letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration, and the Stabat of Mary, "Woman of the Eucharist," beneath her Son's Cross, is the most significant example of contemplation [...] entrustment to the arms of the ever Virgin of the whole of our life, of our ministry in its entirety. Mary Most Holy also leads us, like John, beneath the Cross of her Son and Our Lord in order to contemplate

faithful from other religions have shown strong faith in Jesus. Respect, devotion and reverence for Mary have increased. Many patients have already been healed.” The shrine belongs to the diocese of Berhampur [...] the Kandhamal district in 2008. Martha Nayak, a widow who survived the massacres, says: "The Virgin Mary intercedes for us in times of sickness, suffering, danger and hopeless situations through her Son [...] families. The erection of the shrine took place in 1917, as a sign of gratitude to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, at the behest of people of all faiths, to give thanks for the protection of the Madonna

to shore, a voice was heard saying, “I choose your city as a place of grace.” The citizens welcomed Mary to their city by erecting to her a shrine which reached its height of glory in the 12th century. King [...] of Our Lady of Boulogne toured France for more than seven years as a symbol of French devotion to Mary. One of these was taken to Walsingham, England, in 1948, and carried in procession, when many other [...] of England. The shrine-church of Boulogne was badly damaged during World War II, and the image of Mary destroyed, but the return, the “Great Return”, of one of the copies of the statue which had been sheltered

called three of us aside and told us we were accepted to be ordained as deacons. I was assured of Mary's intercession. I was ordained a deacon July 22, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. The days passed by and finally [...] but in my short years as a priest I have learned that we need to see things with eyes of faith, like Mary. This is why those called to the priesthood need to trust in her in a special way. Now, three years [...] experienced as a priest. I would not change it for the world. May I be a priest of Jesus forever with Mary as my mother. May Our Lady, Mother of the Eternal Priest, protect and guide all of her son's priests

Cornacchiola, an anti-clerical Protestant, had every intention to murder Pope Pius XII — until the Virgin Mary interfered April 12, 1947, at Tre Fontane (“Three Fountains”). Cornacchiola was enjoying a day at [...] at the park with his three children. He was preparing a vulgar speech denying the Virgin Mary’s existence for his role in the local Seventh-day Adventist Protestant community. When he realized his children’s [...] Toward the end of the corridor is the heart of the grotto, which marks the exact place the Virgin Mary disappeared from Cornacchiola, turning in the same direction as St. Peter’s Basilica. The converted

Preservation of the Image of Guadalupe is Inexplicable for Science (II) The mystery of the image of Mary thickened again in 1936, when Dr. Richard Kuhn, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, said that the fibers of

memorable expression of the Catholic faith: a 32-foot stainless steel statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary located alongside the Church and Shrine of Our Lady of Peace in Santa Clara, California. The Santa [...] statue in 2007. Two other large Marian statues have been inspired by Santa Clara’s Immaculate Heart of Mary: in Oak Lawn, Illinois, Parks was commissioned to create a 33-foot, stainless-steel image of Our Lady [...] Iowa, the Trinity Heights Shrine has a 30-foot, stainless-steel sculpture of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of Peace opposite a 33-foot statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, both created by sculptor Dale

short, running for just over two minutes, but there is still time for Elvis to fully intone the Hail Mary. The song was written by one of Elvis’s childhood friends, Lee Denson. Denson was the son of a Pentecostal [...] the son of a Protestant minister in the Pentecostal Church, was married to a young Catholic named Mary. Because of this, Lee became interested in Catholic dogma. He often witnessed his wife praying the [...] appeared in 1917. Gradually, Lee turned to Catholicism and decided to embrace it for good. One day, when Mary had neglected her prayers for some time, she lost her rosary that had been given to her by a friend

is simple. There are five kinds of offenses and blasphemies uttered against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 1) blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception, 2) blasphemies against her virginity, 3) blasphemies [...] directly in her holy pictures. “This, my daughter, is the reason for which the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired me to ask for this small reparation, and, in consideration of it, to show my mercy and forgive [...] depends on the practice of this devotion, united with the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I have so desired its propagation; and then, above all because such is the will of our

some of his insights on the Rosary: “Let us take as our mediatrix with God the most glorious Virgin Mary, the invincible Queen of the Rosary, who has such great power over the forces of hell, and has so [...] Mother of God deeply in souls there is nothing more efficacious than the practice of the rosary.” “In Mary, God has given us the most zealous guardian of Christian unity. There are, of course, more ways than [...] of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.” “In the rosary all the part that Mary took as our co-Redemptress comes to us.” “The rosary, if rightly considered, will be found to have