fullness only with Mary, and by imitating her. The silence of the mother of Jesus is a silence of contemplation and transformation. It helps us to understand the mystery of divine love and to let ourselves [...] Word of God written in the daily events of his life. In saying so we are not confusing contemplation and fatalistic resignation, but we learn to connect events together, like the Virgin did in Bethlehem, [...] to hear to the Word in us. No one is more qualified to teach us the practice of contemplation than Mary. Adapted from an article by Jean-Michel Castaing January 2019 Aleteia

arrived at the Martos (relatives of the seers) and forced the children to get into their horse-drawn cart to go to the local police station. An hour and a half later, the three young seers were locked [...] the sky and disappearing. Then a rainbow appeared, about the height of a man, coloring all nature with beautiful colors. Our Lady had evidently kept the appointment of August 13, 1917. The Marie de Nazareth [...] 13 – 4th apparition in Fatima: the children were jailed The missed appointment at Fatima The Virgin Mary had made an appointment with the three children of Fatima (Portugal) to meet at the Cova da Iria on

Czestochowa with them from Poland, and they had set it on the ground in front of the Pope’s chair while they prayed for him with all their might. The operation lasted five hours and twenty minutes. The pope’s [...] realized little by little that no vital organ had been touched, and that the pope could survive”. The pope had lost the three quarters of his blood, and a blood transfusion could transmit a virus to him. He remained [...] the Virgin’s message and as the bells rang the Angelus the following Sunday, in a message recorded in the pope’s hospital room, he entrusted humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One year later, on

Czestochowa with them from Poland, and they had set it on the ground in front of the Pope's chair while they prayed for him with all their might. The operation lasted five hours and twenty minutes. The pope's [...] realized little by little that no vital organ had been touched, and that the pope could survive". The pope had lost the three quarters of his blood, and a blood transfusion could transmit a virus to him. He remained [...] the Virgin's message and as the bells rang the Angelus the following Sunday, in a message recorded in the pope's hospital room, he entrusted humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One year later, on

Blessed Virgin Mary. I asked her to watch over me and help me on the path towards priesthood. Six years later, not without tests and challenges, I received the ministries of lectorate and acolyte. Even [...] thought that after six years and feeling strongly the call to the priesthood it was impossible for them to ask me to take time to think about it. It was a true test of faith and absolute trust in Him. I could [...] on sentiments. My only security was God. Mary was there to console me. I prayed the rosary frequently during those three years I lived outside the seminary and this helped me to persevere. They were three

general surge of emotion; kings and lords, people and soldiers recognized that a miracle had occurred in this sudden change of attitudes at the moment when anger was the highest and the battle ready to begin [...] around the image of Mary, to give to thanks. They were enemies no more: the French and the English, each one was part of a family of brothers before one mother who had protected them and saved them all from [...] going to sound when suddenly, the King of England came forward with his son and asked to speak to Philip Augustus. He came forth and the king declared to him that he accepted the conditions offered in the

went to sleep I knew little about, and had no special sympathy for Christianity or any of its aspects; when I awoke I was hopelessly in love with the Blessed Virgin Mary and wanted nothing more than to become [...] questions in my mind, and asking her four or five of them. She answered them, then spoke to me for several more minutes, and then the audience was ended. My experience of the event, and my memory of it, are [...] I was taken to a room and granted an audience with the most beautiful young woman I could have ever imagined; without it being spoken, I knew that it was the Blessed Virgin Mary. She agreed to answer any

as the Rosary? - The scapular and the Rosary are inseparable. Indeed, the garment signifies that the one who wears it belongs to the person from whom he received it, and, in turn, it signifies the protection [...] In the same way, the scapular manifests, on the part of the one who wears it, his belonging to Mary and, on the part of Our Lady, the commitment to help him on every occasion, especially at the hour of [...] Our Lady appeared to Saint Simon Stock and confided to him: “Whoever dies wearing this habit will be saved.” This promise has since been recognized by the Church and is perfectly consistent with Our Lady's

encourages the disciples in the Upper Room… Mary is a cure for solitude and dispersion. She is the Mother of con-solation : she stands “with” those who are “alone” … And in the journey of life, let us allow ourselves [...] everything and everyone with bitterness and malice! … God himself needed a Mother—how much more so do we!” Excerpt from Pope Francis’ homily of January 1, 2019, on the Solemnity of Holy Mary, Mother of [...] their own and lose their way. Thinking they are strong, they get lost; thinking they are free, they become slaves. How many, forgetting a mother’s affection, live in anger with themselves and indifference

Shrine of Our Lady of La Vang (Central Vietnam) on August 14 and 15, 2018, to celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Four bishops and hundreds of priests concelebrated the different masses organized [...] De, bishop of Thai Bingh, told the assembled faithful that the Virgin Mary and their own ancestors had lived the divine mercy and put it into action. The martyrs of Vietnam have borne witness to God's [...] we may have eternal life, he argued. Nearly 300,000 Catholics suffered and were killed because of their faith between the 17 th and 19 th centuries. Among them, 117 martyrs were canonized by Pope Saint