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NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE VOCATIONS

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Conclusion Our Lady of Divine Vocations O most holy Mary, mother of God, our Lady of Divine Vocations! We contemplate and venerate you, in the glory of the privileges, of the dignity, of the missions with which the most holy Trinity has adorned you and only you, O most holy Mary, through every habitual and actual grace, you became a marvelous star of glory for the most holy Trinity! And we desire in the divine grace, to grow in our heart, by every gift that the Lord has given to you, as a rose of love, to offer it to you so that you may offer it to the most holy Trinity, and may help us so that all may bear in our life fruits of the Holy Spirit in your filial imitation. Hail Mary... O blessed virgin Mother of God, Our Lady of Divine Vocations! Accept the homage of our daily rosary and enable us to present it to you always better and lively, always more meritorious of eternal life so that it can be offered, laid before the throne of God in the heavenly worship, among those of the angels...
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OUR LADY OF HOPE

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Day 362: May 10 Our Lady of Hope of Moribondi One comes into the world crying and dies shedding the last tear; This land is rightly called a valley of tears and a place of exile, from which everyone must depart.  There are few joys in the present life and many sorrows; all this is providential, because if we did not suffer, we would cling too much to the earth and would not aspire for Heaven. The greatest punishment for everyone is death, both for the pains of the body, and for detachment from all earthly affections, and especially for the thought of appearing before Jesus Christ the Judge. The hour of death, certain for all, but uncertain for the day, is the most important hour of life, because eternity depends on it.  Who can help us in those supreme moments? Only God and Our Lady. The Mother does not abandon her children in need and the more serious this is, the more she intensifies her care. The Heavenly Mother, dispenser of divine treasures, runs to the aid of souls, espe...
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OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL

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Day 361: May 09 Our Lady of Good Counsel, Frigento, Avellino, Italy The Sanctuary in Via Piano della Croce, dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel, was built in the place where, on May 9, 1920, a farmer, Carmine Capobianco, who had long dreamed of Our Lady who invited him to go and unearth it, found a small Majolica depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary of Good Counsel. The event stunned all the people of Frigento also because the fracture of the majolica at the height of the Virgin's forehead, caused by a clumsy blow of the hoe of Capobianco, proved his good faith of the same and the authenticity of the event. The parish priest, Don Generoso Ciullo, informed the people with the ringing of the bells of the Cathedral and other churches in procession with all the clergy, the confraternities and the people to venerate the sacred effigy in person. He communicated the event to the Bishop of the Diocese of Avellino, Monsignor Giuseppe Padula. A diocesan commission was set up to verify the rel...
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OUR LADY OF POMPEII

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Day 360: May 08 Our Lady of Pompeii, Pompeii, Naples, Italy Bartolo Longo, in his intent to propagate the practice of the Rosary among the Pompeians, went to Naples to buy a painting of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary ( Madonna del Rosario ). The idea was to buy one already seen in a store, but things didn't go that way. By pure chance, in fact, he met Father Radente (his confessor) in Via Toledo who for this purpose suggested that he go to the Conservatory of the Rosary in Portamedina and ask, in his name, to Sister Maria Concetta De Litala for an old painting of the Rosary that he himself had entrusted to her ten years earlier. Bartolo followed this suggestion, but was soon taken by dismay when the nun showed him the painting: a canvas corroded by moths and worn out by time, lacking pieces of color, with Our Lady in an anti-historical attitude, that is, with the Virgin offering the rosary to St Rose, instead of to St Catherine of Siena, as in the Dominican tradition. Bartolo was on t...
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THE MOLCHENSKAYA ICON

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Day 359: May 07 The Molchenskaya Icon, Businovo, Russia The story of this miraculous icon came to us through the testimony of Maria Sporysheva, a parishioner of St Sergius' Church in Businovo who had been living in the area for a long time.  In the 17th century, a blind maiden lived in the village of Businovo (near Moscow), in a house on the right bank of the Busynka River. One night the Mother of God appeared to her in a dream and said to her:  "Go along the right side of the river, against the current, to the place I point out to you and you will find one of my Icons." The girl explained the dream to her mother and the next day, they went together along the river. They walked it for about half a kilometer and 100 meters from the shore, they found the exact place indicated by the Virgin.  They began to dig and after a while they found a spring. Following the Virgin's instructions, she washed her eyes with water from the spring and was miraculously healed of blindness...
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OUR LADY OF ST JOHN

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Day 358: May 06 Our Lady of St John, Sommariva Bosco, Cuneo, Italy A cry full of wonder broke the silence of the quiet morning of May 6, 1685, the second Sunday of Easter "Miracle! I can see it! It attracted the attention of the few people gathered in prayer in front of the majestic image of Our Lady, painted in red, with St John the Baptist and St Anthony the Abbot on the side, on a pylon near Sommariva Bosco, on the road leading to Caramagna. It was the day of the feast of St John at Porta Latina. The notarial deeds, which are in the Archiepiscopal Archives of Turin (Vol. X Codex de Diversis), report the descriptions made before the notary "by the Most Illustrious and Rev Mr Michele Beggiami, by the grace of God and of the Apostolic See Archbishop of Turin, officially delegated", by eyewitnesses. A certain Carlo Antonio Ferrerio, of the "priocha diocese of Asti", on his way to the Sanctuary of the Moretta to fulfill a vow, together with one of his relatives A...
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OUR LADY OF EUROPE

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Day 357: May 05 Oue Lady of Europe There are those who have found in the European flag a clear Marian reference and more precisely to the "woman clothed with the sun" of the Apocalypse. But it seems that there are two Marian protectors of Europe, one in the church of "Our Lady of Europe" in Gibraltar, the other in Motta di Madesimo (Italy) 13 meters high and all covered in gold. Each state has its own flag. Europe is not yet a unitary state, but it cultivates the hope that it will become one. However, there is a flag for the European Union (EU). It has a singular history, a little "Marian" history. A few years after the Second World War in 1949, a commission was entrusted with the task of designing the flag of Europe. Its first task was to exclude possible contrasts or similarities too close to the flags of other states, thus avoiding unpleasant accusations of "copying." After long discussions, the following decisions were reached:  The color of ...
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