by Sr. M. Faustina Olson, F.H.I. | Dec 10, 2018 | 2018, Marian Shrines
At the foot of the Vicentine Alps in northeastern Italy is a popular Shrine commem-orating the fifteenth-century apparition of Our Lady, who interceded to save the region from a virulent pestilence. Centuries later, she intervened once again to protect the area from...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Aug 27, 2018 | 2018, Missio Article
Among the ranks of little-known but gigantic saintly figures is Conchita, a laywoman and mystic who lived during the troubled years of the Mexican persecutions of the twentieth century. Hers was a sublime participation in Mary’s spiritual maternity, especially in...
by Roderic Burke | Aug 25, 2018 | 2018, Missio Article
The moon has often been seen as a symbol of the Virgin Mary—as the moon does not generate light of its own, but reflects the light of the sun, so the Virgin reflects and participates in the glory of God. Similarly, as the moon is, in our own day, increasingly viewed...
by Msgr. Charles M. Mangan | Jun 14, 2018 | 2018, Mary Our Mother
The visit of Our Lady to St. Elizabeth, narrated by St. Luke in his Gospel, is the model for every visit she makes to her spiritual children and an enduring sign of her maternal presence in the Church. She comes to bring us Christ and, with Him, divine grace. Are we...
by Sr. M. Faustina Olson, F.H.I. | Mar 27, 2018 | 2018, Special
Missio Immaculatae International is pleased to present a special report on the solemn re-consecration of Nigeria to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, made by the country’s bishops in union with thousands of faithful in Benin City, Nigeria, on October 13, 2017, one hundred...
by Gloria Falcão Dodd | Feb 26, 2018 | 2018, Mary and Social Life
By her practice of perfect obedience, piety, prudence and charity even in the face of the unjust exercise of authority, the Virgin Mary, united with her Son in the work of the Redemption, has not only given us an example to imitate, but also reserved for us the grace...