our joy, that we are within her embrace.” “We have a Mother! Where there is a mother, there is always the presence and flavor of home. Where there is a mother, brothers and sisters may fight, but the sense [...] meditated on Mary's gaze (referring to the fact that the images of the seer of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Saint Juan Diego, and the people surrounding him, were visible in the eyes of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe) [...] Guadalupe). “Let us not be afraid to go out and look upon others with the same gaze. A gaze that makes us brothers and sisters. We do so because, like Juan Diego, we know that our mother is here, we know that

Maggiore (St Mary Major) in Rome, as early as the 4th century A.D. She appeared in a dream to a patrician named John and to Pope Liberius, and asked for a church to be built and dedicated to her, in a place that [...] there, and the "Miracle of the Snow" is recalled each year on the 5th of August by a solemn celebration, during which a rain of white petals is dropped from the ceiling of the church on the assembly. [...] would miraculously indicate. In the morning of the 5th of August, the Esquiline Hill appeared covered with snow. The pope traced the perimeter of the new church and John provided the financing. Pope Sixtus

Ratisbonne was born to a wealthy family of Jewish bankers in Strasbourg, France, on May 1, 1814. His older brother Theodore converted to the Catholic faith and became a priest when he was just a boy. Alphonse and [...] not speak a word to me, I understood the frightful situation I was in, my sins and the beauty of the Catholic Faith."(1) _____ (1) The Conversion of Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1842), Baron Marie Theodore [...] and his parents reacted with hostility and horror. Why would Our Lady appear to a man who hated the faith? Who knows? ...but on January 20, 1942, Alphonse entered the Basilica of Saint Andrea delle Fratte

the very place He actually honored with His divine presence. (...) In Loreto, the altar is found in the Basilica which encloses the Holy House like a precious diamond in a marble case. This was not to our [...] where Our Lord set His divine eyes, to trod the earth that St Joseph had sprinkled with his perspiration, where Mary had carried Jesus in her arms, after having carried Him in her virginal womb. I saw [...] Loreto on November 13, 1887: "I remember the great sense of happiness I had on my way to Loreto. What a perfect location the Virgin had chosen for her blessed house! Everything all around is poor, simple

recited one Our Father, later the Hail Mary was added. Then the Popes ordered three strokes (in honor of the Most Holy Trinity), and the recitation of a Hail Mary at each stroke, to ask the Mother of God [...] several times a day in memory of its prophet. Don’t Christians have far more reasons to look to Heaven to remember the divine Redeemer and his Blessed Mother? The Church helps us remember them with the Angelus [...] Angelus, a prayer recited at the sound of the bell in the morning, at noon and in the evening, to honor the Mother of God and also to meditate on the mystery of the Incarnation. This custom of ringing a bell

of Santa Fe (USA) stands a small statue of the Madonna and Child. The Virgin Mary is clad in a richly embroidered dress, topped by a jewelled crown. Her regal countenance wears a serene, detached expression [...] carried with him in the bloodless reconquest of New Mexico in 1692 (following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680). He vowed to build a chapel for Our Lady and hold a yearly procession if she would grant him a speedy [...] bloodless victory over the Pueblo Indians, which she did. The Shrine of Our Lady of the Conquest symbolizes a spirit of deep-rooted faith and devotion that characterized the Conquistadores of this territory. The

homeland but in the whole world. The call of a son of the Polish nation to the Chair of Peter involves an evident strong connection with this holy place, with this shrine of great hope: so many times I had [...] Poland. It was a cry coming forth from the heart and the will: a cry of the whole of the Christian being, from the person and the community, for the full right to proclaim the saving message; a cry that willed [...] solemnity, expressing together with you, Venerable and dear Brothers, his gratitude towards his great Predecessor, who from the time of the Council began to invoke Mary with the title of the Mother of the

about my reintegration into the community. How would I handle this return to a simple life, stripped of the multiple activities of a student's life? I listened to him attentively, but I could not give an answer [...] for me an extraordinary source of peace in my current role. Father Guillaume Marie, Father Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Mary of the Mont des Cats - Godewaersvelde, France. Testimony collected in 2006. [...] morning, which I still remember as if it were yesterday, I was walking along the large road lined with chestnut trees leading to the Lourdes grotto replica, when I was seized by an irrepressible desire

"Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favor! The Lord is with you.” It is also possible to imagine that he came to give force and courage to the Virgin’s fiancé, this man of a humble and timorous conscience, although [...] evangelist) says: "The angel Gabriel was sent by God". His name is not without meaning to the message with which he is charged. Indeed, which angel would have been better to announce the coming of the Christ [...] he has been chosen to announce the coming of this force itself, or because he was meant to reassure a naturally timid, simple and modest virgin that would have perhaps been disturbed by the news of the

including people who are not practicing Catholics or even Christians – return home with deeper gratitude for their own health and a livelier faith. For two months in 2020, the shrine at Lourdes closed for the [...] healings and apparitions of the Virgin Mary. For millions, however, Lourdes will indisputably continue to be an important faith symbol of comfort and care, and a byword for healing and hope. P. Dorian [...] crowds of fellow believers strengthens social faith identity, as does seeing sick pilgrims treated with dignity and honor. Many families, friends, spiritual advisers and volunteers from international Catholic