concrete sign of this. Let us think of Mary's holy mother, Saint Anne, and with her let us also think of the importance of mothers and fathers, of grandmothers and grandfathers, and the importance of the family [...] for heralds to bring them the Gospel of peace, the good news of God who became man. But also in the so-called West, here among us in Germany, and in the vast lands of Russia it is true that a great harvest [...] the reality of communion, we learn the Eucharistic celebration from the inside. Here I would like to quote some fine words of Saint Edith Stein, Co-Patroness of Europe, who wrote in one of her letters:

perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things and over the events of human history; at times some indeed have come to the recognition of a Supreme Being, or even of a Father. This [...] community of all peoples, one their origin, for God made the whole human race to live over the face of the earth.(1) One also is their final goal. God, His providence, His manifestations of goodness, His saving [...] even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men: What is man? What is the meaning, the aim of our life? What is moral good, what sin? Whence suffering and what purpose does it serve? Which is the road

insisted several times on these two requests of prayer and penance. Knowing that Satan’s greatest victory is to make man lose the sense of good and evil, therefore of his own responsibility, we can see the reason [...] all marks of respect towards her, believing that they were misplaced. "Don’t I know that if the Virgin chose me, it was because I am the most ignorant of all!" We are strongly reminded of Joan of Arc’s words [...] socks, she heard a rush of wind coming from the cave. Looking up, she saw a young and beautiful lady, aged maybe fifteen or sixteen, in a niche of the rock. The lady made the sign of the cross, and smiled

of the Savior of his people and of Humanity. Accepting to become the virgin Mother of the Son of God requires a faith of which no one, in the Old Testament, was ever capable. It calls for total liberty [...] God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the Human race, preserved from all stains of original sin”. Less than four years after the solemn proclamation of this dogma of the Immaculate [...] one of his spiritual daughters to present a bunch of flowers, on December 8th, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, in his name and that of the sick of the Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza of Saint

“In the name of God, who are you and what do you wish of me?” On the way home, the lady appeared a third time and Adele asked the question she was given. The lady replied: "I am the Queen of Heaven, who [...] ” Adele devoted the rest of her life to teaching children. Some other women joined her and they formed a community of sisters according to the rule of the Third Order Franciscans, although Adele never took [...] by Lambert Brise, Adele’s father, at the site of the Marian apparitions. A larger wooden church was built in 1861 that bore the inscription “Our Lady of Good Help, pray for us.” The current chapel at the

hour of glorification, the Crucified crushed the head of the old serpent. And since the first woman had been associated with the work of death, the mother of Jesus is an associate to the work of Life. [...] - " Can something good come out of Nazareth? " – Mary's horizon soon extended beyond Nazareth. A few kilometers away was Sephoris, the Roman city of Galilee Sephoris, the capital of Galilee, was only a [...] prominent place. Jerusalem, the site of three annual pilgrimages At the age of twelve, Jesus went to the Temple of Jerusalem to make his bar mitzva, to become the "son of the commandment," like every young

vocation to martyrdom are not the result of human effort but the response to a project and call of God, they are a gift of his grace that enables a person, out of love, to give his life for Christ and for [...] sword of the executioner, but by bitter sorrow of heart ." Modern Marian Witnesses Hence the martyrs of the past hundred years are in a particular way Mary’s children, shedding their blood out of love for [...] for all martyrs. Of course, Christ is the primary example, but Mary comes next and has been called “the Queen of Martyrs” through the ages. As St. Thomas Aquinas says, "to have the glory of Martyrdom, it

social laws of their people. They were part of a large family. The life of prayer of the Holy Family was punctuated by common prayer at the synagogue, by the rites and numerous religious feasts of Judaism [...] John Everett Millais. Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) Simplicity was the key feature of the life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in their little town of Nazareth, where Joseph exercised his profession [...] (for example, circumcision, the feast of the Tabernacles, the pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem), but looked from the outside like that of every practicing, good Israelite at the time. Harboring a great

churches. Cardinal Suenens , one of the great defenders of this great current in which the whole Church must now plunge, said of this Renewal: "With the passage of time, the word of Paul VI on the Renewal as [...] whole Church, intended to rejuvenate all aspects of the life of the Church . The soul of the Renewal—‘baptism of the Spirit’—is a pentecostal grace of renewal meant for all Christians. We are not talking [...] Protestants who had gathered in a Cenacle of Prayer received a very powerful anointing of the Holy Spirit, for the very first time. This was the beginning of the Charismatic Renewal movement, which would take by

root with the arrival of the fathers of the Holy Spirit (1889), the Mill Hill fathers (1894) and the missionaries of the Consolata of Turin (1902). Relying on the natural love of the natives for their [...] 1971, is dedicated to the Consolata. Giali (Meru) The Shrine of Our Lady of Liberty was blessed in 1967. Thomson's Falls The Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima dates from 1975. In addition, there are 250 chapels [...] Joseph’s example of a good father and husband when he took Mary and Jesus into exile. Nairobi The Consolata Shrine in Nairobi was built in 1968-1971 to fulfill a vow made during the persecution of Mau Mau. In