Rosary as a profound, life-sustaining encounter with God. Shouldn’t we? Tod Worner Tod Worner is a husband, father, Catholic convert and practicing internal medicine physician. He blogs at A Catholic Thinker [...] feverish delirium, moments of lucidity found the soldier’s trembling finger tracing — etching — something onto the earthen floor. Ten dots were roughly connected in a circle and in the center, a cross. And then [...] bloodied lips began to mutter, Hail, Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee… The Rosary, this soldier later recalled, was what kept him sane in the midst of a time of incomprehensible ruthlessness
September 28 - Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Issoudun, France, 1854) A papal visit of a few hours to Fatima to pray for peace in Ukraine Francis is the fourth pope to visit Fátima, after Paul VI, John [...] canonize two of the three children to whom Mary had appeared, Jacinta and Francisco. Earlier this year, he declared the third witness, their cousin Lucia, who was a cloistered nun and died in 2005, “venerable [...] in silence for peace, with pain [in my heart], before the Madonna,” Pope Francis told Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni on the helicopter as he returned to Lisbon. Francis also gave a brief and off-the-cuff
Nicaragua was consecrated to the Virgin Mary! Marian devotion was introduced in Nicaragua in 1522 by the explorer Gil Gonzalez de Avila, who had a great love for the Virgin Mary and liked to promote that devotion [...] in 1983 was met with strong opposition and protests. Nevertheless the country gradually moved towards peace. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared between May 8 and October 13, 1980 to a peasant of Cuapa [...] Cuapa, delivering a message of peace. When the pope returned in 1996 to Managua on his second visit, he received a warm welcome. The Immaculate Conception, whose devotion began in the town of El Viejo, in
flesh born of Mary from the Holy Spirit is the bread that came down from Heaven". We also read in the 9th century Bergomense Sacramentary: "Her womb made a fruit ripen, a bread filled us with the angelic [...] in her relationship with this most holy mystery. From this point of view, it is even easier to understand why in Lourdes, the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is associated with a strong and constant [...] flesh born of Mary is the bread that came down from heaven One cannot contemplate Mary without being attracted to Christ, and one cannot look at Christ without immediately perceiving Mary's presence. There
of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the Council of Ephesus was held. As the gods of Athens were yearnings for a god among men, so it happened that Diana, the Moon Goddess, found her fulfillment in Mary, who is [...] April 14 - Our Lady of Guam (1825) Mary and Diana (II) A mob was quickly organized which ran over those large stones heading for the amphitheater. Paul had never said anything against Diana. On the contrary [...] the every side. Then a recorder, an important civic official, calmed the angry crowd. Two of Paul's companions in travel, Gaius and Aristarchus, had been carried into the theater with the crowd. Paul himself
Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary or the Annonciades (d. 1505) The day that Ireland was encircled by the Rosary The Rosary on the Borders, an event in Poland that gathered a large number of Catholics on [...] Saturday, October 7, 2017, has been replicated. First by a the National Rosary in Italy on Friday, October 13th, "to follow the teachings of Mary and to follow the very good example given by our Polish [...] brothers," then more recently in Ireland on Sunday, November 26, 2017, feast of Christ the King, with a "Rosary on the Coast for Life and Faith." Why on this day? Quite simply because, according to those
. “It’s a simple initiative,” Amigot said. “We don’t know the reach yet. We just want to see what happens.” The Rosary is a Scripture-based prayer practiced by some Roman Catholics, who use a string of [...] Rosary is the solution! A church in Greenwich, Connecticut has invited its faithful to pray the Rosary together for the victims of the coronavirus in an effort to bring peace to a world full of panic and [...] and anxiety. Organizer Mikel Amigot, a Greenwich resident, hopes the idea will catch on regionally, nationally and internationally. He said it is the first in a series of Rosaries dedicated to the spread
holding on to each other. At the same moment, a farmer called Joseph Donnet was going around his house with a lantern in his hand filling the animals’ troughs. Although the light of the lantern was faint [...] Brothers of Mary) - St Norbert of Xanten, bishop Praying the Memorare saved his life On a cold February day of 1823, the founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin Champagnat, decided to go visit a sick [...] and the bad weather. They made a difficult trek after dark of several hours through a storm. Soon Brother Stanislas became so tired that Fr Marcellin had to help him. After a while, the cold and exhaustion
us! Let us think for a moment about what such a request might mean for us, wherever we are, with the choices and decisions we each face daily. Let us pray to the Virgin Mary with Pope Francis. Mother, [...] Cana... The presence of Jesus, the Son of God, and Mary, at the wedding of a man and a woman seems to me to be of great significance. At this wedding, Mary did something that she continues to do for us, her [...] whatever he tells you In Cana, a lot of people were invited, like at most weddings of that time. That is why we see Jesus and Mary, and the disciples whom Jesus had called a few days before. One of them
center of a priest’s life: the cross, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary Cardinal Robert Sarah reflected on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the meaning of the priesthood in a Mass in St [...] 2019. “During the daily Mass the priest comes face to face with Jesus Christ and at that precise moment, he is identified, he identified himself with Christ, becoming not only an Alter Christus, another Christ [...] the Discipline of the Sacraments said the inner life of a priest should center around three things: the cross, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary. “According to St Josemaría Escrivà, the cross of our Lord
