away. The Lord is king of Israel among you, Israel; you have nothing more to fear. When the day comes, the message for Jerusalem will be: Zion, have no fear, do not let your hand hang limp. The Lord your

as if they were prostrating themselves in front of it. From that day, many doves have been released and many more have come to take refuge at the foot of the statue. They would stay for days, both day

sun-ripened vineyards, its rich meadows and its lush, thick woods, which have acted as a protective shelter for the shrine. Many pilgrims have been to this shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin without asking

beautiful initial state to rise higher, above themselves, to a supernatural destiny beyond what they could have imagined: to contemplate God face to face in an eternal and jubilant ecstasy of love (Rev 5:11). Together [...] opportunity to cooperate freely with God in attaining their destiny of eternal happiness. Some mystics have maintained that at that moment of choice, the angels were strengthened in their act of abandonment

life! The doctors warned the parents that since she had been dead for so long she would certainly have brain damage. They gave the parents a bag full of medicine for the child when she left the hospital [...] since she had brought her little girl back from the dead, she could also make sure that she would have no after-effects from the accident. He opened the window of his car and threw the medicine out the

t public buildings, theaters, and shops, not to mention many private mansions (recent excavations have unearthed beautiful floor mosaics). An earthquake eventually destroyed it in AD 363. A Romanized Jewish [...] is a witness to this tradition. Whether or not Jesus' grandparents came from Sepphoris, Jesus must have certainly been familiar with this bustling and prosperous city, distant only a few kilometers from

and we generally mean the intellectual risk, but Mary faced a real risk! Mary is the only one to have believed in a “situation of contemporaneity,” that is to say, she believed while the event was taking [...] intimate I-you personal contact with God. A Christian can easily reach the end of his life without ever having made a free and personal act of faith, which alone justifies the name “be­liever.” It is necessary

) and had just finished being rebuilt when the Huguenots in turn brought their own destructions. Having survived so many barbaric attacks, the abbey was finally demolished after the French Revolution, [...] between 1810 and 1830, after being sold as "national property." Fortunately, the two churches have survived: St Peter and St Paul is now a parish church and Our Lady of Bethlehem is also preserved and

each year have the opportunity to sit in the school of Our Lady and learn the lessons she taught at Champion, Wisconsin, many years ago. They are lessons still relevant for us today. After having seen Our

of her illness and to ask her to make her a dress, for the first one she was wearing was too worn. Having obtained promise of this dress, the pilgrim disappeared. The next day, white penitents knocked on [...] by doctors and by the local bishop. It was the first of a multitude of miracles for all those who have since come to honor and pray to Our Lady of Bargemon. In the 19 th century, for various reasons, the