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“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” Our Lady of Fatima, July 13th, 1917
Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Ordinary Time Green
The Sorrowful Mysteries The Agony in the Garden The Scourging at the Pillar The Crowning with Thorns The Carrying of the Cross The Crucifixion and Death
Saint(s) of the Day
Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Feast
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The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
FEAST
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.
Memorials
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Saint Peter Claver, Priest
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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…
Also Celebrated
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Saint
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…
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Blessed
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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Blessed
Josefa de San Juan de Dios
Blessed Josefa de San Juan de Dios (Josefa María Ruano García, 1854–1936) was a Spanish Little Sister of the Abandoned Elderly who spent nearly sixty years bathing, feeding and comforting the poor of old age in Valencia, Cascante, Requena and Alcira. Superior of the asylum at Requena when the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was arrested with her sisters and shot by militiamen…
Quotes by Saints
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This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.
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By the anxieties & worries of this life Satan tries to dull man’s heart & make a dwelling for himself there.
Our Lady
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Guadalupe
Tepeyac, Mexico · 1531
Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego, a poor Nahua convert, on Tepeyac Hill. When the bishop asked for a sign, Castilian roses grew on the winter hill, and Our Lady’s image was left on his tilma — a mother who comes first to the poor, and through whom the Americas were brought to Our Lady’s Son.
Main messages
- “I am the perfect and perpetual Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God through Whom everything lives.”
- “I want very much that they build my sacred little house here, so that in it I may show Him, exalt Him, and give Him to the people.”
- “Am I not here, I who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection?”
- Our Lady is mother of all who live in this land, and of every people who love Our Lady, cry to Our Lady, and have confidence in Our Lady.
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Lourdes
Lourdes, France · 1858
In the grotto of Massabielle Our Lady appeared eighteen times to St. Bernadette Soubirous, a poor miller’s child. Our Lady revealed a spring that still draws the sick, asked for a chapel and processions, and — four years after the dogma — named herself the Immaculate Conception. From that hidden cave a place of washing, candlelight, and pilgrimage has never ceased.
Main messages
- When Bernadette asked her name, Our Lady said: “I am the Immaculate Conception” — the dogma defined four years earlier, spoken by the Lady herself.
- “Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Go, kiss the ground for the conversion of sinners.”
- Drink at the spring and wash there; come in procession; tell the priests to build a chapel here. The water and the processions remain the signs of Lourdes.
- Our Lady said to Bernadette: “I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next.”
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Fatima
Fátima, Portugal · 1917
After the Angel of Peace prepared them, Our Lady appeared to Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta six times, asked for the daily Rosary, showed them hell and Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, and confirmed the message by the Miracle of the Sun before a great crowd.
Main messages
- Pray the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and the end of war.
- Offer prayers and sacrifices for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart.
- Jesus wants to establish devotion to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart: “My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”
- Consecration of Russia and Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
Medjugorje
Latest Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje, Queen of Peace
“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.”
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