dedicated the entire world to the patronage and protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary—the intention expressed in his decree was "peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners
all my father asked for in his prayers. I never thought that you can actually pray for a personal intention, and that we had such power in the Rosary. Since then, I’ve developed a special love for the prayer
Shrines reopen in China after 3 years "We can join the universal Church, remembering the prayer intention of Pope Francis and imitating Our Lady the Virgin Mary in following Christ her Son, to reveal the
Darío took the idea to the parish, where the priest decided to support it, proposing to offer the intentions of the Rosaries that are said in the half hour before each Mass from Dec. 5–8 for the Worldwide
human beings get distracted in prayer,” Father Lew said. As he sees it: “As long as we set our intention and begin to pray and our motivation is out of love for God and we’re still distracted, our prayer
the devotion to Mary Undoer of Knots more concrete: each person asking for a grace wrote their intention on a piece of paper tied with a ribbon, and placed it in a basket at the foot of the painting. The
of Peace. This name reveals an aspect of her identity as Mother of the Prince of Peace, and her intention: "Dear children, I invite you to peace, so that you may live it in your hearts and around you, so
such intensity as to flood the floor. It is here that on the 12th of July that the two visionaries, intent on grazing their cows in the surrounding meadows, wanting to enter the small temple to pray, could
with a grid of portraits of the current seminarians in front of the group to focus their prayer intentions. “If you look there’s a space that’s blank; they couldn’t fill the whole grid out,” Dylan said
of its pilgrims by guiding them to Our Lord through His Blessed Mother, Mary. No matter what the intention, big or small, and no matter your state in life – Catholic, atheist, hopeful, desperate, wealthy
