started praying the Rosary with the neighbors during the novenas that were made in the area. When I entered the seminary, I continued this devotion and later, as a priest and as a bishop, I kept praying it

committed in bad faith and not acknowledged, or confessed without sincere repentance, prevents you from entering the holy Paradise. If you have committed mortal sins, it is imperative to confess them to a priest

especially its vocation campaigns, that I discovered my own vocation to the priesthood. And in 1976 I entered the Seminary of the Redemptorist Fathers, where I stayed for 4 years. There I grew in the knowledge

Cross. "The first week was the hardest," he says. On the eighth day, an individual dressed in black entered his cell. Father Mourad believed his last hour had come and asked him the reasons for his abduction

making ourselves available, so that our heart and our whole being are ready to welcome God when he enters into our lives. When we see how this astonishing encounter between Mary and the Archangel Gabriel

can, but with the Rosary, it's easier. Verbal prayer is a walking stick on which one leans when one enters the unknown region of the mysteries. Even when difficulties arise between us, after a decade of the

you better, and like Elizabeth at Ain Karim, I am waiting for you to come." The Lord wants us to enter into an intimate and strong relationship with the Virgin Mary. Jesus so wanted us to love her that

at about seven o'clock, Father Desilets, Father Jansoon and Mr. Pierre Lacroix, a disabled man, entered to pray the Virgin. Then something extraordinary happened: "... the statue of the Virgin, whose eyes

temple of the Savior, the precious bridal chamber and Virgin, the sacred treasure of the glory of God, enters the House of the Lord, bringing the grace of the Divine Spirit. The angels of God praise her: Truly

and wondrous things. When the Holy Spirit, her spouse, finds Mary in a soul, he hastens there and enters fully into it. He gives himself generously to that soul according to the place it has given to his