things and therefore all souls belong to her. Mary is not unaware of this, and she also knows full well her sacred obligation to make use of everything that God has given her, for His honor and glory. [...] unite them to the soul of her Son and her own soul, and in order to avail herself of every soul for praising, exalting and magnifying Him who descended from Heaven and took flesh in her own virginal womb [...] the third place, the words anima mea (my soul) indicate and include all souls created in the image and likeness of God who have ever been, are now and ever will be in the whole world. St Paul assures us that

Cathedral remains more than ever a place of gathering and a beacon of hope! Adapted and translated from a text by Marie Elisabeth Flach and the Catholic youth group Pierres Vivantes (Living Stones), 2021 [...] that destroyed the roof of the famous Parisian cathedral and shocked the world, a group of young lay Catholics is inviting everyone, both Catholics and non-Catholics, to participate in a big march to Notre [...] support for the beloved, wounded cathedral and to all those involved in its rebuilding, as well as a way, in the spirit of the recent pilgrimage of the M of Mary , to pay a fervent homage to the Mother of

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary , Mary appeared in the church to the priest and his congregation, humbly dressed and in prayer. The hermitage of the Basilica has a year-round guesthouse and functions as the Center [...] decided to create jobs, and to do this he got a brilliant idea. As he explained: "I wanted to kill two birds with one stone: 1) Have the people pray for the forgotten souls in Purgatory, and in return, 2) Ask [...] employment for the workers." So he opened a printing shop and construction sites. These two parallel actions would address both their social needs and their spiritual needs. The village church of Montligeon

jungle prison. Sick, sweaty and malnourished, he lay semiconscious on the dirt floor. The beatings he endured now occurred daily and at times, hourly. As night merged with day and week gave rise to week, the [...] the steady brutality came without sense, without mercy and without end. And yet, though collapsed under the weight of excruciating pain and feverish delirium, moments of lucidity found the soldier’s trembling [...] Ten dots were roughly connected in a circle and in the center, a cross. And then, almost imperceptibly, his swollen, bloodied lips began to mutter, Hail, Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee… The Rosary

Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and the Child Jesus amid the dreariness of ordinary life. Let us simply ask them, humbly and ardently, to help us to understand the meaning of this trial, and to make us accept [...] of us, for the glory of God, our personal sanctification, and for the good of souls and the Church. Blessed Father Marie Eugène In La Vierge Marie toute Mère (The Virgin Who is Fully a Mother), Editions [...] accept it, so that we may follow in their footsteps, and remain faithful like them. May they give us their faith, may they give us their humble and powerful love, so that we may accomplish, like they did, the

still living at home. Every day we streamed and followed on our TV screen the office of lauds, daily Mass, the Lourdes Rosary, and finally an evening praise and worship service. This period was spiritually [...] retired but still very active. With the lockdown at the start of the pandemic, my wife and I were shut in the house and we spent a lot of time together, which used to be quite rare for us before. We didn't [...] lifted, I understood that Mary's sweet voice was asking me to organize a Rosary group every day in our parish, so that we would not leave her Son alone in the tabernacle and so that our church would be

Christ was standing, and a white one, upon which stood his holy mother. He saw persons attempting to ascend the red ladder; they ascended a few steps and then fell; they ascended again, and again fell. Then [...] white ladder, and on that he saw them succeed, for the Blessed Virgin offered them her hand, and they arrived in that manner safe in paradise. Saint Alphonsus of Liguori In The Glories of Mary

before an image of Our Lady and meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary. This prayer makes me feel the love and presence of Mary in my life. I feel that she accompanies me and blesses my ministry. Messias [...] the mysteries and started praying the Rosary with the neighbors during the novenas that were made in the area. When I entered the seminary, I continued this devotion and later, as a priest and as a bishop [...] before going to bed, to pray the Rosary. My father was the one who led the meditation of the mysteries and we, the children with our mother, followed the prayer. When I became a teenager, I wanted to learn

Madonna of Penhors My grandmother, a native of Brittany, France, and an oral witness of this story, told it to me many times. It is both simple and striking. Just above the beach of Penhors in Finistère, is [...] looks at the sea and makes a gesture of blessing the waves. For centuries, a “pardon” procession has taken place every year in September to the chapel that stands a few steps away. And for centuries the [...] homage to Our Lady and invoked her protection. During the war of 1939-45, Brittany was invaded by the Germans. One day a detachment of the Wehrmacht had cut off the head of the statue and thrown it into the

examples of Mary's presence in the beautiful Byzantine liturgy. Every Russian house has an icon of the Mother of God, illuminated by an oil lamp, and it is there that the family comes to meditate and that the [...] (before Fatima and the October Revolution), Our Lady herself appeared in Moscow with an icon of the Virgin Queen. Victory came not through crusades and the annihilation of war, but through peace and reconciliation: [...] including the feast of Jasna Gora on March 6) and Kiev (5). Marian Encyclopedia R. Laurentin, Comment la Vierge Marie leur a rendu la liberté , ŒIL, Paris, 1991, p. 15 and 58.