many saints who are examples of perseverance and witnesses of true expectation. I choose two of them: St. John, the forerunner, and the Virgin Mary, because they are the two pillars of the portal that Jesus

grace, because she is the first of the redeemed. Like us, she owes everything to God's mercy, and what St. Paul says about the Church is true, even more so, of Mary: "Christ loved her, and gave himself up

booklets, written by a bishop of Saida in the 1910s, describe 16 miracles, including one in which a nun of St. Joseph recovered her sight. Nearly half of these miracles concern children and barren women, so she

this word: "Go to the Rue du Bac!" (Editor’s note: the site of the Miraculous Medal apparitions to St Catherine Laboure). It was so strong and clear that I obeyed right away. It was in the year 2000, on

to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, during the Celebration of Penance that he presided over at 5pm in St Peter's Basilica. The same act was performed today in Fatima by His Eminence Cardinal Krajewski, Apostolic

intention of faithfully obeying God's will In the episode of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple, St Luke emphasizes Jesus' messianic destiny. The immediate purpose of the Holy Family's journey from Bethlehem

Jesus, as a tribute, is his own mother! The first reason is that the Virgin is the "Eucharistic woman" (St. John Paul II) who perfectly returns to God what he deserves, the gratitude due to him for his actions

of Fatima in Portugal; Our Lady of Health in India; Our Lady Queen of Peace in Medjugorje, Bosnia; St. Mary's Cathedral in Australia; Immaculate Conception in the United States; Our Lady of Lourdes in

a refugee camp after fleeing Qaraqosh when ISIS took over in 2014, leads a weekly women's group at St Ephraim Church in Qaraqosh, which was burned and vandalized by ISIS but which has slowly started f

Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord." 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