Mother, as you were, the greatest, most capable, and most worthy vessel in the world, you were also more than any other filled with the bitterness and drink of anguish that your Beloved swallowed in that [...] 'Hey, come, my daughters, let your hearts be all-empty vessels, and my Son will pour into them the dew with which his head is covered, and the drops of the night of his Passion with which his head is sprinkled [...] give me the grace that from now on I may receive all the little occasions of humiliation, suffering and abjection as little distilled droplets from this precious hair. Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Jane
of praise to the Blessed Virgin that is very pleasing to her and her Son Jesus. From that day, Van no longer complained about that prayer and willingly prayed it as often as he could. His mother then taught [...] for him a source of strength that sustained him in his life filled with suffering and trials. Memoirs of Sister Anne-Marie From the Bulletin of the Friends of Van, October 2021 Marcel Van (1928-1959) was [...] Van (1), who always knelt next to his mother, seemed a little unhappy. Suddenly, he raised his voice and said in a plaintive tone: "Mom, change your prayer, it's boring! You always repeat the same thing!"
message of prayer and repentance. The apparition occurred only a few days before the armistice and the departure of the occupying troops. Bechwat is a small Lebanese village where the Virgin Mary granted signs [...] travelled to Lebanon to pray in the chapel of Bechwat; and the message delivered by the Virgin in Pontmain in 1871 has been translated in Arabic and inscribed on a long banner at the entrance of the shrine [...] signs and healings in 2004. This happened shortly before the peaceful withdrawal of the Syrian occupation troops. In addition to the similarity between the historical circumstances, the statue Our Lady of
is talking and I say, ‘sorry, one second,’ and you just make the time. Sundays, I can’t wait, because I go to church. I go with a couple of my close friends and we leave feeling enlightened and empowered [...] of Lewis Hamilton’s religious devotion. An image of Pieta, Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of the dead Christ, is inked on his shoulder. Tattoos, though, are only the half [...] empowered. It’s like a re-centering. Most of the time you leave and think, ‘Wow, I know where I am going.’” As he prepares to sign a three-year, £120 million contract extension at Mercedes, making him Britain’s
unknown to everyone and with whom all the girls were fighting over to dance." - "Yes, I do!" - "And you would have liked him to invite you to dance, but he never invited you and chose other girls, which [...] daughter, this young man was a demon. And do you know why he did not invite you to dance? It is because of the scapular that you wore and that by devotion to Mary, you had kept as a safeguard." From Le
beginning of our era, at the time of the Virgin Mary, as evidenced by the Gospel and several Jewish and pagan writings, because some prophecies explicitly and specifically talked about the time of His coming [...] to come, or should we expect someone else?"(Lk 7:19). It was an absolutely unprecedented context, and, in the opinion of many historians, the exceptional character of Christianity’s appearance alone is [...] in the religious history of the world. The expectation of the fullness of time had become so strong and precise, in that particular period of history, that more than 100 Messiah candidates were identified
their country and to intercede for their young people. Ireland then followed with well over 30,000 lay people gathering at 53 venues around the country, many of them on the coastal beaches and hills overlooking [...] overlooking the ocean. The number 53 was chosen because there are 53 Hail Marys in the Rosary . After Ireland, Italy’s coastal parishes organized the Rosary… Adapted from an article by Sue Martggin in Catholic
to look at but the tallest in the world! The statue began with Deacon Ed Heinz of the Servants of Mary Center of Peace, who purchased a farm for the sole purpose of its construction. After much prayer [...] August 5, 1995, the completed statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was dedicated. She stands a top an angel and a cloud with saintly radiance surrounding her made of metal. The surface is decorated with thousands [...] Surrounding the east-ward facing statue is a pond, itself surrounded by whites bead of the Rosary and a Crucifix that are lit at night. Adapted from an article by Billy Ryan – Ucatholic Blog , June 18
in miracles only if you prove to me that an amputated leg can grow back: this has never happened, and you will never be able to do it.” This was an imprudent pronouncement made by a famous atheistic scholar [...] of the facts: the available records of the operation, the "burial" of the leg, the police reports and the conclusions of the court officially acknowledging the miracle, were collected by Vittorio Messori [...] ___________ (1) Vittorio Messori, Le Miracle Impensable (The Unthinkable Miracle) - Mame 1998 The Mary of Nazareth Team
to an end and ensuring the safe return of children to their parents. The icon has drawn flocks of pilgrims towards it every time it has come to Bulgaria, or has been exhibited in Ukraine and Russia. Euscoop [...] Bulgaria Orthodox pilgrims from all over the world may see the miraculous icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the “Uspenie Bogorodichno” Cathedral in Varna, Bulgaria. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has sent
