grace which only she can produce; for she alone is the fruitful virgin who never had and never will have her equal in purity and fruitfulness. Together with the Holy Spirit Mary produced the greatest thing

this icon, which had so much impressed him, but was told repeatedly that it was the first icon to have been painted at this skete and was not for sale. The Virgin was like the patroness of the studio.

What is impossible for men is possible for God," he said, calling for prayer and dialogue. "All we have to do is trust God completely, as Mary did," he concluded Adapted from: Aleteia

bodies to vanish into nothing. With God, nothing is lost! In Mary, the goal has been reached and we have before our eyes the reasons why we journey: not to gain the things here below, which vanish, but to

of the war has fallen at a particularly tense time, a time when leaders in the North Korean regime have severed all communication channels with South Korea, blowing up a building in Kaesong on June 16 th

She will remain all alone, abandoned by all the other nations that will turn away from her, after having led her to her doom. She will not remain in that situation for long. She will be saved, but not by

and one's companion. … My holy and blessed Joseph! My heart does not cease to thank its Lord for having given him to me as a consort, for as a holy Father He provided for his Servant and created this living

becoming a mother! From now on I am going to share the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows with friends who have been trying to conceive for months and with all those I know who are trying to get closer to the Virgin

"My dear daughter, draw some courage in the health that I give you from my divine Son, for you still have a long and painful way to go, always on the cross, pierced with nails and thorns, and torn with whips

"I've done stupid things, like everyone who has grown up in a rough neighborhood might do. I could have taken a wrong turn and become a delinquent. Some of my brothers did. It was really my faith that got