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Somethings about Mary in March 2012

Many, many thanks to Anthony, Claz, Denis, Sister Evangelia, Sister Cesariana, Felicity, Francine, Hannah, Hubert, Jacinta, Jenny, John, John, Lourdes, Margaret, Marie-Antonia, Patricia, Patricia, Paula, Phil, Roger, Brother Sean, Sophy, Sophy & Titine for giving their 'something' about Mary.

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1st March - Feast of Saint David - Denis      

"I've been lucky enough to attend Our Lady's shrine in Lourdes over many years and I've always got a special comfort and joy in that, and should I say courage to battle on. Mary is our great friend in all this and I try to pray to her every day."

Denis is from South Wales.

2nd March - Brother Sean      

"At the culmination and also at the beginning of my commitment to God, Our Lady was present. I think for a lot of religious, she is the example and the protector of our 'yes', because Our Lady gave her fiat to God and gave her yes to God.  In a certain way, I think she looks on us and we look to her in the same way, that she protects our yes that we've given to God, and continues to guide us. I really see her as my mother and also my sister, that brings us to the fullness of our vocation."

Brother Sean, who's 30 & from Northern Ireland, is a brother of The Spiritual Family the Work.

Our Lady's message to Mirjana Soldo, Međugorje, 2nd March 2012:

"Dear children, Through the immeasurable love of God I am coming among you and I am persistently calling you into the arms of my Son. With a motherly heart I am imploring you, my children, but I am also repeatedly warning you, that concern for those who have not come to know my Son be in the first place for you. Do not permit that by looking at you and your life, they are not overcome by a desire to come to know Him. Pray to the Holy Spirit for my Son to be impressed within you. Pray that you can be apostles of the divine light in this time of darkness and hopelessness. This is a time of your trial. With a rosary in hand and love in the heart set out with me. I am leading you towards Easter in my Son. Pray for those whom my Son has chosen that they can always live through Him and in Him – the High Priest. Thank you."

3rd March - Phil       

"I have 3 mothers; I have my Mum, my biological mum; I have my spiritual mother the Church and I have my other great mighty, spiritual mother Mary in heaven, and I find myself praying to her every day. I pray the 7 sorrows devotion and I know that she always hears my prayers. She's a very, very powerful intercessor. So, I love you Mary. Amen."

Phil is 28 & from the UK.

4th March - Margaret       

"Our Lady is very special to me. She is the mother of Our Blessed Lord and every time I say the rosary it is like a beautiful rose full of perfume and love, and I ask her to come into my life every day and look after my children and grandchildren for me. Thank you, Our Blessed Lady. Amen."

Margaret is from England.

5th March - Francine       

"Every time I called Our Lady to keep me under her mantle with light, suddenly my heart felt like.. I was really in peace and I was sure that she was with me, because it was almost as though I could feel her. Since this time, I call her every time I go out very late, every time I feel that someone is dangerous or something, I call on Our Lady to keep me under her mantle and everything goes well every time. Also the thing that I love about Our Lady is that she always hears my prayers.

J'ai eu la grâce d'être accompagnée par la Sainte Vierge depuis toujours mais je me suis compte rendue vraiment de sa présence au près de moi il y a quelques années."

Francine is 28 & from France

6th March - John      

"For me Our Lady is the mediatrix of all graces, she is our mother and she is the intercessor for us with her son, our Lord Jesus Christ."

John is from England

7th March - Hannah      

"To me Mary is Our Lady, Help of Christians. If you trust in Our Lady Help of Christians, you'll see what miracles really are."

Hannah is 19 & from Ireland.

8th March - Jacinta       

"For me Mary, Our Lady, is a mother and like someone that you can turn to and she's gentle, she's loving, she's kind. And, yeh, she's my mother and someone I can turn to when I'm in an hour of need."

Jacinta is 19 & from England.

9th March - John       

"Mary is the mother of Jesus and was with Him all the time through His life. When He died on the Cross she had great sorrow but she bore that sorrow with great dignity."

John is from England.

10th March - Sophy       

"I love Our Lady.
Thank you, Lady, for all your blessings. Amen."

Sophy is from England.

11th March - Claz       

"Mary is my mother and I love to call her Mama Mary. I guess my relationship with her really sprang to life when I was walking El Camino, to Santiago de Compostela … Before this pilgrimage my faith wasn't alive for me - I didn't truly believe and I didn't know what it meant to believe. But that was really the beginning of my conversion, what I call my initial conversion experience, which brought me into full faith, in true belief of my Father in heaven and His love for me and for every single soul that was ever created and it was Our Lady that led me to that moment of conversion. .. That's really what she did for me on El Camino... I don't know where I would be in my faith without her love and without her mantle of protection."

Claz is 27 & half Spanish / half Filippino.

12th March - Titine       

"I've grown up with Our Lady, since I was born we've been praying the rosary at home. She's for me the best mother, the mother I can always come to with any joy, worry, sorrows. I entrust my children to Our Lady every day; I put mentally all of my children on her lap, because I know she can look after them much better than I can. We have a lot of graces through the intercession of Our Lady."

Titine is from Austria.

13th March - Sophy       

"What Mary means me to me is: my protector, my role model and my intercessor, especially being a mother to two young boys."

