you when faced with the difficulties of life. The Christian can never be pessimistic!... Together, near or far, we form the Church, People of God. Every time we collaborate, even if in a simple and discreet

healed, as the Virgin had promised Carquere is a village in Portugal, not far from the Douro River, near Resende. Every year, on the 4th Sunday of May, the feast of Santa Maria de Carquere is celebrated

sleep angels transported them to France. When they awoke, the three knights were in their country, near their castle in Marchais. Ismenia was baptized and they all agreed to have a chapel built at the site

sinners of the need to convert. She also told Benoite that oil from the lamp in the chapel (burning near the Blessed Sacrament), would cure the sick who applied it on themselves, if they turned to her i

and the Madonna (I) The parents of Gianni and Franco lived in one of the poorest districts of Genoa, near the port where their father worked as a porter. Unfortunately, their father spent his evenings in

" "I was the person closest to Him at His Passion and was never separated from Him. I was standing near His Cross and, as that which is closest to the heart hurts the worst, so His pain was worse for me

community) dedicated to the Nativity. The first icon to be painted there was a copy of the "Portaitissa." Near the same date, a Chilean convert to Orthodoxy, Jose Munoz, an art teacher in Montreal, embarked on

to Catholic families. Dom Guéranger (a French Benedictine monk and priest, d. 1875, who served for nearly 40 years as the Abbot of the restored Solesmes Abbey) explained the meaning of the feast of the Holy

Ambrose Mayer, a member of the Servite Order from Ontario. As a child, he prayed for his mother who laid near-death after the birth of his sister, promising he would dedicate his life to great works for the Church

Our Lady, learning heavenly lessons and then being asked to become a teacher, a catechist, herself. Nearly 160 years removed from the apparition, and after the Church’s approval was granted on Dec. 8, 2010