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

Divine Mercy, through the protection and prayers of Mary. From this time on, the members have prayed and the faithful have multiplied. The history does not stop there. Many seminarians and priests visited the [...] October 1637, Brother Fiacre de Sainte-Marguerite (1609-1684) received a revelation telling him to have the people of France recite novenas for the birth of an heir to the throne of France, the future Louis

of her illness and to ask her to make her a dress, since the one she was wearing was too worn out. Having obtained promise of this dress, the pilgrim disappeared. The next day, white penitents knocked on [...] doctors and by the local bishop (1641). It was the first of a multitude of miracles for all those who have since come to honor and pray to Our Lady of Bargemon. During the French Revolution, the statue was [...] of pilgrims are visiting. In addition, there are several families of Iraqi Christian refugees who have settled in the village and are an addition to the congregation. The current parish priest, Father

she was the firstborn daughter of an older couple called Joachim and Anna who lived there. Few today have heard of Sepphoris. It is not mentioned in the New Testament. Until fairly recently it was not even [...] but the Romans had made it the administrative center for the entire region. In 4 BC, when Mary would have been about 14, Herod the Great died. Shortly after the death of this “king” a man known as “Judas [...] country and crucified 2,000 men who had participated in the revolt. The trauma that gripped Galilee must have been dreadful, with dying men nailed to crosses at intervals up and down the main roads or on hillsides

Virgins testify to these violent storms of high mountains where it is better not to have lingered in the heights. "They often have lightning strikes on the head." The project was born following a bivouac at the [...] bit of all of this at once. In ten days, the mountain guides Guillaume Pierrel and Lucien Boucansaud have chained a total of 130 kilometers and 16,000 of altitude difference to climb the seven summits of [...] in the nineteenth century, which was also the great Marian century par excellence, several Madonnas have been hoisted on the back of men on seven summits of the Mont Blanc massif. The latest was installed

then - I said, "I have to stop somewhere to buy a rosary, mine is worn out. My good friend exclaimed, "This is the first time I see someone 'wearing out' a rosary!" In my lifetime I have recited it in French [...] when my mother, rather when both my parents entrusted to her the budding life about to arrive. I have always had an uncomplicated relationship with her. Some moments stand out of course, like my first [...] Magnificat exploded—are Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Her eyes are riveted to the tomb where they have just placed the body of Jesus. She can’t leave. Very gently, the beloved disciple leads her away and

who must come, the One who cannot not come.” Our Lady of the Road I entrust myself to you, after having heard in silence the call of “The One who must come, the One who cannot not come.” Our Lady of the

(Dominican Republic, 1650) Mary Has Given the World its True Light Holy Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world its true light, Jesus, your Son - the Son of God. You abandoned yourself completely

Ratisbon (Bavaria, 1842) - Blessed Charles de Foucauld First through Mary, then through Joseph You have decided that the providential channels of your graces would be your saintly parents; that your benefits

countless Christians who have knelt before her seeking her powerful intercession. The hymn in Italian and Spanish reminds pilgrims traveling the ebbs and flows of life’s journey that they have a constant companion [...] at the Church of the Gesú, the mother church of the Society of Jesus. Scientists and art historians have studied the painting of the mother and child and believe it to be a 13th or 14th century fresco that