to Adele Brise on the site of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, Wisconsin. Ever since its inception in 2013, the Walk to Mary has been changing the lives of its pilgrims by guiding
Sidon, in the Greek-Melkite-Catholic archdiocese of Saida and Deir-Al-Kamar in Lebanon, is attracting ever increasing crowds! "Mantara" comes from the root of the Arabic verb "natara" which means to wait.
the sight of God. Mary’s favor was so unique and extraordinary in the sense that no other woman has ever conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, without the normal biological process. The redemptive story
awaits us. She will welcome us. This is our hope. That is why the Church's liturgy calls her "the ever-open Gate of Heaven" and urges us to look to the star to reach the port of all bliss. Adapted from
is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying
bier. Perhaps, in His knowledge of His own purpose, He thought of His own Mother, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. There would come a day in his own life when His Mother, bereft of her protector, Joseph
leaving Bulgaria in 1934, Archbishop Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, had promised: "If a Slav ever knocks on my door, whether his is Catholic or not, I will receive him as a friend." One day, a Slav
great devotion on the Friday before Holy Week, has had a much deeper and personal meaning for me than ever before. Because, this year, Mary “standing by the cross of Jesus” (John 19:25) reminds me of how many
sister. Lucas was moved from the ICU on March 11 and was discharged from the hospital a few days later. Ever since, Lucas “has been completely well and has no symptoms or after effects,” the child’s father said
Our Lady of Beauraing – the Virgin with a Heart of Gold. This devotion has since taken on new and ever increasing proportions. The final approbation was given on July 2, 1949. The cures of Miss van Laer
