that still amazes us today. It all started in 1968 with a conversation we had about a married couple, Camille and Gerard, who couldn’t participate in any pilgrimages to Lourdes because they had severely [...] 1881) - Saint Charbel Makhlouf (Lebanon, 1828-1898) An idea sprang up, inspired by the Virgin Mary Marie-Hélène Mathieu, founder of the Christian Foundation for Disabled People ( Office Chrétien des personnes [...] was co-founder with her of the international movement Faith and Light: "Faith and Light is the great work we were both called together to undertake. We hadn’t planned it. It was truly a work of God that
Us to pray to her, for so long a time, with special appeals. But We entertain another object: (...) That God may be more favourable to Our prayers, and that He may come with bounty and promptitude to the [...] crisis in the Church, it is imperative to pray to Mary and Joseph! At this proximity of the month of October, which We have already consecrated to the Virgin Mary, under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary, [...] Church, We judge it of deep utility for the Christian people, continually to invoke with great piety and trust, together with the Virgin-Mother of God, her chaste Spouse, the Blessed Joseph; and We regard it
We entered the Council hall, along with "Mary, the Mother of Jesus," so at the close of the third session We leave this Temple with the most holy and sweet name of Mary, Mother of the Church. [...] November 22 - Our Lady of Soufanieh (Syria, 1982) Mary, "Mother of the Church" (II) This is a title, Venerable Brothers, not new to Christian piety; it is precisely by this title, in preference to all [...] all others, that the faithful and the Church address Mary. It truly is part of the genuine substance of devotion to Mary, finding its justification in the very dignity of the Mother of the Word Incarnate
questioning the seer, he celebrated Mass. That morning, a woman with a serious nervous disease was present, which caused her to bend her legs in such a way that her heels touched the lower part of her back [...] themselves, if they turned to her intercession with faith. In fact, many cures were recorded in a short period of time: a child recovered the use of an eye; a person was cured of an ulcer in his hand. Even [...] August 31 - Our Lady of the Founders (Constantinople) My Name is Lady Mary (III) In September 1665, an investigation into the apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father
outside the Walls in Rome and St. Sophia in Istanbul! It is 30 meters high, with a 80m high dome and a 100m high campanile. There is a lower church in the crypt and an upper church. The apses illustrate the [...] This colossal building is an expression of a great faith and love of God and Mary. It was Pope John Paul II who elevated the National Shrine to the status of a Minor Basilica on October 12, 1990, and later [...] later, on April 16, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI gifted it with a Golden Rose. This national shrine is very much alive: in its Lourdes chapel a perpetual rosary is offered for peace. In the crypt church, people
questioning the seer, he celebrated Mass. That morning, a woman with a serious nervous disease was present, which caused her to bend her legs in such a way that her heels touched the lower part of her back [...] themselves, if they turned to her intercession with faith. In fact, many cures were recorded in a short period of time: a child recovered the use of an eye; a person was cured of an ulcer in his hand. Even [...] August 31 - Our Lady of the Founders (Constantinople) My Name is Lady Mary (III) In September 1665, an investigation into the apparitions in The Laus was undertaken by the vicar-general of Embrun, Father
Saint Joseph Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (XIII) "For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given" (Is 9:6) The fact that an entire nation awaited the coming of the Messiah foretold by a long series [...] history of the world. This expectation is fulfilled by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Christmas. "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the power to rule shall be on his shoulder: and his name [...] be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever (Is 9:6-7). Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of mankind
Saint Joseph Mary in the Midst of Israel's Waiting (XIII) "For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given" (Is 9:6) The fact that an entire nation awaited the coming of the Messiah foretold by a long series [...] history of the world. This expectation is fulfilled by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Christmas. "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the power to rule shall be on his shoulder: and his name [...] be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever (Is 9:6-7). Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of mankind
(Damascus, Syria) Mary is the Queen and Lady and Mother of the King of Angels (I) Saint Bridget saw the Queen of Heaven, the Mother of God, wearing a priceless and inestimable crown on her head, with her wonderfully [...] wonderfully beautiful hair hanging down over her shoulders, a golden tunic gleaming indescribably bright, and a mantle of the color of azure or of a calm sky. While Bridget was all full of wonder at this lovely [...] signifies that she is a pure and immaculate virgin; the sky-colored mantle that she is dead to all temporal things. The golden tunic signifies that she is ardent and burning with the love of God both inwardly
(Damascus, Syria) Mary is the Queen and Lady and Mother of the King of Angels (I) Saint Bridget saw the Queen of Heaven, the Mother of God, wearing a priceless and inestimable crown on her head, with her wonderfully [...] wonderfully beautiful hair hanging down over her shoulders, a golden tunic gleaming indescribably bright, and a mantle of the color of azure or of a calm sky. While Bridget was all full of wonder at this lovely [...] signifies that she is a pure and immaculate virgin; the sky-colored mantle that she is dead to all temporal things. The golden tunic signifies that she is ardent and burning with the love of God both inwardly
