Guadalupe (Mexico, 1531) I am the Mother of Ipalnemohuani (I) In 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared four times to a poor but respectful Indian of Mexico, Juan Diego, from Saturday, December 9th to Tuesday [...] heard someone calling him and a lady of incomparable majesty said to him, "Understand and know for certain, my dearest and humblest son, that I am the ever-virgin Saint Mary, Mother of God, The One Great [...] Heavens. I ardently want you to build a sacred House of God for me right here. I will give all my personal love, assistance, compassion and protection. Because I am truly a compassionate mother, your mother

travels, I always find a chapel with a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes or Saint Bernadette. We can say that Lourdes gives meaning and strength to the faith, and at the same it is a missionary shrine because [...] strength to the faith, but it is a model of missionary work. Cardinal Filoni explains: "It’s a shrine we go to, but also from where we depart. Because of this, it is a place dear to the heart of all countries [...] Missionary Works (OPM) will be held in Lourdes from May 11-14, 2020, under the patronage of the Virgin Mary, "the first missionary." The theme will be "I am the immaculate Conception." For Cardinal Fernando

Christian fleet had been victorious. He gave orders to ring the bells and have a procession. A few days later, messengers arrived with the official news from the victorious Christian army. Later, Pius V instituted [...] would be in danger and therefore sought the help of God through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pope Saint Pius V asked the Christians to pray the rosary for the fleet. The Pope was in Rome taking

of the Mass, uses in union with His own sacrifice, for the salvation of the world. Through grace, the love that Saint Joseph, guardian of the divine mystery, had for Mary as a husband and his sense of [...] Miracles (Bari, Italy, 1576) Devotion to Saint Joseph is inseparable from that of the Blessed Virgin It’s a good thing that part of the month of March, dedicated to Saint Joseph, is in Lent, since during this [...] fatherhood, were renewed, transformed and transfigured, taking on a new dimension in the service of God, now oriented towards the salvation of the world. This is what we will also learn by imitating him

which is a visit to heaven. -Second, the Rosary, which warns again and again about hell. -Third, Judgment and the Examination of Conscience. -Last, Night prayer is a nightly memento mori, a reminder of [...] Heaven for mercy. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it, “As sailors are guided by a star to the port, so are Christians guided to heaven by Mary.” Tom Hoopes, published on November 15, 2021 (Adapted) Aleteïa [...] of death. In the Rosary, we go through the four last things again and again, asking Mary to “pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death” and placing ourselves in the presence of “Our Father who

that led Pope Pius XII to uphold Mary as a beacon of peace for a frightened humanity. The Second Vatican Council, he continued, pointed to her as a “teacher of humanity” and a model for the Church in its mission [...] accompanied the universal Magisterium of the Church with Mariological input and contribution. “These commitments are a clear testimony of how Mariology is a necessary presence for dialogue between cultures [...] crucial questions of our time Pope Francis sent a message to the XXIV public session of the Pontifical Academies. This year’s edition, on the theme “Mary, way to peace among cultures,” was organized by

looked at the statue of Mary, and said to her: "I will most likely grow up to be a bad person, but it does not matter, I devote myself to you and I ask you to protect me. I did live like a scoundrel, but the [...] here, and now I am about to confess and die reconciled with the Lord." The young man lived a few more weeks, in great piety, and died the death of a saint. Excerpt from First Communion Retreat , by Arthaud [...] the patient asked the nun nurse to bring him a catechism, and as she showed some surprise, he said: "I want to make my confession, and for this I need a catechism, because I want to do things correctly

which he sees a rock breaking a great statue made of layers of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay. The king is troubled until Daniel gives him the right interpretation: "After you will rise a kingdom inferior [...] inferior to yours, then a third kingdom, of bronze... And there will be a fourth kingdom... In the time of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed and will not pass [...] the humble Virgin Mary opens the messianic reign which "will never be destroyed and will eternally subsist." Blaise Pascal wrote this about the prophecy of the little rock that becomes a mountain: "It is

friends and supporters with us, through the intercession of Our Lady. We'll literally lift your prayers closer to heaven!" The MacFarlane-Barrow family ran Craig Lodge as a hotel but after a life-changing pilgrimage [...] On September 1, 2018, youthful octogenarian and founder of Craig Lodge, Calum MacFarlane-Barrow, led a kilted prayer team on to Britain's highest peak to raise funds for the well-loved house of prayer. The [...] pilgrimage to Medjugorje in 1990 were inspired to give their home over to the service of God and a community of young people and program of retreats quickly formed around it. Throughout the last 28 years

the slopes. After their meager lunch at midday, they were overcome by fatigue and fell into a deep sleep. With a start Melanie awoke and, not seeing the cows, called to Maximin. They quickly climbed the [...] September 19, 1846, on a Saturday at 3 o' clock in the afternoon. Before the apparition La Salette was an obscure hamlet lost in one of those giant crevices of the French Alps. The Virgin Mary appeared to Maximin [...] children stopped in their tracks when they saw a very bright light blazing over the bench of stones where they had sat for lunch. The radiance parted and revealed a woman seated on the rocks, her elbows on her