countries. A few weeks ago, for example, there was an international retreat of priests with more than four hundred priests from forty nations, and they were all hosted free of charge by local families." [...] of worship where we can see extraordinary spiritual fruits. I refer for example to conversions, priestly and religious vocations and incessant confessions. I do not think there is any trace of heresy.”

than the Hail Mary in Italian, I knew that. What had she written? I found out later, when an Italian priest translated the lines for me. The grieving mother had poured out her heart, telling of her daughter's [...] the Virgin Mary would not let them leave Lourdes without healing and peace of heart. The Italian priest had to interrupt himself several times while reading it, overcome with emotion. A complete stranger [...] Mary, we can tell each other everything, because we are family. Father Guillaume de Menthière is a priest from the diocese of Paris since 1991. He teaches theology at the Paris Cathedral School and at the

divorced people." When I got back on the train, I was still crying. After the pilgrimage, I saw the priest who had helped me. He smiled as he told me: "You are filled with God’s love." Actually, I was overwhelmed [...] heart opening up to Mary and Jesus, which I didn’t believe could happen. After that, I confessed to a priest for the first time and unpacked my “load” of sins. In Mary’s and Jesus’ light we see everything we

November 3 – Our Lady of Coromoto (Venezuela) Martyrs of Vietnam During the Soviet period in the 1970s, priests and parishioners from the Catholic village of Honai in Vietnam told me that they would not flee from [...] tried to stop the North Vietnamese tanks from entering their parish. Father Hoang Quynh, the parish priest of Cholon, also a refugee from the North, told me: "For us communism is death. In Tonkin, we had

(1928-1959) was a Vietnamese Redemptorist religious. Wishing to become a priest at a very young age, he attended a parish priest's school, where he suffered from hunger and mistreatment. He died in a communist

Purification Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Flight Into Egypt and Presentation SIXTH CHANT [PRIEST]: Illuminating Egypt with the Light of Truth, you cast away the darkness of error. For the idols [...] honey! Hail, O Bride and Maiden ever-pure! [RESPONSE]: Hail, O Bride and Maiden ever-pure! KONTAKION (Priest or Cantor) As Simeon was about to leave the present deceitful world, You were entrusted to him as

Lady of Emminont (Abbeville, France) With a Rosary around the Neck and a Weapon on their Shoulder Priests and the faithful of the Catholic village of Honai, Vietnam, told me that they would not flee in front [...] prohibit the access of the North Vietnamese armored tanks into their parishes. Father Hoang Quynh, priest of Cholon, refugee of North Vietnam himself, once told me: "Communism is the death of us. When we

875) Mary touched their hearts It was at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France: I was a young priest, participating in a UNITALSI pilgrimage (an Italian organization that takes patients to Lourdes) [...] seemed more like a commercial city to me than a religious shrine. It was the year 1970 and we young priests were influenced by the climate of protest of the time. On the second day, the organizers of the

d the constant support of Our Lady in the most important moments of my Christian, religious and priestly life. In periods of doubt, when I was unsure of my vocation, I always prayed to her, asking her [...] glory of God and the good of souls. And several times, when I had decided to leave the religious and priestly life, Our Lady intervened, putting me in the right direction. Today I am happy that the Blessed

"Mary who heals married couples." This project was quickly supported by Dom Louis Soltner, the parish priest of Solesmes, whose church houses the new shrine. There, struggling Christian couples can come and [...] (9 consecutive days of prayer directed to a particular intention) and spiritual direction with a priest. The apostolic nuncio to France was present at the inaugural ceremony. Actu.fr/solesmes