Sophy is from the Philippines.

14th March - Anthony       

"Mary really has been a role model for me and helped me in so much. She is the perfect example of how we should live our own lives."

Anthony is 24 & from England.

15th March - Roger       

"For me Mary, I would say, would be my maternal guidance in my life .. I will pray a rosary at least twice a day and for that, it is my most powerful weapon. Saying that, on Sunday I was randomly pulled by the police, just because of the way I was dressed. And they said 'Have you got any weapons on you?' So I pulled out my rosary and said 'Yes, this is my weapon.' They raised some eyebrows and gave a good chuckle and let me on my way. It was only thanks to having Mary in my life that I could do something as sensible as that."

Roger is 23 & from England.

16th March - Jenny       

"Mary to me is my guide through the whole of my life from when I was born and really, really young. I've always known about Jesus and Mary, being brought up a Catholic and she's always been somebody that I can close my eyes and I can always see her. She is always there in my heart. As I get older, she's been a mother figure to me, she's been my safety and my security. As I've grown up, she's become more and more of a role model: if I'm in a difficult moral situation, you can always close your eyes and think what would Our Lady do in this situation."

Jenny is 25 & from England.

17th March - Feast of Saint Patrick - Patricia        

"Our Lady to me is the Mother of God but she's everybody's mother as well, so I would feel close to her just talking to her every day."

Patricia is from Northern Ireland.

18th March - Sister Evangelia        

"For me Our Lady is everything because to her I am due my vocation."

Sister Evangelia is from Italy & is a Sister of the Consolata Missionaries. She gives her qualcosa di Maria in English & Italian.

Our Lady's annual message to Mirjana in Medugorje, 18 March 2012:

"Dear children! I am coming among you because I desire to be your mother – your intercessor. I desire to be the bond between you and the Heavenly Father – your mediatrix. I desire to take you by the hand and to walk with you in the battle against the impure spirit. My children, consecrate yourselves to me completely. I will take your lives into my motherly hands and I will teach them peace and love, and then I will give them over to my Son. I am asking of you to pray and fast because only in this way will you know how to witness my Son in the right way through my motherly heart. Pray for your shepherds that, united in my Son, they can always joyfully proclaim the Word of God. Thank you."

19th March - Feast of Saint Joseph - Sister Cesariana        

"I became a sister when I was very, very young just because Mary wanted me to be. For me, Mary is the mother, the mother because she cares for me, through her I gave the life of her own son. She's the mother who's listening and she taught me to listen. She's the mother who loves and she taught me her love. She's the mother who cares and she taught me how to care. Mary is my guide, Mary is the one who brought me to Jesus and through her I'm sure that the love that exists in Mary's heart is the love which exists in Jesus' heart and that love is the one with which Jesus loves me. And so I became a sister just to be an instrument in her and in his hands to spread this love to the people whom I meet."

Sister Cesariana is from Italy & is a Sister of the Consolata Missionaries. She gives her qualcosa di Maria in English & Italian.

20th March - Felicity        

"Our Lady means a lot to me: she's my mother and she's my friend and she's my company. Amen."

Felicity is from Spain.

21st March - Marie-Antonia       

"For me Our Lady is first of all Our Lady of Fatima. Who is Our Lady of Fatima? She is a mother, and she is a protector and someone we turn to when we have no-one else to turn to in life."

Marie-Antonia is from Portugal & gives her algo sobre Maria in English & Portuguese.

22nd March - Patricia        

"As a future mother, I always trust in Our Lady, to be a good mother."

Patricia is 31 & from Spain; she gives her algo de Maria in English & Spanish.

23rd March - Paula      

"Our Lady plays like a very special role, not just in our lives but in the Church."

Paula is 26 & from Britain.

24th March - Lourdes       

"My country is very devoted to Our Lady and I love Our Lady very much. She is my mother and my friend and my confidante. Amen."

Lourdes is from Sri Lanka.

25th March - 5th Sunday of Lent - Hubert        

"I find perhaps the most important, poignant element of Mary is the status of mother, and the status that she has as of a mother looking after many vulnerable children, children like her own son. The very fact that He died like a man, tortured, scourged and crucified, reminds us once again that He took her flesh in the life that He lived. For me, if you like, it heightens the fact that Jesus is our brother, and that we are his siblings and Mary is our mother."

Hubert is 22 and from Britain.

Our Lady of Medjugorje's message to Marija Pavlović, 25 March 2012:

"Dear children! Also today, with joy, I desire to give you my motherly blessing and to call you to prayer. May prayer become a need for you to grow more in holiness every day. Work more on your conversion because you are far away, little children. Thank you for having responded to my call."

"Cari figli! Anche oggi con gioia desidero darvi la mia benedizione materna e invitarvi alla preghiera. Che la preghiera diventi per voi bisogno affinché ogni giorno cresciate di più nella santità. Lavorate di più sulla vostra conversione perché siete lontani figlioli. Grazie per aver risposto alla mia chiamata."

"¡Queridos hijos! También hoy con alegría deseo darles mi bendición maternal e invitarlos a la oración. Que la oración se convierta en necesidad para ustedes, para que cada día crezcan más en santidad. Trabajen más en su conversión, porque están lejos hijitos. Gracias por haber respondido a mi llamado."