Jesus' parents, that the seed of divine life received at baptism can grow, mature, and blossom, in order to bear all the fruits that God has the right to expect from it. We must all be very eager to grow

commissioned by the Virgin to have the medal of the Immaculate Conception or "Miraculous Medal" made in order to spread devotion to Our Lady. 1846, La Salette, France - Six thousand feet up in the French Alps

early copies were brought from Mt. Athos - one in 1648 and the other in 1656 - both being made at the order of Patriarch Nikon.

of your youth. The Lord has sworn an oath He will never retract; you are a priest forever of the order of Melchizedek" (Ps 110:1-5). A true son of God: "I shall be a father to him and he a son to me" (2

hit the gas and raced down the street in the opposite direction. The doctor opened the door and ordered the driver to stop. But he didn’t listen and carried on down the street at a neck-breaking speed

and liturgists such as for example in the 13th century Humbertus de Romanis, Master General of the Order (Dominican), proposed up to seven reasons for this choice: 1.Saturday is the day God blessed more

themselves around the Man who spoke. As if I didn’t know anything better to say, I asked, “Who are you to order me to do such impossible things?” “It’s precisely because these things appear impossible to you that

confided her torment to a monk called Dominic of Guzman (1170-1221), the founder of the Dominican Order and future Saint Dominic, during a visit he paid her. Dominic advised her to say her Rosary every

on the hill. Over the centuries it became known as the "Marian Soul of Lyons" because of the many orders and missionaries that it produced. Our Lady of Fourvière is of huge significance to the mission of

According to the Holy Father, "spiritual warfare" is necessary in the life of every Christian, in order to fight three enemies: "the demon, the world and the flesh… To pursue a spiritual life," he added