bright ray of sunlight. Tell the crowd to sing the Magnificat. - Yes Madam, we will sing it. The priest began singing, the people followed, and the rosary continued. - Pray for sinners. - Yes Madam, we

days in the liturgy and are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. On most Saturdays throughout the year, priests may offer votive Masses in her honor, and in the Liturgy of the Hours, specific prayers and readings

d by the Archangel Saint Michael, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Sebastian. On May 16, 1888, a priest reported seeing an apparition of Christ bleeding, with his Mother. Healings were reported, including

to be deported to the United States on Feb. 9 along with 222 other political prisoners, including priests and seminarians, preferring to stay with the 37 other political prisoners who remain in Nicaraguan

it added that they wanted the faithful to continue to wear, if possible, the woolen Scapular. Any priest can now impose the scapular; it is no longer necessary, as in the past, to have special authorization

the Savior, the archbishop announced the arrival of "Pilgrim Virgins in parishes, religious and priestly communities to show the hospitality and filial gratitude of the Catholic community to the Mother

XVI reminds us, to be the obligatory stage for the majority of souls. For Father Jean-Marc Bot, a priest in the diocese of Versailles, France, purgatory is like "a great hope, the masterpiece of God's mercy…It

volunteering in Lourdes, at the Youth Service (I was a student midwife at the time), I met a young Oblate priest of Mary Immaculate and asked him about Mary, the Rosary, etc. He answered that the Rosary was the

powerful weapon for defending ourselves on the battlefield . (Letter from Sister Lucia of Fatima to a priest, November 26, 1970) Adapted from: Journal & Gloria TV

Kyrillos VI (Cairo, Egypt, 1968) The birth of the devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots In 1986, the Jesuit priest Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, returned to Argentina from his stay in Frankfurt