was waiting for me! There was not a breath of wind but my candle kept going out. No one else was having this problem! After relighting it for the fourth time, I felt a surge of anger, as it occurred to [...] everything to my wife. Our common conclusion was that we could not continue to live as pagans. We had to have our marriage blessed by a priest and our children baptized. Today we live as Christians and are very

for not having acted, and they will do it, but it will be too late. Russia has already spread her errors around the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The Holy Father will have much

"How many times have I confided to this mother the tormented anguish of my restless heart! And how often has she comforted me! In difficult moments, it seems to me that I no longer have a mother on earth

newborn baby, how to give birth to it, and how to feed it. If Mary didn't have so much faith in God, and lived in our times, she might have said: "Why can't I stay here and celebrate with my friends this unique

think that it wasn’t a “powerful” form of prayer. I was very wrong. As I have been revisiting the rosary myself, Mary and Jesus have been hitting me over the head with “grace-bombs” lately, and it has been

saw the stone assigned to him, he knew that his time had come, because it was so big he could not have lifted it even an inch. He also knew that if he did not carry it, the dogs would jump on him and the [...] Standing by his stone, in his distress, he looked up. He saw a simple village house, which happened to have a small niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary. When my father saw the statue, he cried out inwardly

woolen Scapular. Any priest can now impose the scapular; it is no longer necessary, as in the past, to have special authorization from the Order of Discalced Carmelites. One simply has to use one of the formulas [...] provided for in the Roman ritual. We long to be at the service of Our Lady and for this reason many of us have consecrated ourselves to her Immaculate Heart. The scapular is the sign of our consecration to the

where I had spotted a few bars, to have a few pints and more as usual. Then I resisted this impulse, sensing that I would miss out on something, and I prayed that I would have a good time. I prayed that I would

and deeply moved when I read that Mary's words at La Salette were: "Six days I have given you to labor, the seventh I have kept for myself." For from a Jewish perspective it is very natural, almost inevitable

of those who have lost loved ones, I am humbled by the outpouring of support coming to us from around the country and the world,” Medley said in a statement to CNA. “Several bishops have communicated to