candlelight procession ends in front of the Gnadenkapelle with the invocation: " Help me Mary, help me Mary! Help me also! I stand before you, a sinner! O Mother of Mercy, stay close to me on the day of [...] turned on; the Nazis refused, but a brave pilgrim managed to turn on the light, paying with his life for this courageous act while saving the shrine from destruction. The Mary of Nazareth editorial staff Source: [...] of my last agony! " Even more moving is the absolutely unique custom of carrying a wooden cross on one's shoulders and walking around the chapel three times, praying and imploring the Mother of Sorrows

protection and intercession of Mary,” Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver (Colorado) said in an August 7th statement. “And so... I am launching a Rosary Crusade to ask Mary to urgently bring our needs to [...] addition to a renewed commitment to the sacramental life, Kemme also invited his diocese to a month-long Rosary Crusade, because “the Rosary has been recommended to the faithful for centuries as a prayer of [...] to Jesus.” Aquila invited all Catholics in his diocese to pray a daily Rosary, beginning on the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, Aug. 15th, through the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows on Sept. 15th

to go with the novena, to make the devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots more concrete: each person asking for a grace wrote their intention on a piece of paper tied with a ribbon, and placed it in a basket [...] devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots In Brazil. Bourgerie was working as a pilot when he moved to Brazil in the 1970s and decided to become a missionary of the Virgin Mary in Campinas. In 1999, he made a trip to [...] of a Catholic Marian shrine, where the Virgin Mary is venerated under a name he was not familiar with, in the church of San José del Talar. He went there and was amazed at both the picture of Mary Undoer

based on Mary, the conversion movement, the hunger for God, all indicated that communism was not a workers' movement, that it did not liberate, and that religion would not die. There was also a decisive [...] of the Virgin Mary takes place in Moscow (23), St. Petersburg (5, including the feast of Jasna Gora on March 6) and Kiev (5). Marian Encyclopedia R. Laurentin, Comment la Vierge Marie leur a rendu la liberté [...] human integrity. Catechesis was condemned as a crime. Anyone who exercised influence, even underground, was arrested by the KGB, brainwashed or destroyed with special drugs in psychiatric hospitals. "The

Guadalupe. This is the feast of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego, a native Mexican peasant who experienced apparitions of Mary on the Hill of Tepeyac in present-day Mexico City. There [...] up the hill of Tepeyac, Juan Diego—a weaver, farmer and laborer—encountered a beautiful lady who appeared to him, humbling him to his knees. He learned that she was Mary, the mother of Jesus. She spoke to [...] the Archbishop of Mexico City (Fray Juan Zumárraga) with her request. The Archbishop didn’t believe him. On December 10th, he talked with the Archbishop a second time, pleading that he grant her request.

“From that moment on, Mary took concern for us upon herself, and when we let ourselves be guided by her, we are in safe hands. Saint John Paul II believed this, he trusted Mary, and with Mary he transformed [...] suffering with this spirit, even during very difficult moments, like the 1981 assassination attempt. Marian devotion was a hallmark of the saint-pope, so much so that “Totus Tuus Maria” (“Mary, I am all [...] so frightening because, for so many people, faith has died. Saint John Paul II was a believer, a convinced believer, a coherent believer and faith illuminated the path of his life,” said Cardinal Angelo

finished a rosary-making activity and were entering into a time of prayer. The teen’s father had volunteered to lead a decade of the Rosary, but there was a catch — he forgot the words to the Hail Mary, Anthony [...] their parents Scott Anthony, a youth minister in Pennsylvania, recalls the moment one of his teens took her father’s hand and guided him through the Rosary. It happened at a “Parent-Teen Night” that Anthony [...] prayer to him,” Anthony said. “It was one of those moments that was just etched in my memory, because it was so beautiful to see this young teenage girl with the love she had for her dad. You could tell she

persons we entrust to him. Let's not forget to meditate on the moment of Saint Joseph's death in the arms of Jesus and Mary. What a marvelous moment! [...] him most of the time with the Child Jesus in his arms or working beside Him in his humble workshop of Nazareth. It is true that Saint Joseph lived in the intimacy of Jesus and Mary. He shared in the intimate [...] we admire the righteous man from Holy Scripture, with his goodness, his meekness, his patience in trials and his tender affection for Jesus and Mary. As the adoptive Father of Jesus, we can also consider

“The present is all you have, and then the moment you especially want our Lady to pray for you is at the moment of our death. That is a moment of supreme importance and that is when our lady is most present [...] pray for the conversions of ourselves and for others.” There was a holy nun named Venerable Sister Mary Potter (1847-1913) who founded a religious order dedicated to prayer for the dying. “There is none [...] Father Sebastian Walshe’s greatest experiences as a priest is going to people’s deathbeds and giving them the sacraments. [...] “I have so much optimism as a priest when I talk to parents whose children have

change it and she gave him a book with images, in which she explained how much the rosary pleased God, because it reminded him of the moment when humanity, represented by Mary, had accepted his Son as the [...] When Dominic began speaking, a fierce storm with claps of thunder and strong winds broke out and frightened the people. Everybody present saw the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the cathedral; the Virgin [...] penance, and flagellating himself until he actually lost consciousness. At that moment, the Blessed Mother appeared to him with three angels and said that the best weapon for converting hardened souls was