fine example of holiness in married and monastic life." After having lived in the world as a princess authentically living Christian charity, she became a nun and lived humbly. The spirit of the Order of [...] Celestial Annunciades of Rome had the joy and honor, on December 1, 1985, to receive the visit of His Holiness Pope Saint John Paul II. The echo of his fatherly words still resounds in our contemplative hearts:
The Holy Spirit makes it possible by awakening in the human heart the desire for this salvific meeting and by bringing it about. Nor can we neglect the role of Mary who gives the Child to the holy old
about herself and about Our Lord, which she knows partly from inner knowledge and partly from what her holy mother Anna told her. Thus today I heard her telling Susanna and Martha that during the time when [...] been granted to them here in such abundance as to make it possible for her alone, from her parents’ holy obedience and pure love of God, to have been conceived in her mother’s womb without any stain of sin [...] Anna encompassed by a host of angels with heavenly light. They themselves shone and were as pure as spirits in a supernatural state, as no human couple had ever been before them. I think that the Golden Gate
love for the Virgin Mary. Whenever he had free time, he would pray long prayers at the foot of her holy image. One day a strange illness came over him. A continuous and very painful rattle seized his lungs [...] And I want you to know I am reserving a place for you in Paradise, when the time comes for your spirit to separate from your body.” Then she left. When the monks returned with a coffin, the surprise caused [...] taken place, the whole community quickly gathered to thank the King of Heaven and his Mother, singing holy praises to God. Gautier de Coincy (1177–1236) a French abbot, poet and musical arranger, chiefly known
Léthel: Our Holy Father, Pope Francis asked that we reread his homily of March 17, 2020 in which he warned that the virtual should not replace the real. Spiritual communion, which the Holy Father has invited [...] Body of Jesus, so it is a communion with Him. Often in the history of the Church, in the history of holiness, it is lay people, especially women, who have pushed pastors to take new steps. We have the example [...] course the bishop and the priests followed. So I think that now it is important to listen, not in spirit of opposition or demanding, but in this sense of beautiful communion and complementarity of vocations
which would have brought an explosion of violence, and social peace was maintained. I invoked the Holy Spirit by the name of Mary and, thanks to her, the peril of a bloody riot was avoided. For the greater
"Yes" The Council said: "By her belief and obedience, not knowing man but overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, as the new Eve she brought forth on earth the very Son of the Father" (Dogmatic Constitution Lumen
Constantinople proclaimed that "Jesus Christ, only Son of God, true God born of true God, by the Holy Spirit took flesh from the Virgin Mary and became man". The Council of Ephesus in 431 definitively settled
chosen by God's wisdom, formed for each other by God's command, and united to each other by God's Spirit. St. Joseph, more blessed than other men, was joined to God through the Virgin; in loving his wife [...] dealings with sin, being harmoniously infused with grace, commanded respect, inspired modesty, diffused holiness, stirred up chaste desires, and purified the eyes of those who looked at her, and redirected all
consists, for five consecutive months, in receiving holy communion, reciting the Rosary while meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary in a spirit of reparation, and to confess one’s sins within
