the disciples opened the grave, but found his tomb empty, and it became a source of miracles. On May 8th, it used to be covered with a kind of ashes, which the local Christians called "Manna." This substance [...] diseases of the soul and the body, for those who anointed themselves with faith. Because of this annual miracle, the Church instituted a feast to celebrate the beloved disciple of the Lord and beloved son [...] disciple of Christ, the friend who leaned upon his chest at the Last Supper, and to whom the Virgin Mary was particularly entrusted: John "the Theologian." Sometime after the burial of the holy Apostle John

covered with a sort of ash, which the Christians from the area called "Manna." This "Manna" had the virtue of curing diseases of the body and the soul for those who applied it on themselves with faith. [...] the Virgin Mary. After the wonderful passing and burial of the holy Apostle John the Theologian in Ephesus (celebrated every year on the 26th of September), his tomb was found empty and became a site of miracles [...] Thus the Orthodox Church solemnizes once a year the beloved disciple of the Lord, beloved son of the Mother of God. According to the Orthodox Monastery

the grace of God. Having not known sin, she is able to sympathize with all weakness. She understands the sinner and she loves him with a maternal love. That is why she is on the side of truth and shares [...] March 11 - Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 639) She understands the sinner and loves him Mary is a luminous sign and an appealing example of moral life, who deserves the title of "Throne of Wisdom." [...] useless. No acquittal, though pronounced by tolerant philosophical or theological doctrines, can make a person truly happy—only the Cross and the glory of the risen Christ can pacify his conscience and save

Sundays, I can’t wait, because I go to church. I go with a couple of my close friends and we leave feeling enlightened and empowered. It’s like a re-centering. Most of the time you leave and think, ‘Wow [...] ’” As he prepares to sign a three-year, £120 million contract extension at Mercedes, making him Britain’s richest sports star by a distance, Hamilton finally appears at ease with his future direction. There [...] of Lewis Hamilton’s religious devotion. An image of Pieta, Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of the dead Christ, is inked on his shoulder. Tattoos, though, are only the half

Crown of Roses (I) In ancient times, the Romans and the Greeks used to crown with roses the statues that represented their gods as a symbol of the offering of their hearts. Following this tradition, the Christian [...] adorned with crowns of roses, as symbols of joy and giving their hearts to God as they were about to encounter him. At night, the other Christians gathered their crowns, and for each rose they recited a prayer [...] prayer or a psalm for the eternal rest of the soul of the martyrs. The Church recommended praying the rosary, which consisted of reciting the 150 psalms of David, because it was considered to be a prayer

understood as miraculous by the people of his time in that the grape vine normally blossoms not from a rod or a shoot growing up from the ground, but from new shoots emerging from upper points of further growth [...] Windows in her honor; in her Litany gave her the title of Mystical Rose; and honored her with the Christmas carol, "Lo a Rose 'ere Blooming". An old capitol in the ancient Abbey of Cluny bears in the middle [...] flores adducit honores' (Springtime's first flowers give thee honors). Then, with the 18th century re-burgeoning of devotion to Mary, the Church dedicated to her the entire springtime budding and flowering

Archimandrite Eugene Pappas and a multitude of believers welcomed the sacred icon accompanied by Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. … “With so many problems in the world [...] world, the Virgin Mary brings hope, light, protection, and love...” Fr. Eugene Pappas said, “From this icon everyday there has been eight years of flowing and dripping myrrh fragrant as roses. Thousands [...] mental health. The miracles of the icon are truly incalculable. The miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary has traveled to many American cities and for the first time comes to New York.” Fr. Mark Leasure,

Certain Bertram! A Cistercian Chronicle reports that in the 12th century, Blessed Bertram, an Italian monk, from the Cerredo Abbey in Lombardy, “was charmed by an angel” with whom He entered “a temple where [...] where he found the Blessed Virgin Mary, surrounded by the patriarchs, the apostles and the other troops of the celestial fatherland”. The Mother of God said to him: “You can be certain Bertram that I was glorified

Certain Bertram! A Cistercian Chronicle reports that in the 12th century, Blessed Bertram, an Italian monk, from the Cerredo Abbey in Lombardy, "was charmed by an angel" with whom He entered "a temple where [...] where he found the Blessed Virgin Mary, surrounded by the patriarchs, the apostles and the other troops of the celestial fatherland". The Mother of God said to him: "You can be certain Bertram that I was glorified

only a part of you, Mary, but I call them your sparkle. Clerk, the next one please. Sister Catherine Labouré, living at 140, Rue du Bac... A strong full-grown woman rather than a young girl, in a grey [...] glances over to the door and the window with the eyes of a hunted deer. This girl has hardly just arrived, but she already wants to go away. And she will escape as a matter of fact, forever, dying in 1915 [...] habit, a tight cloth bonnet on her head, pulled down over her forehead. During the night of the 18th of July, 1830, after a 4 or 5 year old child dressed in white called me to the chapel, I heard a noise