bringing it to an end… In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteous men and women in order to save the city of man and he does the same here, in Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you want to
a farmer named Raymond. The first chapel was visited by Saint Dominic, the famous founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, in 1213. During the 16th century, the fierce conflicts between Catholics and
end of the Mass. “She wanted to touch – in the most religious sense of the word – those images in order to touch God.” For the pope, popular devotion is a treasure that must be protected and kept alive
famous icon “Salus Populi Romani,” the same icon that Pope Gregory the Great carried in procession in order to end the plague of 597. During the famous Battle of Lepanto, waged in the Gulf of Patras in Greece
Placed as she is between God and the sinner, Mary is ever busy invoking the clemency of the judge in order to move Him to pity, and she is ever trying to overcome the obstinacy of the sinner. The missioner
God’s call to leave the land in which he lived, to leave behind all that guaranteed his security in order to start out on the journey to an unknown land, assured only in the divine promise, so Mary trusts
incredible secrets to himself. Finally, he was a real prince when pressed to make serious decisions in order to save the lives of his loved ones. In our day and age where family bonds are dislocated by the
s made in Rome on that same day by the members of the Rosary confraternity. St Pius V thereupon ordered that a commemoration of the Rosary should be made upon that day, and in 1573, Pope Gregory XIII
Nettles (Germany, 1441) Memory of Mary on Saturdays (II) Humbertus de Romanis, Master General of the Order, gave three more reasons for choosing to dedicate Saturdays to the Blessed Virgin Mary: 5.Just as
to depart, the abbot came to them holding the icon. During the night he had received an interior order. He said, "This icon will be a sign in the west." The icon was not for sale, it was an offering, a
