Millennium To contemplate the face of Christ, and to contemplate it with Mary, is the "program" which I have set before the Church at the dawn of the third millennium, summoning her to put out into the deep

vina (I) In the history of the Roman Catholic Church, many apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary have been recorded throughout the ages. The most famous being Guadalupe (Mexico), La Salette, and Lourdes

under a seal, excepting when He inspires one's speech and encourages one to talk. Human advantages have nothing to do with it, if they are unknown and unappreciated by this world. What God does has in itself

At times it would be a questioning look, as in the episode of the finding in the Temple: "Son, why have you treated us so?" (Lk 2:48); it would always be a penetrating gaze, one capable of deeply understanding

begging her not to refuse my vow. I spoke to her like a child, with simplicity, just like I would have spoken to my own good mother for whom I felt, as a consequence, a strong and tender love. I entered

her birth, he holds, the Lord gave her all the fullness of grace that a human being could possibly have, because she had been chosen to be the Mother of God.

horror of sin. Obtain by your prayers the grace for me to weep over my sins and faults with which I have stirred up unrest and hatred, obstructed the coming of His reign, and destroyed joy, love and hope

opposition, mockery or incomprehension of non-believers, Jews and pagans alike; so it could hardly have been motivated by pagan mythology or by some adaptation to the ideas of the age. The meaning of this

and serve her loyally, For she can guard us from falling; She makes us repent of the errors That we have committed as sinners. Rose of roses and flower of flowers Lady of ladies, Lord of lords. This lady

One conceived in her womb would be the Son of God. And Mary answered: "Let it happen to me as you have said." Therefore Mary gave birth to the Child foretold in the Holy Scriptures... By Him, God ruins