in the Church Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions, and it holds no perils. It is the most holy [...] indifference of the multitude has closed. We must have true adorers; that is to say, people of fervor and sacrifice. When there are many around the divine Savior, God will be glorified, Jesus loved; society
Poland (1655) (...) when all seemed lost and the king and his army had been routed, the monks of Yasna Gora faced up to the challenge. They resolved not to surrender, and the powerful Swedish army never managed [...] need to listen to the pulse of this place to feel how the heart of the nation beats in the heart of Mary" (John Paul II, June 4, 1979).
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."
from the outside, speaking to me in the interior of my heart. Yet, it was unmistakable, and it made me stop short and listen. Consecrate yourself to me. This wasn’t the first time I heard that voice. It spoke [...] asking Christ to introduce me to his mother, to help me know and understand the appropriate place she should inhabit in my spiritual life. And during that Mass, I heard: I am the soul who magnifies the Lord [...] magnifies the Lord.” But the metaphor suddenly seemed new to me; I went home, wrote it down, and pondered its meaning. Mary gives us a picture of a human soul so completely united to God that she becomes translucent;
to be humble. And because humility is the universal guardian, the Virgin Mary, as if she overlooked all the other virtues of her soul and body, admired only one of her own qualities, and gave only one [...] new life and receive blessings, if humility supports them. A humble heart is the generating force of virtue; the stem and branches can only come from the roots. Because its price is infinite and because [...] Humility is a Prerequisite for Peace Verily, verily, the Savior of the world has raised meekness and humility to the foundation of all virtue. Abstinence, fasting, austerity, internal or external poverty
tomb of the holy and illustrious apostle and evangelist, the virgin and beloved disciple of Christ, the friend who leaned upon his chest at the Last Supper, and to whom the Virgin Mary was particularly [...] empty, and it became a source of miracles. On May 8th, it used to be covered with a kind of ashes, which the local Christians called "Manna." This substance could cure diseases of the soul and the body [...] of this annual miracle, the Church instituted a feast to celebrate the beloved disciple of the Lord and beloved son of the Mother of God. According to the Orthodox Monastery
fell to their knees and with tears streaming down their faces, bawling like children, they recited the Hail Mary over the ocean, and their prayers reached heaven. The rosary ended and the missionary spoke [...] there was a strong gale. The enemy ships were turned and tossed like walnut shells, and they disappeared over the horizon. The crew of the ship was saved and they alighted on the island singing the Magnificat [...] they were all ears to the missionary's preaching. Everyone asked to confess, except the governor, and they became fervent Christians, always remaining faithful to the rosary.
fell to their knees and with tears streaming down their faces, bawling like children, they recited the Hail Mary over the ocean, and their prayers reached heaven. The rosary ended and the missionary spoke [...] there was a strong gale. The enemy ships were turned and tossed like walnut shells, and they disappeared over the horizon. The crew of the ship was saved and they alighted on the island singing the Magnificat [...] they were all ears to the missionary's preaching. Everyone asked to confess, except the governor, and they became fervent Christians, always remaining faithful to the rosary.
to our families and to our world, and she asked us to pray the rosary to bring an end to war. Those who start to pray the rosary regularly find in it eventually a mysterious attraction and incredible power [...] peace and their desire for holiness grows. Its simplicity is found in the repetition of the prayers from memory that are intended to allow us to enter into the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. Some [...] because of its depth. It has been prayed and loved consistently by faithful Catholics since the beginning of the second millennium. It is a prayer beginners can learn, and it can lead us into the depth of the
Blessed Virgin (I) She is the Eve of the new Covenant, the mother shared by all believers; yet this cost Mary the death of her first-born Son. She had but to join the eternal Father, with whom she gave her consent [...] the cross. She came here to sacrifice her own true Son; that He might die, so that man might live. And, here, she came to bear new children: “Woman”, said Jesus, “behold your son.” How painful were those