noon. The door of the church is open. I must enter. Mother of Jesus Christ, I'm not coming to pray. I have nothing to offer and nothing to ask for. I come only to look at you, Mother. To look at you, cry out [...] straight into my heart and cause all the accumulated tears to flow. Because you saved me, because you have saved France, because you thought of both France and myself, because at a time when the end was near
Guardian (II) The Holy Icon, placed by the monks on the altar of the monastery church, was soon found to have changed its place and to stand above the gates of the monastery. And every time the monks returned [...] and to the life of a holy ascetic. Since then all copies of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God have depicted her with a scar and drops of blood on her cheek. The fame of the icon reached Russia through
would be called "Lord", seated at the right hand of God: "Take your seat at my right hand, till I have made your enemies your footstool. The Lord will stretch out the scepter of your power; from Zion you [...] true son of God: "I shall be a father to him and he a son to me" (2 Sam 7:14). "You are my son, today have I fathered you" (Ps 2:7). A man raised to the level of God: "I saw in the night visions, and, behold
all the nations, as the prophet Isaiah forcefully reminds us in his messianic oracles: "I have shaped you; I have made a covenant of the people and a light to the nations" (Is 42:6). "It is not enough for
of the most common misconceptions among Catholics is that we have to be perfect before we can be holy and close to God. “We don’t even have to change to go to God. We go to God and He changes us. We come
the Covid-19 epidemic. Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopate, said, "I have received more than 300 letters, full of love and devotion to the Virgin Mary, asking: Why don't you [...] Joseph, "the workers" are entrusted to her in particular, in view of "the concerns and fears so many have regarding the future." Adapted from: Adelaide Patrignani Vatican News
heart, we can imagine how she received His farewell speech: “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you” (Lk 22:15). Could that have reminded her of the wedding at Cana? (1) Now His hour had come
doctors of the Church, have celebrated Mary and helped to promote and spread devotion to the Virgin Mother of God across France. In Paris, at the famous University of the Sorbonne, we have historical reports
where she had grown up. There, she founded, with Father Georges Finet, the Foyers de Charité , which have since spread to all continents. Marthe, who for over 40 years relived the Passion of the Christ every [...] every week, has been proclaimed Venerable by the Church. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the world have found conversion after visiting her in her sick room and during retreats preached throughout the year
Our Lady Several countries around the world have already passed laws permitting the use of Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) to allow same-sex couples to have a child. In this year 2019, the French government
