took the priest to a hut where a teenage girl was dying. They told him: "She's asking to receive the baptism of Catholics, so she can go to a beautiful lady!" The priest knelt down next to the dying girl [...] July 4 – Our Lady Refuge of Sinners Ask for the Catholic baptism and I will come get you The Oblates of Mary arrived in Lesotho in 1862. The following year, one of them, Father Joseph, was traveling through [...] “No, don’t go! It's a village full of witches, you’ll fall into a trap.” But the priest insisted: "There might be a soul to save. I’m going!” And Father Joseph went to the village followed by a very nervous
dear Jesus, in order to put to flight the darkness of such a deep night, in which man had made himself the prisoner of his own tenebrous will - to the point of losing the motion of doing good – chose the [...] as if He put aside the infinite seas of joys, of happiness, of light, and plunged His tiny Humanity into the seas of darkness, of bitternesses, of unhappiness and of miseries, which the creatures had prepared [...] He made His heartbeat heard in every heart, to ask - for pity’s sake – for their souls, to enclose them in the light of His Divinity, because for love of them He had voluntarily exchanged the light for
still have attained “Queen of Heaven and Earth” status without being a perpetual virgin? (Indiana) A: As to your specific question, whether Mary could be thought of as queen of heaven and earth without having [...] been a perpetual virgin, the answer of course is yes. But that is not the issue here. The teaching of Mary’s perpetual virginity is one of the longest defined dogmas of the church. It was taught by the earliest [...] April 8 – Our Lady of Basella (Italy, 1356) Did Mary have other children after Jesus? Q: When I was an evangelical, the standard take on Mary’s virginity was that she remained a virgin until after the
March 10 - Our Lady of Miracles (Bari, Italy) A man converts after being hit by a rosary thrown into a crowd! In 17th century England, Catholics were the target of a brutal persecution. Father John Ogilvie [...] Condemned to death for this statement, he spent his captivity as cheerful and humorous as usual. After being tortured, he was taken to the scaffold on March 10, 1615, where he renewed his loyalty to the king [...] who later converted to Catholicism. The blow of the rosary worked for him as a coup de grace. John Ogilvie was canonized by Paul VI in mid-October 1976. Taken from the Minutes of Father Ogilvie's trial
at the age of 93. After a long investigation, Bishop of Cabrières authorized the construction of a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, in 1879. Saint Bauzille de la Sylve: Our Lady of Sunday [...] is he who will believe and unhappy the one who will not believe. The people should go to the church of Our Lady of Gignac in procession. I tell you, you and your family will be happy.” Auguste continued [...] July 8 – Our Lady of Kazan (Russia) Do not work on Sundays It is June 8, 1873, Trinity Sunday, in the small village of Saint Bauzille de la Sylve, in southern France. Auguste Arnaud has been working in
April 15 - Our Lady of Keiff (Russia, 1010) Mary is a Woman Who Loves (I) Outstanding among the saints is Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. In the Gospel of Luke we find her engaged [...] engaged in a service of charity to her cousin Elizabeth, with whom she remained for "about three months" (Lk 1:56) so as to assist her in the final phase of her pregnancy. Magnificat anima mea Dominum, she said [...] service of neighbor--only then does goodness enter the world. Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. She is lowly: her only desire is to be the handmaid of the Lord
March 18 - Our Lady of Ajaccio (Corsica) What God has United, Human Beings Must not Divide Jesus said to His apostles, “So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide.” There are two creatures [...] sanctified as a continuation of the Incarnation. Mary and Joseph also received the redeeming effects of the Incarnation; but God initially intended them to be related to Him, each one in his or her own manner [...] creatures whose holiness is of an order completely apart, having completely different bonds with the Holy Trinity: the first one is the Mother of God, and next to her, Saint Joseph. All creatures are sanctified
March 18 - Our Lady of Ajaccio (Corsica) What God has United, Human Beings Must not Divide Jesus said to His apostles, "So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide." There are two creatures [...] sanctified as a continuation of the Incarnation. Mary and Joseph also received the redeeming effects of the Incarnation; but God initially intended them to be related to Him, each one in his or her own manner [...] creatures whose holiness is of an order completely apart, having completely different bonds with the Holy Trinity: the first one is the Mother of God, and next to her, Saint Joseph. All creatures are sanctified
D., was thus promised to be superior to the sublime Temple of Solomon dreamed of by David, which enshrined the Ark of the Covenant with the Tables of the Law, manna and the rod of Aaron. But how could they [...] December 1st - Our Lady of Ratisbon (Bavaria, 1842) Mary in the Temple (XI) The glory of that second Temple will surpass that of the first After the exile, to comfort those who were rebuilding the Temple [...] The glory of this new Temple will surpass that of the old, ...and in this place I shall give peace, declares the Lord of hosts' (Hg 2: 4-9)". The glory promised to the second Temple, fated to disappear
Rita, the singer now strives to really live as a Christian, with of course times of struggle and intense spiritual moments. Rona Hartner has tons of projects: she wants to create "christotheques," organize [...] artists to be missionaries, to be witnesses of the mercy they have received from God in their lives. She personally heard that call when she was writing her book about her own conversion. None of the glitter [...] September 3 – Our Lady of the Capuchins (Italy, 1574) Singer Rona Hartner praises Jesus and Mary Since her conversion 26 years ago, Franco-Romanian singer and songwriter Rona Hartner has been sharing the
