began to flow. The child drank the first sip of the muddy water, and wet her face. The spring would soon become an inexhaustible fountain, a divine instrument of many extraordinary cures. (1) Bernadette Soubirous [...] shepherdess living in Lourdes (France), to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times. Dom Antoine Marie, osb. Abbot of Clairval [...] one word: "Penance!" Penance! Penance!" On the 25th, Bernadette crawled on her knees to the center of the grotto, where the Lady preceded her. This time the Virgin’s instructions were: "Drink from the

Let us move to the second dimension of his education: “ wisdom. ” Joseph was for Jesus the example and the teacher of the wisdom that is nourished by the Word of God. We could ponder how Joseph formed [...] natural dimension, physical and psychological growth. Joseph together with Mary, cared for Jesus above all from this point of view, that is he “raised” him, taking care that he lacked nothing he needed [...] Nazareth. And lastly, the dimension of “ grace ”… It would be a grave error to think that a father and mother can do nothing to form their child to grow in the grace of God. To grow in age, to grow in wisdom

traveled to Lourdes to keep a promise he had made to his wife Claudia: to go thank the Virgin Mary for the birth of their daughter, Dalma-Lourdes. When he arrived in Lourdes, a crowd closed in on him, preventing [...] on the other side of the Gave river. On the way back to the airport, he was seen carrying two bottles filled with Lourdes water. The whole world had already witnessed him making signs of the cross and g [...] Bosco Diego Maradona was devoted to Our Lady Diego Maradona, the Argentine-born soccer legend, died of a heart attack on November 25, 2020. It is a well-known fact that he was always faithful to his homeland

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 Child Jesus. What [...] Therese's Thoughts about Loreto This is what Saint Therese of Lisieux wrote about her visit to Loreto on November 13, 1887: "I remember the great sense of happiness I had on my way to Loreto. What a perfect location [...] We wanted to receive the bread of the angels in the diamond and not in its case. (...) What will it be like then when we will eternally have communion in the House of Our Heavenly King!"

before. Come over.” “I kind of thought they were joking,” she said. “I’ve never been invited to someone’s house to pray a Rosary.” But Jennie and Kevin Punswick, members of Holy Spirit Parish in Overland [...] important piece of the prayer model because it really lets us in on what are the broken pieces in our life — what hurts, and also what should be celebrated,” said Jennie. “People are coming for Mary,” she added

Saint Mary. Archbishop Arshad congratulated the whole Christian community of the University of Agriculture for having promoted the building of a Christian place of worship, next to the existing one of the [...] Joseph Arshad of Islamabad-Rawalpindi and Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Faisalabad, in the presence of Muhammad Iqbal Zafar, Vice-Chancellor, of Professors, Religious, and students. As Archbishop [...] State University of Faisalabad, and it’s the first place of worship present in a public athenaeum in Pakistan. It was opened on April 15, 2018, in the complex of the Agricultural University of Archbishop Joseph

150th anniversary of a Marian apparition in the small French village of Pontmain. For over 30 years the pastor of this village of 500 inhabitants taught his parishioners to pray to Mary with confidence and [...] the title of Our Lady of Hope, for all their needs. In January 1871 France was losing miserably in a war they had started against the German states. With the Prussian army within 50 miles of Pontmain, [...] turned back, reporting a strange vision of a Madonna in the sky barring their advance. All of Brittany was spared; an armistice was signed just 11 days later and all 38 of the young men from Pontmain who had

other land in sight. The vast expanse of water is covered with a formidable array of ships in battle formation, prows fitted with sharp spear-like beaks capable of breaking through any defense. All are [...] large inscription reads: Help of Christians; the other, far loftier and sturdier supports a (Communion) Host of proportionate size and bears beneath it the inscription Salvation of Believers." The saint continued [...] and waves are with the enemy. In the midst of this endless sea, two solid columns a short distance apart, soar high into the sky: one is surmounted by a statue of the Immaculate Virgin with a rosary at whose