“is ‘Come, Lord Jesus.’” Vigano suddenly fell silent as if filled with an unexpected emotion. His expression changed. His eyes began to glisten as if with incipient tears. He took a deep breath and began

anniversary of the Vow of Louis XIII, contemporaries were amazed at the joy of the people and the great expression of thanksgiving everywhere, following this vow: "Never has a people, on any occasion, shown more

who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled!" It was then that Mary's expression of thanksgiving burst out in a hymn that is the summit of all poetry and eloquence, with a fullness

previously submitted it to a vote of all the bishops of the world of which only 6 out of 1,181 had expressed reservations. Le Figaro

(Diary, 635) And a few months later: “I saw Her, so lovely and so beautiful that I have no words to express even a small part of this beauty. She was all [in] white, with a blue sash around Her waist. Her

superior to Peter in knowledge of the Gospel, wisdom in its application, and purity in its lived expression. How then would Mary respond to Peter’s authority? In spite of her superiority to Peter in most

Conception (1854), the Maronite Church wished to mark this anniversary with solemnity, and thus express the love of the Lebanese people for the Virgin Mary. The Maronite Patriarch Elias Hoyek, the Apostolic

only Savior." (John Paul II, Letter to Montfortian Families, § 8). It is in this context that the expression "Age of Mary" must be interpreted: "When will come that happy time and that age of Mary, when many

consents to the ignominious torture. How many times, in situations so much less painful, have we expressed our discontent? Faced with the injustice and disrespect for human life from conception to natural

nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13). What mind can grasp this mystery, what tongue can express this gracious act? Sinfulness returns to guiltlessness and the old nature becomes new; strangers