saints. Or ordinary patrons and ordinary saints. And there are days when you have to go up, up, up, up, and up. Then you have to summon up your courage. And go directly to the one who is above all. Be bold
recognized, then he adored, then he said: “Now dismiss your servant, O Lord, in peace; because my eyes have seen your salvation.” He delayed his going from the world, that he might see him born, he by whom [...] that thus you should know it to be his joy, he says: “Now dismiss your servant in peace—for my eyes have seen your salvation.” Saint Augustine Homily on the Presentation of the Lord
evolution of the political situation in Lebanon and the stabilization of its institutions seem to have favored this decision. Lebanon, whose soil was trodden by Jesus, has many Christian monasteries (including [...] 2006, one million pilgrims visited the site. Lebanon is dear to the heart of the popes: three of them have visited or passed through the "land of cedars" in the last fifty years. The first was Blessed Paul
30 – Good Friday - Our Lady of Miracles (Lucca, Italy, 1588) My devotion to Our Lady I think I must have inherited this devotion from my family because I loved Mary from an early age. I made my first communion [...] feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. As a teenager, I joined the Marian Congregation in 1946 and have always remained faithful to it. After finishing my studies in accounting in Londrina (Brazil) in 1951
grace in all dangers, difficulties, needs, doubts and fears.” The upheavals that have taken place in society in recent years have made maternity a particularly sensitive topic... The solid foundation of societies
his Mother The last words that have sprung from the loving heart of Mary were spoken at the wedding of Cana. "As the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her
and asked to have a medal made, known as the Miraculous Medal. Worn out by work and age, her heart became weak. She still had a sorrow in her heart: the Blessed Virgin had asked her to have a statue sculpted
You On September 8, 1914, the feast of the Nativity of Mary, 23 year-old Marcelle Lanchon claimed to have had her first apparition of the Blessed Virgin, in the Our Lady of the Armies Chapel, on the very [...] founded, transmitted a prayer for France: "My Son, forgive the French, they still love you since they have never stopped loving me..." She also gave a promise on behalf of the Virgin: "If, in union with my
is the luminous principle expressed by the Second Vatican Council which I have so powerfully experienced in my own life and have made the basis of my Episcopal motto: Totus Tuus. The motto is of course
apparition. Since the middle of the 16th century, believers have venerated the Virgin at this shine as "Our Lady of the Kneeler". Miracle cures have been claimed and on September 11, 1908, Pius X granted a
