They chose to consecrate Mary. When she was three years old, Mary was taken to the Temple, where a priest greeted her as she sat on the steps of the altar with words that resemble those of the Magnificat

of twenty cubits. Eighty-two young girls wove it. Two veils were made each year and three hundred priests were needed to carry it to the pool" (Mishna Sheqalim 8, 5). The Talmud also says that when the Temple

America) She is More a Mother than a Queen (I) If I could have given just one sermon about her as a priest, that would have been enough for me to get across my ideas about her. In the first place, I would

it, a bishop dressed in white. We had the impression that it was the Holy Father. Other bishops, priests, men and women religious were going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big cross [...] fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other bishops, priests, men and women religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two

God is calling you to be a single person or married, a religious or a priest. For example, annual surveys of newly ordained priests consistently report that before entering the seminary over 70% of them

resilient." As Father Klimek succinctly puts it: "Every man needs a woman in his life, and for the priest, that woman is Our Lady--someone to fight for." Take up your rosary, open your heart to her presence [...] her shared suffering. George Ryan, May 26, 2023 https://www.churchpop.com/from-agnostic-tocatholic-priest/

poor farming family in Guinea. Christ took me by the hand. He led me to the seminary. He made me a priest, a bishop and today I am in Rome..." This is how Cardinal Robert Sarah answers when asked about his [...] discovered his vocation. He studied at seminaries in the Ivory Coast and in France, and was ordained a priest on July 20, 1969, at the age of 24. He stayed in Rome until 1974 to pursue a degree in exegesis,

to its Creator, from fear that the enemy might seize it." And further: "In the Temple, the Great Priest said, evoking the virgins and the veil: 'Draw lots to see who will weave the gold, asbestos, linen

daughter’s words that he began to cry. When he managed to find his wits again, he hurriedly asked a priest to confess him.

for the conversion of Russia during the Communist persecution,” as Fr. Alejandro Burgos, a Spanish priest exercising his apostolate in St Petersburg. To promote the devotion to Our Lady of Fatima to the