Who has ever invoked Mary in vain!
Next Saturday—the third Saturday after Pentecost, and the day following the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—the Church celebrates the memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. For us Spiritans, this memorial is far more than a date on the liturgical calendar: it touches the very core of our vocation. And this year it acquires a particularly profound resonance, as we mark the bicentenary of the baptism of François Libermann (1826–2026), that founding moment in which Mary entered his life as a decisive grace.