of a woman with a child in her arms on the top of a rock. She brought the statue of the Virgin Mary home and put it in a trunk. The next morning, Juana went out again to find wood. When she arrived at the [...] honor. In 1926, the image was crowned canonically under the name of Our Lady of the Angels. Costa Rican Catholics express their gratitude, respect and devotion to the Virgen de los Ángeles by making a pilgrimage [...] Angels (Virgin of Los Angeles). Many of them walked the 22 kilometers from San José to the shrine, and some did the last hundred yards on their knees. Pilgrims, called "romeros," come from all over Central
month of October, illuminated by the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 7, was named the month of the Rosary and dedicated to "the Holy Queen of the Rosary" by Pope Leo XIII in 1883. The feast of Our [...] Lepanto on October 7, 1571. This victory was attributed to the prayer of the Rosary and inscribed in the liturgy by Pius V and his successors. The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571, in the eastern [...] about the dangerous Muslim fleet expansion, and in May 1571, he succeeded in establishing what he called the "Holy League", an alliance of Spain, Venice and Malta, which he consecrated in St. Peter's Basilica
Remember the words I spoke. Go to your house and repeat them to your mother. Tell her to share them with everyone she can, and don’t forget that my name is Maria Addolorata." Veronica went inside the [...] to ask him to build a chapel." "But he will never believe me!" "Go, tell him, and you will see, he will believe." Veronica and her mother were received by Bishop Barzellotti, Bishop of Pitigliano, who found [...] pope requested that an official investigation be opened and that a chapel be built if the results were conclusive. Bishop Barzellotti fell ill and died in 1861. The bishop of Acquapendente (d. 1877) led
become a priest and was ordained on the day of Pentecost 1918, published a curious dialog, "At the Feast of the Gods," in a collection of articles about the Revolution, published under the name “ De Profundis [...] characters who are Russian theologians and intellectuals. We read: Writer: Why do you seek the living among the dead? Why do you show so little faith? Our Russia lives, and as of old the Russian Christ in slavish [...] the sacred call and, with a cry of insane joy, will fall at the feet of its teacher. ... We have nothing except this faith, nothing except this hope. But the Russian land knows this, and it will save the
II. Russians and Germans were facing each other. A German soldier named Karl walked inside a chapel situated in the woods, to pray the divine office. Inside there were an Orthodox priest and his wife, ready [...] were very moved: as chance would have it, a horrendous war brought together Orthodox and Catholics, Russians and Germans in the Eucharist! Heaven’s tenderness permeated those three hearts united in Christ [...] ready to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. Speaking a few words in Russian, Karl introduced himself, and asked: "I am a Franciscan monk. May I serve the Liturgy for you?" “Come," the priest replied. The three
as a storm threatened their lives. They called out to the Blessed Virgin Mary to keep them safe, and suddenly the storm calmed and a little statue strapped to a board appeared floating next to their boat [...] good mother whose love is undeniable. Mary is always present to me and brings the Child Jesus. Gazing upon the image of Charity instructs us in both the Incarnation and the Passion of her Son. She holds the [...] her heart in one hand and the cross of His Passion in the other. Her name, Charity, evokes love in all its forms. Maria Morea Johnson Author of the award-winning books Super Girls and Halos, My Badass Book
most simple and least educated, have in this prayer a prompt and easy way to nourish and preserve their own faith. What prayers are better adapted and more beautiful than the Lord's Prayer and the angelic [...] a sword, and a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of armies . . . and all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear, for [...] mystical crown is formed? And truly, from the frequent meditation on the Mysteries, the soul little by little and imperceptibly draws and absorbs the virtues they contain, and is wondrously enkindled with
in Italy and Ireland . The intention of the prayers will be “to ask Our Lady to save the USA …from the denial of the Christian faith, and for an end of abortion. The USA Rosary on the Coasts and Borders [...] south on December 12 and join us in throwing up to heaven a bubble of protection across these vast lands. … And when you do your own Canadian Rosary, we will turn to our north … and join you in storming [...] Rosary on the Borders in Poland . The “Rosary on the Coasts and Borders” is the initiative of a group of Church Militant fans who proposed — and then began planning — the event in its website comments box
years separate these apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church’s official approval. In early October 1859, a 28-year-old woman named Adele Brise walked alone in the Wisconsin woods, headed [...] in white appeared again. She had blonde hair, and a circle of stars surrounded her head. This time, Adele fell to her knees and asked her who she was and what she wanted. “I am the Queen of Heaven,” the [...] for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. You received Holy Communion this morning, and that is well. But you must do more. Make a general confession, and offer Communion for the conversion
wills it and builds now in me, everywhere, and always. This femininity we are talking about is a quality of the deep and universal being. It is an intrinsic, fundamental and dynamic quality, all oriented [...] is, and of what she represents in the Church and in the world. Holiness, the Church’s ultimate goal, is thus fundamentally feminine... because it is akin to what a wife and marriage represent. And it is [...] before their God and Creator. This perspective is not primarily—and this is very important—about gender or sexuality, but about the metaphysical relationship between the Divinity and Creation, as God wills
