2006, he began a series of pilgrimages (including one to the Holy Land and another to Lourdes), in order to honor his promise to the Virgin of Carmen, Patroness of fishermen. Aleteia
which he would derive from the manifestation of his greatness. In the third instant he determined the order in which this communication would occur, so that the most beautiful harmony would glimmer between
race. The reason being that what has been tied once can only be untied if one does again in reverse order the loops of the knots. Thus, the knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience, for what
giving us an active faith, a faith that encourages us to do good works and to avoid all evil in order to make us worthy of God's infinite mercy in this life and for eternity.
Rosary. Sudan became an independent nation in 1956. Its first prime minister, Ismail al-Azhari, in order to appease the Islamists of the country’s north, expelled all Catholic missionaries from the country [...] made up of men and women, priests and lay people, who have decided to leave everything behind in order to follow Christ as missionaries in the most demanding areas of the globe. Ave Maria Parish is now
the human will, the night of sin, the night of all evils; and as a sign of what He was doing in the order of souls, by means of His usual omnipotent Fiat the midnight turned into most refulgent daylight. [...] Him my breast, I gave Him abundant milk – milk formed in my person by the Divine Fiat Itself, in order to nourish little King Jesus. But who can tell you what I felt in doing this, and the seas of grace
and I saw Him in my maternal womb, immobile, enwrapped in a deep night. …And so my dear Jesus, in order to put to flight the darkness of such a deep night, in which man had made himself the prisoner of [...] of them He had voluntarily exchanged the light for darkness so that all might obtain true light in order to reach safety. My dearest child, who can tell you what my little Jesus suffered in my womb? Unheard-of
of a burned house by a 10-year-old girl, to whom the Virgin appeared several times, giving her the order to search in that place. The Virgin of Kazan has since been venerated as the "Liberatrix of Russia" [...] Nicholas II, in 1918, was to consecrate his Empire to her. He was arrested a few days later and, on the orders of Trotsky, executed along with his entire family. The Kazan icon disappeared in the horrors of the
was a Spanish monk of Portuguese origin, who dedicated his life to serving the poor and founded the Order of Hospitallers. Excerpt from The Glories of Mary - Saint Alphonsus Liguori
its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, “the