one of the four young seers of Pontmain (Jan. 17, 1871), testified: "Even before the new parish priest came to our village, we were praying and reciting the Rosary of the martyrs of Japan." Inspired by [...] fervor sweeping across France in the second half of the 19th century, Father Michel Guérin, the parish priest of Pontmain, distributed these very special rosary beads to all the people of the village and, during [...] understand the history of the Japanese Martyrs' Rosary, one must go back to 1597, when 26 Christians (priests, religious and lay people, including children) were executed on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, on the
the event with her husband, Ted: “A lot of signs and wonders are following this priest.” Father Rugirangoga, a healing priest, is a genocide survivor. The International Week of Prayer and Fasting began in [...] And Then There Were None ; Kristan Hawkins, who heads Students for Life ; and Father Chris Alar, a priest with the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, who wrote a book about dealing with the aftermath [...] in collaboration with, among others, the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, Legion of Mary, Priests for Life and Rosary Coast to Coast. Fasting the correct way — involving just bread and water — is
was she who taught me to offer my sufferings for priests when I was seriously ill as a child. And on September 12th, our son will be ordained a priest, praise be to God! Laurent J., a reader of A Moment [...] and was getting weaker and weaker every day. My grandmother taught her to offer her sufferings for priests. One night, a great light filled her room and she saw the Virgin Mary smile at her. She then fell
apparitions started in 1858, a parish mission had just begun. The parish priest Father Peyramale had been looking for a priest to preach a 15-day retreat, but had found no one, so he had started preaching [...] camp. Similarly, many other apparitions are a kind of Sunday school. Father Paul Dollié, a parish priest in Paris, noticed Mary’s special teaching method, and created the Saint Mark Sessions (in French
waters of the first creation (Gen 2; Lk 1:26-38). Antoine Moussali (1921-2003) Lazarist priest (Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, founded by St Vincent de Paul and established at St Lazare in Paris)
(Rome, Italy) Living like Mary, the one who serves with love In 1970, I was a member of the Focolare Priestly School founded by Chiara Lubich, where I discovered in Mary our model of life, in the spirit of [...] sufferings for the conversion of sinners; young people who leave everything to devote themselves to the priestly life. Bishop Salvador Paruzzo, Diocese of Ourinhos SP (Brazil) Exclusive Interview by Thácio Siqueira
fade. The crazed mob was put to flight at the appearance of a strange horseman. Father Wu, a Chinese priest, admitted having prayed to Mary for help. A church was built on the site, honoring a picture of Mary [...] as Our Lady of China had been hidden and is now thought to be in the possession of some faithful priests living in disguise.
Kolomenskoye to transmit this message to a priest, Father Nicolas Likhatchev. She had to make two more visits, on February 26th, and March 2nd, in order to convince the priest to take action. Fr. Likhatchev showed [...] bloody regime about to take over Russia), and none that looked like the one she saw in her dream. The priest continued his search and found a large icon depicting the "Queen of Heaven sitting on her throne [...] the same day of the Czar’s abdication, March 2nd, shortly before his arrest on March 20th. By the priest's account, Eudoxia added that this icon was the effigy of "Mary, the invisible Tsarina." The first
Marcel Van (1928-1959) was a Vietnamese Redemptorist religious. Wishing to become a priest, he attended a parish priest's school at a very early age where he suffered from hunger and abuse. At the age of [...] first mass will be said in honor of the Immaculate Heart" My name is Pierre Nguyen and I have been a priest for almost 13 years, a member of the Emmanuel community ordained for the diocese of Bordeaux, France [...] seminarian! I came to France because it has Paray-le-Monial, Lourdes and Lisieux, three roots of my priestly vocation. And reading Van made me realize that: "France is still the country I have and cherish
was the first Burmese priest here. I was scared to leave my family. I was only supposed to be here 3 years, but now I have been here for 22 years! My favorite part of being a priest is the Mass. But I also [...] house, or it is also called minor seminary. I was only 11 years old. Eventually, a very prominent priest asked me if I would go to seminary. He really influenced me. I think God was calling me, but I kept [...] just pushed the road in front of me. After six months in seminary, I knew that I was going to be a priest. I think the Blessed Virgin Mary is responsible for my vocation. I have a deep devotion to Mary.
