protection of the Mother of God. This handful of defenders successfully repelled the attacks of the enemy forces, which were far superior to them! Later, the icon was brought to Moscow and placed in the Dormition

a historical people." Without those connections, the pope said, a sin can arise that "Satan, our enemy, likes so much: the sin of the elite." "The elite do not know what it means to live among the people

with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sentence; he has turned your enemy away. The Lord is king of Israel among you, Israel; you have nothing more to fear. When the day comes

prayed to Our Lady to help his small army and as an answer to his prayers a dark shadow fell over the enemy troops who, in their confusion, began attacking one another. This confusion saved Ruthenia. In the

to the Church to stand up to the Mafia. Describing the Cosa Nostra as “a culture of death” and “an enemy of human dignity and civil peace,” he exclaimed. “In the name of Christ, I say to those responsible:

earth, so too I may assist you on earth to strengthen you and drive away from you every power of the enemy. With the second Hail Mary, you will ask that, just as the Son of God filled me with wisdom to such

Hail Mary well said, that is, with attention, devotion and modesty, is, according to the saints, the enemy of the devil, which puts him to flight, and the hammer that crushes him; the sanctification of the

and wanderers who are to be converted and return to the Catholic Church; in power, to combat the enemies of God who will rise up menacingly to seduce and crush by promises and threats all those who oppose

to Calvary, Jesus met his Mother’s gaze My Life, Jesus, making You suffer unheard-of spasms, your enemies have managed to put You on your feet, and as You walk, staggering, I hear your panting breath. Your

Golden Jar filled with manna from the desert (cf. Ex 16:33). As Jael and Judith, she struck down the enemy of mankind. As with Esther, the King approves of the powerful intercession of the Queen, who seduces