Saint Thérèse of Lisieux who pushed to obtain daily communion; and of course the bishop and the priests followed. So I think that now it is important to listen, not in spirit of opposition or demanding [...] Can we see in it a reference to the Virgin Mary? FL: They are women who, even though they can’t be priests and celebrate Mass, often have a great love of Jesus Eucharist, of the Body of Christ, which, I think

testimony in 1999 in Cologne, before speaking to an assembly of priests, explaining how Mary is at the heart of his Eucharistic and priestly spirituality, and always recalling his experience in prison: When

in the Oct. 5, 2019 consistory. As a priest in Lithuania, Tamkevicius played an active part in resisting communist persecution of the Church. With four other priests, he founded in 1978 the Catholic Committee

After having seen Our Lady for a second time on the way to church, Adele went and told the parish priest about these happenings and asked what she should do if the woman returned. He told Adele to ask the [...] children in the heavenly kingdom. Fr. Edward Looney (1) - Catholic Digest (1) Father Looney is a priest from the diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and a member of the Mariological Society of America.

open to learning and obeying God’s purposes for our life. We read of how Angel Gabriel visited a priest named Zechariah. He and his wife, Elizabeth, were obedient followers of God but did not have any [...] people around them because empowered by the Holy Spirit, the water of life flowed through them. The Priest and young Mary had extremely different reactions to the message brought to them. Let us remain open

great surprise, that God was humiliating the devil by forcing him to praise Mary. Indeed, while this priest was invoking the Virgin, the devil said, "She is the only one who is everywhere, she 'kills' me, [...] die; we crucified her Son and she did not die; she took other sons!" In another exorcism, while the priest was praising the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the devil said, "Her Heart is our pain; the more we pierced

prison of Pawiak in Warsaw. Father Kolbe was violently beaten simply because he was a religious and a priest. He wrote to his friar sons who had remained in Niepokalanow (1): "The most loving Immaculate Mother [...] may, through love, save all souls." A few days later, on May 28, in a train full of prisoners, the priest arrived at the concentration camp of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and was assigned the number 16670. In July

reached the camp safe and sound. Father Henri de l'Eprevier, priest of the diocese of Paris, member of the Aïn-Karem Community, parish priest of Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles (Paris)

when I had to leave my father's house to commit myself to the service of the Gospel as a diocesan priest; when I crossed the ocean to go do a mission in Spain; and still today, in my mission as Bishop of

field of battle. Sister Lucia of Fatima (1907-2005), to Don Umberto Pasquale, an Italian Salesian priest (November 26, 1970)