us an increase of peace. Through Jesus" [...] expressions "The Sun of Justice, Christ our God" are used as in the tropary of the Byzantine liturgy. [2] The Collect of the Missal of Paul VI reproduces the Collect of the Sacramentary of Pope Gregory the [...] note that the focus of our attention is not Mary, but Christ, the most good God. Opening antiphon "Let us celebrate joy the birth of the Virgin Mary, through whom has come to us the Sun of justice the Christ
freed, too, from the slavery of sin, and they sing of the barren woman who gives birth to the Mother of God, the nourisher of our Life" [2] . Ikos "Both the prayers and the sighs of Joachim and Anna, moaning [...] himself a heaven full of life; for from a root without fruit for us men he makes his own Mother spring forth as a plant bearing Life. O God of wonders, the hope of the hopeless, Lord of powers, glory to you [...] marvellously of a mother who had been childless until then, she bore in the flesh the God of the universe, outside the laws of nature, without seed in her womb; she is the only door to the only Son of God who
The sight of old Simeon gave me great joy. The prophetess Anna and Naomi, the sister of Lazarus' mother, were also awakened at the same time and warned of the birth of a chosen child. As soon as they met [...] The birth of Mary "Joy in heaven, in limbo and on earth at the birth of Mary. At the very moment when the infant Mary lay in the arms of her holy mother, I saw her in heaven, presented before the Most [...] way, there was an immense awakening of joy in all nature: all upright and good hearts felt it, even the animals felt it. - 33 - As for the sinners, they felt a kind of anguish and heartbreak in their souls
emerge from the summit of Mount Hermon, rises into the clear September sky and, passing through spaces purified of all taint, flies over the hills of Galilee and the plains of Israel.of Galilee and the plain [...] heralding a storm. When they reach the threshold of the house, the first flash of blue lightning rips through the sky, followed by the rumour of the first clap of thunder. Everyone goes inside and Anne withdraws [...] "I see Ann coming out of the vegetable garden. She's leaning on the arm of a relative, probably because she looks like her. She is very fat and looks tired, perhaps because of the heat. The air is scorching