frozen in fear, thinking that I was dead. I slowly moved each part of my body…my head – I didn't have a helmet at that time –... my back... I finally got up, unhurt. I saw my bike, completely bent by [...] still had much left to do, people to love and to serve according to the Gospel. For 25 years now, I have been singing the Magnificat in my heart with Mary! Story shared by Francis, a reader of A Moment with

depicted her vision was inscribed in gold letters, ‘O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.’ Catherine added that she had heard, ‘I pour out these graces on whoever asks for [...] Heart of Mary underneath. After Catherine had carefully considered all this, the voice said to her, ‘Have a medal made according to this model. All who wear it will receive great graces and will enjoy special

of Fatima, as witnessed by more than 70,000 people in Portugal. In this miracle, the sun is said to have swirled and danced in a circle, as reported by a Lisbon newspaper a day after the spectacle happened [...] shepherd children at Fatima. In the Philippines, the only Catholic country in Asia, many churches have been named after Fatima. It was during these apparitions that the Blessed Mother also called the world

contemplatives have supposed that in her humility she commanded the Evangelists to suppress everything about her which was not absolutely necessary to the doctrine about our Blessed Lord. We can have no doubt

also society. Giving them and showing them the relationship they can have with Mary is beautiful. I asked them to think of and have in mind someone who needs their prayers for each bead and dedicate that

world was created; for him that the prophets spoke; for him that they, Mary and Joseph, themselves have been attracted to virginity, then marriage. A great light enveloped them both, and their gratitude [...] God—could there be a feeling, a certainty that can bring more happiness and make prayer more profound? To have been chosen by their own child, is there a more amazing joy for parents? Whereas for other people

circumstances. My brothers and sisters cannot refuse this act of reverential love to the perfect Mother we have in Heaven. ‘Ave Maria’: I greet you, Mary! It is a greeting that purifies the lips and the heart because [...] may say to greet the one whom the Three Persons greet with love! The invocation that saves! Always have it on your lips, not as a mechanical movement that excludes the soul, but as a movement of the spirit

chores was to take care of the many tombs and burn incense during the funeral feasts. Her husband would have allowed her to go to church but there wasn't one in sight. She gave birth to eight children. 70 years [...] rosary, and the answer I heard was: "Every day, several times a day, without ever missing a day, I have been praying all these years. While going about my work, I always had Mary's chain in my hands or

not calm enough. You have the true French attitude. You want to know everything before learning, and to understand everything before knowing. As recently as yesterday, I would have come, but you were deprived

walked me back to the hotel; then he asked me perhaps the most interesting question I have ever heard in my life: "Have you paid your hotel bill yet?" I out fumbled him for the bill. The next day we went