Why Does The Virgin Mary Appear To People? | The Catholic Talk Show 

I live in Wisconsin and went to Champion, Wisconsin and prayed in the church that was built there where the apparition occurred. At the time I was struggling with cancer and prayed for my recovery. I have been cancer free for 10 years and I truly believe the Blessed Mother has had a hand in my recovery.

I had my own visit from Our Blessed Mother in a dream when I was 14. I prayed every night for relief from my personal hell /agony in my life…in my dream I was running through a forest, being pursued by evil entity/spirit and then I saw a house- I crawled and stumbled to the door and scratched at the bottom , barely able to say ‘help’ being absolutely spent and exhausted….the door opened and I saw sandaled feet and a blue hem I looked up and there was Mary, who then picked me up and cradled me on her lap. She sat with me and held me and told me things would be alright, then told me some things I could not know about otherwise- It came to me last year that she was my very own Lady, I should name her- She is My Lady of Comfort and Solace. Thank you Holy Mother of God!

I truly believe that Our blessed mother rocked me to sleep the night my father died. I had just turned 7 and he died the next day in the early evening. My Dad was devoted to her. I told my mom about the beautiful lady who called to me and rocked me till I fell asleep. She was telling me my father is ok now and that my mother and my brother and I will be ok. I told my mother about this years later, my mother said we didn't have a rocking chair and no woman of that description was in our home that night. I know it was her in my heart❤

Amen. Am proud to be Roman Catholic. Am proud to be Indonesian. Am fine with what I am.... loving, caring, creative, and helping others. Lord Jesus Christ, please guide me always.

Loved this episode, I grew up in a different faith but had love for Mother Mary by Her Grace I was brought to Faith in Christ in the Catholic Church. Love you Maa Mary...your child from India

I'd be HUGELY interested in a pilgrimage to the Wisconsin shrines

Come to Knock Ireland and I can tell you all the places you can go !! 😂I live about 10minutes away from Knock Shrine. It truly is a Holy place. 🙏

I like Father answer "Our Lady Greatest Evangelist" to Christ very true

The Song of Bernadette is a beautiful movie. There was a time that a movie about a Marian apparition won several Oscars

Love this episode. I grew up in the Philippines with the image of our Lady of Fatima being brought from house to house within our neighborhood. The image stays at a house for a week. It will be fetched on a Saturday with a short farewell prayer led by the homeowner and then we walk going to the next scheduled house while singing Marian songs and with candles with the image being carried. We pray a welcome prayer and then the rosary to be led by the host family.

Please talk in one of your shows about the Lady of Las Lajas. I read about it in Father Calloways book Champions of the Rosary. I'd never heard of this apparition, but it is amazing. A mute child speaks, then is brought back from the dead, and a painting on a rock wall that defies science. You have to talk about it.

Whenever my faith wavers, I only have to remind myself of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal, and my faith is again strengthened. I know that it is a not very mature form of faith, but it works for me!

I have been blessed to have made pilgrimages to Knock, Fatima and Medjugorje. All were wonderful experiences. I pray daily for reparation for the sins committed against the Sacred and Immaculate hearts and for the conversion of sinners.

The apparition in Knock took place thirty-five years after the great famine which wiped out two and a half million people from death and immigration. The population was devastated. She did not have to say anything she understood what the population was going through. She brought her family to show they prayed with us and for us. I think St John came as a Bishop to honour Irish missionary priests and sisters who devoted their lives to the Christian faith in foreign lands. The cross and the lamb of God are an acknowledgement of the suffering and death that the people who saw the apparition would have experienced. It's a great place to go pray contemplate and find solace.

Our country, Philippines is called "Pueblo Amante de Maria" and our principal patroness is Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe is the secondary. I was born on the feast day of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Filipinos have a devotion to her on this title every Wednesday. My favourite apparitions are Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal and Our Lady of Guadalupe. My cousin was diagnosed before with a cancer and was miraculously healed through the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima. That's when I initiate to pray the rosary. We pray as a family a 15 decade rosary and that's my most solemn prayer of rosary so far. In this channel, I often heard that we are created to be in awe, and I am especially when I contemplate with the life and apparitions of Mama Mary. God is faithful and great. God bless you! Mama Mary loves you 🙂

My father had a series of (possibly) Marian encounters when he was young and (I think) going through a difficult time in his life. He did not experience the visible apparition but the very strong smell of roses most especially when praying the Rosary. It could occur anywhere, and he investigated whether there were flowers around to explain the occurrence, which there were not. It was a nice and confirming gift that not many people receive.

The shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI is somewhere that you 3 would absolutely love! The shrine grounds and the shrine itself are amazing! I’m sure that Fr. Rich would love the side altar with a first class relic of St Faustina (along with many others). Combined with the access to daily confession, mass celebrated by the Norbertine Friars, and the devotion to Our Lady and Our Lord by all who visit, it is truly an amazing place! I’m blessed to be able to attend mass there every week and would love the opportunity to go with you on a pilgrimage there and to Green Bay!

Another terrific show!! Personally I have a major devotion to The Blessed Mother and especially, Our Lady of Fatima. In Lewiston, NY there is the Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, a beautiful place to visit, pray and contemplate, plus a supernatural peace surrounds this place. Lewiston is right next to Niagara Fall, NY and Canada. Blessings to you guys.

Our Lady of Lourdes has always been a very special devotion of mine since I was in 3rd grade. I am now in my early 70’s and still feel the same devotion to OurLady and dear St. Bernadette living in poverty and illness.

oh, man! i'm so down for a pilgrimage! i don't even care where it's to; wherever you go, i shall follow!

Thank you for the news on Marion visits. You are also fun to listen to. hopefully with my Daily Rosary. She will hear my husbands and my prayer to reconvert my children

Guy's I love , Cathloc Talk it's awsome.

Hello, my brother visited recently the shrine of our lady of good help in Champion WI and that prompted my inerest in learning moe about Marian apparitions. Your show came just in a good timing. We also celebrated the 450th anniversary of the battle of Lepanto here in Greece and I was glad you mentioned it around minute 18. Although not a marian apparition, it was thanks to the victory of christians in the battle that the feast of our lady of the rosary was established. This becomes even more significant to the upcoming visit of Pope Francis in early december.

Thank you for your talk show. Being a sinner and in need of God's mercy and grace, I've found peace when I've been granted the time to go on pilgrimage to a Marian shrine. The Holy Mother of God really does want to help us all to be whole and holy.

I've seen Our Lady of Fatima in tears during the May 13th procession to the Lisbon basilica in Portugal as I watched it streamed on EWTN. It was raining a bit like misty. Her statue was placed on a covered stage. When I saw the tears I fell to my knees and panicked. " Mama please do not cry. Why are you crying." It pierced my heart to see her cry. I didn't know what to do. Come 1st Saturday I go to church to confess, pray the rosary, meditate on the rosary mysteries as She wanted ( been doing it for about a year when it happened, also go to the Blue Army - the 1st time I saw dark clouds that opened up and there were 3 birds circling the sky about to to burst in heavy storm). I shared the experience which i took a picture of and asked the priest what am I to do seeing the Virgin Mary cry. He advised me not to tell anyone. And did it, kept it secret and continued my !st Saturday Devotion. This episode of Catholic Talk show as to why Mary appear to people caught my eye and thought I might find answer to my experience. There are other things I've seen that make my "head spin." I was a sceptic for a long time , an agnostic and searching for something, some peace, some direction. Pls. advise. Thank you.

Thanks 😊🙏 you're guys show me to not lose faith Jesus and his mother ❤

Is that a Fr. Rich bobble head?! For me my favorite one is Our Lady of Fatima. I can remember in 5th grade my teacher (a nun) had us watch a film about it. I can remember a scene where they threatened to boil the children in oil if they didn't say they were lying and ever since then it has stuck in my head. Also for 8th grade graduation (I went to a Catholic school in case you didn't get that by my teacher being a nun) the whole class received a Miraculous Medal. I recently bought a book about Marian apparitions (Those Who Saw Her by Catherine Odell). In my mind it was a great book, it has a brief backstory about each visionary and tells you the outcome, from Guadalupe to Betania.

Ave Maria Gratia Plena!

