influenced their lives and benefited those around them. Maj. Jeremy Haynes, a first-time spiritual pilgrim and Lourdes visitor, said he is a changed man since visiting the shrine, where Mary appeared to St Bernadette [...] life-changing for my wife and me,” Haynes told Catholic News Service . “With faith as our compass, we remain committed to moving forward.” Haynes was shot four times in Afghanistan and sustained injuries that [...] was a disaster and divorce was imminent. After being shot multiple times, I recall sinking into a dark place,” said Haynes. “Despite being a sinner, God showed mercy by sparing my life and allowing me to

foot in Lourdes..." As I grew up, I grew more and more anxious. I worry a lot about small things and I am always stressed. In England, I have a very busy job and I am active in several charitable organizations [...] organizations. I don't take any time for myself and my family, and I keep churning thoughts in my head. But when I go back to Lourdes every year, as soon as I set foot in Lourdes, all those concerns are gone. [...] England and busy all the time, sometimes I feel like I'm suffocating. Anyhow, every year, thanks to Lourdes, I learn how to become a better person, how to deal with my worries, anxieties, and difficult

This very simple and perfect prayer says it with few words. Through its purity and its source, may it preserve us from the dangers that surround us, and free us in truth, unity and respect for all life [...] my heart, and hadn't left me since last July. But as soon as I learned about the Perpetual Rosary for the World, this weight that was crushing me mentally and physically, began to be lifted, and then it [...] chose one, put it next to my bed, and that evening I began to pray with it. Another important thing happened after I learned about the Perpetual Rosary. Since Covid and all the harsh restrictions the government

a Catholic school. There, a nun instructed her for three years and at the age of 17 she became a Christian. "I received the Holy Water and the Bread of God," she told me. But later she got married, following [...] away in the mountains. So she went to live there, and was in charge of keeping up the temple; one of her chores was to take care of the many tombs and burn incense during the funeral feasts. Her husband [...] eight children. 70 years later, her husband and all her children had died, among them five sons killed during the war. Then, another Buddhist priest came and she had to leave the temple. I asked her if

separated from the members of my family. My husband is a surgeon and so are my children–my daughter a hepato-pancreatico-biliary fellow and my son a neurosurgical resident. Ever since the pandemic my children [...] volunteers in Manila, Sydney and California held a Rosary Brigade by ZOOM. Every day, a Rosary leader was assigned, along with five responders to each of the decades of the Rosary, and the participants sang spiritual [...] us a needed respite from our activities and, better still, the much dreaded coronavirus gave us a ‘wake up call’ to go back to prayers, to ask God for His mercy and guidance.” Adapted from article by Domini

centuries an important religious center and a training center for monks. The frescoes of this church depict scenes from the Bible, the life of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. During the Ottoman rule on the east [...] rights and granted certain privileges to Sumela, as they did for many other monasteries. With the construction of higher buildings in the nineteenth century, the monastery lived its most prosperous and brilliant [...] 2012, the Turkish government started funding reconstruction work, and the monastery is now enjoying a revival in pilgrimages from Greece and Russia. Every year, thousands of pilgrims come to visit this monastery

eternity, simply asked Mary if she would welcome him. Let us meditate on the resemblance between the way in which the Son of God took on the soul and body of a man in his mother's womb and the way in which, [...] Easter morning, he rose from his tomb. It was in great silence and without breaking in, that a body suddenly became filled with life, and that a tomb suddenly became empty, emptied of a corpse that had [...] think we know best: a virgin is not supposed to give birth, and a dead person is not supposed to leave his tomb. But God makes it happen, and does so without casting doubt on the chaste relationship between

goal is to pray for four intentions — in reparation for our sins and the sins of our country, for life and the end of abortion, for peace and for sanctification of families. In 2017, Rosary Congresses were [...] ( RosaryCongressUSA.org ) is a seven-day event of perpetual Eucharistic adoration and praying the Rosary hourly day and night. This year, diocesan Rosary congresses will join the Oct. 7th rallies. National [...] Peggy Downs. The focus on the Eucharist and the Rosary is inspired by St John Bosco’s dream of the Church being saved by anchoring to two pillars — the Eucharist and the Rosary. It will run Oct. 7-13, starting

mundane activities and concerns and focus on our personal relationship with God. It’s an opportunity to connect with old friends and make new ones who share our love for the faith, and most of all to spend [...] place on May 18 th in Carthage, N.Y., with Mass at 5:15 pm, and the evening continued with seven hours of praying the Rosary in honor of Mary’s “Seven Sorrows.” Mr. Renaud sent emails around the world to [...] enlist members to the crusade… Many travel from afar to join the Rosary Crusade. Since 2006, Michael and Theresa Schweigert have travelled about 150 miles from Guilderland, near Albany, to participate. “The

the removal of the scepter from Judah and the seventy weeks to coincide, and all this before the second Temple was destroyed." (Blaise Pascal - Pensées 708 and 709.) The pagans also had the advantage [...] This unique feeling of waiting was one which Mary carried above all other in her heart, in her prayers at the Holy of Holies. This was fulfilled for her and for all Christians with the coming of the Savior [...] (Sanhedrin Treatise 97). And, suffering from this disappointment, the scholars of Israel resort to trying to reinterpret the expectation of the Messiah. However, the time was fulfilled, and the kingdom of God