offering to the Eternal Father a sufficient atonement for the nameless, boundless crime through which Jesus obtained the redemption of the world? When Saint Monica wept for the misdemeanors of the future doctor

Ecuador. With the five founding sisters who traveled to Quito was a 13-year-old girl named Mariana de Jesus Torres. At a later time, Mariana was to take her vows and eventually become Mother Prioress herself [...] Church and leaving it in total darkness without even the light of the presence of the Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ Himself. Our Lady of Good Success explained the reasons for the extinguishing of the light

deterred. Meeting deaf ears, she took her leave, but left a tiny image of herself holding the Child Jesus in the chief’s hand. (The image is less than an inch in size.) Some time thereafter, the chief was [...] Indigenous symbols found in the image, such as the style of the crowns worn by the Blessed Mother and Jesus, are authentic to the culture and time period of the Coromoto people in 17th-century Venezuela. How

fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God has come near: be converted and believe in the Gospel" (Mk 1:15). Jesus invites us to accept the great novelty and reality of the Kingdom of God, which is offered to all [...] Gospel. In other words, by radically changing one's life and accepting the word of God addressed by Jesus to people of all times. Following Mary's example, let us begin our exodus journey. Mary was docile

Heart, which knows our anxieties and fears. How great was your concern when there was no place for Jesus at the inn! How great was your fear when you fled in haste to Egypt because Herod sought to kill him [...] ourselves, Mother, we cannot succeed; without your Son, we can do nothing. But you bring us back to Jesus, who is our Peace. Therefore, Mother of God and our Mother, we come before you and we seek refuge

jubilee of the image of Our Lady of Pompeii coincides with the imminent jubilee year, focused on Jesus our hope,” the pope said in a message to Archbishop Tommaso Caputo of Pompeii. “The rosary, a simple [...] year to venerate the image of Our Lady of Pompeii, which depicts the Mother of God and the Child Jesus giving rosaries to St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena. Calling the shrine’s founder, Blessed Bartolo

— the Fiat of the Annunciation and the Fiat of the Cross took Mary to the Fiat of the Ascension. Jesus disappeared before her eyes of flesh. She had to experience this mystery of separation, a detachment

" The origin of the shrine goes back to the astonishing revelations received by Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres (1553-1635), who was the abbess and one of the founders of the Royal Monastery of the Immaculate

for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. To this end, Mary gave this prayer to the nations: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts

intoxicated with happiness and in their naive and ardent prayers they recommended to the Infant Jesus ... everything that was valuable to them on earth. They offered all of themselves to the newborn King