walking stick. He then prostrated himself on the floor of the boat and exclaimed, "Let those who love Jesus Christ join me in prayer." His companions shrugged their shoulders and sniggered at this invitation

suddenly heard harmonious voices fill up the nave. He raised his eyes and saw a choir of angels (...). Jesus Christ?, clothed with purple ornaments, was celebrating at the altar the office for the dedication

day in prayer. When he stood up, he saw a cloud and the Blessed Virgin then appeared with the Baby Jesus in her arms, surrounded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Catherine the martyr, and Saint Michael

nations with a rod of iron" and is "caught up to God and to His throne" (V. 5). The child is clearly Jesus; so the radiant woman is His mother. We then see Mary crowned in heaven, bejewelled with cosmic lights

Advocate, thine eyes of Mercy toward us, and after this our exile show us the Blessed Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us O Holy Mother of God That we may be made worthy

Filled with the Fragrance During the long periods John Paul II spent in his private chapel he spoke to Jesus, abandoning himself totally to His will, and entrusting himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus

brings. And in the struggle which the disciples must confront – all of us, all the disciples of Jesus, we must face this struggle - Mary does not leave them alone: the Mother of Christ and of the Church

Virgin Mary" Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759-1833) shone as a bright light in the Russia of his time. Jesus said to him: "Acquire inner peace and thousands of souls will find salvation with you", and that's

with a halo of bright light. Sometimes the witnesses saw her with the infant Jesus, or sometimes with the twelve-year old Jesus, and other times, with St. Joseph. Still other times, she was seen carrying

experience taught me how true it is that Mary—the Mother of God and Our Mother—brings us back to Jesus through her Rosary! She is truly the Mother of Reconciliation! Adapted from a text by Father Mario