caused the Holy Family to leave the very next day. It was the blind woman with a crooked back whom Jesus found 30 years later in the same house, and healed, after exhorting her to be less vain and more
fate, as it was imagined by Christ’s contemporaries and recognized by the Christians who followed Jesus. The "Foi Chrétienne" ( Christian Faith ) Team lafoichretienne.com
Redeemer of mankind. During this time, we are called to unclutter our lives to make room for the Lord Jesus. Naturally, Advent is also a time of material preparation for the big Christmas celebration, but this
committing herself to remain in that community all her life and receiving the name of Sister Mary of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. Her last public appearance was on October 2000, in a television documentary
faith Elizabeth’s words, saying, "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus," we can picture the Virgin expecting the Christ Child. We receive from her arms the blessed fruit
suggested. "Marian apparitions must be welcomed by keeping in mind the final revelation given in Jesus Christ. Therefore, they are not something absolute. They are not even necessary, and are only com
1932. Eventually this feast was moved to January 1 st , to replace the feast of the Circumcision of Jesus, after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. This change was meant to highlight the
august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and
systematic contempt and hate for man and for what is divine in man - a victory like that won by our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary. "You are my friends if you do what I command you" (Jn 15:14). The Church accepts
Blessed Virgin from whom the Son of God would come certainly did not know about this oracle, but Jesus, born under the rule of the Emperor Augustus indeed transformed the iron of oppression into love that
