the Hail Mary, rather, is often compared to a child speaking words of love over and over again. As St. John Paul II said in his important encyclical on the rosary, which he wrote in 2002, “If this repetition [...] atters/ (1) Bishop Andrew Harmon Cozzens (b. 1968) has been Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) since 2013

(Madrid, Spain) Spain, a Marian land since the first century According to the tradition that the apostle St. James, while in Spain, had a vision of the Virgin Mary on top of a column (El Pilar shrine, in Zaragoza [...] of the Carmel, begun in Avila in the 16th century, was placed under the protection of Our Lady and St. Joseph. Source: https://www.via-compostela.com/fr/la-vie-de-saint-jacques

let him know that he has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith. Pope Pius XII St Peter's Square, Rome, 1950

In the city of Las Piñas, Philippines, a devotion that had almost disappeared is making a comeback. St Joseph Parish, home to the world-famous bamboo organ, is also a shrine to the image of Our Lady of

ever seen in public, so that the human mind might at least direct its attention toward it in some way? St Eadmer of Canterbury De excellentia (6, PL 159, 568 C-569 A)

Have you heard of Gunadala? From last February 9-11, a large number of Christians and Hindus went to St Mary’s Gunadala Matha Shrine, in the heart of southern India, to attend the first Mass of the Mary

Council for the Laity, celebrated the inauguration of his ministry as Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major, on Thursday, February 2, 2017, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in Rome, in

way he is the hand that God stretches out to man, to the lost sheep, to bring him back to safety. As St Augustine teaches, Jesus took the temptations from us to give us his victory (cf. Enarr. in Psalmos

suffering like my suffering" (Lamentations 1:12). During the great apparition of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1) in June 1675, Jesus declared: "Behold the Heart which has so loved men

April 30, 2000 Mary to Saint Faustina: "I am the Queen of Heaven and Earth, but above all your Mother" St. Faustina Kowalska reported in her Diary about twenty apparitions of the Virgin Mary, in addition to