Sharing this on my FB page I’m praying everyone finds a devotion to Mary

Avé María! Our Lady visited my mother on her deathbed in Aug 2020. (Short version here, the long version is way cooler!) My Da entered her hospital room and she said, “You must’ve just missed Our Lady!” He said, “No, this is Covid now… it’s just you, me, the doctors and the nurses, and I am here to hang out with my sweetheart.” But she was insistent, saying, “No! She was just here before you entered. She was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Her dress was radiant, and she had a baby under each arm. I asked her if she was here to take me, but she said she needed to help these two first… but she would return very soon.” They talked for many hours afterwards, Da said she was completely coherent, knew names, dates, remembering everything en pointe. Eventually she stopped speaking, but her lips continued moving for several hours… I believe she was still speaking, just not to anyone on earth. She passed the next morning. I had wondered why the two babies? That is, until I put together my mom’s unending devotion for the right to life. Mom was the president for our county’s Right to Life group for many years. Maybe that had something to do with it? Maybe not. What I do know is that since that time I have been stalked by Mary incessantly!! 😅 Mama Mary is the best stalker ever! God willing, I will join formation as an aspirant towards the 3rd Order of Discalced Carmelites in January. (Five years ago I would have scoffed at the suggestion, now it’s my greatest desire to tie my life to Carmel. 🤎✝️🙏🏼

As usual one Monday evening kept refreshing my RU-vid page looking out for the topic covered by Catholic talk Show for this week… And yes there it came… Was really surprised to see this topic… Always had in mind to suggest this team on doing an episode on “ Marian Apparitions “ … Thanks for hearing my heart out team … 😊 Prominent Apparition in Tamil Nadu, India - Basilica of our Lady of Health, Velankanni… Warm welcome to everyone… pls do come and witness the miracles… Atleast Google and knw about this wonderful place… Mother here is a haven of hope and peace and you will find people across all religions showing their love and gratitude for all they have received through Her … Ave Maria ! 🙏🏻

Yes, plan a pilgrimage!! My husband, a Deacon, and I would love to go 🙏🙏

I would be interested in a Wisconsin pilgrimage!!

I am glad you talked about the Miraculous Medal and St. Catherine; I have been to Rue du Bac. It is a place of grace for sure. Thank you all for bringing this to the show. God bless you,

Yes, I am very interested on the pilgrimage to Wisconsin. As a catechist I am always putting catechist and students under The Lady of Good Help.

This episode was wonderful! I would love to see an episode about Our Lady of Revelation at Tres Fontane--such a beautiful story. Like you all, my 8 year old daughter has an amazing devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Last year she asked for an OLG-themed birthday party--which we happily obliged, and she sleeps with a plush OLG doll at night. (Consequently, she sleeps like a rock and never has bad dreams.) Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!

I have seen OL of Guadalupe. She covered the entire sun. She was surrounded by gold. I felt immense peace.

I am from Florida, and I have been to Our Lady of La Leche Shrine several times. One of my favorite shrines to visit where I always find an incredible indescribable peace. I also enjoy the story behind our Lady of Good Success. There are so many wonderful Vatican approved apparition sites and/or holy places! ... I do want to add my thoughts on one UN-approved apparition spot that seems to be the latest fad to visit, that I have researched, and found much that disturbs me, including messages that do not seem to be part of Church doctrine, and Bishops that refused to approve it, and that is Medjugorje. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on that since the Vatican's recent document changing some of the requirements for approving apparitions (May 2024). Thank you for all the blessings you send our way with your wonderful videos.

Father Rich beautiful voice

If you want a super powerful apparition in the midst of poor....they look towards Knock Ireland. Not one word spoken yet loads was said. Witnesses of the scene had an amazing story for such a desolate rural setting during a time of foreign tyranny.

Pilgrimage to Wisconsin 2022- let’s do it!!!!

Ive come here looking for answers and thats exactly what I've found. I can't seem to take in enough knowledge and it's all stuff I've heard before but now it's like never before. Thank you for your selfless service fellas I love the sense of humor too! I was actually called out to our Lady's Farm in falmouth where I grew up and I took a picture of a rainbow that appeared above Mary's grotto that day. My wife didn't see it but when we got home she could see it in the picture. There was no rain and a pretty day so I knew I was on my path still.

Congratulations on 100k! 💯

I wish u guys had a live show in Houston. I would be there all the time! I’m such a fan! God Bless!!!

Interested in the Champion, WI pilgrimage; I’ve been looking into it lately. We wanted to go in the winter but I guess you talked me out of it LoL so I’ll wait and see if y’all go.

Went to Guadalupe and Knock Lourdes Green Bay Medugorie and Fatima are on my bucket list

Thanks Guys. I love the show. I watch it from Cape town South Africa. I have been to Lourdes, Fatima and Knock, have I spelt that correctly? 🤗🙏🏼

This was a wonderful conversation. My first time seeing your show. I am a fan now. I have loved Marian apparitions my whole life and always wanted to know more. Thank you!

