received a blunt rebuke from his priest, who said: "You want to become a priest without knowing if you have a vocation!" Worried, Peter Julian decided to seek light and guidance from Our Lady of Laus herself [...] gratitude to Mary: "Oh yes, if I'm a priest, I owe it to the Blessed Virgin; without her, I would never have been able to triumph over the obstacles that stood in the way of my plans". "The Virgin," he said

open, after years of forced closures due to the pandemic. And dioceses such as Beijing and Shanghai have already published the program of celebrations and timetables for daily community prayer, including [...] guide to guarantee the correct development of pilgrimages, knowing full well that Chinese Catholics have a deep Marian devotion and a special affection for Our Lady of Sheshan. After three years of pandemic

wonderful effects of devotion to Mary (II) Mary sustains us when we are ready to fall; lifts us up when we have fallen; takes us back, as a charitable Mother, when we fail. St. Bernard tells us that in following [...] therefore, we win the benevolence of this august Princess and faithful Virgin, the more pure faith we will have in all our conduct, a pure faith, which will make us care little for the sensible and the extraordinary;

all Christians are called "brothers" (Jn 20:17; 1 Cor 5:11); or this designation indicates those who have another degree of kinship, as in Gen 27:46; 29:1-12; 31:17. Jerome rejected the idea suggested in [...] aunts). Jerome rested his argument on the fact that philologically speaking, Hebrew and Aramaic do not have a specific word for "cousins" and instead use "brothers" for this designation (e.g. in Gen 13:8; 14:14;

September 1896, she understood in a new way her call to infinite love: "My vocation is love... Yes, I have found my place in the Church... in the Heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be Love... in this way [...] everything!" The last poem she wrote in May 1897 was entitled Why I love you, O Mary. In this poem, "I have said all that I would preach about her", she would assert in August, during the most difficult period

visited a priest named Zechariah. He and his wife, Elizabeth, were obedient followers of God but did not have any children since she could not conceive. While Zechariah was on duty in the temple of the Lord, [...] and took a step of faith because she experienced God and had no place left for doubt. God’s people have blessed nations and people around them because empowered by the Holy Spirit, the water of life flowed

God has attached to it grace in this life and glory in the next. The saints have practiced it and the sovereign Pontiffs have approved it." (To be continued on October 11) Isabelle Rolland, Le Rosaire,

and heard for half an hour, because all would have been converted... And those who say that the Blessed Virgin usually does not speak so much, would have better understood that what the books teach - if

Pope had previously addressed this beautiful letter to him: "God, whom the celestial legions obey, having established different kingdoms here on earth according to the diversity of languages and climates [...] divine cause. God loves France, where at no time has the faith lost its vigor, where kings and soldiers have never hesitated to face perils and to give their blood for the preservation of the faith and of religious

responsible for as men, which, he said, have helped bring Ireland to its current state, where secularism prevails and where abortion and same-sex marriage have been legalized. Specifically, McCrystal said