Virgin of Fatima on October 8, 2000, at the time of the Bishops' Jubilee, the Pope proclaimed at Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican the "Act of Entrustment" to Mary, during which he entrusted the Third

because its only witness was Mary. Everything we know about it comes from Mary, who told the story to Saint Luke, who reported it at the beginning of his gospel. The other protagonists of the scene are also

is a good idea when saying the Memorare to have a particular petition in mind. It is believed that Saint Bernard of Clairvaux composed the Memorare . But we also know that Father Claude Bernard, a French

by Sister Lucia in Tuy on January 3, 1944. The Third Secret was made public at the request of Pope Saint John Paul II on June 26, 2000

the plenitude of His graces. At the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise. 9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. 10. The

term for the staging of the Nativity, the Passion, the Resurrection of Christ and the lives of the saints. It is in this sense that we speak of the "mysteries'' of the Rosary. The full Rosary used to include

it was indeed during her religious life in Nevers (central France) that the visionary of Lourdes, Saint Bernadette, put into practice the message of the Virgin. What are the keys to Bernadette's holiness

magnificent prayer to her that he recites regularly: "Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Angels and Saints, Mediatrix of all graces, we find refuge and protection in your Immaculate Heart, for you are our

Acts 1:14), so that the new evangelization may yield a splendid flowering of Christian life. Pope Saint John Paul II Excerpts from his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Ecclesia in America", 1999, § 11

faithful who criticized the recitation of the Rosary for being too mechanical, the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, replied: "When a lover sings the same song to his fiancée over and over, who would