nation continues to struggle in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Bishops in Canada also used May 1st to rededicate their country to the Blessed Virgin. Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president [...] a “Renewal of the Consecration of the United States of America to the Blessed Virgin Mary” on May 1st. The sparse, 37-minute ceremony at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles was livestreamed

Theotokos, the miraculous icon of Panagia Kardiotissa, originating from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St George in Pennsylvania, was brought to Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church in Brooklyn for veneration [...] many American cities and for the first time comes to New York.” Fr. Mark Leasure, presiding priest of St George Church which houses the miraculous icon, said that since 2011, the icon of the Virgin Mary,

love, from the essence of our faith, which is charity, a surge of love unceasingly renewed for God" (St. Josemaría, Friends of God, §186). Chastity, in the different states of life, makes the image of Christ [...] attests to this: she is holy because, among the elect, she was "the only one to be raised above God" (St. Peter Damian, Hymn for the Assumption); she is a virgin because "she has no precedent, nor will there

Racconigi (1487-1540), whose feast day is celebrated on September 4, was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic (O.P.). Catherine Mattei was born in the Piedmont region of Northwest Italy, in 1487, into [...] mother a weaver. At the age of five, Catherine had visions of Jesus, Mary, and other saints, including St. Catherine of Siena. She also had frequent ecstasies. In 1499, she saw the Blessed Virgin "dressed

location. The spring of St Joseph in Cotignac has been a pilgrimage site ever since, and a nearby shrine was eventually combined with a separate apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph that occurred

She let herself be caught, trusting in a way out, as God can not contradict himself. St Cecilia did the same thing—St Therese of Lisieux admired her for it. She resolutely wanted to remain a virgin, yet

death and resurrection of Jesus: the Virgin Mary then appeared to one of the apostles, St James the Greater, brother of St John, who at the time was in Zaragoza, Spain. This apparition is known as Our Lady

theater with the crowd. Paul himself was on the point of going there but his disciples bade him to hide. St Paul, looking back on those moments, said: "We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, inasmuch [...] seven to whom the Book of Revelation is addressed. Interesting still is the fact that in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in 431, the Council of Ephesus was held. As the gods of Athens were yearnings for a

called Mary "the Mother of the King" and "the Mother of the Lord," basing their stand on the words of St Gabriel the archangel, who foretold that the Son of Mary would reign forever, and on the words of Elizabeth [...] she derived a certain eminence and exalted station from the royal dignity of her Son. So it is that St Ephrem, burning with poetic inspiration, represents her as speaking in this way: "Let Heaven sustain

Charity at St Vincent de Paul’s primary school in North Essendon, who demonstrably followed the example of Mary’s relationship with her divine son, Jesus. At the secondary school I attended, St Bernard’s [...] family Rosary, I would go to bed. On my bedside table was a beautiful statue of Mary as she appeared to St Bernadette at Lourdes. It was given to me for my first Holy Communion, which Mary and I had received [...] our adult lives, and my sister Mary and I prayed the Rosary each night at the presbytery we shared at St Cecilia’s Parish for over 13 years. During the last months of Mary’s life, confined as she was to her