Totally awesome.!

I’d definitely be interested in a pilgrimage to Wisconsin!

I'm in on a trip to Champion, WI....I live in the NW suburbs of Chicago and have never made it but would love to!

The background is very dark, it would be nice to have it lighter.

Beautiful topic ,I love Mama Mary

I would love going to Wisconsin to see the shrines!

I want to go to Wisconsin with you guys

The Legion of Mary takes the statue of Our Lady of Fatima to homes in parishes where they operate.💕🙏💒

Keep on planting the seeds. God bless your show.

So excited to learn more. Thank you,

Just got back from Our Lady of Good Help Shrine (only US Marian apparition site), St Joseph Shrine and Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine in Wisconsin. Highly recommend pilgramage to all of these shrines. Very peaceful and spiritual...

Please do come to India and visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health at Velankanni :-) It's not a Vatican approved apparition yet but Pope St. John XXIII did declare the shrine as Minor Basilica. He called it the Lourdes of the East. :-)

Medjugorje. My two Aunts went on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje around 1980. I have the photograph taken at the site that very clearly shows Mary .The photo was taken in front of a small gardeners shack. I have always cherished the picture and I received it when my Aunt passed away.

I think she appears to people when she is most needed by someone or to send a message

Amen

God bless Father Pagano's beautiful eyes. Health always 🙏🕊️🌹💯♥️

Wisit, Medjugorje. 👍❤ you will love it. God Bless you. AMEN, ALELUJA. 🙏💕

The miraculous medal doesn't originate from Fatima but from France. It came about when Our Lady appeared to St.Catherine Laboure and asked her for a medal to be struck with the words on it saying " "0 Mary, conceived without sin , pray for us who have recourse to thee" .

I will join you in your trip to WI. I live here and went to Champion, WI. Very cool! I haven't been to the other sites, but want to get there soon. I would love to join you!

Hey Ryan's and Father Rich..can you recommend a book about the approved apparitions?

I would love to go to Wisconsin. It would be awesome to see the shrines.

I didn't really know much about Marian apparitions when I was growing up, although I'd picked up a few bits and pieces about Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of Lourdes. I just didn't know what they were about. The first I really learned about as an adult was Our Lady of Guadalupe, when I was a parishioner at the OLOG Hispanic Mission in town. Since then I've learned of many more. I think the one that grabs me most is the Coptic Orthodox one in Egypt, mainly because I saw the video on RU-vid, and it took my breath away in awe. Most recently I've learned about Our Lady of the Pillar. Having known many women of Spanish and Middle Eastern descent named Pilar, it struck me that the devotion is 2,000 years old. You're right that we have to be cautious about all purported apparitions. I'm in the only parish prayer group at my parish, which was started because of a supposedly ongoing series of auditory messages from Jesus and all the Saints, and even God the Father Himself. At the time I began meeting with them to pray, the messages had purportedly stopped, and were under investigation, but was approved by the Bishop. It had received approval from the Vatican as far as not being forbidden, but isn't approved in the same way as Fatima and Lourdes. Then all of a sudden the messages started up again. The woman who purportedly receives the messages gives talks online, and they're raising funds to build a pilgrimage site. I've never gone gung ho about this, I just want to pray the Rosary with others in public for the indulgence. But my suspicion was really raised because it seems that anytime there's a controversy, the woman receives a message that basically says something questionable. For instance, one message says that God personally chose the pope and the pope can do no wrong, then the next month the message was clarified to fit closer to Church teaching. The latest one said that nobody is to be turned away from Communion if they were properly formed to receive. It went on to claim that the talk of turning people away from Communion is just "man-made rules"...!?!? I'm just a lay woman, not very well formed in the Faith in the late 1960s, went lapsed, and only returned because my Dad prayed for me at Adoration, as I discovered when I went to Adoration for the first time, at which point he was homebound. I browsed through the Intentions Notebook, and found my name written in my Dad's distinctive handwriting. So I know prayer works. I'm not an expert, but as far as these purported messages, I keep getting the running thought of the Gospel verse where Jesus points to the priests and says, "Do as they command, for _they sit on the Seat of Moses_ , but don't do as they do." This is followed by the promise of giving the power of binding and loosing to the Church Hierarchy. As I understand it, God honors the rules made by the men who run His Church. I don't know how to express it as a theologist, but the boundaries He sets up are the limits to what He permits, but otherwise He holds Himself bound to His promises to permit men to choose preferences on how to obey His will. I'm sorry this is sloppily stated, I just don't have adequate vocabulary. The point is that God doesn't say that the requisites for receiving Holy Communion don't have to be followed because they're man-made, but that these rules are certainly one area where all the Faithful are obligated to obey the boundaries set by the Bishop. Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox may receive Holy Communion from the time of baptism in infancy, but the Latin Church requires that children be of the age of reason and be catechized regarding the Eucharist before being permitted to receive the Sacrament. Those are both man-made rules, but we must obey our own bishops in these rules. And that's why I'm extremely, more and more, skeptical of this particular cult, imprimatur or not.

BEEN TO PUEBLA IN MEXICO❤ GREAT!

Wisconsin sounds wonderful!

Wonderful to see the apparition of Our Lady of Zeitoun over the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1968 on the thumbnail for this video.

My husband and I would love to go with you guys!

I would love to attend a trip with you guys in Wisconsin to see the site in champion. I would save up and would love to go. Thank you for your time

I’d be interested in joining you on any of the upcoming pilgrimages. I’d love to visit them all lol but I’m dreaming! I’d be happy with at least one.

Where can we sign up for that east side of Cleveland pilgrimage?

I’m interested in the Wisconsin trip

Kibeho, Rwanda has recently become big in my private devotion with the Rosary of Seven Sorrows. It’s the only Vatican approved African apparition as of now

We take the ultra supernatural proofs like the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and las lajasa for granted. Everybody should be raving about them. People rave about abortion, lgbtq plus plus, atheism etc though compared to spiritual matters that are more pertinent and spectacular they are "trivial." People are blind and not sensitive about spiritually connected matters. It's good you guys give this topic attention. These things should always be talked about.

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for Norfolk!

Does anyone know where to find details on the Women’s Fiat retreat Ryan D. mentioned?

Come to Knock in Ireland.

JUST OPEN YOUR HEART & THE EYES WILL HAVE IT😂😂😂❤

I am a protestant.But I am open to prophetic dreams,what I have sometimes.I do also pray for people,who had died,and need intesession.When I did sleep,MotherMary did touch me on my left shoulder.I did not see her,but the radiation,aura was so intensive,that I could realise her personality as Queen,Holy Mother and woman.I love the holy Mary.I am German

I would love to visit Lourdes. Does anyone know of Fr. Pio?

Let's go to Wisconsin and meet up with Cardinal Burke!

Wow! I never saw that about the moment of La Virgen De Guadelupe millions lost, millions gained in Mexico😮

My mom and I want to do pilgrimage asap. Please let me know when will this trip take place and when.

I chose Bernadette for my confirmation name. Lourdes and Fatima are both places I want to go to. I've been to Knock Ireland, it was so amazing.

Where can I buy those little statues of saints?

If you're heading to Green Bay, make sure to stop at Holy Hill, the Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians. It's in Erin, near Milwaukee off I-41.

Father Pagano, do you have the picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe where She Is holding, Saint Jhon Paul Ii?

My mom had a very special relationship with Our Lady to the point that when she was just a little girl; though she was forced to live in the Communist collective farms of WWII USSR; (she was born in Kołomija in 1930 when it was still part of Poland), every day she would climb on this big rock behind the little hut she was forced to live in with her parents... She would sit there and just have conversations with Our Lady... One day my grandparents received a letter from other family that was smuggled in... In the letter they were told their son was scheduled to be executed... My mom immediately went out and climbed up on the rock yelling up to Heaven; "YOU GIVE ME BACK MY BROTHER NOW!" They had not heard anything more for about ten years; but then a knock came to their door of the home they were living in by then, and standing there was my uncle who escaped execution.

Our Lady of Good Success is an incredible apparition that no one talks about.

There are other amazing sites in the U.S. I live halfway between the Shrine of Divine Mercy and the Shrine of the North American Martyrs. Please come to our area!

I would be very interested in any pilgrimages you would lead to Marian sites.

Our Lady Fatima and what are the last warnings and guidance for the 3 nights of darkness this coming October 2023?

I like the bobble head Maria.

I went to clear water Florida and saw the building the image of Mary was on. Someone threw acid on it and it didn't destroy the image. Unfortunately, someone broke the window later