indications of Bible passages to meditate on. At the invitation of the Virgin, she began to fast without ever being bothered by it. She was also able to touch Mary and feel the warmth of her body. She said that
which spans the centuries and recruits legions for eternity. God loves France, which no effort has ever been able to detach entirely from the divine cause. God loves France, where at no time has the faith
in prayer, as in Acts 1:14, the mother of the Church continues to be there, quiet and faithful as ever. May she continue to bring together our warring world, “suffer us not to be in adversity, and deliver
another, and there may be changes in it internally; but, viewed as a whole, it is adapted to stand for ever. Hence the Psalmist says, “He has established the world, which shall not be moved.” Such is the world
rest and spiritual renewal, every baptized person is invited to turn to the Virgin Mary, more than ever, to contemplate and imitate her. It was Mary who made herself available to the Father's voice and
beauty and picked a deadly fruit; Mary gave humanity the most beautiful fruit that the angels will ever see: he is the most beautiful among the sons of men (Ps 44:3) because he is the splendor of the Father's
but not very well-known, stained-glass window in Vendôme (France), one the most beautiful I have ever seen, representing the Trinity. In it the Virgin Mary is truly majestic, but not in an intimidating
Because she teaches us the virtue of waiting, even when everything seems to lack meaning: she is ever confident in the mystery of God, even when he seems to have eclipsed himself due to the evil of the
Mother of God in the Eastern Church. By these endless hymns the Blessed Virgin is thanked for her ever-present protection, in memory of the attacks on Constantinople at the time of Heraclius. At that time
where heaven meets earth and wondrous things happen through the intercession of the Mother of God. Ever since 1981, when six local children reported that they had seen the Blessed Virgin Mary, Irish people
