In drawing close to Mary, the Church discovers herself, she finds her centre and her unity. The enemy of our human nature, the devil, seeks instead to divide, to highlight differences, ideologies, partisan
only did Richard the Lionheart spare the town of Déols, but he also withdrew his troops, leaving the enemy with a serious advantage! But the emotion was as great in the French camp as it was in the English
Golden Jar filled with manna from the desert (cf. Ex 16:33). As Jael and Judith, she struck down the enemy of mankind. As with Esther, the King approves of the powerful intercession of the Queen, who seduces
exists. And not only does he exist, he’s not a detail, a bit player in our spiritual life. He’s the enemy who seeks our downfall, to turn us away from God. It is he who sets everything in motion to distance
to peril, to death. For today, it is no longer Herod whom we must fear, but a much more formidable enemy, Satan: "Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (1
devotion was begun and spread abroad by the holy Patriarch Dominic as a most potent weapon against the enemies of the faith at an epoch not, indeed, unlike our own, of great danger to our holy religion.” Pope
he was up against a formidable spiritual power and needed something strong enough to overcome the enemy. According to tradition, St Dominic retreated into the silence of the Prouille forest near the town
My servant, the just one, shall justify the many, their iniquity he shall bear" (Is 53:7-12). The enemies of Wisdom also evoked the death of the righteous one: "Let us lie in wait for the righteous one,
