what’s happening inside the church, and can happen inside any house. Prayer is the thread that binds us to Heaven, and the prayer that patiently prays one Hail Mary after another is almost an umbilical [...] giant rosary made of 70 colored balloons. Sixty blue balloons make up the main beads, and another 10 make up the cross and the beads of the Our Father, for a total length of 23 yards … Sister Carla Venditti [...] Facebook to hundreds of people… not necessarily from the city, but from every part of Italy and the world, and they pray with us thanks to this important digital medium. We also transmit adoration, as well
the Alps howl through the corridors and shake the windows, while the rest of the house is quiet as a tomb. The words of Jesus were very rare, which is the reason why Mary kept them in her heart, like treasures
moving honesty: “At Lourdes, Fatima and other Marian sanctuaries, impartial criticism is faced with supernatural facts, which have a close relation to the Virgin Mary, either because of the apparitions
the Alps howl through the corridors and shake the windows, while the rest of the house is quiet as a tomb. The words of Jesus were very rare, which is the reason why Mary kept them in her heart, like treasures
moving honesty: "At Lourdes, Fatima and other Marian sanctuaries, impartial criticism is faced with supernatural facts, which have a close relation to the Virgin Mary, either because of the apparitions
1933, the Virgin Mary appeared eight times to an 11-year-old girl called Mariette Béco, in Banneux, Belgium. Mariette Béco was born on March 25, 1921, the oldest child of a modest and non-practicing Catholic [...] Mariette was sitting near the kitchen window looking out onto a small garden. It was dark and snowing, about 10°F and freezing outside. As Mariette moved the curtain she was surprised to see a light in her [...] knelt down and dipped her Rosary in the cold water. Then she heard the words: "I have come to relieve suffering. I shall see you again soon." At the last apparition, on March 2, 1933, the Virgin Mary said to
in the water at the spring and made the sign of the cross. The Virgin appeared and said: "I come to alleviate suffering." Mary appeared again on the following February 15 and 20 to the young girl, asking [...] "I am the Virgin of the Poor" Mariette Beco was born on March 25, 1921, into a working-class family and lived in a modest house on the outskirts of the village of Banneux, near a large pine forest. On the [...] Wednesday, January 18 at 7:00 p.m., Mariette was in the yard, praying on her knees. Suddenly, she got up and went toward the road where the Lady was calling her. Twice on the road she fell to her knees. A third
reciting the official prayer in preparation for the event. The theme of this next WYD will be: "Mary arose and left in haste" (Luke 1:39). Young people are called to "be light in the darkness of the night" [...] deliver them the living Gospel: Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord! We will go in a hurry, with no distraction or delay, but with readiness and joy. Amen. Taken from Le Rosaire
sorrowful Mother, Saint Mary, tell me something of the Passion of your Son; you saw more than any other saint because of your great love. You saw everything with the eyes of your body and with those of your [...] began to cry even harder. There must be another saint who could tell me something about the Passion. And I shouted deliriously: “Nothing anyone says about the Passion, nothing anyone tells, nothing is anything [...] even the beloved disciple, I saw in thousand ways, that she is unable to tell the story as it was; and the beloved disciple is unable too.”
at the top of the mountain and decided that this new Grotto of Lourdes would henceforth be the privileged center of the great Dahomean pilgrimages in honor of the Virgin Mary, he then founded the Dassa-Zoumè [...] every year, for the feasts of the Ascension and of the Assumption, tens of thousands of faithful gather there. Pilgrims come mainly from Benin, Togo, Niger and Burkina Faso. Adapted from Travel Benin
