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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…
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Saint
Sergius I
Pope Saint Sergius I (c. 650 – 8 September 701) was a Roman pontiff of Antiochene Syrian descent, born to a family settled at Panormus (Palermo) in Sicily, who governed the Church of Rome from 15 December 687 until his death. Elected to end a violent double claim to the papacy, he became a missionary-minded shepherd who baptized King Cædwalla of Wessex, consecrated Saint…
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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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Saint
Adrian of Nicomedia
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia (born about 278, died 4 March 306) was a young pagan officer of the imperial guard at Nicomedia in Bithynia who, set to watch over twenty‑three Christians under torture, was so struck by their joy and constancy that he asked the clerk to write his own name among theirs — and was arrested on the spot. Encouraged by his wife Natalia, who cut her hair…
Quotes by Saints
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Today, be less hypocritical then yesterday, live like you really believe that God exists!
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And every day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray.
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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