of Mary is needed by so many people.” “Today, with all these children, you can see the future of the Church, but also society. Giving them and showing them the relationship they can have with Mary is beautiful [...] “Teaching the children the Rosary is such a strong way to teach the faith,” Bishop Massa said. “I told them about the special relationship that Mary has with children. She is the heavenly mother that watches [...] I asked them to think of and have in mind someone who needs their prayers for each bead and dedicate that prayer to them,” he said. Afterward, a boy approached him with a card where he had many names written
Pilgrims come from 80 different countries. A few weeks ago, for example, there was an international retreat of priests with more than four hundred priests from forty nations, and they were all hosted [...] of Our Lady…" Medjugorje is a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where, since June 1981, six young people (now adults) claim to have seen and to continue to see the Virgin Mary and receive messages from her [...] "Extraordinary Fruits!" After a year of mission at the shrine of Medjugorje (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Archbishop Henryk Hoser, Archbishop Emeritus of Warsaw-Prague (Poland), and "special apostolic visitor" to the
it's tender. And from a masculine perspective, the Rosary is a sword, a spiritual weapon." Secondly, the constant “presence of Mary” in daily life acts as a soothing balm and a guiding light in his spiritual [...] believers to establish an open dialogue with Mary--to share their vulnerabilities and sufferings. "Understand that Mary seeks intimacy, and to truly have intimacy with someone, you need to be able to open [...] prayers, but as a symbol of resilience, compassion, and a divine bridge between heaven and earth. "From a feminine perspective, you can see the Rosary as a bouquet of roses that you're offering to the Mother
Shabbat queen) : As a Jew I was struck and deeply moved when I read that Mary's words at La Salette were: "Six days I have given you to labor, the seventh I have kept for myself." For from a Jewish perspective [...] perspective it is very natural, almost inevitable to associate Mary in a special way with the Sabbath. In Jewish tradition the Sabbath is seen as a bride, and is referred to as the "Sabbath Queen." And it is [...] to be the forecourt of the Messianic Kingdom, a sort of taste of what is to come. The author offers as an explanation a free translation of "Lekha Dodi," a traditional Jewish song for the Shabbat dinner:
birth" while attending a Mass in Canada. Back in Arras, she convinced her parish priest of the benefits of such a chapel. The idea of a place of prayer for all the children who have died before their birth [...] Guadalupe. A laywoman, Sylvie Oprysko, is at the origin of this project. Oprysko lost a baby twenty years ago, but it was not until 2015 that she felt a true sense of peace during the consecration of a "place [...] Purgatory, it was natural to make a special place for those poor children and their parents. Thus, in 2017, the shrine added a "Consolation Way" to help mothers and fathers who have lost their child before birth
the Scapular of fabric with a medal, especially because of the rapid corruption of the fabric in hot countries. This concession has since been extended to the whole world. With the Scapular medal, therefore [...] medal is only a dispensation, and the popes Saint Pius X and Benedict XV who granted it added that they wanted the faithful to continue to wear, if possible, the woolen Scapular. Any priest can now impose [...] impose the scapular; it is no longer necessary, as in the past, to have special authorization from the Order of Discalced Carmelites. One simply has to use one of the formulas of blessing provided for in the
take her. All the children of God should take Mary into themselves and all that she has taught you through her life. You have a great support which is Mary, use it more. Pray to her, pray to her more, make [...] yours, she always walks by your side." Faced with these words of the devil uttered while he was exorcizing, the priest, knowing that Good Friday is a special day of grace, reminded him of Jesus' sacrifice [...] become her sons." The exorcist, with a mixture of amazement and joy for he understood that the devil was obviously forced to say, against his will, things that he would never have wanted to say, continued to
at the start of the Byzantine Empire, by two priests from Athens. Dedicated to the Mother of God, Sumela was for centuries an important religious center and a training center for monks. The frescoes of this [...] Virgin Mary. During the Ottoman rule on the east coast of the Black Sea, the sultans preserved the rights and granted certain privileges to Sumela, as they did for many other monasteries. With the construction [...] after 1923. On August 15, 2010, Orthodox Divine Liturgy was allowed to be held in the monastery. A special pass issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is now required to visit on August
by Maureen Flynn, organizer of the event with her husband, Ted: “A lot of signs and wonders are following this priest.” Father Rugirangoga, a healing priest, is a genocide survivor. The International Week [...] who heads Students for Life ; and Father Chris Alar, a priest with the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, who wrote a book about dealing with the aftermath of suicide. The event included Rosaries of [...] Coalition, which sponsors the observance in collaboration with, among others, the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, Legion of Mary, Priests for Life and Rosary Coast to Coast. Fasting the correct way
remedies During a private visit with Father Fuentes, on December 26, 1957, Sister Lucia, the seer of Our Lady of Fatima (Portugal), alluding to the third secret, confided to the priest: "Only the Holy [...] they have chosen to not know it so that they would not be influenced." She also said: "That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls [...] souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who fall away from their beautiful vocation drag numerous souls to hell. The devil employs all tricks, even going so far as to suggest the delay of entrance