Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada, d. 1680) A missing child found safe through Mary’s protection There have been countless miracles attributed to Our Lady of the Magi of Embrun (France). One is this: In 1639 [...] Reformation) has left this city (in 1599), the blessings of heaven and the miraculous graces of past times have returned.” It should be noted that less than a hundred years after the devastating episode of the
world only through Mary. Whatever desires the patriarchs may have cherished, whatever entreaties the prophets and saints of the Old Law may have had for 4,000 years to obtain that treasure, it was Mary alone
head when I felt a gust of machine-gun fire above me, where my head would have been. Had I not bent down, I would certainly have been killed on the spot. What was this light that caught my attention? A
history by tirelessly defending the dignity and life of his patients against eugenic laws and by having the heroic courage to follow his conscience as a physician faithful to the Hippocratic Oath, and [...] order for the whole message (the Holy Spirit) to take flesh in Mary (the Incarnation), the Virgin must have been conceived to perfection (Immaculate Conception) free from all hereditary imperfections (original
well! Despite all our efforts we could not do anything!" - "You must have forgotten that the way to Jesus is through Mary. You have, so to speak, worked alone. As for myself, I let the Mother of all grace
Madonna dei Fiori of Bra (III) Of course, as often happens in such circumstances, certain coincidences have been observed that, when considered through the eyes of a believer, cannot be regarded as pure chance [...] in the same diocese, in Turin Cathedral. The flowering, which normally lasts for ten days or so, (I have witnessed it myself), lasted for more than three months during the winter of 1898-1899, coinciding
believe you and he will not have any doubts or suspicions about you anymore. And please know, my dear son that I will reward you for the hard work and sorrows that you have put into this for me. So, go
His name is not without meaning to the message with which he is charged. Indeed, which angel would have been better to announce the coming of the Christ - who is God's virtue - than the one who has the [...] itself, or because he was meant to reassure a naturally timid, simple and modest virgin that would have perhaps been disturbed by the news of the miracle about to be achieved in her womb. Indeed, he says
confess, this was a magnificent sight, and I had to wonder that it must have filled the Blessed Mother with some delight. How it must have pleased her to gather up so many petitions, so many sorrows, so much [...] to possess her. She would send them away in her dreams declaring, “I belong to Jesus and you can’t have me!” Another worked with delinquent teenage girls — the concern she carried for them was palpable [...] disabled. This woman came and crumpled before me like a dry leaf. Diminutive in stature, she couldn’t have weighed more than a hundred pounds, and was further diminished by exhaustion and grief. In the past
pretend I was asleep just so I wouldn’t have to join in!” My kids laugh at that. Then one of them pipes up, “Then why are you making us pray? We don’t want to either!” I have an answer for that too. “It’s because [...] cannot give form to the words. The pain is too great to be voiced. Then what a gift it will be to have the words of the Rosary, memorized, written forever on your heart. When your own words fail, the words [...] be there and accessible to you. “That’s why I teach you these prayers,” I say, “so you will always have them with you when you need them.” I know that the Rosary is a lifeline between heaven and earth,
