that we experience complete joy. "I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you" (Jn 15:11-12).

possible, that would have cost me too much. I am God, I am her Son, and I'm the one who gives the orders. And then, God said, I did it for my brothers and sisters on earth so that they could have a Mother in Heaven

your Love! ... Our poor human intelligence, left to itself, could never have dreamt of such a Redemption. Our hearts could never have dared to believe in such a Love! ... In the astonishment and the rapture

could not have been exempt from original sin before the coming Christ. In truth, this is not an easy question. God allows that even the most learned Doctors of the Church do not always have a perfect [...] say a perfectly free yes when He asked her to be the Mother of the Savior. On her own Mary could not have escaped the mark of original sin. But to God nothing is impossible. Mary is filled with grace; the [...] Immaculate Conception is an absolutely free gift from God. This is what Catholics believe. Protestants have no difficulty either in believing in God's free gifts. They should stop listening to those who like

eight years, I have not stopped praying it," Rafael says. The Rosary and his devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe brought him closer to the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist helped him to have a real encounter [...] decided to remain faithful to the sacrament of marriage and to remain chaste: "Since the divorce, I have lived a chaste life." This path is not always easy for him, but he says that he finds strength in [...] live my marriage in a Catholic way, but now I remain chaste thanks to the sacraments." His children have suffered from this situation too. Rafael keeps explaining to them that suffering is an integral part

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. I don't take any time for myself [...] understand them so that you can heal not only in your body but also in your mind. The grace that I have received here, and that I continue to receive every time I go there, is peace with myself. I usually [...] worries is lightened. What strikes me is the atmosphere—the calm—as soon as you enter the Shrine. You have to go there to experience it. Testimony from Jessica. Published in the Journal of Graces of Lourdes

those who have not recognized it, the missing of this rendezvous will long remain a question. As the Talmud itself notes, "All dates that have been calculated for the coming of the Messiah have now passed"

enough to feed the family. Then Gianni had an idea. “What if we went out to work?” he asked Franco. “We have one more day before the procession. We can surely earn a few liras to buy some candles.” So the next [...] day, working as hard as his best workmen. When the youngsters came to ask for their wages, he would have readily kept them on until evening. The merchant gave them each one hundred liras. They returned home [...] hardly the equivalent of a quarter in those days, but still it was better than nothing! The joy of having earned the money themselves beamed on their faces.

and so that our church would be open to people who wanted to pray or ask for graces. Since then, we have prayed the Rosary as a group every day at 5:30 p.m. to the great joy of the parishioners and of our [...] our priest who, as a result, now celebrates Mass every day after the Rosary. Right now we have a group of at least 15 regular participants. We say the Rosary in French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Tamil and [...] Lisieux, who must be delighted with this diversity, since she is the patron saint of missionaries! We have received several messages of answered prayers for healing, and we joyfully continue this mission that

Heart (II) On July 13, 1917, Our Lady said to the three young visionaries of Fatima (Portugal): "You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wants to establish in the world devotion [...] my Immaculate Heart. If you do what I am going to tell you, many souls will be saved and you will have peace. The war will end, but if people do not cease to offend God, under the reign of Pius XI an even [...] causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and many nations will be annihilated. In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph