room, and found the item he was looking for". Burrell remembered that he walked over to Diana’s writing desk and took the rosary beads that had been draped over a small statue of the Virgin Mary and put [...] rosary to the nurse and asked her to place it in the princess's hands. The rosary she held in her hand had also been joined by a photo of her sons, a photo which travelled around with her and had been found

she was raised mostly by her grandmother Zarafina, who taught her about the faith and inspired her love of Christ and the Church… By around the age of 16 or 17, she expressed a desire to enter the monastery [...] the country. Instead she joined the Secular Franciscans as a tertiary and led a religious life at home, receiving Holy Communion and spending time in adoration daily, though she had to walk five miles to [...] She died after being stabbed 42 times with a knife. Antal had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary and prayed the Rosary every day. Those who found her body noted that she had a rosary gripped firmly

chosen for her blessed house! Everything all around is poor, simple and primitive: the women have conserved their graceful Italian costume and haven't, like in the other cities, adopted the fashion of Paris [...] sprinkled with his perspiration, where Mary had carried Jesus in her arms, after having carried Him in her virginal womb. I saw the small room of the Annunciation and I placed my rosary in the bowl of the [...] Jesus. What delightful memories I have! But our biggest consolation was to receive Jesus in His house and thus to be made His living temple, in the very place He actually honored with His divine presence.

had to be hospitalized. My depression lasted for two and a half years. Then someone took me to Lourdes. I could not pray there. I went to the baths and then to the grotto of the apparitions, but nothing [...] Annunciation to Mary). Since then, I have never fallen into depression again. Little by little, the Lord has restored me, putting people into my life who have helped me. I returned to church and I started going [...] going to confession regularly. I received the sacrament of confirmation. I resumed my studies and graduated from nursing school. Then I married a devout Catholic, with whom I have had three beautiful children

herself be caught, trusting in God The Virgin loved to offer herself: to the God of her Fathers, as and better than the holy women of Scripture had done before her: Sarah, Rebecca, Judith, Esther, Ruth, [...] virgin, yet trustingly accepted to be given in marriage. Everything worked out all right in the end for Mary, thanks to the support of her fiancé who, like her, had offered himself fully to the same God of Israel [...] to learn from His mouth that the woman betrothed to him, or whom he chose, was already "betrothed." And he let himself be caught! But it was only the beginning of the story for him, because at this point

pilgrimage two years earlier and was making his way around the world for the intentions of Life and Family. The authorities at Vanier accommodated the unusual request of the icon visit and facilitated arrangements [...] God’s boundless love for each person from the moment of conception and of the grave harm of abortion and of the need for God’s mercy and forgiveness if one has been involved in an abortion. He spoke the [...] Twelve inmates were permitted to be invited and staff were also invited. About 20 employees came, mostly medical staff. I knew all the inmates who had been invited, and I also knew that at least eight of them

Apostolic Visitor has the aim of ensuring a stable and continuous accompaniment to the parish community of Medjugorje and to the faithful who go there as pilgrims, and whose needs require particular attention." [...] in Medjugorje. He will inaugurate his ministry with a solemn Mass in the evening and has invited all of the faithful and pilgrims present to participate. Archbishop Hoser was first appointed by Pope Francis [...] of acquiring a deeper knowledge of the pastoral situation there and above all, of the needs of the faithful who go there in pilgrimage, and on the basis of this, to suggest possible pastoral initiatives

Bikers come from all over France and Europe. "It’s kind of a mystery. This is one of the biggest gatherings in France and one of the biggest pilgrimages in Europe, and it’s organized by people who aren’t [...] bikers was started. Fr. Prévoteau built a shrine–called a 'pardon' in Breton–in Mary’s honor, where bikers could rally and pray. The gathering has grown from a few hundred participants to several thousand [...] annual event requires a complex logistics infrastructure and hundreds of volunteers. On the feast of the Assumption on August 15, 2019, between 10,000 and 12,000 bikers came to receive the special blessing of

stayed and enjoyed watching them being loaded onto the truck by the enormous claw which, from the top of the truck, picked them up and arranged them neatly. The logger, seated between cabin and vehicle [...] side of the road and the truck, which seemed safe. Just as I got up, a voice in me said, "Wait a bit!” I listened to it... and just at the moment when I should have been between the road and the truck, as [...] the pine forest that borders my road, when a huge logging truck and its trailer came by, stopping nearby. At the bottom of the embankment and on the top, crowded together, lay enormous trunks of fir trees

so many graces of love and reconciliation for those who open themselves to these gifts. October was the month of the Rosary, a beautiful prayer that we address to the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior Jesus [...] Christ. Why not pick up our rosaries and meditate on the mysteries of Jesus' life? On Sunday, November 1, we contemplate the lives of the saints, those brothers and sisters of ours who conformed their lives [...] lives to the Gospel. They loved God and their neighbor. They drew their strength from God to give themselves to, educate, care, journey with, and bless others. These people are our models. Their lives