Virgin Mary’s protection. He also typically visits the icon upon returning to Rome and before re-entering the Vatican. Pope Francis was in Iraq from March 5th-8th on a visit intended to strengthen the hope

invoke the holy name of Mary when faced with grave dangers The next day, September 12th, Sobieski entered the city triumphantly, and attended Mass and the Te Deum (a solemn song of thanksgiving) in the church

Angels The reason why Padre Pio used to tell people to pray to the Virgin each evening in order to enter Paradise more easily, is simply because Mary is the Queen of Angels, who, under her command, have

of Advent, this joyful expectation of Someone, of the Coming One, Emmanuel, God with us. A God who enters history to experience all its stages and share the anxieties, joys, sorrows, hopes and concerns of

have spoken to my own good mother for whom I felt, as a consequence, a strong and tender love. I entered the Convent of the Visitation, because I was attracted to the very sweet name of Mary. I believed

conceiving Him in her womb according to the flesh. God wanted salvation to enter the world by the will of a woman, Mary, just as sin entered the world by the will of a woman, Eve. Eve, the "mother of the living

the Trinity, in all of its Divine Power, goodwill for mankind and the nobility of the Holy Spirit entered her virgin body.

discovered in the living presence of Jesus. Mary, our Mother, will bring us to glory. She invites us to enter into the mystery of the glory of Pentecost. On this day of Pentecost, Mary is waiting: as she did

is what happens to us constantly. It will be one of the pains of Purgatory if one day God lets us enter there, to have missed so many of these invitations of divine grace, sweet as the breeze that Elijah

attention to this point, which catalyzes the memory of the mystery of our Salvation, by making us enter into the ultimate preparation for its realization. The liturgy of Advent gives us direct announcements