One holding me together! Praying that the Lord will protect them with His Most Precious Blood together with Mama Mary covering them with her mantle of protection!” The same prayer for divine intervention [...] to a Philstar newspaper column on women’s lives under quarantine: “One of the many agonizing moments of our lives under quarantine is being separated from the members of my family. My husband is a surgeon [...] y daughter a hepato-pancreatico-biliary fellow and my son a neurosurgical resident. Ever since the pandemic my children have to isolate themselves from us for fear of contaminating us with the virus. Lately

He had said these words as he lit a candle: "At this moment, I would like to make the hope for peace of the children of Syria my own, of beloved Syria, martyred by a war that has lasted for eight years [...] our brothers in Syria." "And now," he said, "I ask you to accompany this gesture with your prayer: I am going to bless a large number of rosaries for our brothers in Syria. On an initiative of Aid to the [...] Sisters in Bethlehem. Today on this great feast day of Mary, I will bless them and they will be distributed to the Catholic communities in Syria as a sign of my closeness, especially to the families who

rich spoils, the captain ordered John to guard the treasure, especially a chest filled with jewels, for the night; John obeyed with a sad face. The next morning, the chest of jewels was missing. John questioned [...] to him, "Trust me. I will save you." John awoke, recited one Hail Mary with enthusiasm and felt consoled. He walked to be hanged with a firm step. He promised the Good Mother to give up soldiering, if she [...] He did not doubt Mary’s help for one moment. John, in the gallows, declared his innocence. And added, "I have confidence that the Blessed Virgin can still help me." The drum beat a second time and the

rich spoils, the captain ordered John to guard the treasure, especially a chest filled with jewels, for the night; John obeyed with a sad face. The next morning, the chest of jewels was missing. John questioned [...] to him, "Trust me. I will save you." John awoke, recited one Hail Mary with enthusiasm and felt consoled. He walked to be hanged with a firm step. He promised the Good Mother to give up soldiering, if she [...] He did not doubt Mary's help for one moment. John, in the gallows, declared his innocence. And added, "I have confidence that the Blessed Virgin can still help me." The drum beat a second time and the

2006, Federick Yap was a new Fairfax County Police officer working the graveyard shift and looking for a place to file a report. He decided to pull into the parking lot of St Thomas à Becket Church in Reston [...] short prayer to the Virgin Mary and made it a practice (before every shift).” Yap believes Mary’s intercession helped him — along with other police officers and medical professionals — to save the lives of [...] Virgin Mary statue and I didn’t put any strong emphasis on it because being Catholic, it was normal for me,” he said. “And then I don’t know how it started and why it started, but I just offered a short

pondered in her heart, within herself, with a conscious, thoughtful and intelligent attentiveness. The inner listening of Mary is a prolonged one, not a single moment. The Gospel phrase, “she kept all these [...] held together the opposites: a stable and “a multitude of angels,” a manger and a “kingdom which has no end.” Like her, like the shepherds and the Magi, let us be filled with wonder. At Christmas, the Word [...] January 4 – Our Lady of Roses (Italy, 1418) Mary’s First Christmas How did Mary experience the first Christmas? Mary had heard the words explaining the event that she herself saw and lived. Words and deeds

to it. Mary is our Mother: this is not an honorary title, but a reality as concrete as the maternity of all earthly mothers. The difference is that our maternal love is limited, fragile, mixed with selfishness [...] it. As a good teacher, Mary does not act in our place, but she teaches us to do what we must do, how, and when we must do it. Then our life becomes ordered, and is deeply pacified. “By asking Mary to pray [...] selfishness, laziness, and cowardice... but not the love of Mary, precisely because she is immaculate. Her purity does not make her ethereal, a little unreal, like an unattainable maternal ideal. On the contrary

One day in a New York bar in 1936, he found himself face to face with Bishop Fulton Sheen. He started a heated debate with the priest, when suddenly Sheen retorted, "And now let's talk a little about [...] born in a very fervent Catholic home in Indiana. At 20 years of age, he left home, because he had fallen in love with a divorced woman. Later, the social question moved him to passion. He became a powerful [...] about the Blessed Virgin!" This long "Marian" hour gave Louis Francis a moment of the inner peace that reminded him briefly of his First Communion, but the true return of the "prodigal son" was going to take

reinforced. Indeed, at the foot of the Cross Mary was entrusted with a new motherhood, which concerned Jesus’ disciples. It was precisely this mission that demanded a renewed gift of the Spirit. The Blessed [...] prayer in the Upper Room, in an attitude of deep communion with the Apostles, with some women and with Jesus’ “brethren,” the Mother of the Lord prays for the gift of the Spirit for herself and for the community [...] model and mother Mary is called to be. In the Church and for the Church, mindful of Jesus’ promise, she waits for Pentecost and implores a multiplicity of gifts for everyone, in accordance with each one's

of Mary The Blessed Virgin Mary is the only human actor in the history of Salvation. Mary saw it all and lived it all. The salvific mission of Christ cannot be complete without the mention of Mary. Hence [...] insecurity and terrorism ... Let us journey with Mary through the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. Mary is our defender and maternal protector against danger. She defended, with her life, the life of this God-man [...] wanted Him dead. She fled with Jesus and Joseph in the cold winter to Egypt. Here, we see, the heart of a loving mother who desperately wants to preserve the life of her child. Mary will do the same for us