This way of praying applies exactly what Jesus says in the Gospel of St John: "Whatever you ask in my name, I will do" (Jn 14:13). So to me it’s an invitation to address my prayers to Jesus. Especially because
almost all the citizens, I see the husband of Sarah from Juttah… But who can cope with faces and names, if it is a kaleidoscope of known and unknown faces, seen several times or only once?… Now there is
November 25 - Mary Consoler of the Afflicted (Rome, Italy) Graces abound when we pray the "Memorare" The name Memorare, meaning “remember,” is the first word in the Latin version of the prayer. There are various
the Mother of God’s Word. Of about 400 female congregations of apostolic life, 130 have a Marian name. No one has loved the Word made flesh as much as Mary. No one has welcomed the Word of God with as
more than any other figure aside from Jesus, Mary is untouchable and unbearable to Satan. At the Holy Name of Mary the devil, and all his tricks, and tearings apart, and black desperateness–already he is gone
alone or with others, in church or elsewhere. And to hope that it has its transforming effect on us, namely, that we personally accommodate the mysteries of Jesus and Mary, summed up by saying “yes” to God’s
own country. She has escaped several kidnapping attempts and eventually fled to Europe under a new name to devote herself to evangelization. Adapted and translated from Aleteia
break, before the 14th and last apparition during Lent, the one in which the Virgin Mary gave her name and pronounced the key phrase of her visits to Lourdes: "I am the Immaculate Conception". These words
December 5. Exactly nine months later to the day, Louis XIV was born. The heir received the baptismal name of "Louis Dieudonné" (God-given). As soon as the Queen was certain of her pregnancy, and without waiting
a man from the East, the Polish pope Karol Wojtyla, who had lived under Communism and took on the name of John Paul II, led to the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union. And it happened without a war of
