this day the eyes of the whole Church turn to Nazareth. I have longed to come back to the town of Jesus, to feel once again, in contact with this place, the presence of the woman of whom Saint Augustine [...] Creed: "Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est ." In Nazareth, where Jesus "grew in wisdom and age and grace before God and men" ( Lk 2:52), I ask the Holy Family to inspire [...] of God, I consecrate the families of the Holy Land, the families of the world. In Nazareth where Jesus began his public ministry, I ask Mary to help the Church everywhere to preach the "good news" to the

means to wait. History According to tradition, Mantara is the cave where the Virgin Mary waited for Jesus while he was preaching in Sidon (today’s Saida), because Jewish women were not allowed to enter pagan [...] 21-28) "Woman, your faith is great."6. Our Lady of Mantara: "The Virgin is always waiting for us." 7. Jesus in Banias (Matthew 16: 13-19) "You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church.''8. The T

eyes. This is the beginning of the Christian people Today's feast renews for us the sacred coming of Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, and it so happens that by adoring the nativity of our Savior, we

her compassion was a sort of interior crucifixion of the holy humanity of her Son. Mary's tears and Jesus' Blood are the double effusion of the same heart and one can say that the Blessed Virgin's compassion

thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. R. That we may be

sign of created hope and solac e to the wandering people of God In the interim just as the Mother of Jesus, glorified in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected

from love and through love, going so far as to say that the Mother of God died of love for her Son Jesus (Treatise on the Love of God, bk. 7, ch. XIII-XIV). Whatever from the physical point of view was the [...] fittingly described as a dormition as hers. In some of the writings of the Church Fathers we find Jesus himself described as coming to take his Mother at the time of her death to bring her into heavenly

apparitions of Jesus reported at Kibeho beginning in July 1982 are not taken into consideration in this Declaration for various reasons, primarily because the alleged visionaries of Jesus known to the pilgrims [...] aside two questions whose solution was of capital importance for the future: Did the Virgin Mary and Jesus appear in Kibeho as some alleged visionaries affirm? If so, what visionary, man or woman, can be believed

different prayer of the Church, for instance the different liturgical offices, the "Our Father" that Jesus Himself taught us, the "Hail Mary" or the "Angel's Salutation to Mary," the fundamental Christian

presents an extraordinary opportunity today - which is akin to the first mission of the Church - to make Jesus and the Virgin Mary known and loved throughout the world. But the success of this endeavor depends