immaculate, all immaculate! Tota pulchra es Maria and macula originalis non est in te. The shadows of sin have not approached you, O pure and unblemished virgin, lily bursting with light and beauty. Certainly

the mother of Jesus and our Mother, has always been present in my life since I was a child. I must have been six or seven years old when my parents taught me to pray the Rosary and meditate its mysteries

his handmaid." It is for this reason, and not for anything else, that the cry of the generations who have proclaimed her blessed has risen. Saint Angela of Foligno (d. 1309) Excerpt from her Book of Visions

Dominican fathers. The image had already noticeably deteriorated over time when one day, it appeared to have been mysteriously ‘renovated.’ This inexplicable occurrence is known as “the miracle of the found

patroness of Brazil, at the national shrine of Aparecida, in the State of São Paulo. In 1717, after having prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, some fishermen threw their nets into the water and

said, "must rediscover that baptism leads us to a royal life, that baptism cannot be buried, that we have been baptized to produce royal fruit. Mary wants to help us. She knows our weaknesses and frailties

the greatest patron saint of the island. The Mercedarian brothers settled on the hill in 1335, and have now been there for seven centuries. Their founder was Saint Peter Nolasco, who started the order in

goals. It truly is amazing how much each of us can affect the world around us for the better if we have the courage to say yes. Fr. Michael Rennier , December 28, 2017 Aleteia.org

troubled." She was chosen to be the Savior's mother, can you imagine? She, the humble one, how could she have known that she would receive such a grace? Mary could not imagine God's plan before it came to be

referring to the Blessed Virgin Mary, "the Mother of peace and disarmament." "At first, I did not have the money to start this project, but I launched it anyway. It is really in faith that I engaged in