to God”) in the cathedral. However, for the past three years, city officials haven’t attended or entered the cathedral during the festival, not wanting to offend Muslims or to be seen to endorse any particular
is given to us like God's masterpiece of mercy, as the one whose sole purpose in life is to let us enter the Father's mercy by this narrow, yet royal, door. Since Mary is really the masterpiece of this mercy
space for God, who is encountered both in prayer and in service of neighbor--only then does goodness enter the world. Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. She is
the Trinity, in all of its Divine Power, goodwill for mankind and the nobility of the Holy Spirit entered her virgin body.
simplicity is found in the repetition of the prayers from memory that are intended to allow us to enter into the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. Some find it helpful to combine Scripture reading [...] prayers in the rosary actually works with our human psychology and can allow calm and focus as we enter more deeply into love. Pope Francis has often said he prays the rosary every day. Bishop Andrew Cozzens
sitting by my mother she would tell me the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe. With great fervor I entered the Basilica and stood under the image of Our Lady. The words she spoke to Juan Diego came to my [...] consoled me and I was greatly fortified but only a year later would I truly understand this moment. I entered the seminary again in 2005 and in 2006 the bishop asked me to go to a parish so as to acquire pastoral
do not go directly to paradise or hell after death - to purify souls of residual sin before they enter heaven. The Pope is expected to visit the shrine during the Jubilee year. The pontiff also said believers
necks, armed with old rifles, were slaughtered as they tried to stop the North Vietnamese tanks from entering their parish. Father Hoang Quynh, the parish priest of Cholon, also a refugee from the North, told
vocation at the age of 16, and in a very clear manner, since he heard a heavenly voice tell him to enter the Society of Jesus. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga wore the Jesuit habit for only six years, but in this
radiant and vivifying light of the Word, awakened by her ardent faith, her loving and pure virgin soul entered into a vision—infinitely deeper and more divine than that of the Cherubim and Seraphim—of the un
