revealed Word, which is light but sometimes prophecies have a part of darkness too. Mystics like Saint John of the Cross speak of the dark night of faith and exegetes like Father Lagrange often evoke the [...] d by the grace of faith. Manuel Rivero O.P. Doctor of Theology. Chaplain of the Domenjod prison (Saint-Denis, Reunion, France), guest professor of theology at UCM (Catholic University of Madagascar) and

shrine anymore. But the decision was made because of the importance of the event in connection with Saint John Paul II, who is at the origin of the WYD and who had a special devotion to Our Lady of Fatima [...] brought to the Parque del Perdon, in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament where the Sisters of Charity (Saint Mother Teresa’s order) will keep watch. On Saturday and Sunday, January 26 and 27, 2019, the statue

"conceived without sin." In the 1980s, the Sandinista struggle turned against the Catholic Church. Pope Saint John Paul II's first visit in 1983 was met with strong opposition and protests. Nevertheless the country [...] El Viejo, in Chinandega (city in the west of the country), has been for many centuries the patron saint of Nicaragua and recently, on April 28, 2018, the Catholic Church of Nicaragua consecrated the entire

through Mary. Whatever desires the patriarchs may have cherished, whatever entreaties the prophets and saints of the Old Law may have had for 4,000 years to obtain that treasure, it was Mary alone who merited [...] merited it and found grace before God by the power of her prayers and the perfection of her virtues. Saint Louis de Montfort Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin , Chapter 1, §1-3 and 16

great saints who will come at the end of the world are reserved to her, for only this singular and wondrous virgin can produce in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things," wrote Saint Louis

reality of the Communion of Saints, and her very union with the Son in glory is wholly oriented towards the definitive fullness of the Kingdom, when "God will be all in all." Saint John Paul II, Encyclical

enigmatic image, Pope Francis referred to the maternity of Mary manifested during her apparitions to Saint Juan Diego in the 16th century, in Mexico. Since then, the Virgin has been honored there under the [...] with everyone the joy of having met Christ." He then evokes the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac, in 1531, and the roses that bloomed in winter well before the season

participant in a retreat unceremoniously told me: “I don’t know where to put Mary!” In his youth, Saint John Paul II had his doubts too: “At one point I began to question my devotion to Mary, believing [...] compromising the supremacy of the worship owed to Christ. At that time, I was greatly helped by a book by Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin … There I found the answers

Miraculous Medal (Paris, 1830) The Rue du Bac Apparitions (I) The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in 1830 to Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-76), a young French novice of the Daughters of Charity. This visit of Mary [...] extraordinary favor of conversing on three occasions with the Virgin Mary. The following text was told by Saint Catherine herself. "It would be impossible for me to describe what I experienced. The Blessed Virgin

fathers proclaimed the eternal memory of the defenders of Orthodoxy: Patriarch Germanus (715-730), Saint John Damascene, George of Cyprus, and all who had been subjected to exile and torture in their defense [...] Savior Jesus Christ, of our spotless Lady, the Mother of God, of the honorable Angels, and of all Saints and pious people."