Dominic consecrated himself to the Blessed Virgin and renewed the promises of his First Communion: "Mary, I give you my heart, keep it forever. Jesus and Mary always be my friends, but please, let me die rather [...] 1849, and wrote down these resolutions: 1) I will confess very often and I will receive communion every time my confessor permits me. 2) I want to sanctify holy days. 3) My friends will be Jesus and Mary [...] d that from that day on, that Don Bosco began to note everything Dominic said and did. The young boy fell ill in 1857 and underwent 10 bloodlettings in 4 days, with the courage of someone much older than

intercession of Mary, and may she herself, the Virgin Mary, obtain it for us while we entrust to her motherly hands this father, brother and friend of ours, that he may rest in God and rejoice in peace [...] take part in all the daily prayers and in the Liturgy of the Hours; he wanted to adore and to meditate. He died while he was praying. He truly fell asleep in the Lord. "And the house was filled with the fragrance [...] spent in his private chapel he spoke to Jesus, abandoning himself totally to His will, and entrusting himself to Mary, repeating the Totus tuus. Like his Divine Teacher, he lived his agony in prayer. On

human conversation, he was favored with that of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the angels who urged him to persevere in his life of sacrifice and love. The Queen of Heaven told him that some hermits from Palestine [...] General of the Carmelite Order in 1215. He begged the Virgin Mary by fervent prayers and tears to defend this Order, which was devoted to her, and she appeared in a dream to Pope Honorius III, so the pope finally [...] County, England (c. 1165), of which his father was governor. His mother was devoted to the Virgin Mary, and Simon was not yet one year old when he was heard clearly articulating the Angelic salutation several

virtual prayer community for engaged couples, married couples, divorced and widowed individuals. His ministry is geared towards couples, and this is what he says about the importance of prayer for couples: "I [...] of the Virgin Mary to whom they offer a bouquet of flowers. I also believe that praying the Rosary together can make praying as a couple a little easier. As I meditated the Rosary with Mary our mother on [...] on behalf of couples, it occurred to me to ask the intercession of the holy couple of Mary and Joseph, to touch the heart of Jesus. I think the life of a married couple is like a Rosary." Interview by Guy

wear the scapular with trust in me and spread this devotion.” As she said these words, she held out her hands and drops like rain fell down generously from them; and within each drop a grace was clearly [...] Estelle Faguette received the 15th and the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the 8th of December 1876, feast of the Immaculate Conception. That day, she asked Mary what was to become of her. The Blessed [...] invisible. Holding out the scapular, which Mary had asked Estelle to sew, she asked her to kiss it. Then the Blessed Virgin said, “You must go yourself to see the Prelate and show him the kind of scapular you have

Francis also gave a brief and off-the-cuff catechesis on Mary, who, he said, “always hastens to us whenever there is trouble” and who told the disciples “to do whatever Jesus asks” and invites us to do the [...] VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He first visited in 2017 on the centenary of the first Marian apparitions to canonize two of the three children to whom Mary had appeared, Jacinta and Francisco. Earlier [...] request of the Catholic bishops of Ukraine, Pope Francis had consecrated Russia and the Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, while Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, did likewise on that same

(Sorrowful Mother) was written to describe the pain and suffering Mary had to endure during her Son’s crucifixion and death. Here are the first two and the next to last verses of the Stabat Mater , which [...] foot of our own crosses too Mary’s greatest challenge and heartbreak came as she had to watch her Son willingly allow Himself be whipped, beaten, crowned with thorns, mocked and ridiculed. Then she had to [...] to follow Him, bloodied, and battered, as He carried His cross to Calvary. She watched Him die and held His blood-soaked, lifeless body in her arms before he was buried. Jesus gave his Mother to all of

wear the scapular with trust in me and spread this devotion." As she said these words, she held out her hands and drops like rain fell down generously from them; and within each drop a grace was clearly [...] Estelle Faguette received the 15th and the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the 8th of December 1876, feast of the Immaculate Conception. That day, she asked Mary what was to become of her. The Blessed [...] invisible. Holding out the scapular, which Mary had asked Estelle to sew, she asked her to kiss it. Then the Blessed Virgin said, "You must go yourself to see the Prelate and show him the kind of scapular you have

having received the Holy Spirit's visit and the shadow of the power of the Most High. I believe that the palm of virginity must belong to Jesus among men and to Mary among women. How could we, without impiousness [...] of Virginity Following a tradition based on the Gospel of Saint Peter and the Book of James, some people consider the "brothers and the sisters" of Jesus Joseph's children, born out of a first wedlock he [...] to safeguard Mary's honor in her virginity until the end. Of course they can't admit that the body chosen for the instrument of the Word who said, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the

Dispenser of the divine graces, eternal and Immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit, O holy Mary, you who received from Him a heart that takes pity on the misfortunes of mankind and cannot resist comforting those [...] June 16 - Canonization of Padre Pio (2002) To Our Mother of Perpetual Help O Mary, Immaculate Virgin and my Holy Mother, although I am the most miserable of all sinners, I have recourse this day to you [...] you who are the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the world, the Advocate, the Hope and the Refuge of sinners. I venerate you, O great Queen; I thank you for all the graces that you obtained for me, especially