progress, just a sense of disappointment. The distance between us was widening, with the risk of never closing again. A friend introduced us to this novena. At first we thought, we had already prayed,
my fight against the illness. On the fortieth day, I woke up with a feeling of "being" that I had never experienced before. God performed a miracle on behalf of the sinner that I am. He had touched me—now
mostly laborers, technicians, school children and students, took ten years to build the house of God, never shrinking from difficulties and accepting many sacrifices ... Over 50,000 people attended the church’s
wholly immaculate! "Tota pulchra es Maria et macula originalis non est in te." The shadows of sin have never approached you, O most pure Virgin, lily bright with light and beauty. Certainly, Mary belongs to
nature and the all-surpassing greatness of divine grace. (...) Even the early Protestant reformers never called for a wholesale rejection of the Marian dogmas. Luther and Calvin believed, for example, in
Mother we need, be our mother always. Mother who went on believing, we thank God for you. Mother who never lost hope, we thank God for you. Mother who loved to the end, we thank God for you. All holy and
That first Advent, I never followed a daily devotional or lit a candle on the wreath. It seemed like utter failure to neglect such rituals. But my mom said to me something I would never forget: “Through your
Mother. I finish teaching the doctors with the lesson to Mary, the Queen of doctors. And She has never forgotten it. The sun began to shine again in Her heart now that She had Me, humble and obedient, [...] And great joys and many tears will alternate in Her heart during the next twenty-one years. But never again will She ask: "My Son, why have You done this to us?" (1) Maria Valtorta (March 14, 1897 – October
tradition, saints and mystics have also been unanimous in believing that the very humble Virgin never imagined she might be the mother of the Savior. This certainly was the great sign of the coming of
as a whole, is trustworthy and satisfactory," although like all private revelations, an apparition never becomes part of Catholic teaching. Individual Catholics can judge the evidence for themselves. Knock
