the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens. He did so accompanied by a doctor, a nurse, a recovered patient and a person who had lost a family member to COVID-19: “In the present tragic situation, when the [...] Prayer Network. “This new Rosary can help many people in these moments of crisis because Mary, our Mother, is a powerful ally to look up to with hope at the times to come.” Adapted from Aleteia [...] division and uncertainty. But at the same time, this challenging moment is an opportunity to change and to prepare a healthier future. With our gaze fixed on Jesus and contemplating the luminous, sorrowful

Just for a moment while everything stops. It's noon and I'm with you, Mary, in this place where you are. I say not a word; I just look at your face and let my heart sing its own language. I say not a word [...] saved me, because you have saved France, because you thought of both France and myself, because at a time when the end was near, it was you who intervened. You saved France once again, because it's noon [...] noon, because we are in this day and age, because you are there forever, just because you are Mary. Thank you simply because you exist, Mother of Jesus Christ."

warnings" In 1961, in Garabandal, a village of 300 inhabitants in the Spanish Pyrenees, at a place called La Calleja, four young girls, Conchita, Jacinta, Mari Loli and Mari Cruz reported seeing an angel, [...] the eyes" and then the Virgin Mary - who came under her title of Our Lady of Carmel. From July 2, 1961 to November 13, 1965, the girls reported more than 2,000 encounters with the Virgin. Message of June [...] dragging souls along with them. The Eucharist is given less and less importance. You have to make efforts to avoid the wrath of God that weighs on you. If you ask Him for forgiveness, with sincere souls, He

anniversary of a Marian apparition in the small French village of Pontmain. For over 30 years the pastor of this village of 500 inhabitants taught his parishioners to pray to Mary with confidence and [...] was losing miserably in a war they had started against the German states. With the Prussian army within 50 miles of Pontmain, the villagers feared annihilation. As they gathered with their pastor for Sunday [...] hears our prayers!” Yet just two days later Our Lady appeared above a barn in Pontmain, writing a message in capital letters across a starry night sky: OH! DO PRAY MY CHILDREN GOD WILL ANSWER YOU VERY SOON

Angels who was subjected to a radical spiritual choice ( Fiat, let it be done, or Non serviam, I will not serve), but the angelic spirits themselves were put to the test. With a few quotes from Scriptures [...] Word and His Mother, full of grace yet a simple human. For their pure spirit, this certainly constituted a test, for it was tantamount to asking them to leave a reality beautiful and good in itself in [...] Scriptures, Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that the angels were created in a state of grace, but without yet seeing God. From the moment of their creation, the angels became aware of their own perfection, which brought

Let Our Lady guide you! "A few months ago, a close friend told me about a pilgrimage he made to Medjugorje (Bosnia-Herzegovina). I found his story interesting. I shared it with some friends and many of [...] the first grace from Mary fell on me: when I entered the church I said to our Mom [Mary]: "This is it, I am in Medjugorje, I entrust myself to you during this pilgrimage". At the moment of Communion I broke [...] I hadn't been to confession for a very long time! After going to confession, I went to Mass again at 6 pm. The same thing happened at the consecration! Mary struck a second time: I cried again, and I

important than the quantity of prayer. One intentional Hail Mary that you sit with and truly consider what God wants you to take away from this moment with Him can often be more fruitful than one quickly prayed [...] praying with these moments of Jesus’ life by trying a Scriptural rosary – try it, you won’t be disappointed! As I shared, I used to downplay the power of the rosary. I used to think that it wasn’t a “powerful” [...] your list. So focus on the quality of each prayer – even if that means you sit with one intentionally prayed Hail Mary for a while. I found one of those small little rosary pamphlets that you can pretty

punctuating our space with heaven’s beat as the world outside fractures. We do not pray alone, but rather with—with Mary to carry our prayers to her Son, with saints whose charism coincides with our intentions [...] Christian, and a little Motown remix… The Rosary is musical, much like those moments. Praying the Rosary is a back and forth movement, a swaying to the music of the Holy. The Hail Marys’ familiar words [...] of Sorrows (Quito, Ecuador) The Rosary has something musical about it I often used to spend time with a friend from church I’d known for years. During all our conversations, music lightly played in the

letter M surmounted with a little cross and below it the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Again, an interior voice spoke, telling me to have a medal struck on this model. It would be a source of wonderful [...] same moment I heard a voice saying, 'These rays are symbols of all the graces that Mary obtains for people.' (...) "Then an oval formed around the Blessed Virgin, and I read these words: 'O Mary, conceived [...] wonderful graces to those who wear it with confidence.

you. The Rosary is a bit like that: it is a way of placing oneself, with the heart of a pauper, under the radiance of the life of Jesus. It is a way of letting Jesus look at you, as Mary did, throughout the [...] us how much we are loved, looked after, called and understood by a God who works wonders. The Rosary is a string of moments where Mary, Mother of Jesus, brings us her presence and her intercession, as [...] saving moments of the life of Jesus. The Rosary allows us to inhabit her gaze, to commune with her listening, and to enter into resonance with the prayer of her heart. There are many ways to cross a garden