to the Blessed Virgin and renewed the promises of his First Communion: "Mary, I give you my heart, keep it forever. Jesus and Mary always be my friends, but please, let me die rather than have the misfortune [...] can no longer recall what it was ... Oh! How lovely it is what I see ..." With these words, his hands folded across his chest and a smile on his shining face, he breathed his last without making the slightest [...] every time my confessor permits me. 2) I want to sanctify holy days. 3) My friends will be Jesus and Mary. 4) Death rather than sin. Don Bosco was traveling through the region in October 1854, and people
day, she asked Mary what was to become of her. The Blessed Virgin said that she would see her no more, that she would be with Estelle, but invisible. Holding out the scapular, which Mary had asked Estelle [...] wear the scapular with trust in me and spread this devotion." As she said these words, she held out her hands and drops like rain fell down generously from them; and within each drop a grace was clearly [...] Estelle became very sad. Mary reassured her, "Be brave, if he [the Prelate] does not do what you desire, go higher up. Do not be afraid, I shall help you." Then she turned a semicircle in Estelle's room
it as a magic formula that effects things by saying meaningless words. But this is not the way the rosary was meant to be prayed. The repetition of the Hail Mary, rather, is often compared to a child speaking [...] allow us to enter into the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. Some find it helpful to combine Scripture reading and even some silence with the prayers to aid in meditation on the mysteries. Some have [...] he wrote in 2002, “If this repetition is considered superficially, there could be a temptation to see the rosary as a dry and boring exercise. It is quite another thing, however, when the rosary is thought
s of Christ with a Motu Proprio. Concerning the statue of Our Lady set at the top of the building in Jerusalem, a sculptor, Roger de Villers, used the statue of the Virgin as a model for a second seven [...] France began in Jerusalem when the French Assumptionist Fathers built a very large edifice overlooking the city, completed and crowned with the great statue of Our Lady (Notre-Dame of France) in 1904. The buildings [...] seven and a half yard-high statue of Notre-Dame of France, to crown the Pontifical Pavilion at the 1937 Universal Exposition in Paris, which became the "Marian Pavilion" the following year in order to commemorate
the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to [...] in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo
the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to [...] in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo
to contemplate it with Mary, is the "program" which I have set before the Church at the dawn of the third millennium, summoning her to put out into the deep on the sea of history with the enthusiasm of [...] in the Eucharist; by Him she is fed and by Him she is enlightened. The Eucharist is both a mystery of faith and a "mystery of light". Whenever the Church celebrates the Eucharist, the faithful can in some
cure some sick people," asked Lucia. "Yes, I will cure some this year." Then, with a sad expression, Mary added, "Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners, since so many souls go to hell because [...] asked what should be done with all the money that people left at the foot of the green oak of Cova da Iria. "I want two procession floats to be made. You will carry one with Jacinta and two other little [...] Our Lady was about to appear, John hurried away to get his sister Jacinta. Our Lady did appear, in a gleam of light, but she waited for little Jacinta before becoming visible above the oak tree. She then
of Cuneo, Italy, is a famous church of Piedmont, near the town of Mondovi. Its construction followed an event that occurred in 1596. It was built on the site of a column supporting a statue of the Virgin [...] Virgin and Child. One day, a distracted hunter had hit the statue of the Virgin with his arrow, and this caused the statue to miraculously bleed. Understandably, the faithful started coming there to pray to [...] to the Virgin Mary. Later, a beautiful church was built, topped by one of the largest elliptical domes in the world, in honor of the famous Wounded Virgin. In addition to the pilgrimage itself, an annual
shone a light in the form of a diadem. Over her shoulders there was a heavy chain as well as a smaller golden chain with a resplendent crucifix. Translated and adapted from La Salette by the Marie de Nazareth [...] peasant with a long dress, an apron nearly as long as the dress, a white shawl, and a cap. Roses crowned her head while another wreath of roses adorned the edges of her shawl and a third garland covered her [...] looked like a mother beaten by her own children and who had escaped up to the mountains to sob her eyes out. The beautiful Lady was tall and seemed to be made of light. She was dressed like a local peasant
