who would give birth to the Savior of humanity. We can only pray to Our Lady to obtain from God the grace to promote Jewish-Christian relations ever more effectively. Cardinal Francis Arinze Reflections given

but also her whole life story. Her spontaneous trust and unvarnished frankness was a truly Marian grace. Before Mary, we can tell each other everything, because we are family. Father Guillaume de Menthière

child or are experiencing infertility are not abandoned by the Church: the Shrine of Our Lady of Graces in Cotignac, southern France, recently inaugurated an outdoor shrine called "Belvedere for Life."

objects of the Russian Church. Believers have received and continue to receive from it a abundant graces. Adapted from Smolensk

he had been looking for me for several years and that he had even gone to Lourdes to ask for the grace to find me. I asked him: "When did you go to Lourdes?" He answered: "In June 1980." It was in the

crises, of decadent pessimism, of harmful selfishness. Rather, he will tell you how being young is a grace…” Born in the Italian region of Abruzzo in 1817, Sulprizio learned the faith from a priest at the

But aside from merely “solving the problem,” the crux of the prayer is its request of the necessary graces to disallow the knot, whatever it may be, from causing separation from Christ. It is a prayer of

until you have confided it to your director. You will be contradicted, but I shall grant you many graces. Do not be afraid. Tell everything with confidence and simplicity. Be confident. Do not be afraid

Do not forget to consecrate yourselves to me on October 7th. Be good. I am Mary, Mediatrix of all graces." The following October 3rd, a "rain of rose petals" occurred again. On Friday, November 12, 1948

these young brothers on the morning of August 15th "The Blessed Virgin would like to give us "the grace" (in French he did a play on words and said "la crasse" meaning the "filth") and have us leave for