Blessed Virgin and those present, working a deep transformation in them for the sake of spreading the Good News. The Mother of Christ and his disciples are granted new strength and new apostolic energy for

spiritual Daughters and Sons: "I give myself to the incomprehensible love by which my Jesus and his good Mother gave me their beloved Heart in a very special manner, and in union with that same love, I give

stability and its mission. To the Holy Family I entrust the efforts of Christians and of all people of good will to defend life and to promote respect for the dignity of every human being. To Mary, the Theotókos [...] Nazareth where Jesus began his public ministry, I ask Mary to help the Church everywhere to preach the "good news" to the poor, as he did (cf. Lk 4:18). In this "year of the Lord's favour", I ask her to teach

village on the border between France and Lorraine. Her parents were well-off peasants, known to all as good Christians. From them she received a sound religious upbringing, considerably influenced by the s [...] some theologians of the university. Their opinion was positive: they saw in her nothing evil, only a good Christian. On 22 March 1429 Joan dictated an important letter to the King of England and to his men [...] soldiers, carrying out among them a true mission of evangelization. Many of them testified to her goodness, her courage and her extraordinary purity. She was called by all and by herself “La pucelle” (“the

and spiritual father, suggesting mercy in justice, confidence in others, discretion and respect, goodness and patience, and attention to others' pains. These little stories testify to it:] John of the Cross

Church (named after Saint Gregory the Illuminator). At the early 17th century, the Persians conquered a good part of Armenia from the Ottoman Empire. In 1826, another part fell to the empire of the Russian Tsars

amen, I say to you: whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give you" (Jn 16: 23). [...] It is good that each region possesses one or more Marian shrines, erected for a special reason, with the permission

Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591) John De Yepes was born in 1542 at Fontiveros in Old Castile, to a good but poor Catholic family. At twenty-one years of age he took the religious habit among the Carmelite

through a complete kenosis just like she had to. They are therefore a witness not only to God’s goodness, but to her beauty and love as well. But whether they were martyrs by blood or not, they sang her

allow ourselves to be reconciled to him, as he gives his grace to all those who seek him in truth with good will and uprightness of heart. God responds when we pray and opens the doors of his Kingdom, inviting