come to us through Mary’s yes; it is also Christ Himself on the Cross who entrusted the Virgin to Saint John, by telling him: "Son, here is your Mother," and who entrusted us to Mary: "Mother, here is your

As Father Francesco, our companion in the St. John community, so well put it: "My goal is to make saints of you, and God will do the rest!" For my part, I took the step to go there and I have been feeling

s, our fears and anxieties, even our fear of death, into a glorious resurrection. There are many saints who are examples of perseverance and witnesses of true expectation. I choose two of them: St. John

Redemption, which she exercised throughout her life and in a special way at the foot of the Cross. Pope Saint John Paul II, General Audience of April 9, 1997

of the long road trips was postponed until June 1st–which happened to be the 40th anniversary of Saint John Paul II’s famous challenge from the forecourt of Reims Cathedral: “France, eldest daughter of

priest who was preaching a retreat in Rome asked where the miraculous image of the ancient church of Saint Matthew had gone. Research was undertaken. The young Marchi, who had become a Redemptorist, remembered

2:24). In fact, the "two turtledoves or two young pigeons" (Lk 12:8), was the offering of the poor. Saint John Paul II, Catechesis on the Creed, December 11, 1996

at Jesus’ baptism, but her whole life was tied to the richly symbolic meaning of this event. Pope Saint John Paul II made the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan the first luminous mystery of the Rosary. Indeed

whose cause for possible canonization was launched Nov. 8th by the Congregation for the Cause of Saints when Pope Francis approved a decree recognizing his heroic virtues. Father Morales was born in Venezuela

priest Zwingli. The latter's fanatical hatred and his followers' fury against the Virgin Mary, the saints, their feasts, shrines, statues and images, was well-known. Anna Dubliken did not share the ideas