And every day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray.
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“In fine Immaculatum Cor meum triumphabit.” Beata Maria de Fatima, die 13 Iulii 1917
Dies Martis 8 Septembris A.D. 2026
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Tempus per Annum Viridis
Mysteria Dolorosa Agonia in Horto Flagellatio ad Columnam Coronatio Spinis Bajulatio Crucis Crucifixio et Mors
Sanctus / Sancti diei
Dies Martis 8 Septembris A.D. 2026
Festum
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The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
FESTUM
The Church keeps Mary’s birthday as a feast: the dawn before the Sun, the child of Joachim and Anne from whom the Savior would take flesh.
Memoriae
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Sancti Petri Claver, presbyteri
memoria ad libitum
Saint Peter Claver (1581–1654) was a Catalan Jesuit priest who, at his solemn profession, bound himself by vow as "the slave of the Africans forever" and spent forty-four years in the slave port of Cartagena de Indias meeting the ships of the Middle Passage with food, medicine, and the Gospel. Timid by nature yet daring in charity, he baptized and catechized some three hundred…
Etiam celebrati
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Beate
Ismael Escrihuela Esteve
Blessed Ismael Escrihuela Esteve (20 May 1902 – 8 September 1936) was a Spanish farmer, husband and father of the archdiocese of Valencia who was martyred at Paterna during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War. Known from his youth as the "little soldier of Christ" for the small crucifix he always wore in his buttonhole, he was a daily communicant, a member of…
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Sancte
Virgin of Carmen de Cuyo
Our Lady of Mount Carmel of Cuyo (Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Cuyo) is the Marian title venerated in the church of San Francisco in Mendoza, Argentina, whose image General José de San Martín named Patroness and Generala of the Army of the Andes, laying his baton of command in her hands on 5 January 1817. Rooted in the ancient Carmelite devotion born on Mount Carmel and in the…
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Sancte
Celestina
Saint Celestina was a Roman matron of the third century who opened her house to Christians hunted down in the imperial persecutions and saw to the burial of those who had been martyred, until she herself was seized and beheaded for the faith in the persecution of the emperor Valerian. Her body, laid in the cemetery begun by Saint Cyriaca on the Via Tiburtina and found there…
Dicta Sanctorum
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Charity enters heaven when humility opens the door.
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So great is God’s love for you that He seems to love no one but you.
Beata Virgo Maria
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Guadalupe
Tepeyac, Mexicum · 1531
Beata Virgo Ioanni Didaco, pauperi Nahuae converso, in colle Tepeyac apparuit. Episcopo signum poscente, rosae Castellae in colle hiemali natae sunt, imagoque in tilma relicta est — mater primum ad pauperes veniens, per quam Americae ad Filium adductae sunt.
Praecipua nuntia
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Lourdes
Lourdes, Gallia · 1858
In specu Massabielle Beata Virgo duodevicies Bernadettae Soubirous, filiae pauperis molitoris, apparuit. Beata Virgo fontem patefecit ad quem aegroti adhuc accedunt, sacellum et processiones petivit, et — quattuor annis post dogma — se Immaculatam Conceptionem nominavit. Ex illo abdito specu locus lavacri, luminum et peregrinationis numquam cessavit.
Praecipua nuntia
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Fatima
Fatima, Lusitania · 1917
Postquam Angelus Pacis eos praeparavit, Beata Virgo sexies Luciae, Francisco et Hyacinthae apparuit, cotidianum Rosarium petivit, infernum et Cor Immaculatum ostendit, nuntiumque miraculo solis coram magna turba confirmavit.
Praecipua nuntia
Medjugorje
Nuntius recentissimus Dominae Nostrae Medjugorjensis, Reginae Pacis
“Dear children, Today I am calling you: return to God, return to prayer, so that you may become carriers of peace. Pray, little children, for peace that is in danger; and may prayer begin to flow anew from your hearts and from your families, so that, in joy, you may feel the voice of Jesus in your hearts: 'Peace be with you.' Be, little children, carriers of peace and prayer for all those who do not pray. I am with you and I pray for you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Nuntii Catholici
Nuntii onerantur…
Thesaurus
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