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"Mary, Our Lady of Loreto, Gate of Heaven, help us to lift our eyes on high. We want to see Jesus, speak with him, and proclaim his love to all." - #PopeBenedictXVI #OurLadyofLoreto #BeataVergineMaria

Our Lady of Loreto

Feast Day: December 10

Patronage: aircrews, aircraft, pilots, aviation flying, Air Forces, builders, construction workers, Aprino, Chajnsielem, Guidonia, and Loretto, Italy

The Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto refers to the house where the Blessed Mother Mary was born and the Annunciation occurred. It appeared in Loreto, Italy on December 10, 1294, when tradition has it, that angels transported it from the Holy Land to Italy as the crusaders were driven out of Palestine. It’s the first shrine of international renown dedicated to the Immaculate Mother Mary and has been there for centuries.

Saint of the Day – 10 December – The First Universal Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto

Saint of the Day – 10 December – The First Universal Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto

The Holy House of Loreto – The feast is so named from the tradition that the house where the Holy Family lived in Nazareth, was transported by angels to the city of Loreto, Italy.   The Holy House is now encased by a basilica.   It has been one of the famous shrines of the Blessed Virgin since the 13th century. A…

Act of Consecration to Our Lady of Loreto – 10 December – The Memorial of Our Lady and the Holy House of Loreto

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, we come to you with confidence: welcome this day our humble prayer and our act of consecration.

O Mother, you did carry the Divine Saviour in your most pure womb: receive our homage of faith and filial love as we come in spirit into your Holy House.

It is also, by the presence of the Holy Family, the holy home par excellence. And it is our wish that every Christian family be inspired by it. From Jesus, all children learn to obey and to work. From you, O Mary, all women learn humility and the spirit of sacrifice. From Joseph, who did live for Jesus and for you, all men learn to believe in God, to live in the family and in society with fidelity and honesty. O Mary, we pray for our Pope and for the Universal Church, for our country and for all the nations of the world, for the suffering souls for all sinners. And we all wish to consecrate ourselves to you. Spiritually present in the Holy House, where you did conceive by the Holy Spirit, we want to repeat with lively faith the words of the Archangel Gabriel: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!” We want to invoke you still, saying: “Hail Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of the Church!”

We turn to you, Mary. Receive our consecration to your Immaculate heart. Totally yours, we wish to confirm by this act of love our unlimited love for Jesus, your Son, and our hope in you, our Mother. And you, O Queen and Mother of Mercy, grant to your children an abundance of heavenly blessings. Amen

Quote of the Day – 10 December – The Memorial of Our Lady and the Holy House of Loreto

“I went to Loreto with a simple faith, believing what I still believe, even more so after having seen. Now I no longer have any doubts. If you ask me why I believe it, it is because everyone believes it in Rome— cautious and skeptical as they are in many other things. I believe it, as I believe that there is a planet called Neptune, or that chloroform destroys the sense of pain. I have no prior difficulties on this point.”

“It was thought that St Maximilian Kolbe never visited Loreto. Our Lady, however, always manages to bring to what was her hom, while on earth, those who revere and venerate her in a special way. It comes as no surprise, then, to learn from the Mass register of the Basilica, that he participated in a Mass along with thirty priests from Yugoslavia on July 13,1919. The following day, the feast of the Franciscan theologian St Bonaventure, he celebrated Mass within the Holy house itself. And so another name, a modem day Saint, has been added to the list of Saints and holy persons who have visited the shrine of Loreto. Undoubtedly there will be many more as time goes on, paying their respects and drawing inspiration from the holiest House in this world. ”

Blessed Cardinal Henry John Newman – written in 1848 and 1884

The Popes on Loreto – http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/loreto3b.htm

"Mary, Our Lady of Loreto, Gate of Heaven, help us to lift our eyes on high. We want to see Jesus, speak with him, and proclaim his love to all." - #PopeBenedictXVI #OurLadyofLoreto